Rush Holt - Wall Street

Right!

The Job Creators are on strike? I didn't know they were WORKING! They haven't been doing very much for sometime now, if they have been "working".



No tax breaks for them until they do what they say they are supposed to be doing--creating jobs.

Why I Support Occupy Wall Street

Hundreds arrested in Wall Street Protests

New York police have arrested more than 700 demonstrators involved in protests against banks by a movement known as Occupy Wall Street.

The Wall Street Protest--It's like the Energiser Bunny!

Here's the livestream of the Wall Street protest. You can find out what the needs of dissidents there are and send them support in the form of everything from pizza to D cell batteries.

Watch live streaming video from globalrevolution at livestream.com

Chris Hedges made an appearance at the protest, remarking “The moment people come out and do this [kind of protest], the corporate state is terrified — and if you doubt me, look around you at the huge numbers of cops, and not only that but the kind of brutality the cops have visited on peaceful protesters.”

Mass media are censoring it, just as Mubarak did in Egypt-- most Americans have no idea this is happening but would very much support the protest if they knew about it, since the masses overwhelmingly oppose the Wall Street bailout after the horrible attack Wall Street made on the working class, where millions of victims have lost homes, and millions more have lost jobs as a direct consequence of Wall Street gambling scams gone bad.

Wall Street Protests from Russian TV and other non-US media

Of course, if you listen to Rupert Murdoch's New York Post you would believe:

Only about 300 protesters, mostly college kids and aging hippies, showed up near the Stock Exchange for yesterday’s anti-Wall Street rally -- far fewer than the 20,000 that organizers of the so-called global “Day of Rage” had predicted.

In contrast, the Guardian reported that:

5,000 Americans descended on to the financial district of lower Manhattan, waved signs, unfurled banners, beat drums, chanted slogans and proceeded to walk towards the "financial Gomorrah" of the nation. They vowed to "occupy Wall Street" and to "bring justice to the bankers", but the New York police thwarted their efforts temporarily, locking down the symbolic street with barricades and checkpoints....Three hundred spent the night, several hundred reinforcements arrived the next day and as we write this article, the encampment is rolling out sleeping bags once again.

300 v. 5,000 is quite a difference there, but we know that Rupert Murdoch is unreliable and right wing. Although, the US hasn't gotten the memo about how unreliable Murdoch is.

Or as another independent source pointed out:

Last weekend thousands of demonstrators marched on Wall Street to protest economic inequality in America. However, most Americans were likely unaware of the protests since they were largely ignored by every major media outlet. On what was a relatively slow weekend for news, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News all devoted significant coverage to other stories including an air show crash in Reno. While the death of nine spectators at the Reno event was certainly worthy of some attention, the demand for Wall Street reform, which affects millions in poverty, would arguably warrant as much coverage given the size of the protests. In 2009 and 2010 Tea Party demonstrations numbering in the hundreds would routinely receive national coverage when protesting against “death panels” the dangers of “socialism” through government-run health care.

How much can you trust the US media to give you fair and accurate reporting--especially about an event that threatens the status quo?

How well informed are you really?

The Norwegianity Prediction for 2012

via Norwegianity

They had him by the balls but, being teabaggers, they just had to go from licking to sucking. Call them the original Lollipop Twins, call them southern-fried crackheads, but don’t call them the future of this country because thanks to their antics, we’ve got another four years of Obama looming before us in all its glory holed Wall Streeted splendor.

Fuck us all, each and every one of us because this was our best case outcome.

My feelings exactly. What are yours?

Please leave a comment.

The Wall Street Bailout according to Marcy Kaptur

I haven't written about this because I don't know enough about it to say anything. I can't help but like this video, though, and tend to agree with what the Democratic Representative from Ohio Ms. Marcy Kaptur has to say.

Don't miss those few seconds of George Bush at the end.