The Occupy Uprising....
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you might want to either remove that last picture or at least blur out the sweary words
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Except the Jarrow marchers wanted jobs, whereas the 'Occupiers' appear to want more handouts paid for by anyone but them. If it's a repeat of the Jarrow Crusade, I'd say it's in the Marxist sense of history repeating itself as farce.
I'd be far more impressed if they were 'protesting' outside the offices of the politicians who gave hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out the bankers.
I'd be far more impressed if they were 'protesting' outside the offices of the politicians who gave hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out the bankers.
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Except the Jarrow marchers wanted jobs, whereas the 'Occupiers' appear to want more handouts paid for by anyone but them. If it's a repeat of the Jarrow Crusade, I'd say it's in the Marxist sense of history repeating itself as farce.
I'd be far more impressed if they were 'protesting' outside the offices of the politicians who gave hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out the bankers.
I'd be far more impressed if they were 'protesting' outside the offices of the politicians who gave hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out the bankers.
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Oh, don't swallow that crap. They're out for reducing the obscene income and wealth gaps which exist today and not for doing that by handouts to the great unwashed.
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Where on earth did you conjure that strange notion up from? In so far as goals have so far been articulated, just the opposite is true. They appear to me and I think most others to be objecting to massive handouts to bankers, among others, paid for by them, the 99% sacrificing to save the 1% from their just deserts (i.e. gaol).
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http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/10...ss-ag-offices/
This first line pretty much sums it all up:
There is an unfocused financial rage in the United States.
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Most media coverage so far has been to make these people look like crazies. It's quite easy to control the narrative like this because there are plenty of crazy people there to interview - and they are much more interesting than normal people who are simply pissed off with being stolen from.
Everyone is on about social media revolutions and uprisings and such, but we'll see how it develops. I have an open mind on this.