Happy birthday to Occupy!

[brenthutch 383]

Thank you for providing me endless hours of fun and entertainment!

"the Tea Party is still very much alive, and exercising significant influence over American politics, while Occupy is already a novelty act for anti-capitalist Democrats who don’t like having to grind their teeth and pretend they’re all about “growth” for the next couple of months, until Obama is safely re-elected."

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/09/17/occupy-wall-streets-first-year/

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After a year of revolt which became known as the "Maple Spring"—including massive street protests that received global attention—university students across Quebec were celebrating victory on Thursday night following the announcement from newly elected Premier Pauline Marois that the government was cancelling the proposed tuition hike that led to the student uprising and nullifying the contentious Bill 78 law which was introduced to curb the powerful protests.

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That's quite a victory. No tuition hikes in Quebec. That's quite an achievement for the worldwide movement.

Of course, there's still the problem of homelessness. Those people you kicked out because, well, they were too icky and unenlightened.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[SkydiveJonathan 0]

The indignados are likewise beginning attempts to construct concrete alternatives to the present system. They have published a Manual of Economic Disobedience, and are working on solutions that return economic control into local hands. More than 200 time banks now exist across the country, with an estimated five new ones springing up a month. Local currencies, barter markets and networks of co-operatives are slowly developing. Filling the gaps in the current system with these nascent alternatives not only offers practical ways for people to survive the crisis; they embody the fundamental idea of the indignados that democracy is something you do, not something you have.

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Spain's Parliament took on the appearance of a heavily guarded fortress Tuesday, hours ahead of a protest against the conservative government's handling of the economic crisis.

The demonstration, organized behind the slogan 'Occupy Congress,' is expected to draw thousands of people from around Spain and was due to start around 13:30 E.T.

Madrid's regional Interior Ministry delegation said some 1,300 police would be deployed though protesters say they have no intention of storming the chamber, only of marching around it.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/09/25/thousands-occupy-congress-in-spain/

[brenthutch 383]

Everything you need to know about the Occupy movement. Just replace "Music festival” With "Occupy"

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s09e02-die-hippie-die

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Everything you need to know about the Occupy movement. Just replace "Music festival” With "Occupy"

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s09e02-die-hippie-die

Weird how hippies and their precursors evolve to something different. Different generations put their own personal spice but the result is the same. Bunch of useless people with no organization. Reminds me of sheep.

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Many mocked us, many vilified us, many told us we would achieve nothing.

But after a wave of student mobilization in Quebec through the spring and summer, we can count our victories: on the first day of the new PQ government’s term, it cancelled a tuition hike and repealed an anti-protest law that curbed basic freedoms of expression and assembly.

If the PQ yielded so quickly to some of our demands, it is because we organized a strike movement whose support was popular and broad, which allowed people of all ages and walks of life to express their grievances about our political and economic system, and which helped defeat the Charest Liberal government.

That might be hard to believe, going by the depictions of us in English Canada: halfwitted hooligans, spoiled brats or frightening extremists.

But if we are guilty of anything, it is of questioning the dogmas of the rich and powerful, who have spent the last decades trying to lower our expectations for what is politically possible.

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Violence flared on Tuesday in the centre of Madrid as baton-wielding police charged crowds and fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who had tried to surround the country's parliament building.

Some 32 people were injured, including several police officers, and several dozen were arrested after police broke up the "surround the parliament" demonstration against Mariano Rajoy's government shortly after it overran its 9.30pm deadline.

Several hundred protesters remained peacefully on the streets near the parliament building late on Tuesday night. They are demanding the resignation of the government and the king, as well as a rewrite of Spain's constitution.

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Violence flared on Tuesday in the centre of Madrid as baton-wielding police charged crowds and fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who had tried to surround the country's parliament building.

Some 32 people were injured, including several police officers, and several dozen were arrested after police broke up the "surround the parliament" demonstration against Mariano Rajoy's government shortly after it overran its 9.30pm deadline.

Several hundred protesters remained peacefully on the streets near the parliament building late on Tuesday night. They are demanding the resignation of the government and the king, as well as a rewrite of Spain's constitution.

Sound awsome, let us know how it all works out.

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Violence flared on Tuesday in the centre of Madrid as baton-wielding police charged crowds and fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who had tried to surround the country's parliament building.

Some 32 people were injured, including several police officers, and several dozen were arrested after police broke up the "surround the parliament" demonstration against Mariano Rajoy's government shortly after it overran its 9.30pm deadline.

Several hundred protesters remained peacefully on the streets near the parliament building late on Tuesday night. They are demanding the resignation of the government and the king, as well as a rewrite of Spain's constitution.

That's dumb. You don't "demand" resignations of leaders, you get enough to vote them out or actually take it by force. It's a known idea that seems to belong to those who don't smoke a lot of weed or hang out together and do chants filled with silly slogans and ignorance.

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Hundreds of thousands of anti-austerity protesters took to the streets of Greece on Wednesday as the country was paralysed by a general strike in the first mass confrontation with Athens's three-month-old coalition government.

In one of the biggest demonstrations in the capital in recent years, as many as 200,000 marched on the Greek parliament, according to unions in the public and private sector, which called the strike to oppose new wage and pension cuts – the price of further rescue funds from international lenders.

Clashes broke out between riot police and hooded youths hurling rocks and petrol bombs at the finance ministry. The protesters, many shouting: "We can take no more. Out with the EU and IMF," and said to be part of the crisis-hit country's vibrant "anti-establishment" movement, then set light to rubbish cans and bus stops, sending plumes of acrid smoke above the capital. TV footage showed demonstrators running for cover in Syntagma Square, seat of the Greek parliament, as noxious fumes filled the air. More than 100 people were detained.

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Hundreds of thousands of anti-austerity protesters took to the streets of Greece on Wednesday as the country was paralysed by a general strike in the first mass confrontation with Athens's three-month-old coalition government.

In one of the biggest demonstrations in the capital in recent years, as many as 200,000 marched on the Greek parliament, according to unions in the public and private sector, which called the strike to oppose new wage and pension cuts – the price of further rescue funds from international lenders.

Clashes broke out between riot police and hooded youths hurling rocks and petrol bombs at the finance ministry. The protesters, many shouting: "We can take no more. Out with the EU and IMF," and said to be part of the crisis-hit country's vibrant "anti-establishment" movement, then set light to rubbish cans and bus stops, sending plumes of acrid smoke above the capital. TV footage showed demonstrators running for cover in Syntagma Square, seat of the Greek parliament, as noxious fumes filled the air. More than 100 people were detained.

That is great, looks like you guys are makeing great strides.

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I always wonder how many of these clowns go to their evil, capitlaist Dads for some money, before the demonstration, so they can have coffee at Starbucks after the riot against capitalism. What a bunch of dipshits.

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I blame globalisation.

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I blame globalisation.

I agree

The type of globalism the likes of a Geroge Soros pushs

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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>I always wonder how many of these clowns go to their evil, capitlaist Dads for
>some money, before the demonstration, so they can have coffee at Starbucks
>after the riot against capitalism.

Probably the same number of Tea Party clowns who drive their cars on public highways and then stand in public parks to protest the evil socialist government. "Get your government hands off my Medicare!"

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What Triumph the Insult Dogs says about Occupy

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[SkydiveJonathan 0]

Today's French budget contains around €20bn of new taxes, broadly as expected. It's interesting that the most controversial measure, the 75% income tax on the wealthy, is only expected to raise €210m.

It is expected to affect between 2,000 and 3,000 people.

Changes to France's wealth tax (levied on those with high personal wealth) will bring in almost five times as much.

[brenthutch 383]

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Today's French budget contains around €20bn of new taxes, broadly as expected. It's interesting that the most controversial measure, the 75% income tax on the wealthy, is only expected to raise €210m.

It is expected to affect between 2,000 and 3,000 people.

Changes to France's wealth tax (levied on those with high personal wealth) will bring in almost five times as much.

Here is a person
http://articles.cnn.com/2012-09-10/opinion/opinion_arnault-france-tax-rate_1_tax-rate-tax-regimes-taxes-in-three-ways

who will not be impacted by the tax. First of many I suspect.

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Despite the fact that Romney has faithfully adopted virtually every position the tea party has demanded of him, the true believers are already preparing the ground for his increasingly inevitable election-day repudiation. And their story is going to be exactly what you think: Romney was never really one of them and the American public sniffed that out. They wanted a real red-meat conservative, and Romney wasn't that guy. You see, true conservatism can never fail, it can only be failed. Welcome to 2013.

[brenthutch 383]

And what does that have to do with the Occupy movement?

[masterrig 1]

Just some quote he found somewhere.


Chuck

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After a year of revolt which became known as the "Maple Spring"—including massive street protests that received global attention—university students across Quebec were celebrating victory on Thursday night following the announcement from newly elected Premier Pauline Marois that the government was cancelling the proposed tuition hike that led to the student uprising and nullifying the contentious Bill 78 law which was introduced to curb the powerful protests.

of course that was before the rest of canada announced that they were no longer going to make transfer payments to quebec as a 'have not' province, since the fact they have obviously subsidized several programs way more than they could realistically afford based on their own economic activity and taxes must mean that they are in reality way better off then the rest of canada to begin with....

If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead.
Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone

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Hundreds of thousands of anti-austerity protesters took to the streets of Greece on Wednesday as the country was paralysed by a general strike in the first mass confrontation with Athens's three-month-old coalition government.

In one of the biggest demonstrations in the capital in recent years, as many as 200,000 marched on the Greek parliament, according to unions in the public and private sector, which called the strike to oppose new wage and pension cuts – the price of further rescue funds from international lenders.

Clashes broke out between riot police and hooded youths hurling rocks and petrol bombs at the finance ministry. The protesters, many shouting: "We can take no more. Out with the EU and IMF," and said to be part of the crisis-hit country's vibrant "anti-establishment" movement, then set light to rubbish cans and bus stops, sending plumes of acrid smoke above the capital. TV footage showed demonstrators running for cover in Syntagma Square, seat of the Greek parliament, as noxious fumes filled the air. More than 100 people were detained.

Sounds wonderful! Great way to increase tourism dollars, which provides - how much of Greece's economy?

If some old guy can do it then obviously it can't be very extreme. Otherwise he'd already be dead.
Bruce McConkey 'I thought we were gonna die, and I couldn't think of anyone