Day: October 27, 2011

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occupy wall street Politics

Occupy Oakland Approves General Strike On November 2nd

In what is sure to be the first of many, the general assembly for Occupy Oakland just approved a general strike for next Wednesday, November 2nd. The move is in retaliation of the recent episode of police hostility there, where a United States Veteran, after returning home from multiple tours in Iraq, was seriously injured by Oakland police and is presently hospitalized.

PROPOSAL:

We as fellow occupiers of Oscar Grant Plaza propose that on Wednesday November 2, 2011, we liberate Oakland and shut down the 1%.

We propose a city wide general strike and we propose to invite all students to walk out of school. Instead of workers going to work and students going to school, the people will converge on downtown Oakland to shut down the city.

All banks and corporations should close down for the day or we will march on them.

While we are calling for a general strike, we are also calling for much more. People who organize out of their neighborhoods, schools, community organizations, affinity groups, workplaces and families are encouraged to self organize in a way that allows them to participate in shutting down the city in whatever manner they are comfortable with and capable of.

The whole world is watching Oakland. Let’s show them what is possible.

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Elections Politics Republican

Herman Cain Move Over – Quran Burning Pastor Jones Running For President

ABC News Reporting;

Pastor Terry Jones, the man who infamously burned a copy of the Quran in commemoration of 9/11, is throwing his hat into ring for the 2012 presidential race.

The pastor announced his presidential bid Wednesday morning.

His campaign, Stand Up America Now, released a statement that features a seven point platform, including deporting all “illegals” , bringing all military back on American soil until America’s finances are in order and reducing corporate taxes.

But of course! He’s a Republican and he fits right in with all the other GOP morons running, trying to ruin the greatest nation on earth!!!

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occupy wall street Politics Protest

New York Police Promise Lawsuits Against Occupiers

The protesters at Occupy Wall Street get their First Amendment rights violated on a regular basis. They’re rounded-up, thrown to the ground, punched and pepper sprayed like animals by the police.  Yet today, the New York Police Department is planning to sue any protester who “causes injury” to a police officer.

Reporting from the New York Post today quoted the president of NYPD’s Sergeant’s Benevolent Association as saying;

“In light of the growing violence attendant to the ‘Occupy’ movements across the country, particularly as evidenced by the recent events in Oakland, I am compelled to place these so-called ‘occupiers’ on notice that physical assaults on police officers will not be tolerated.”

Of course no one is advocating violence at any of the Occupy movement protests, and all the police departments across the country know this. Of all the thousands of protesters nationwide, it is almost impossible to find Occupiers demonstrating violence against the police. There may be a handful of incidents, but in the grand scheme of things, given the many thousands of protesters on the streets, two or three incidents nationwide is nothing to sue over.

So is this a plausible  argument by the New York Sergeant Benevolent Association? Of course not.

The unnecessary amount of arrests police departments nationwide have taken part in, have nothing to do with unruly protesters, but everything to do with police trying to suppress the people’s rights to protest. If the police will just do their jobs, instead of intentionally perpetrating violence against peaceful protesters, then for the most part, calmness will prevail.

Maybe the New York Sergeant Benevolent Association should look at the instigators instead, and realize that the violence begins, for the most part, inside their own ranks.

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Herman Cain Mitt Romney

Thought Herman Cain’s Ads Couldn’t Get Any Crazier…

Think again!

I’m really beginning to understand the Republican’s game plan, and a fantastic one it is. Their plan is to get Mitt Romney to the nomination, and the only way they think that could be achieved, would be to bombard the media with nonsense. Herman Cain, and his entire so-called candidacy is the guinea pig. Get the media to focus all their attention on the joke that is Herman Cain, and let Mitt Romney skate untouched to the Republican nomination convention.

How else would you explain these foolish ads from the Cain campaign. Yesterday, we showed you an ad that is now viral, as the world laughs at the spectacle of what is now the American political system. In the ad, Herman Cain’s chief of staff Mark Block literally and figuratively blows smoke in our face. We can only wonder if Marlboro paid for the spot.

And now this. Another ad by the so-called Cain campaign called, “He Carried Yellow Flowers,” a western style commercial featuring movie star Nick Searcy. The ad starts out showing a man riding a horse, with the following words being displayed on the screen;

There was a time in America when a man was a man. And a horse was just a horse …  And a man on a horse was just a man on a horse … unless he carried yellow flowers.”

After smacking a black man identified as a liberal in the face, the flower carrying Nick Searcy steps out of character – or steps into character, take your pick – to advise all of us, why we should vote for Herman Cain.

We see you Romney, keep skating…

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Barack Obama osama bil laden Politics

President Obama’s Appearance on Jay Leno – Video

We’re pretty sure no one missed President Obama’s appearance on Jay Leno, but just in case you were involved in, let’s an Occupy movement somewhere, here’s the video.

The President spoke about the death of Gaddafi and Bin Laden, he spoke about the conflict in Libya and the fact that America actually led from the front, instead of “leading from the back” as Republicans and media keep trumpeting, and the President also spoke about the Republicans and their so-called Presidential candidates, among other things.

Watch the videos below.

Part 1

 

Part 2

 

Part 3

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