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Showing posts with label Bus Econ 20110917 Occupy Wall Street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bus Econ 20110917 Occupy Wall Street. Show all posts

Monday, January 23, 2012

Occupiers Glitter-Bomb Santorum Concession Speech - Summerville, SC Patch

Occupiers Glitter-Bomb Santorum Concession Speech - Summerville, SC Patch:

Gay rights activists and Occupy Charleston chant 'Rick, Rick, Rick, bigot, bigot, bigot.'

THE CITADEL — About 20 demonstrators crashed the Rick Santorum results party at the military college in Charleston.

As Santorum closed his speech focusing on building strong family values, a gay rights activist said: "Except when you're gay" and threw a handful of glitter in the air.

Members of the Occupy Charleston group joined in with chants of "Rick, Rick, Rick, bigot, bigot, bigot" and singing "Santorum, Santorum, you're a bigot." As police escorted the group out ... http://summerville.patch.com/articles/occupiers-crash-santorum-concession-speech

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The New York Times Breaking News Alert: Police Begin Clearing Zuccotti Park of Occupy Wall Street Protesters

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 -- 1:23 AM EST
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/nyregion/police-begin-clearing-zuccotti-park-of-protesters.html?hp

Police Begin Clearing Zuccotti Park of Occupy Wall Street Protesters

The New York Police Department began clearing Zuccotti Park of Occupy Wall Street protesters about 1 a.m. Tuesday, telling the people there that the camp would be “cleared and restored” before the morning and that any demonstrator who did not leave would be arrested.

The protesters resisted with chants of “Whose park? Our park!” as the police began moving in and tearing down tents. The protesters rallied around an area known as “the kitchen” and began building barricades with tables and pieces of wood.

Officers told the demonstrators that the city had “determined that the continued occupation of Zuccotti Park poses an increasing health and fire safety hazard.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/nyregion/police-begin-clearing-zuccotti-park-of-protesters.html?hp
Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na



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Friday, November 11, 2011

Cain jokes about Anita Hill; Perry jokes on Letterman; OWS protests rocked by 2 fatal shootings; and more from The Slatest.

Cain jokes about Anita Hill; Perry jokes on Letterman; OWS protests rocked by 2 fatal shootings; and more from The Slatest.


The Slatest: November 11, 2011

Occupy Protests Rocked By 2 Fatal Shootings

Occupy Protests Rocked By 2 Fatal Shootings

The two incidents occurred on opposite sides of the country, but highlight local officials' safety concerns.

Cain Caught on Camera Making Anita Hill Joke

Cain Caught on Camera Making Anita Hill Joke

Updates: Meanwhile, the accusers' joint press conference is now in doubt.

Perry Does Letterman’s Top 10 "Oops" Jokes

Perry Does Letterman’s Top 10 "Oops" Jokes

Texan looks to make the best of the debate stumble that threatens his campaign.

Authorities Continue Hunt for Kidnapped MLB Player

Authorities Continue Hunt for Kidnapped MLB Player

Washington Nationals's catcher was taken at gunpoint from his family home in Venezuela on Wednesday night.

Billy Crystal Tapped to Host Oscars

Billy Crystal Tapped to Host Oscars

The awards-show mainstay will replace Eddie Murphy.

Obama Delays Controversial Oil Pipeline

Obama Delays Controversial Oil Pipeline

Under pressure from enviros, the White House will look for a new route for the Keystone XL project.


From Slate:

How To Stop Iran From Misbehaving Without Bombing Them

How To Stop Iran From Misbehaving Without Bombing Them

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Most Intense Scrunchy Faces

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Most Intense Scrunchy Faces

Bachmann Wants To Add Calvin Coolidge to Mount Rushmore. Why Do Conservatives Love Him?

Bachmann Wants To Add Calvin Coolidge to Mount Rushmore. Why Do Conservatives Love Him?

Does Working From Home Make You More or Less Productive? The Answer Is ...

Does Working From Home Make You More or Less Productive? The Answer Is ...

Why Is the Grad Assistant Who Says He Saw Sandusky Rape a Boy Not in Trouble?

Why Is the Grad Assistant Who Says He Saw Sandusky Rape a Boy Not in Trouble?

To Truly Understand Power Mongers and Economic Fraudsters, Read Dickens

To Truly Understand Power Mongers and Economic Fraudsters, Read Dickens

Clint Eastwood Composed the Music for His New Movie. How Bad Is It?

Clint Eastwood Composed the Music for His New Movie. How Bad Is It?

Help! I Think My Dad Has a Secret Love Child—and I Have Proof.

Help! I Think My Dad Has a Secret Love Child—and I Have Proof.


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Thursday, November 10, 2011

John Hawkins: 5 Myths Helping to Drive Occupy Wall Street

5 Myths Helping to Drive Occupy Wall Street


John Hawkins is a professional blogger who runs Right Wing News

October 25, 2011


Occupy Wall Street is a lot like Barack Obama's 2008 campaign. It's so vague that everyone sees what he wants to see in the protests. Some people hate the bailouts, others want free stuff, some are mad about jobs being shipped overseas, others are old hippies hoping for a sixties’ revival and that's before you even start talking about the Communists, Nazis, anarchists, and wannabe revolutionaries.

Even though Occupy Wall Street is sort of a smellier, dirtier, less focused, more violent bizarre-world version of the Tea Party, some of the people attending the protests do mean well -- and they do have at least one legitimate grievance. Both parties in power gave the thumbs up to TARP and the bailouts, which were really little more than "heads, we win; tails, the taxpayers lose" crony socialism. Whether it's banks, big agriculture, solar firms, General Motors, or Chevrolet, big business shouldn't be given our tax dollars. If they can only make it with an infusion of taxpayer dollars, then it's better for the country in the long run if they don't survive.

That being said, since the Democratic Party is running a 2012 campaign centered around one of the Seven Deadly Sins, envy, it has worked hard to create a number of myths that someone needs to address… http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2011/10/25/5_myths_helping_to_drive_occupy_wall_street/page/full/

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Douglas A. McIntyre – 247WallSt.com: Financial Gap Between Germany and France Widens

Financial Gap Between Germany and France Widens

Douglas A. McIntyre

Posted: November 7, 2011


Yet, to make matters worse, you can now add France to the growing “list of countries with troubled financial situations.” …

Germany and France are the twin towers built to support Europe’s dwindling financial strength. That has changed rapidly, and Germany is left to stand alone. That will alter the balance of power in the eurozone. It also will put one more nation in the region — France — on the list of countries with troubled financial situations. Read more: http://247wallst.com/2011/11/07/financial-gap-between-germany-and-france-widens/?utm_source=247WallStDailyNewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NOV072011A&utm_campaign=DailyNewsletter

For More: November 9, 2011 The Long-Term Fear Factor Kevin E. Dayhoff
Recently the political turmoil in Italy and Greece, France’s increasing financial troubles, and the lack of leadership in Europe and the United States, are slowly edging the planet from an economic crisis to a long-term fear factor… http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4735




Douglas A. McIntyre – 247WallSt.com: Financial Gap Between Germany and France Widens





Read more: Financial Gap Between Germany and France Widens - 24/7 Wall St. http://247wallst.com/2011/11/07/financial-gap-between-germany-and-france-widens/#ixzz1dL7Hj77I


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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

John Hawkins: 10 Quotes That Tell You How Bad The Occupy Wall Street Movement Has Gotten

10 Quotes That Tell You How Bad The Occupy Wall Street Movement Has Gotten

John Hawkins is a professional blogger who runs Right Wing News


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The mainstream media spent Obama's entire first term falsely condemning the Tea Party as a potentially violent hate-filled mob. Then, a violent hate-filled mob actually showed up and the MSM embraced it.

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9) To date there have been at least four reported rapes and at least one attempted rape at these “occupy” encampments. Two of the victims were at the main Wall Street encampment and say they were urged not to report the attacks to the authorities.

Rapes also reportedly occurred at encampments in Dallas and Cleveland.

Now a fourth rape victim reports being raped at the Occupy Baltimore encampment. The victim say that other members of the encampment are protecting the perpetrator to avoid bad publicity for the movement. A reporter also finds masked thugs and evidence of heroin use at the Occupy Baltimore squatter camp. A leader for Occupy Baltimore laughs while admitting that the group urges it’s followers to conceal information about crimes committed at the encampment.

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Jonathan Kay - FrumForum.com: Where Are the Anti-Semites at Occupy Wall Street?

Jonathan Kay - FrumForum.com: Where Are the Anti-Semites at Occupy Wall Street?

Where Are the Anti-Semites at Occupy Wall Street?

October 26th, 2011 by JONATHAN KAY


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The video goes on for eight minutes like this. It quickly gets tedious. And we don’t really learn anything from it: No matter our place on the political spectrum, most of us sound dumb when someone suddenly puts a microphone in front of us and asks for our opinion.

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Two years later, exactly the same trick is underway on the other side of the political spectrum: Lazy conservatives who instinctively are repelled by the Occupy Wall Street movement, but can’t be bothered to intellectually engage with the issue, are circulating their own YouTube hits — alleging not just stupidity and bad hygiene, but also anti-Semitism. A popular one (200,000 hits so far) called “Anti-Semitic Protester at Occupy Wall Street — LA” features a woman who declares: “The Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve … they need to be run out of this country.”

Armed with video snippets such as these, an American conservative group is running a slick ad suggesting that the Occupy movement is basically just one big Democratic-supported anti-Semitic jamboree. ”

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Experts call it the “confirmation bias” — our natural psychological attraction toward data or anecdotes that serve to support our pre-existing attitudes and bigotries. And it’s something that always has been part of human nature. But the combination of social media with cheap online video technology has turbocharged the confirmation bias to the point where rational political dialogue is in danger of extinction.

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Kevin Dayhoff The Tentacle: The Long-Term Fear Factor


November 9, 2011

The Long-Term Fear Factor
Kevin E. Dayhoff
http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4735
Labels: ,  http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2011/11/kevin-dayhoff-tentacle-long-term-fear.html

Recently the political turmoil in Italy and Greece, France’s increasing financial troubles, and the lack of leadership in Europe and the United States, are slowly edging the planet from an economic crisis to a long-term fear factor.

Not to be overlooked are the troubled national economies of Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and Japan, punctuated by the sharp populist rhetoric of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign attacks on “the rich,” banks, Wall Street and big multi-national corporations.

Economic and political uncertainly is one thing. However, the growing social instability exemplified by the civil unrest in Greece and the Occupy Wall Street protests in the United States should give most thinking Americans, with sense of history, pause for thought.

In spite of the fact that the message of the Occupy Wall Street protestors is muddled, if not incoherent; putting an exclamation point on the generalized perception of dismay and unease over the current state of economic affairs could easily be understood as a call for action... http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4735



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November 9, 2011
The Long-Term Fear Factor 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Recently the political turmoil in Italy and Greece, France’s increasing financial troubles, and the lack of leadership in Europe and the United States, are slowly edging the planet from an economic crisis to a long-term fear factor.


November 2, 2011
Work Cut Out For Municipal League 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
This week officials from Maryland cities and towns throughout the state converged on the Cambridge Hyatt Chesapeake Bay conference facilities for the three-day Maryland Municipal League’s fall legislative conference.


October 26, 2011
The Path to Re-Election, Argentine Style 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Riding the wave of a booming economy, fueled primarily by agricultural exports, the incumbent leftist Peronist-Justicialist and truly enigmatic president of Argentina, Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner, 58, easily won her bid for re-election on Sunday.


October 19, 2011
Bank Transfer Day 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
While everyone was distracted by what Charles Krauthammer delightfully described as, the “Starbucks-sipping, Levi’s-clad, iPhone-clutching protesters (of the Occupy Wall Street movement who) denounce corporate America even as they weep for Steve Jobs, corporate titan, billionaire eight times over…,” a new social uprising term has entered the public discourse. Saturday, November 5 is “Bank Transfer Day.”


October 12, 2011
The Maryland Redistricting Sweepstakes 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Many veteran political observers were taken aback when Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s redistricting commission released its proposed congressional redistricting plan late in the evening of October 3; especially those in Frederick and Carroll County.


October 5, 2011
The Durbin Predator Fees 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Last week Bank of America announced it was going to further bite into the neck of the consuming public with a predatory “Durbin Fee” of $5 per month to use its debit card.


September 28, 2011
A “Capital” History Lesson 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Yesterday, September 27, one city in the United States celebrated the anniversary of the occasion when it was the capital of the United States for one day. Can you name that city? How many cities have served as the capital of our nation since September 5, 1774?


September 21, 2011
Presidential Tax Attack 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Just as the United States’ economy teeters on the brink of a double-dip recession, President Barack Obama on Monday prescribed his solution – $1.5 trillion in new taxes.


September 14, 2011
Special Session Challenges 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
In a little over a month, the Maryland General Assembly will hold its 15th special session since 1970. The General Assembly is scheduled to convene October 17 to redraw the state’s eight congressional districts based on the results of the 2010 census.


September 7, 2011
Without a Clue 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Tomorrow evening President Barack Obama will lay out his job creation proposals in a campaign address to a joint session of Congress. The president previewed his plans Monday in a Labor Day speech in Detroit.


August 31, 2011
Never bet against the American farmer 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Greetings from Southern California. This week I had the opportunity to attend a nationwide agri-business economics conference in San Diego and what I found is somewhat a mixed bag – of sorts.


August 24, 2011
As You Like It Richard III 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Now is the winter of our discontent… On the morning of August 22, in 1485, a defining moment in English history took place with the death of King Richard III in the Battle of Bosworth Field.


August 17, 2011
Let them eat potatoes 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
It was quite fascinating recently to read an article about urban foragers who are scavenging for food at abandoned homes. If it isn’t a manifestation of the chaotic behavior of the butterfly effect at the beginnings of economic chaos theory, it is missing a good chance.



August 10, 2011
Turn off the faucet…and the lights 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
It was a tough day in the world’s dystopian financial markets Monday as turmoil over the global economy turned into wide-eyed, white-knuckle fear and liquidity began a desperate search for a safe place to spend the night.


August 3, 2011
Avoiding Debtmageddon 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
Now that Congress and the president have reached an agreement to avoid Debtmageddon, Americans can now turn their collective attention to the hard cold reality – the current recession continues to grind down the very soul of our society.


July 27, 2011
Celebrating Another ‘Recover Summer’ 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
The “Recover Summer” announced by Democrats a year ago never materialized and is now nothing but a distant memory for the more than 14 million Americans still looking for work since the “Great Recession” was declared over in June 2009.


July 20, 2011
Mr. Jefferson’s Dinner Deal 
Kevin E. Dayhoff
As the August 2 deadline looms for the U.S. to raise the debt ceiling, many avid Washington-watchers are passing the popcorn as the drama continues to unfold. For those who study economic history, this fight is as old as the Republic itself.


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