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Subscribe to RSSFor nearly a month the Occupy Wall Street protesters have been camping in Zuccotti park, but that may change soon. Mayor Bloomberg has announced that cleaning crews will soon begin to clean the park and that protesters will be allowed to return as the work is completed.
The panorama image above was taken on Oct. 11 and consists of over 75 images stitched together with software to represent an immersive view of Zuccotti Park.
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HEEYYY! It seems as if most of you don't seem to remember that it was the friggin cops that have pushed the protesters into these so-called "free speech zones" and basically took away their right to peaceably protest for the redress of their grievances at the very places that are the cause of their grievances, ie Wall Street. I guess the Constitution doesn't mean anything to most of you unless it concerns something you personally want and you don't mind that ALL of these people have been denied their Constitutional Rights? You bellyache because things are somewhat disorderly in that park and the protesters have stuck with it nonetheless so that their voices may be heard.
Sebastian- do you have the guts or grit to stick with a protest even in deteriorating conditions or when the cops , city government, and monied powers blatantly deny your Constitutional Right to try to effect a change?
Jim- You consider them WORTHLESS? I think that they're worth more than you since they are trying to get things fixed. Feel free to go and provide them with a couple of clues genius. How low can a political party go? I'll tell you- they can go so low that they'll pay a government (Iran) who has taken dozens of American citizens hostage to HOLD THE HOSTAGES EVEN LONGER (til Inauguration Day) so that when their man (Reagan) is sworn into office he automatically looks like a hero/tough guy as those hostages get released. On top of that they smuggled and sold drugs (cocaine) to raise the money to pay that bribe to the Iranians. That is what your buddies in the RepubliCon party did. It eventually made the news as the Iran-Contra scandal. THAT is how low an American political party can go. But that was OK with you, right? Where were YOUR protests back then? How dare you challenge the propriety of what these protesters are doing when you apparently support the political party who aided and abetted kidnappers and terrorists, and helped to fund them with money gotten from the smuggling and sale of cocaine. Time to take your blinders off Jimmy boy! I can promise you that I'm more disgusted with self-righteous people like you than I am with people who are enduring rough conditions in an attempt to stop financial abuses that are destroying the Nation and inflicting untold suffering on tens of thousands of citizens.
In the end they'll all go home hungry, broke, and stinking like a dog terd. There is nothing to gain here, the economy is Wall Street trading you dummies. Without it there are no jobs or anything.
So just roll over and die? Are you kidding? No @!$%#in way!!
Wall Street trading is not the economy. It may be a big player, but it isn't a necessary one in its current form. An economy thrives on people producing products and services. Wall Street is speculation - making money by leaching money from needed transactions instead of providing a product or service. Trading is a needed piece of the economic pie, but it currently gets too much credit and too much money.
I'm looking at all this from a more "germaphobe" perspective than political. I think; Gee, this is how plague starts. Rather dramatic I know, but it can't be good for the people or the enviorment that they are in to co-exist in such confined quarters-especially if they plan to be there for a long period of time.
You wouldn't last long in most cities in the world.
The Po Po protecting the PIGS on WALL ST..how conveinent..
Freedom of Speech!
In the past, these protesters always blamed "the man".....usually that was Nixon or Bush....but here, they amazingly don't blame Obama......why?.... is he not "the man" now? Obama's bad policy is keeping the unemployment rate this high and if Wall street executives stole money from the people, it's up to Obama's Justice Dept. to prosecute them.....so take your protest down to the White House...
Maybe coz the GOPPERS care more about ruining him than helping US.
Mel - many of these people have jobs. Some are students, some are retired, some are unemployed and have been looking for work for months.
I see very few black people, just one little group. Is the OWS group as racist as the Tea Party?
They will not SHARE WE will TAKE!!
RebelYell - Maybe you should change your name to RebelWhine. They won't SHARE? What have you shared besides your gimme attitude? We will TAKE? Steal is more like it. That is what it's called when you help yourself to something you haven't earned. The world doesn't owe you a damn thing. You and all those unwashed bag people are pathetic.
TO ALL LIBS:
Who would you rather be like? Herman Cain or a "Wall Street Occupier"?
how about neither
I'm not a lib, but I'll take the protesters over a sack like Cain. 9-9-9? Nothing like a tax break for the wealthy, eh?
What a stifling environment! If protesters can put up with this overcrowding and filth, why should anyone do anything to improve their condition? If they like to get down and dirty, let's accommodate them. I know they support simple living and they are walking the talk. Simple living for them means more of us can enjoy complex living. Go Occupy!
give me your stuff. i want your stuff. thats what these protests are about. pay my college debt. give me a house... i want your stuff. here's a plan.... take a bath... get a haircut..... cover your tattoos... than with a little effort you may be employable.
Totally false spread by the foreigners at foxnews. They want what is equitable.
You people there make me so proud to be an American: Fighting for what you believe in and what I gave four years of my life so you all can do this.....You All Rock......GO 99
it looks like a war zone a slum and you terrorists support it sad very sad
Your post is the same quote that the middle east dictators say about their protesters. Its exact. Just point it out.
Yes, it is a shame that this is what is required to get the attention of those in power. I am honored that these protesters are willing to endure this to speak for a cause I support.
I may have been wrong about this movement. Tomorrow they take on the banks and their immoral agenda. Here in Charlotte, BoA and Wells Fagro are two of the largest supporters of crimes against God and nature. BoA has gone as far as lighting their building in a gay rainbow, but when asked to light it in blue to celebrate Mother Teresa, they refused.
This is just a sign of how immoral these organizations are.
A lot of you people are disgusting money horders who would rather see your fellow human beings live in poverty and ignorance than help raise up humanity. what a shame!
THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE, THIS IS WHAT THE MEDIA AND BROKERAGE FIRMS ARE DOING TO YOUR 401K!
Read this (especially the last line) and understand why Bloomberg and the rest of the news media have been playing down and trying to silence the protestors.
Financial market news is now being formatted by firms such as Need To Know News, Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones, and Bloomberg, to be read and traded on via algorithms.
The algorithms do not simply trade on simple news stories but also interpret more difficult to understand news. Some firms are also attempting to automatically assign sentiment (deciding if the news is good or bad) to news stories so that automated trading can work directly on the news story.[47]
An example of the importance of news reporting speed to algorithmic traders was an advertising campaign by Dow Jones (appearances included page W15 of the Wall Street Journal, on March 1, 2008) claiming that their service had beaten other news services by 2 seconds in reporting an interest rate cut by the Bank of England.
In July 2007, Citigroup, which had already developed its own trading algorithms, paid $680 million for Automated Trading Desk, a 19-year-old firm that trades about 200 million shares a day.[48] Citigroup had previously bought Lava Trading and OnTrade Inc.
Technical design
The technical designs of such systems are not standardized. Conceptually, the design can be divided into logical units:
With the wide use of social networks, some systems implement scanning or screening technologies to read posts of users extracting human sentiment and influence the trading strategies
Google tracks your emails, sites you visit and shop at sell your information, prior to the internet marketing firms gathered and sold your demographics to specific merchandisers. This is not new. What is interesting is how Germans have protested this activity, claiming invasion of privacy. The traders are complicit with all the rest of them. Until and unless privacy issues are addressed this will continue.
Flea bagger park for squatters. What a view. What a waste. What next.
Hopefully some change... so they can go home victorious.
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I think that pretty much says it all!
@Brian-1622036 as Dick Cheney's hunting partners can tell you:
1. Gun control is not hitting what you're not aiming at.
2. Most hunters practice it well.
3. The small percentage of hunters who do not is still enough to worry about.
4. The real hazard is deer hunters who never touch a gun outside of deer season.--
rabbit hunters are shooting down.
Sorry to burst the right wing bubble, but the vast majority of people you see there aren't "hippies". That's just that park. Elsewhere you also have teachers, construction workers, airline pilots, etc.
Unlike the Tea Party, this is for real.
Unlike the Tea Party is right. Tea Party rallies don't result in bottle throwing and arrests. They also clean up after themselves. These Wall St. protesters are childish pigs.
No, they just result in people bringing guns, monkey dolls that say Obama with a noose around the neck, Muslim-hate fests. They occur on private space that the Koch brothers pay for, complete with ready-made signs and free buses. Violently threatening people was special to see also.
Don't deny it. I was there.
I guess you think firefighters, pilots, and teachers are "childish pigs". Classy. The real pig is you sir. You support those pigs who are in the house, standing on 2 legs, drinking wine, while the rest of us animals slog around the barnyard.
These Wall St. protesters are childish pigs.
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There will always be the millionare wannabees, the lap dogs, the people who will line up to carry the water for the wealthy.
Funny thing is, the people who are calling the protesters scum are the same people the wealthy call scum.
Enough is enough, our government is owned by corporations. Our laws are written by millionares for millionares.
Working people are working harder, working longer and producing more. In return, they are going backwards while the top 1% are getting a bigger slice of the pie.
The right wing propaganda machine has managed to convince the working people that working anything less than 60 hours per week is a slacker. They have managed to convince the lap dogs and the sheeples that everything wrong in this country was caused by the 99% and the wannabees eat it up.
They have managed to pit the union workers against the non-union workers. Managed to pit the people against teachers and nurses and fire fighters and police and EMS and snow plow drivers and garbage removers. They want you to believe that it is all their fault because they are pulling down $60k a year and getting health care benefits.
Don't look over there where the congress resides, making twice that amount, getting free health care, getting huge pensions, working a quarter of the hours.
I HAVE WORKER SINCE THE AGE OF 15. PLAYED BY THE RULES. PAID MY TAXES. SERVED MY COUNTRY. CREATED JOBS........... I MATTER ........... I HAVE A VOICE ............ I SHOULD BE ABLE TO BE HEARD........ NO ONE GETS HEARD UNLESS THEY HAVE A LOBBIEST WORKING FOR THEM ...........
I MATTER, DON'T YOU LAP DOGS?
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH .......... NO ONGER WILL I PAY MORE TAXES THA GENERAL ELECTRIC OR HALF OF THE FORTUNE 500 CORPORATIONS.
STAND UP MIDDLE CLASS AMERICA, YOU ARE THE ENGINE THAT RUNS THE ECONOMY.
NO MORE TRICKLES DOWN VOODOO ECONOMICS.
The unions have pitted the union workers against the non-union workers.
Waytoez,
I hate to ruin your day but BOTH parties benefit corporation contribution.
Really? Another lap dog wannabee drops a load of RW BS.
Damn those nurses and teachers and first responders, its all their fault.
CEOs making millions to run corporations into the ground, the getting millions in golden parrachutes deals have note bearing?
CEOs who put profits before country had no impact?
CEOs who out scourced our entire manufacturing base so they could exploit child labor had no impact?
Better run along lap dog, Limbaugh is about to lead you non-thinkers .................. stuck on stupid.
I am not disagreeing with you. I am simply saying that both parties AND corporations are part of the problem. I am not saying ALL people benefit. But both parties get contributions and are therefore bought. FYI, I don't ever listen to Rush
Losers Day Camp. "Waaaaaa! I want more free stuff"!!!!!!!!
The biggest theft of American wealth and property in history was perpatrated by WALL STREET.......... how many are in jail? How many are under investigation? How many are paying restitution?
Only in America do the white collar thieves get bonuses for robbing the people.
This is not the America I was brought up in. Not the America my family fought for.
FREEDOM IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOOSE.
Or the regulated capitalism has killed Uncle Sam and has suppressed the Main Street.
The problems of the disparity should not happened in U.S.A. Remember when we, tax payers/the Main Street, have sent and support the troops in elsewhere outside of U.S.A..
It is the shameful moment to see and to witness the greediness and the proudful CEOs and the wealthy, some of them, especially their friends, the GOPers, have been continued to lie on policies for their own gains.
It is their manipulation of their powers and influences to clash the justice and the equal opportunity for all.
It is a shame for the United States of America that the Main Street has to make our voices heard.
Billie, once again, BOTH parties benefit from rich friends. I realize you are a partisan fool and therefore have no real interest in TRUE solution only using this falsely as a way to spread your own agenda. But BOTH parties are at fault here and BOTH need to listen.
Total myth, Billie. Vast majority of Wall St. execs voted for Obama in '08.
It's a shame the left has created this mess and then blame it on their brothers.
How the hell would you know who voted for whom?
Typical wingnut lap dog who makes up "facts".
"The left created this mess"?
If it weren't so pathetic, it would be laughable.
Here we see the typical FAUX NOISE watcher rewriting history. The mess was created by the KKKons and the KKKorporations and it all started long before Barry Obama took office.
It's sad to watch this play out, but the "protesters" are doing exactly what they were programmed to do. "For each according to his needs, from each according to his ability" Karl Marxs would be so proud of you. You come under the category of useful idiots. The fundamental transformation of America that you dream of has nothing to do with you. If you think you can collapse the country, you truly are a dreamer. If you think you will get a seat at the table, good luck with that. Your mission is to stir up as much trouble as possible, get arrested, are maybe worse. You believe in nothing, so you believe in anything. There are many "banana republics" around the world who I'm sure would understand you and welcome you with open arms, however then you would have to feed yourself.