2011-09-28, 12:15 | Link #16863 | |
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Well, at least SOME of the US media is connecting the dots a bit across the world's protests against the corruption and economic gaming by the ultra-wealthy at everyone else's expense:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/wo...und-globe.html Quote:
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2011-09-28, 13:38 | Link #16864 | |
Kurumada's lost child
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Vexx, the Zeitgeist movement tells it like it is, I for once think you will agree with the following press release, and I challenge anyone to debunk it and how you think this message is just a load of BS.
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By the way don't you love it how the protest is going? Also, don't you love it how CNN and Fox news don't care about covering this event? MSNBC has at least tried, but it has done a very poor job at it. Don't you love it how the mass media reacts to a bunch of tea partiers protesting even if it is only a thousand of them, but events like this gets no coverage at all?
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2011-09-28, 14:18 | Link #16865 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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I may have to buy me one of those "united states of corporations" flags...
The segment showing the bankers drinking the champagne and mocking the protestors dredges up the precedents to some rather bloody historical moments...
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2011-09-28, 14:22 | Link #16866 |
Kurumada's lost child
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The Occupy Wall street protests are still going on, it is all over the internet, and the mass media has turned a blind eye to them.
Correct me if I wrong, but I am in shock, truly, I do not see anyone on this thread comment on the protests, How comes?
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2011-09-28, 14:46 | Link #16870 |
books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Amazon unveils Kindle Fire tablet, priced at $199
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...78Q6MJ20110928 Will Amazon's product manage to be a real competitor to the Ipad?
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2011-09-28, 15:15 | Link #16873 |
Kurumada's lost child
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I know... then it will be considered "important news" by CNN, due to the sensationalist value of the story, which of course would cast a negative light on the movement and it would be a great excuse for the media to antagonize it.
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2011-09-28, 15:19 | Link #16874 | |
Not Enough Sleep
Join Date: Nov 2003
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I doubt most New Yorkers know they are even there much less the rest of the country.
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2011-09-28, 15:19 | Link #16875 |
Gamilas Falls
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If it has no effect on Wall Street, there is no real point to doing it really. Trading continues without a hitch, and with some of the value moved to other international trading hubs....there is nothing that these people can really do to effect them. with a protest like this.
Now if they had a "sit in" inside were they could effectively block the monitors and keep traders from doing their jobs..then they might do something.
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2011-09-28, 16:08 | Link #16878 | |
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Their movement is just too small at the moment. But who knows maybe it grows if things keep developing like they do atm. Well, if we consider the police being american cops... they were actually laid back. Police brutality is a little bit of an exageration here (they did not use water cannons yet ).
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2011-09-28, 16:33 | Link #16879 | |
I disagree with you all.
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As it is now, even if they grow, what can they hope? Become the Central Park version of Burning Man? |
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2011-09-28, 16:41 | Link #16880 | |
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(Russia's) Drug agency’s bid for cannabis superpower
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