Occupy Together - Began at 55 Wall Street & Expanded Globally

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Now, this is more like it! ‘Obama Gets Occupied’ – ‘The Editors,’ The Nation (magazine), January 2, 2012

How NPR covered the editorial in The Nation (from December 20, 2011)
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The SotU speech sounded like he was aiming at pretty much what they call for.

 

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^_^ Isn’t it nice to have a president who is actually smart… for a ‘change’ (no pun on a certain election campaign theme intended)?

Especially when we have this as a result of a certain stupid Republican president’s failed policies – both foreign and domestic…

‘IMF report: Global economy looks grim for 2012’ – by Howard Schneider, The Washington Post, January 24, 2012
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Concerning the current results of the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011…

‘The First Hours of Egypt’s Revolution,’ by Adel Abdel Ghafar – from ‘The Lede,’ The New York Times’ news blog of Robert Mackey, January 24, 2012
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Then, of course, in New York City, we have this racist bullshit from the same police force that so aggressively routed peaceful OWS protesters, resulting in…

NYC Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly in the hot seat – ‘In Shift, Police Say Leader Helped With Anti-Islam Film and Now Regrets It,’ by Michael Powell, The New York Times, January 24, 2012

‘Hateful Film’ – The New York Times’ ‘Editorial,’ January 24, 2012

The original article about The Third Jihad – by Tom Robbins in his former ‘Experiments in Terror’ column in The Village Voice, January 19, 2011
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So – I hear your anxious cry – what’s been going on lately with the ‘Occupy Wall Street​’ movement?

Well, it’s winter, but there are still some isolated actions, legal and otherwise, here and there – in Brooklyn, Chicago, San Francisco…

Breaking Wind… I mean, news… Breaking News… from ‘Steve’s Tiny Organ’…

Also New York City… ‘Occupy Wall Street Drops Suit on Zuccotti Park,’ by Colin Moynihan, The New York Times, January 24, 2012

‘Why Romney, other wealthy investors, pay lower taxes on investments than they would on wages,’ by Stephen Ohlemacher, The Chicago Tribune, January 27, 2012
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‘Jobs, Jobs and Cars,’ by ‘Op-ed Columnist’ Paul Krugman, The New York Times, January 27, 2012
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The difference between equality and fairness – ‘Fair Is Fair’ – by Stanley Fish, in ‘Campaign Stops,’ in ‘The Opinion Pages’ of The New York Times, January 26, 2012
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Furniture you’d never dare sit on (and better off kept in a vault) – ‘Tour of Wealth for All Seasons’ by Ginia Bellafante, The New York Times, January 27, 2012

‘Op-ed Columnist’ Thomas L. Friedman in The New York Times, January 28, 2012 – ‘Made in the World’
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‘Arrests Reported as Protesters March Through East Village,’ by Daniel Maurer, January 30, 2012 – from ‘The Local,’ the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute blog (‘in collaboration with’ The New York Times)

‘The Austerity Debacle’ – ‘Op-ed Columnist’ Paul Krugman in The New York Times, January 30, 2012
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‘[/COLOR]The Austerity Debacle’ – ‘Op-ed Columnist’ Paul Krugman in The New York Times, January 30, 2012
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That one ought to be common sense.

 

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‘The Revenge of Saul Alinsky,’ by David Brooks and Gail Collins, February 1, 2012 – The New York Times’ ‘Opinionator’ blog’s every Wednesday feature, ‘In The Conversation,’ with columnists David Brooks and Gail Collins

A review in The New York Times of Upper East Side restaurant ‘Crown’ – ‘The Comforts of Millionaires,’ February 1, 2012
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‘Occupy D.C. camp raided by police’ – by Annie Gowen, The Washington Post, updated Saturday, February 4, 1:42 p.m.

‘Romney Isn’t Concerned,’ by ‘Op-ed Columnist’ Paul Krugman, The New York Times, February 3, 2012
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Romney Isn’t Concerned,’ by ‘Op-ed Columnist’ Paul Krugman, The New York Times, February 3, 2012
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Very telling from that:

So Mr. Romney’s position seems to be that we need not worry about the poor thanks to programs that he insists, falsely, don’t actually help the needy, and which he intends, in any case, to destroy.

And the finale:

Which brings us back to Mr. Romney’s lack of concern. You can say this for the former Massachusetts governor and Bain Capital executive: He is opening up new frontiers in American politics. Even conservative politicians used to find it necessary to pretend that they cared about the poor. Remember “compassionate conservatism”? Mr. Romney has, however, done away with that pretense.

At this rate, we may soon have politicians who admit what has been obvious all along: that they don’t care about the middle class either, that they aren’t concerned about the lives of ordinary Americans, and never were.

 

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... In the meantime the movement has infected even the gayporn industry... .

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That Cliff Jensen dude is bursting asses everywhere in porn right now... if he just were fitter and handsomer...

 

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From this safe remove – from the events of last spring, summer, fall, and, oh, yeah, just a few weeks ago in early February – it may be time for some reflective, philosophical contemplation about the ‘Occupy Movement,’ and what it really means – and that includes the meanings of the words, used to describe it…

Refining our definitions of commonly used, and misused, philosophical terms, such as ‘materialism’ and ‘idealism,’ in the light of our human understanding of the nature of physical reality; i.e., ‘the material world’ – ‘Living in the Material World’ by Justin E. H. Smith, in ‘The Stone,’ The New York Times’ ‘Opinionator’ blog’s ‘forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless,’ February 13, 2012

It is enough to draw attention to the idea-ladenness of our apprehension of the material world, on the one hand; and, on the other, the material basis of our mental activity. Ideas have a material basis, and our only access to the material world is through ideas: two facts which, together, ought to motivate us to seek to overcome our talk about materialism and idealism, either in the ordinary or the philosophical sense, as if these were two clearly demarcated accounts of the world.

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Why it is utterly essential to defeat all Republican candidates – ‘For Wall Street Overseer, Progress Comes at a Crawl,’ from The New York Times’ ‘DealB%k’ blog, January 3, 2012
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The challenge is not so much to defeat a "Republican candidate", but a candidate posing as THE [true] American candidate.
Now more than ever (it's a building-up process that has been going on for over a couple of decades now) it's all about appealing to and tickling the guts of the people: if you expect to move people with ideas, facts and such, you are commiting a political suicide.

 

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So what’s been happening lately with the ‘Occupy Movement’ – worldwide?

As much as I rely on The New York Times for fair and accurate reporting of events in the US, it remains an ‘establishment’ newspaper with a clear focus on New York and Washington, so it’s at moments like these, when I want to find out what’s happening elsewhere in the country, or in the world – as winter drags into spring, and all the 1% can do is put on its various circuses to distract the public’s attention from its very real problems (the ‘clown act’ of the Republican primaries; any number of vacuous, awards shows, such as the always stultifying, ‘Academy Awards,’ ‘Oscar’ show) – I turn to the world press, such as Britain’s esteemed The Guardian newspaper’s Website, for some much-needed, and greatly-appreciated, perspective on things…

The Guardian’s ‘Top Story’ online this morning? ‘Occupy movement stages day of protests at US prisons,’ by Ryan Devereaux, The Guardian, 20 February 2012

Its ‘Most Recent’ online story? ‘Occupy London v Liberal Establishment: the jury’s out,’ by Alex Aldridge, The Guardian, 23 February 2012

‘Occupy movement’ – more from The Guardian, which regularly updates its online content with similarly engaging stories, serious in nature, but reported with a refreshing, humorous detachment, in the tradition of the great journalists of the past…
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I see the U.S. prison situation continues to get worse. I'm not sure what that has to do with the Occupy movement, unless they want to free up cells for bankers.