2011-09-28, 16:42 | Link #16881 |
Kurumada's lost child
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This is the most that can be done at the moment. To publicly show discomfort and disapproval of wall street is a good start. It is all about inciting civil dissidence in order to push for change. If there is any violence coming from the protesters then the empire would have an easy excuse to marginalize them and influence opinion in wall street's favor.
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2011-09-28, 17:20 | Link #16882 | |
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They need to basically blockade the buildings, make it really difficult for people to go in and out. Sure the wall street stock exchange is a public building? Couldn't they just go inside and clog the whole place up? Or they could all register as traders, and then go and clog the whole place up. Staying outside and making speeches isn't going to go anywhere, they have to make a statement. |
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2011-09-28, 17:40 | Link #16883 | |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
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Remember Black Monday?
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2011-09-28, 20:00 | Link #16884 | |
Knight Errant
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We shouldn't put the cart before the horse, the stock exchange doesn't directly effect anything, it's just a place where people value things and trade them. The real business happens out there, in the rest of the world. The people who will lose out are the wall street traders and bankers. Frankly, I'm already at the lowest strata of society (IE unemployed), I got nothing to lose, let them bleed and have the real world pierce their little bubble. |
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2011-09-28, 20:05 | Link #16885 | |
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2011-09-28, 20:14 | Link #16886 | |
YOU EEDIOT!!!
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2011-09-28, 20:40 | Link #16887 | |
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2011-09-28, 20:45 | Link #16888 |
This was meaningless
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It feels like they didn't meet in NY with a clear message or the time/preparation to get larger numbers, just an idea that sounded like it would be a great way to stick it to the rich. People most sympathetic to them probably already know about the issues over the net. People who still only get their news from the TV or radio probably aren't even going to give a damn. Even if they kept bodies from going in to Wall Street, there's no way they can target electronic trading or even people trading off their phones or tablets or computers because it's so decentralized. They needed to do something symbolic, but what happened aside from a gathering and a march?
The IT age has bred a generation of indolent dissenters. People content to sit and yell on their corner of the internet about the ills and evils of the world, but not motivated enough to leave their chairs or wifi hotspot coffee shops. |
2011-09-28, 22:01 | Link #16890 | |
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I'm not condoning such an action, but I think it would be very interesting if a group popped up that started to assassinate all the American Super Rich. The patricians need to learn to fear the plebs, need to learn from the Romans. |
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2011-09-28, 22:20 | Link #16891 |
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Feds: US man planned to blow up Pentagon
"A man was arrested Wednesday and accused of plotting an assault on the Pentagon
and U.S. Capitol using remote-controlled aircraft armed with explosives — the latest of several terrorism cases to spring from federal sting operations." See: http://news.yahoo.com/feds-us-man-pl...210116487.html |
2011-09-29, 01:42 | Link #16892 | ||
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and no one's getting clubbed 1968 style to me the only noteworthy thing about this was the internet uproar over a cop who's casually pepper spraying random demonstrators in the street like he was training cats with a spraybottle of water Quote:
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2011-09-29, 08:34 | Link #16893 | |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
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The problem is with "hired traders", or fund managers / in-house traders for those big financial firms. Banks and businesses give them cuts for manipulating the markets in their favour against their competitions, and if there are no cuts given to them, they just use their gigantic leverages to turn the markets in their favour. If we are to look at the "fragile blue marble" perspective, the real problem is with almost everyone - greedy businesses, useless governments and the general lazy and retarded population who refuse to educate themselves financially and prefer to throw ALL their money into "investment firms". It is an amazing potpourri of ignorance and perpetual greed combined that screwed up the system. I think they would pale in the presence of Blackwater - guys who spend part of their lives murdering for their country, and next half murdering for money.
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2011-09-29, 08:41 | Link #16894 | |
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True, and I'm probably one of them. Thing is, there just isn't that big push of a collective resistance movement yet... Even though it's long overdue. |
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2011-09-29, 09:07 | Link #16896 |
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Rocket launches Chinese space lab
Man that's a nerve wrecking process. I never thought that the launch was so important, the whole Politburo was watching, president Hu Jintao, vice president Xi Jinping (aka next president), the current prime minister, the next prime minister, top dogs of the military, and a whole bunch of other people was either at the Beijing Space Center or at the launching center. I can't imagine what a disaster it will be if something fails, and I keep thinking how much security will be there to guarantee the safety of these leaders. There must be an whole swarm of army mobilized. |
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Maybe it is a good sign to US to stop screwing around and start playing the second round of space race again.
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2011-09-29, 09:23 | Link #16898 | |
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2011-09-29, 09:44 | Link #16900 | |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
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We would have reached Mars right now if they continued blazing ahead. But they just shut down the shuttle program and nobody gives a shit about developing a replacement.
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