Occupy Wall Street

[audiotech]

Transparency? The "local" market? What I see is one where all the good fruit 'n' veg is on display and you take a bag, pay for it and when you get home you find it's been taken from the back, over-ripe and not likely to last long. On top of that, you're short-changed and they use undocumented child labour. I prefer Aldi's.

 

[nino_savatte]

Critical thought isn't a strong suit for you nino...and some others around here too who don't 'add anything'. To agree with Beck on a single point isn't agreeing with his whole set of politics. Yet that's how you see it.

ROTFLMAO! Projecting again, dilute?

 

[DotCommunist]

So there is honour in hurting people, just as long as they are not 'American',

yeah I rolled my eyes a bit at that but from the standpoint of putting it on the coppers, shaming them a bit, he was hitting from a strong ground. Half of them couldn't even look at the bloke- one even mumbles about 'i was there with you in iraq'. Give em 'fascist pig' all day long and they'll laugh at the unwashed hippy. A vet putting it on them as to honour and so on is challenging them on grounds that will and clearly did make them very uncomfortable.

 

[dilute micro]

True but you're going to find bad fruit with any type of government.

I'm not opposed to the small capitalism but on the whole it has hardwired into it the desire to get larger and more profitable. Small companies want to become bigger companies. What determines what is small c or big C? Either way - no company should expect the government to be its savior when it fails or be its best buddy when it's thriving.

 

[dilute micro]

ROTFLMAO! Projecting again, dilute?

'ROTFLMAO' - I'm pretty sure nobody says that anymore.

 

[audiotech]

True but you're going to find bad fruit with any type of government.

I'm not opposed to the small capitalism but on the whole it has hardwired into it the desire to get larger and more profitable. Small companies want to become bigger companies. What determines what is small c or big C? Either way - no company should expect the government to be its savior when it fails or be its best buddy when it's thriving.

Yes, the tendency towards monopoly (more oligopoly in reality), that then becomes too big to fail, so the notion of a 'free market' is bogus.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Transparency? The "local" market? What I see is one where all the good fruit 'n' veg is on display and you take a bag, pay for it and when you get home you find it's been taken from the back, over-ripe and not likely to last long. On top of that, you're short-changed and they use undocumented child labour. I prefer Aldi's.

With that level of cynicism, how do you manage to get out of bed in the morning?

 

[audiotech]

With that level of cynicism, how do you manage to get out of bed in the morning?

Sorry to upset your apple cart. The profit motive and price determines behaviour in these settings and it is those who have these thoughts uppermost in their minds who are the cynics not me.

[/trotters trading company]

 

[dilute micro]

With that level of cynicism, how do you manage to get out of bed in the morning?

Is this what cause you to call the film on agribusiness 'conspiracy theory'?

 

[catinthehat]

In terms of levels of interest we held a meeting today at my college (FE and very apolitical to date) and 60 plus students attended in their lunch break. Given that only about ten of them turned out for a student meeting when EMA was threatened with being cut this was pretty significant.

 

[xes]

Here's an interview with the army guy

 

[TruXta]

What about the concept of intellectual property for an avowed socialist/marxist? What is the Marxist theory on the degree of labour value provided by management.

What about it?

 

[TruXta]

yeah I rolled my eyes a bit at that but from the standpoint of putting it on the coppers, shaming them a bit, he was hitting from a strong ground. Half of them couldn't even look at the bloke- one even mumbles about 'i was there with you in iraq'. Give em 'fascist pig' all day long and they'll laugh at the unwashed hippy. A vet putting it on them as to honour and so on is challenging them on grounds that will and clearly did make them very uncomfortable.

Prod the elephant with sticks, confuse the driver, riddle the path with stones and potholes.

 

[audiotech]

Here's an interview with the army guy

I checked back on the original video just now and since last night the views have gone up by 700,000! That's viral.

 

[treelover]

'In terms of levels of interest we held a meeting today at my college (FE and very apolitical to date) and 60 plus students attended in their lunch break. Given that only about ten of them turned out for a student meeting when EMA was threatened with being cut this was pretty significant. '

Who are 'we' and what was the meeting actually about?

 

[treelover]

'I checked back on the original video just now and since last night the views have gone up by 700,000! That's viral.'

It was a bit of a rant but the faces on the cops was a picture,,,

 

[treelover]

'Wall Street protesters divided over Occupy movement's demands

Protesters to decide on whether Occupy Wall Street should officially call for US to adopt massive public works programme'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/19/occupy-wall-street-protesters-divided?INTCMP=SRCH

Big news, if they do i wonder how the TP who seem to have gone quiet and indeed obama will react?

 

[dennisr]

So there is honour in hurting people, just as long as they are not 'American',

The thing is its only a short step from the stance that fella was taking - the inking that there is something very very wrong going on - to this:

http://youtu.be/WWUQ_N_vHc0

(Iraq Veterans Against War)

These are the type of soldier boys even you can salute

 

[purves grundy]

Big news, if they do i wonder how the TP who seem to have gone quiet and indeed obama will react?

A suggestion, for instance, that the Occupy Wall Street wall be used to sell advertising to fund the movement and that the "war-chest" or donations be used to fund an office with six full-time campaigners have horrified some protesters.

Bad suggestions, disagreements, splits etc... but then that's the kind of plurality you'd expect in a movement assembled with multifarious elements?

 

[nino_savatte]

'ROTFLMAO' - I'm pretty sure nobody says that anymore.

Well, you'd be wrong (as usual), dickhead.

 

[nino_savatte]

Is this what cause you to call the film on agribusiness 'conspiracy theory'?

You've only got two settings: slow and thick.

 

[catinthehat]

'In terms of levels of interest we held a meeting today at my college (FE and very apolitical to date) and 60 plus students attended in their lunch break. Given that only about ten of them turned out for a student meeting when EMA was threatened with being cut this was pretty significant. '

Who are 'we' and what was the meeting actually about?

Students and a few staff. It was about the global occupation. Guest speakers from local Universities from International Politics and media departments. Discussed the mainstream and independent media response, the difference between this and the 'usual' approach to protest.....that sort of thing.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Typical, another weed smoking hippy slacker utterly lacking focus and specificity.

 

[dilute micro]

She looks like Kari Byron from Mythbusters.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

She looks like Kari Byron from Mythbusters.

Mirror boy in vacuous commenting on image shocker.

Louis MacNeice

 

[8ball]

Mirror boy in vacuous commenting on image shocker.

Louis MacNeice

Not really, looks enough like her that it could be her. Extremely-minor celebrities holding banners like this seems to indicate a certain 'very mainstream' support.

 

[dilute micro]

Mirror boy in vacuous commenting on image shocker.

Louis MacNeice

Louis MacNeice in vacuous commenting on vacuous comment of image shocker shocker.

Louis MacNeice

 

[treelover]

great cartoon....

 

[8ball]

I think I'm being a bit thick but I'm not sure I understand what it means...

 

[magneze]

The protesters need more calcium in their diet.