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| Topic: AFL-CIO Calls on Members to Defend Occupy Wall Street | |
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(NEW YORK CITY) - In a statement emailed at approximately 8pm EST, the AFL-CIO called on its NY area members to travel to the Occupy Wall Street encampment in lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Square and stand on guard all night against a planned eviction and police attack on the popular movement to be carried out on the orders of Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The AFL-CIO call to support an organic movement unaffiliated with union may be unprecedented in the past half century of the union’s history and represents the powerful popularity that the Occupy Wall Street movement has won among U.S. workers. In a poll released by Time today, Occupy Wall Street earned the approval of 54% of respondents, higher approval than for President Obama or the Tea Party http://www.salem-news.com/articles/october132011/aflcio-wall-st.php |
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A week ago, Facebook pages and planned “Occupy” events numbered a few hundred in the U.S., and many politicians seemedon the fence about weather the movement deserved any attention at all, let alone support.
But Saturday protests large and small had spread beyond Americancities and were taking place everywhere from Rome and New Zealand to Taipei, according to the BBC , suggesting the actions decrying the financial system in New York City have gone global. |
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A week ago, Facebook pages and planned “Occupy” events numbered a few hundred in the U.S., and many politicians seemedon the fence about weather the movement deserved any attention at all, let alone support. But Saturday protests large and small had spread beyond Americancities and were taking place everywhere from Rome and New Zealand to Taipei, according to the BBC , suggesting the actions decrying the financial system in New York City have gone global. 
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A week ago, Facebook pages and planned “Occupy” events numbered a few hundred in the U.S., and many politicians seemedon the fence about weather the movement deserved any attention at all, let alone support. But Saturday protests large and small had spread beyond Americancities and were taking place everywhere from Rome and New Zealand to Taipei, according to the BBC , suggesting the actions decrying the financial system in New York City have gone global. |
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Global Clueless Idiots! Yes, please explain. Not much substance here. Just some kneejerk muttering. Hard to take seriously. |
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Edited by
Peccy
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Sat 10/15/11 12:32 PM
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I think what Conrad means is the Occupy Wall Street movement is hypocritical. They are mostly, " ... Starbucks-sipping, Levi's-clad, iPhone-clutching protesters denouncing corporate America even as they weep for Steve Jobs, corporate titan, billionaire eight times over." said an article on CNN.
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I think what Conrad means is the Occupy Wall Street movement is hypocritical. They are mostly, " ... Starbucks-sipping, Levi's-clad, iPhone-clutching protesters denouncing corporate America even as they weep for Steve Jobs, corporate titan, billionaire eight times over." said an article on CNN. Really? I was at Occupy Portland and I didn't see or hear anything like that. I also didn't see any garbage on the ground or smell any filthy people. The cops were friendly and smiling. Odd. I guess our protestors are just a different breed. |
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I think what Conrad means is the Occupy Wall Street movement is hypocritical. They are mostly, " ... Starbucks-sipping, Levi's-clad, iPhone-clutching protesters denouncing corporate America even as they weep for Steve Jobs, corporate titan, billionaire eight times over." said an article on CNN. Should we all dress like ghandi and grow our own food to be taken seriously? I think folks have had enough of getting screwed over and are finaly standing up, be glad someone is willing to do it for you because we didnt get it at the ballot box and we never will. I just hope it doesnt take anarchy to move in the direction we need to to sustain the american way of life. |
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I think what Conrad means is the Occupy Wall Street movement is hypocritical. They are mostly, " ... Starbucks-sipping, Levi's-clad, iPhone-clutching protesters denouncing corporate America even as they weep for Steve Jobs, corporate titan, billionaire eight times over." said an article on CNN. Really? I was at Occupy Portland and I didn't see or hear anything like that. I also didn't see any garbage on the ground or smell any filthy people. The cops were friendly and smiling. Odd. I guess our protestors are just a different breed. |
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I think what Conrad means is the Occupy Wall Street movement is hypocritical. They are mostly, " ... Starbucks-sipping, Levi's-clad, iPhone-clutching protesters denouncing corporate America even as they weep for Steve Jobs, corporate titan, billionaire eight times over." said an article on CNN. Should we all dress like ghandi and grow our own food to be taken seriously? I think folks have had enough of getting screwed over and are finaly standing up, be glad someone is willing to do it for you because we didnt get it at the ballot box and we never will. I just hope it doesnt take anarchy to move in the direction we need to to sustain the american way of life. |
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I think what Conrad means is the Occupy Wall Street movement is hypocritical. They are mostly, " ... Starbucks-sipping, Levi's-clad, iPhone-clutching protesters denouncing corporate America even as they weep for Steve Jobs, corporate titan, billionaire eight times over." said an article on CNN. Should we all dress like ghandi and grow our own food to be taken seriously? I think folks have had enough of getting screwed over and are finaly standing up, be glad someone is willing to do it for you because we didnt get it at the ballot box and we never will. I just hope it doesnt take anarchy to move in the direction we need to to sustain the american way of life. What should we eat? what shoul we wear? Sorry about the cell phone.
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What should we eat? what shoul we wear? Sorry about the cell phone. ..... In reality though, I think the movement is good for the most part, maybe someone will listen.
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Yes, from New York, I'd say so Ah, so you were there. Must have been quite a trip from Texas. Tell us all, what did you see? What did you smell? What did you hear? |
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Yes, from New York, I'd say so Ah, so you were there. Must have been quite a trip from Texas. Tell us all, what did you see? What did you smell? What did you hear? I am saying that the way you described the event there, I promise you that's not how it was in New York. New York is a world unto itself. |
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Hey I think they should let the protesters stay as long as they want. It might be good for local business. People gotta eat.
If they try to arrest people that just causes more press. Let them stay. Hell let them camp out indefinitely. I would arrest them for littering though. I hope they clean up their mess. Crowds always make messes. I heard businesses were bringing the protesters free food. I wonder how long that will last? Interesting. Revolution!! 
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Grassroots my Arse!
 Hat tip to SHR for this research on Zuccotti Park, the place where the Occupy Wall Street protestors in New York have been since September 16, 2011: Sooo...I ask myself a simple question...how can these protesters be all camped up in this Zuccotti Park right in the middle of downtown Manhattan and nobody is even telling them "Move along"...now the park is in a nice area..hell it's right in the financial district...a very nice area. They are trashing the place, that's coming from the people down there, not my assessment. Now there are usual park rules there...no sleeping on benches...no overnight sleep outs...the typical and mundane rules etc etc. This park also routinely gets cleaned every night, now it hasn't been cleaned since sept 16th...and it's becoming a "sanitary problem"...I'm sure that's no exaggeration with people pissing and god knows what else all night long in the park...so it's no stretch to imagine how cruddy it is by now. You can read one of the many articles here about that... [link to gothamist.com] So apparently since the park is private property and owned by a big multi faceted and multi asset international corporation....oooohhh...remember when they were they EVIL!!!! Bad multinational conglomerate!...what are we protesting again Mindy Moonunit?...I forgot...errrp...so anyway...the owner of this property among many others is "Brookfield Office properties"...they are part of Brookfield Asset Management Inc...bigass company worth around 150 billion or more... So Mayor Bloomberg says there's nothing really he can do until BPO decides the protesters ought to be evicted and they were nice enough to issue this public statement saying they weren't going to do that....awww...see how nice?...Well I would guess that if Mr Liberal Mike Bloomberg felt like asking them he probably could.... BECAUSE HIS LONG TIME LIVE-IN GIRLFRIEND IS ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS!!!.. Yes that's correct...NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg's long time lady Diana L. Taylor is on the board of directors for Brookfeild Properties... Here she is here: [link to www.brookfieldofficeproperties.com] and here.. [link to topics.nytimes.com] Now this seems to be fairly common knowledge to some in NYC, but it certainly is NOT being reported in the news at all...So the Mayor who claims his hands are tied?...maybe not so tied since his woman is on the board of the property owners... So what else is this Brookfield outfit up to?.... Well we got the namesake...John E. Zuccotti he's on the board of BPO...so who is he?...well Mr Zuccotti was on the Board of directors of WELL POINT HEALTH NETWORK...for years...remember them?...they were THE most Evil health insurance company just yanking the po sheeples benefits away that only Obamacare could save us! from...in fact Obama went for the throat in rhetoric on them...I find that highly ironic that the protestanistas are camped out in a park named after a board member of one of the most demonized and the largest and most evil health insurer in the country...lol...what we potestin again Mandy?....lol.....dumfuks... You can read about him here: [link to people.forbes.com] Ok so more ironic than sinister...so what else is Brookfield up to... Well BPO...that's just the property division who might they donate money too?...they are a multi billion division...so they probably give some good bucks out...well not so much, not publicly anyway...they did however hire a lobbyist firm for a couple years several years back, paid them a couple hundred grand over 2 years...in fact was there largest client in their first year. Little start up lobbyist outfit named.... Oldaker, Biden & Belair Nahhhh...ya think?....oh yes you thought right...that is the Biden name of VP Joe Biden fame and that Biden is his son..Robert Hunter Biden... Can check that below and I won't even bother getting into how Hunter was on the board of Amtrak while Joe "Mr Amtrak" Biden was pouring money into that sucking vortex of money waste. [link to en.wikipedia.org] [link to www.opensecrets.org] [link to www.opensecrets.org] So....so far we got the Mayors defacto wife on the board of directors and some old payments to the Vice Presidents son's lobbying firm...there must be more..this huge corporation is just coming off as far too nice....even with the Mayors wife on the Board...the Bloombergs are only luke warm with the Obama's anyway...and I'm sure they don't like the protesters stinkin up some one the nicest areas downtown...so there has to be more pull somewhere... Well there probably is....and it's a bit higher up the food chain... One of the big divisions of Brookfield Asset Management inc is... Brookfield renewable power...and guess who's govt has an ASSLOAD of Green energy money...stimulus money...federal loan guarantees and all that money moving right to the very same property owning multinational conglomerate that owns that dinky little park....OUR GOVT... Here's just a few and I'm sure we could find a TON more if we wanted to look a little deeper. Peanut mil or 3 grant to make a turbine that will harm less fish for hydro electric plants being tested at Brookfield Renewable Power School Street Project in Cohoes, New York [link to www.lloydgcarter.com] Local 49 is happy about this stimulus funded hydro-electro plant in Minnesota..price tag to the stimuloss package unknown. [link to www.local49.org] Brookfield Renewable Power This company traces its history back to a Brazilian electric utility incorporated in 1899; today, it's headquartered in West Virginia and manages renewable energy projects in the U.S., Brazil and Canada, including 167 hydroelectric stations and two wind farms. A publicly traded company, Brookfield maintains stable revenues thanks to long-term power contracts, and uses this advantage to help pioneer next-generation projects in wind and thermal energy. Besides specializing in renewable energy, the company has also donated nearly $4 million to local sustainability projects. Brookfield also voluntarily meets the low-impact standards put forward by the Ecologo Program and the Low Impact Hydropower Institute. Brookfield is currently working on a wind energy project in Coos County, New Hampshire, financed in part with the Department of Energy’s partial guarantee of $135.8 million in loans. The Department of Energy says the project will result in 198 construction jobs and and save some 12,000 tons of carbon pollution once it is up and running. Wow 198 temporary jobs?...that's less than a million a pop, pretty good by govt standards!.. [link to www.good.is] Hmmmm...this is odd....they have almost half of their 168 power generating stations in.....New York.... [link to www.brookfield.com] Massive move being made here....huge bet on "Green Energy" Brookfield to merge hydro power assets into global renewable energy powerhouse September 13, 2011 Brookfield Asset Management is looking to merge its hydroelectric and wind power assets into the world's second-largest public renewable power company in a move designed to cash in on the growing demand for cleaner power. The conglomerate said Tuesday it plans to combine Brookfield Renewable Power Fund's (TSX:BRC.UN) hydroelectric stations and wind farms with those of its wholly owned subsidiary Brookfield Renewable Power Inc. The merger would create Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners LP — or BREP — a global, publicly traded partnership focused on renewable power, primarily hydroelectric, in Canada, the United States and Brazil with assets of about US $13 billion. [link to www.canadianbusiness.com] whoops...price of poker went up another 30 million... A NH Solyndra? Wind farm gets fed loan In the name of “green energy,” the Obama administration is using taxpayer money to subsidize a New Hampshire wind farm that is a subsidiary of a hugely profitable company. New Hampshire’s largest wind farm, the Granite Reliable Power project under construction in Coos County, is jointly owned by BAIF Granite Holdings, LLC and Freshnet Wind Energy, LLC. BAIF owns 75 percent of Granite Reliable. BAIF Granite Holdings was created earlier this year by Brookfield Renewable Power, which is a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management of New York. That company, which runs clean energy operations around the world, has deep pockets. It reported net income of $454 million in 2009 and $3.2 billion in 2010. Brookfield Renewable Power financed the creation of BAIF Granite Holdings from its Brookfield Americas Infrastructure fund, which was reported in February to have $2.7 billion in assets. With that kind of backing, it is curious that the U.S. Department of Energy announced it would guarantee up to 80 percent of a $168.9 million loan for the Granite Reliable wind farm project last week. [link to www.unionleader.com] Department of Energy Finalizes Loan Guarantee of Nearly $170 Million to Granite Reliable Power September 23, 2011 - 3:31pm Washington, D.C. – U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the Department of Energy finalized a partial guarantee for $168.9 million loan to Granite Reliable Power, LLC. The loan guarantee will support a 99 megawatt (MW) wind generation project that will be New Hampshire’s largest wind farm. [link to energy.gov] Well now...454 Million net income in the 2009 and 3.2 billion in 2010....that's quite a rise in profits... Now.....why would a huge and very rich company that had 3.2 Billion dollars in profits in 2010 need or be able to get a Loan guarantee for 168 million...which the Dept Of Energy announced finalizing on....Sept 23rd 2011....not long after the OWS protests started really getting going...a 168 million dollar loan guarantee with no visible reason why behind it....to the very same corporation that owns the very same Zuccotti park the protesters are camped out in.... Maybe they ought to form a circular protesting squad.... Link to Original Post: Thread: Company that owns Zuccotti "Protester" Park Just got 168 Million Loan Guarantee from Obama DOE!!!!...Thick as Thieves!!!! Last Edited by SHR on 10/07/2011 06:15 PM http://www.drrichshow.com/blog_post.cfm?BlogID=102 |
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Your makeing some absurd assumtions here about the Occupy Movement and connecting some dots that form no picture at all.
All your conections show me is that big business and politicaly connected firms are getting fat off loans and grants regardless of who is in office. All the while they discuss what benefits they are going to cut to social programs and how much older we will have to be to collect social security. I think everything you posted proves how royaly screwed over this country is and that is what they are protesting. They are not happy with Obama or any form of traditional solutions and if they were happy with Obama they wouldnt even be there at all. They are grass roots face reality and I wish them well and am eager to do what I can to help this country get back on track to give the greatest benefit to the most amount of people that we can afford. |
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Your makeing some absurd assumtions here about the Occupy Movement and connecting some dots that form no picture at all. All your conections show me is that big business and politicaly connected firms are getting fat off loans and grants regardless of who is in office. All the while they discuss what benefits they are going to cut to social programs and how much older we will have to be to collect social security. I think everything you posted proves how royaly screwed over this country is and that is what they are protesting. They are not happy with Obama or any form of traditional solutions and if they were happy with Obama they wouldnt even be there at all. They are grass roots face reality and I wish them well and am eager to do what I can to help this country get back on track to give the greatest benefit to the most amount of people that we can afford. Your Sponsors are sponsored by recipients of Bailouts and by the Master-Sleazer himself,George Soros! Possibly half of the Organizations supporting you are answerable to him! He once more will laugh all the way to the Bank and have a good laugh at you Guys as well! You should walk on the White House,that where your Trouble is sitting!
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Your makeing some absurd assumtions here about the Occupy Movement and connecting some dots that form no picture at all. All your conections show me is that big business and politicaly connected firms are getting fat off loans and grants regardless of who is in office. All the while they discuss what benefits they are going to cut to social programs and how much older we will have to be to collect social security. I think everything you posted proves how royaly screwed over this country is and that is what they are protesting. They are not happy with Obama or any form of traditional solutions and if they were happy with Obama they wouldnt even be there at all. They are grass roots face reality and I wish them well and am eager to do what I can to help this country get back on track to give the greatest benefit to the most amount of people that we can afford. Your Sponsors are sponsored by recipients of Bailouts and by the Master-Sleazer himself,George Soros! Possibly half of the Organizations supporting you are answerable to him! He once more will laugh all the way to the Bank and have a good laugh at you Guys as well! You should walk on the White House,that where your Trouble is sitting!
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In this world, there are the players and their are the pawns.
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