People are still starving in Venezuela. Here some musicians play a song, not sure if it is the national song or not, but the police decide to launch some tear gas at the musicians. Even music makes people angry.
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Occupy Central ( Hong Kong) - The First Two Hours 佔領中環的首二小時
Occupy Hong Kong
15 October 2011
500 protesters gathered outside the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on the 15th and about 40 demonstrators slept overnight in a foyer beneath the Asian headquarters of HSBC Holdings Plc.
Armed with tents, bullhorns and a gas-powered generator used to help them recharge their laptops, the protesters occupied the public thoroughfare under the building as about a dozen police stood by.
the territory has experienced growing inequality, insecurity and poverty in recent decades, affecting the educated middle class as well and threatening the ‘Hong Kong Dream’ of increasing prosperity. The UN Development Programme, Hong Kong has the greatest income inequality of any country in the world.
There is a serious lack of affordable housing, with many households spending more than half their disposable income on rent or mortgage payments. People are also being crammed by landlords into unsuitable empty industrial buildings with hardly any living space and poor facilities.Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Occupy Wall Street - Faces
Susan Brannon
12 October 2011
A photo series of different faces for the protests: New York
The Movement: Occupy Wall St.
Resources:
Occupy Together
Twitter: @occupywallst
Related Articles:
Making Sense of the Bank of America Mortgage Fraud
Making Sense of the Failing Economy and U.S. Downgrade
Debt Plan Fact Sheet
Our Tax Dollars at Work
Satellite View of Foreclosures
American Struggling Middle Class (Video)
Global Confidence in Economy Collapses
Crime Against Humanity
Examples of US Financial Corruption
Presidential Candidates Response to Occupy Wall Street
One Example of Wall Street Corruption
Occupy Wall Street - Proposed/Unproposed List of Demands
What is Wall Street?
12 October 2011
A photo series of different faces for the protests: New York
Resources:
Occupy Together
Twitter: @occupywallst
Related Articles:
Making Sense of the Bank of America Mortgage Fraud
Making Sense of the Failing Economy and U.S. Downgrade
Debt Plan Fact Sheet
Our Tax Dollars at Work
Satellite View of Foreclosures
American Struggling Middle Class (Video)
Global Confidence in Economy Collapses
Crime Against Humanity
Examples of US Financial Corruption
Presidential Candidates Response to Occupy Wall Street
One Example of Wall Street Corruption
Occupy Wall Street - Proposed/Unproposed List of Demands
What is Wall Street?
Monday, October 10, 2011
Sunday, October 09, 2011
Presidential Candidates Response to Occupy Wall Street
Susan Brannon
9 October 2011
The best thing to do is to find out what the presidential candidates response to the "Occupy Wall Street" protests that are taking lead all over the country.
Here is what I have found so far:
President Obama: "I think people are frustrated, and the protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works," "I think it expresses the frustrations the American people feel, that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country ... and yet you're still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on the abusive practices that got us into this in the first place,"
Herman Cain reiterated his criticism of the Occupy Wall Street protesters Friday, saying the groups are “anti-capitalism” and “anti-free market.”
“They are not working on the right problem,” Cain said at a social conservatives convention in Washington. “Wall Street didn’t write those failed policies. Wall Street didn’t spend a trillion dollars. You can demonstrate all you want on Wall Street, the problem is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Ron Paul: "If they were demonstrating peacefully, and making a point, and arguing our case, and drawing attention to the Fed -- I would say, good!"
Mitt Rommey: "I'm just trying to get myself to occupy the White House."
Donald Trump: "Nobody knows why they're protesting but they're having a good time. ... A lot of them are down there for dating purposes!" He also added, "Some of them really don't look unemployed. And their parents look like they really probably work on Wall Street."
Buddy Roemer: "As I continue touring college campuses throughout New Hampshire, I am reminded of all the young Americans currently taking part in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Please know that I stand by you. ... Wall Street grew to be a source of capital for growing companies. It has become something else: a facilitator for greed and for the selling of American jobs. Enough already."
Other Folks Reactions: Eric Cantor says that, he is "concerned over the protests" that are spreading throughout the country, "This administration's failed policies have resulted in an assault on many of our nation's bedrock principles," "And, believe it or not, some in this town have condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans,"
The Movement: Occupy Wall St.
Resources:
Occupy Together
Twitter: @occupywallst
Related Articles:
Making Sense of the Bank of America Mortgage Fraud
Making Sense of the Failing Economy and U.S. Downgrade
Debt Plan Fact Sheet
Our Tax Dollars at Work
Satellite View of Foreclosures
American Struggling Middle Class (Video)
Global Confidence in Economy Collapses
Crime Against Humanity
Examples of US Financial Corruption
Presidential Candidates Response to Occupy Wall Street
One Example of Wall Street Corruption
Occupy Wall Street - Proposed/Unproposed List of Demands
What is Wall Street?
9 October 2011
The best thing to do is to find out what the presidential candidates response to the "Occupy Wall Street" protests that are taking lead all over the country.
Here is what I have found so far:
President Obama: "I think people are frustrated, and the protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works," "I think it expresses the frustrations the American people feel, that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country ... and yet you're still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on the abusive practices that got us into this in the first place,"
Herman Cain reiterated his criticism of the Occupy Wall Street protesters Friday, saying the groups are “anti-capitalism” and “anti-free market.”
“They are not working on the right problem,” Cain said at a social conservatives convention in Washington. “Wall Street didn’t write those failed policies. Wall Street didn’t spend a trillion dollars. You can demonstrate all you want on Wall Street, the problem is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Ron Paul: "If they were demonstrating peacefully, and making a point, and arguing our case, and drawing attention to the Fed -- I would say, good!"
Mitt Rommey: "I'm just trying to get myself to occupy the White House."
Donald Trump: "Nobody knows why they're protesting but they're having a good time. ... A lot of them are down there for dating purposes!" He also added, "Some of them really don't look unemployed. And their parents look like they really probably work on Wall Street."
Buddy Roemer: "As I continue touring college campuses throughout New Hampshire, I am reminded of all the young Americans currently taking part in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Please know that I stand by you. ... Wall Street grew to be a source of capital for growing companies. It has become something else: a facilitator for greed and for the selling of American jobs. Enough already."
Other Folks Reactions: Eric Cantor says that, he is "concerned over the protests" that are spreading throughout the country, "This administration's failed policies have resulted in an assault on many of our nation's bedrock principles," "And, believe it or not, some in this town have condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans,"
The Movement: Occupy Wall St.
Resources:
Occupy Together
Twitter: @occupywallst
Related Articles:
Making Sense of the Bank of America Mortgage Fraud
Making Sense of the Failing Economy and U.S. Downgrade
Debt Plan Fact Sheet
Our Tax Dollars at Work
Satellite View of Foreclosures
American Struggling Middle Class (Video)
Global Confidence in Economy Collapses
Crime Against Humanity
Examples of US Financial Corruption
Presidential Candidates Response to Occupy Wall Street
One Example of Wall Street Corruption
Occupy Wall Street - Proposed/Unproposed List of Demands
What is Wall Street?
One Example of Wall Street Corruption
8 October 2011
Despite hundreds of billions in taxpayers' bailouts and trillions in losses for investors, 2008 ended with a huge bonuses for wall street. The firms paid $18 billion in bonuses and the largest firms reached to $265,000. In 2010 the average bonus for the firms was $128,000 in addition to the salaries, options and perks. Warren Buffet said, "If an institution had to go to society and say, "save me because if you don't I'm going to topple society, I would have it so that that person, the CEO and his spouse at least come away broke."
There has not been any negative consequence for the people who toppled the global economy. Their wealth was protected and they continued with their games with the knowledge that their firms were to big to fail.
When the protesters for "Occupy Wall Street" marched on wall street in New York, they held signs that said, "We are the 99 percent." Firm employees watched the protest from their office balconies drinking champagne and held signs that said, "We are the 1 percent." Now if that is not a punch in the face with arrogance, I don't know what is.
Some of the countries in Europe initiated huge tax rates for large bonuses and increased the tax rates for those who make over 90,000 Euros for the next two years. Here in the U.S. there are no penalties for failures, or shall I say, the penalties trickle down to the tax payers, the middle and lower class taking away from what little they have. We pay the price for others' incompetence and the mistakes that they made and we are continuing to pay that price.
The one percent would say, "that is capitalism, if don't work hard enough then you don't get the bonuses, it is their problem...not mine." I have also heard, "Well, we all know that life is not fair, who ever said that it was?" Okay, I agree that life is not fair, but who gave the right for bankers and Wall Street to steal and get away with it? Our problem is, that if I made a mistake with my business, I know that I cannot go to the government and ask for free money to help me stay open.
We all know that our financial system is corrupt and I am glad that some Americans are marching in the streets...I only wish that their were more of them to make a difference. This is important and we must make the time to be heard as a large group. The American dream is being stolen, the financial players will just about do anything if they feel that they can get away with it while contributing to the destruction of our economic machine.
Here is a small example of gold manipulation and corruption I have read about:
- They are manipulating with the price of gold and silver and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, who are supposed to be regulating the firms have been sitting back, doing nothing while watching it all happen. A whistle blower exposed the manipulation of the world gold and silver. Here is how it goes: "Back in November 2009, Andrew Maguire, a former Goldman Sachs silver trader in Goldman's London office, contacted the CFTC's Enforcement Division and reported the illegal manipulation of the silver market by traders at JPMorgan Chase.
Maguire told the CFTC how silver traders at JPMorgan Chase openly bragged about their exploits - including how they sent a signal to the market in advance so that other traders could make a profit during price suppression episodes."
"Traders would recognize these signals and would make money shorting precious metals alongside JPMorgan Chase. Maguire explained to the CFTC how there would routinely be market manipulations at the time of option expiries, during non-farm payroll data releases, during commodities exchange contract rollovers, as well as at other times if it was deemed necessary.
On February 3rd, Maguire gave the CFTC a two day warning of a market manipulation event by email to Eliud Ramirez, who is a senior investigator for the CFTC’s Enforcement Division.
Maguire warned Ramirez that the price of precious metals would be suppressed upon the release of non-farm payroll data on February 5th. As the manipulation of the precious metals markets was unfolding on February 5th, Maguire sent additional emails to Ramirez explaining exactly what was going on.
And it wasn't just that Maguire predicted that the price would be forced down. It was the level of precision that he was able to communicate to the CFTC that was the most stunning. He warned the CFTC that the price of silver was to be taken down regardless of what happened to the employment numbers and that the price of silver would end up below $15 per ounce. Over the next couple of days, the price of silver was indeed taken down from $16.17 per ounce down to a low of $14.62 per ounce.
Because of Maguire’s warning, the CFTC was able to watch a crime unfold, right in front of their eyes, in real time." (The Economic Collapse Blog)
What did the CFTC do? Nothing, nada, not a thing. A trial was held later, that was recorded on video and the testimony had only 5 minutes to give his voice and Maguire was not invited to testify. *Please See the Bill Murphy of GATA reveals whistle-blower" Video on this blog.
The Movement: Occupy Wall St.
Resources:
Occupy Together
Twitter: @occupywallst
Related Articles:
Making Sense of the Bank of America Mortgage Fraud
Making Sense of the Failing Economy and U.S. Downgrade
Debt Plan Fact Sheet
Our Tax Dollars at Work
Satellite View of Foreclosures
American Struggling Middle Class (Video)
Global Confidence in Economy Collapses
Crime Against Humanity
Saturday, October 08, 2011
Occupy Wall Street - Proposed unproposed list of demands
Re-post
Posted Sept. 25, 2011, 3:46 p.m. EST (12 days ago) by anonymous
Admin note: This is not an official list of demands. This is a forum post submitted by a single user and hyped by irresponsible news/commentary agencies like Fox News and Mises.org. This content was not published by the OccupyWallSt.org collective, nor was it ever proposed or agreed to on a consensus basis with the NYC General Assembly. There is NO official list of demands.
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.
The Movement: Occupy Wall St.
Resources:
Occupy Together
Twitter: @occupywallst
Related Articles:
Making Sense of the Bank of America Mortgage Fraud
Making Sense of the Failing Economy and U.S. Downgrade
Debt Plan Fact Sheet
Our Tax Dollars at Work
Satellite View of Foreclosures
American Struggling Middle Class (Video)
Global Confidence in Economy Collapses
Crime Against Humanity
Examples of US Financial Corruption
Presidential Candidates Response to Occupy Wall Street
One Example of Wall Street Corruption
Occupy Wall Street - Proposed/Unproposed List of Demands
What is Wall Street?
Posted Sept. 25, 2011, 3:46 p.m. EST (12 days ago) by anonymous
Admin note: This is not an official list of demands. This is a forum post submitted by a single user and hyped by irresponsible news/commentary agencies like Fox News and Mises.org. This content was not published by the OccupyWallSt.org collective, nor was it ever proposed or agreed to on a consensus basis with the NYC General Assembly. There is NO official list of demands.
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
These demands will create so many jobs it will be completely impossible to fill them without an open borders policy.
The Movement: Occupy Wall St.
Resources:
Occupy Together
Twitter: @occupywallst
Related Articles:
Making Sense of the Bank of America Mortgage Fraud
Making Sense of the Failing Economy and U.S. Downgrade
Debt Plan Fact Sheet
Our Tax Dollars at Work
Satellite View of Foreclosures
American Struggling Middle Class (Video)
Global Confidence in Economy Collapses
Crime Against Humanity
Examples of US Financial Corruption
Presidential Candidates Response to Occupy Wall Street
One Example of Wall Street Corruption
Occupy Wall Street - Proposed/Unproposed List of Demands
What is Wall Street?
CNN LAUGHS AT OCCUPY WALL STREET SERIOUSLY SPREAD THE WORD
CNN has lost it, worse than FOX
The Movement: Occupy Wall St.
Resources:
Occupy Together
Twitter: @occupywallst
Related Articles:
Making Sense of the Bank of America Mortgage Fraud
Making Sense of the Failing Economy and U.S. Downgrade
Debt Plan Fact Sheet
Our Tax Dollars at Work
Satellite View of Foreclosures
American Struggling Middle Class (Video)
Global Confidence in Economy Collapses
Crime Against Humanity
Examples of US Financial Corruption
Presidential Candidates Response to Occupy Wall Street
One Example of Wall Street Corruption
Occupy Wall Street - Proposed/Unproposed List of Demands
What is Wall Street?
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