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And I'm guessing they are going to have to get violent - block Wall Street workers from getting to their job - Block Congress from walking into the congress building - and really start an uprising to get their message across..to wake up the congress...
And they should also boycott Christmas spending...
Otherwise it's futile...
You realize blocking traffic keeps normal folks from getting to their normal jobs and makes it difficult for emergency vehicles to get through too, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by KellyShore
Violence breeds better violence. Keep it civil if you want respect.
Dino they will just laugh it off...till they do something drastic..Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino Velvet
I heard all the neighboring stores' bathrooms have been annihilated - ordering a bagel just doesn't smell the same.
Someone needs to straight up rescue that area with Port-a-Johns.
OK. I'm calling for calm. If they do something "drastic" don't complain when nightsticks start raining down on their heads. Cause and Effect. Force meets better Force.Quote:
Originally Posted by KellyShore
Well done. They should definitely spend their money on me instead. :dancing:Quote:
Originally Posted by KellyShore
~BB~
I got 5 20s I could put aside. :fuckin:Quote:
Originally Posted by BellaBellucci
The NYPD, now sponsored by Wall Street
Financial firms have given millions of dollars to the department, raising the ire of Occupy Wall St. protesters
By Justin Elliott
http://media.salon.com/2011/10/NYPD-Wall-St-460x307.jpg (Credit: AP/Shannon Stapleton/Salon)
“NYPD! NYPD! JP Morgan doesn’t give a f*ck about you!”
That was the chant of a crowd of protesters during one of the tenser moments Wednesday evening as police tried to corral the occupiers of Wall Street and force them to stay in the confines of Liberty Square. It is a reference to one of the rumors I’ve heard again and again at the protests: That JPMorgan Chase gave a multi-million dollar donation to the NYPD as the protests were starting in mid-September as a kind of incentive for the police to aggressively crack down on the occupiers.
As it turns out, that version of the rumor isn’t quite correct. But Wall Street finance firms have funnelled millions of dollars into the police department, in an arrangement that critics say compromises the NYPD.
Here’s what we know:
JPMorgan gave a massive gift of $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation in the form of money, patrol car laptops, “security monitoring software,” and other tech resources. But the donation was given starting late last year and was completed by spring 2011, so it was obviously not made in response to the Occupy Wall Street protests. At the time, Commissioner Ray Kelly sent JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon a note expressing his “profound gratitude” for the donation, and a company-written news item about the gift described it as “unprecedented” in size.
The police foundation is the private fundraising arm of the NYPD. It allows donors to make tax-exempt gifts to the department and in turn the foundation funds a wide-range of specialized NYPD units, international counterterrorism work, and high-tech gadgetry.
“This gift is especially disturbing to us because it creates the appearance that there is an entrenched dynamic of the police protecting corporate interests rather than protecting the First Amendment rights of the people,” says Heidi Boghosian of the National Lawyers Guild, which has had legal observers posted at the major Occupy Wall Street marches. “They’ve essentially turned the financial district into a militarized zone.”
As I reported this week, the police presence at the union solidarity march in support of Occupy Wall St included many hundreds of officers, scores of cruisers, vans, and buses, at least one mobile surveillance tower, and at least three helicopters. Kelly said this week the department has spent $2 million on overtime for officers since Occupy Wall Street began in mid-September.
As it turns out, JPMorgan is not the only financial institution that has been generous to the police foundation. In the 2009-10 year, Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital, investment bank Jeffries and Co., investor Carl Icahn, and investment firm The Renco Group each gave over $100,000 to the foundation, putting them in the top-tier of donors, according to the foundation’s website. Bank of America also gave over $75,000 that year. (Another $100,000+ donor was Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.)
Keep in mind that’s just a single year’s worth of donations. As a private non-profit, the New York City Police Foundation does not have to release detailed donor information, so we don’t know of the the full scope of Wall Street money flowing into the NYPD.
The foundation has previously received scrutiny from the press for, among other things, spending tens of thousands of dollars for food and liquor for Commissioner Ray Kelly at the posh Harvard Club, as well as hiring a pricey publicist to promote Kelly in the press.
The NYPD and the police foundation did not return calls for comment. A JPMorgan spokeswoman declined to comment.
http://media.salon.com/2011/09/thumb_justinElliott.pngJustin Elliott is a Salon reporter
Ralph Nader made a similar point.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigDF
So wait. The argument is that because the donations from Wall Street to the NYPD happened before the rallies, that they couldn't possibly have been donated in preparation for the inevitable torches and pitchforks? :?
Please. I'm not impressed. :geek:
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Sadly, and I say this with great regret....these kids are a bunch of causies.
They lack a common objective, they lack a common vision.
Sadly like the SS the republican party and the business folks walk in lock step and know how to get shit done.
Liberal on the other hand come off as scatter brained and well...unorganized.
MAYBE they can get their act together formulate a mission consisting of one sentence and maybe they will have a chance at surviving and actually making a lasting impact.
So ostensibly, this is your argument:Quote:
Originally Posted by SXFX
hippies all around me - YouTube
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ummmmmmmmmmmmmm
My argument is that when they posted what they stood for it was what....50 different items ranging from saving the freaking endangered tree slug to equality in taxation.
They need focus.
Sadly since they are causies well.....i just don't see it happening.
Which is a real shame! Because I'll be honest with you, the tea baggers scare the shit out of me!
They are an organized force of middle aged, under educated, white men who have no clue WTF is going on in the world other than what they are told by Faux News.
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...45866116_n.jpg
See? Anybody can do it.
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Meh, yours' isn't as goodQuote:
Originally Posted by BellaBellucci
Really? I think they're equally accurate.Quote:
Originally Posted by KellyShore
I mean, c'mon! 'Shitty music and bears?' 'Mail order brides?' :lol:
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ive been occupying a wall on my street for ages now. no other fucker is coming. i am going home.
I like this one - it made me laughQuote:
Originally Posted by BellaBellucci
OH MY GOD!!!!! These are works of art!!! I don't know which I like better but both are fucking spot on!!! Great work, ladies!!!
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Originally Posted by KellyShore
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Originally Posted by BellaBellucci
Come on, it's the same concept as having a top flight defense attorney on retainer. When shit goes down, they're going to fight FOR your interests, not against them.Quote:
Originally Posted by BellaBellucci
If major investment banks have been making huge financial donations to NYPD, who do you think city police are going to protect first in a protest??
Also who do you think the NYPD utilizes to manager their pension funds?
Come on......what did you think this was going to be an easy win?
The game is fixed.
I give these guys another week or two at most. When the temperature drops they will sadly all go back home.
I really think this is all a bunch of hippie B.S once the weed runs out they will break up and go back to thier green homes and electric cars. Wall Street is really not even a issue to me, if you were smart you would invest in Goldman Sachs and natural gas futures....:whistle:
Although... who tanked said pension funds? This could get interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by SXFX
With what money? :?Quote:
Originally Posted by Erika1487
they took our job - YouTube
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Remember it's not how much money you don't have....it's how you spend, manage, and invest what money you do have.Quote:
Originally Posted by BellaBellucci
Nice! I've got fifty dolla (from making Dino holla). I'll Paypal it over and you can make me rich. Thanks! :dancing:Quote:
Originally Posted by Erika1487
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ahhaha they tooook ouurr jooooooobs
I think the interviews they do with them on the street is hilarious. Not a one can articulate why they are even there. "Corporations are Evil!", wait let me check my iPhone for messages. There is more Corporate hardware there than at a GEEK conference.
Teabaggers = good loyal Americans.
99%ers = addicted to medical marijuana.
Why do teabag supporters automatically look down their noses at the 99 percenters??
U.S. corporations are outsourcing the American middle class. Without jobs to support a majority middle class lifestyle, we are Colombia without the drug cartels.
Well, they are not worth our attention tbh. Also they are mostly liberal Democracts, and socialists. Most of the tea party are conservative Republicans by nature and hate anything liberal.Quote:
Originally Posted by giovanni_hotel
They'd hate Jesus Christ too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Erika1487
You make Dino holla with a nice discount.Quote:
Originally Posted by BellaBellucci
Time for me to go down there, throw around a few Sieg Heils, and steal the hippies' weed. Knuckle-Draggers like to get high too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Erika1487
I have a nice little tire iron, that needs breaking in! lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Dino Velvet
On a side note I have heard rumors that John Wayne would get a little sauce in him and drive around Hollywood, looking fight two or three hippies at once!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrqlP6hzofE
i was just kidding. I was asking for calm a few pages ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Erika1487
I still say Robert Mitchum would beat the crap outta The Duke. Drink his ass under the table for sure. Charles Bronson would take both of them out at the same time.
What about Kirk Douglas? Would he have a chance?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino Velvet
Kirk can hold everybody's coat. Bronson deals an icy death to all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Domino
That guy had a wicked youth!!!! Hold on, let me pull someone else into the fire... Jack Palance. How about them bar snacks?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino Velvet
Bronson and Jack Palance were 2 Slavs that couldn't be messed with. Bronson almost didn't make it in the movie business because people said he looked "too tough". He was doing his own fight scenes until he was 73. A true badass.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Domino
I was too Dino!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dino Velvet
I think Mitchum was one scary dude when he wanted to be. To me this scene from Cape Fear sticks in my mind as his greatest scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uRVG...eature=related
I know you've seen Night Of The Hunter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Erika1487
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCom...1.18.40-r1.jpg
http://www.morethings.com/fan/night_...hunter-019.jpg