OCCUPY WALL ST- Photos from the Epicenter!

This week marks the month anniversary of Occupy Wall St.  So it’s tim e I gave it some press in the blog, after all…it began here! 

At first, I, like millions of others, thought this fairly small group of protestors would hold a rally, probably march around and then go home.  NOT!  Like a virus, the protest multiplied quickly and the core grew larger and more vocal.  Not particularly organized, the group has been able to sort itself out as a collective force and a cohesive community.  And like a virus, the movement spread as it found other receptive host areas around the world.  Later tonight or this week, I hope to give you another post wherein you’ll see some interesting parallels. 

I don’t need to write too much about Occupy Wall St. because it is in the news every day.  Especially here in New York City, we are almost hourly informed of where they are, what park they will camp out in, what the Mayor has to say about it all and which of the protestors has been beaten, knocked down or pepper-sprayed by police, not to mention the reports of how much money is being spent by law enforcement to keep everything and everyone under control.  The funny thing is, I don’t think they’re out of control at all.

Lastly as a prelude to some pictures, I’d like to quote what seems to be the mission statement on the web site Occupywallst.org – OF COURSE there’s a web site!!! And an agenda!

Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.

Occupy Wall Street Agenda

Wednesday, October 19

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Wednesday, October 19

5:00pm

 Open Forum: Andrew Ross “Is Student Debt a Form of Indenture?”

6:00pm

 Open Forum: Jennifer Saunders “Teachers for Justice Now”

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

Thursday, October 20

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

Friday, October 21

1:00pm

 Solidarity Event: Stop “Stop and Frisk”

6:00pm

 Information Front Desk Meeting

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

8:30pm

 Empowerment and Education Committee meeting

Saturday, October 22

2:00pm

 Solidarity Event: National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation

3:00pm

 OccupyCUNY Radical Teach-In!

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

Sunday, October 23

6:00pm

 Internet Working Group meeting

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

Monday, October 24

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

Tuesday, October 25

5:00pm

 Internet Working Group meeting

6:00pm

 Information Front Desk Meeting

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

8:30pm

 Empowerment and Education Committee meeting

Wednesday, October 26

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

Thursday, October 27

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

Friday, October 28

6:00pm

 Information Front Desk Meeting

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

8:30pm

 Empowerment and Education Committee meeting

Saturday, October 29

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

Sunday, October 30

6:00pm

 Internet Working Group meeting

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

Monday, October 31

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

Tuesday, November 1

5:00pm

 Internet Working Group meeting

6:00pm

 Information Front Desk Meeting

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

8:30pm

 Empowerment and Education Committee meeting

Wednesday, November 2

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

Thursday, November 3

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

Friday, November 4

6:00pm

 Information Front Desk Meeting

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

8:30pm

 Empowerment and Education Committee meeting

Saturday, November 5

9:00am

 Solidarity Event: Move Your Money – Bank Transfer Day

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

Sunday, November 6

6:00pm

 Internet Working Group meeting

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

Monday, November 7

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

Tuesday, November 8

5:00pm

 Internet Working Group meeting

6:00pm

 Information Front Desk Meeting

7:00pm

 General Ⓐssembly

8:30pm

 Empowerment and Education Committee meeting

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Peace Be With You

Marching to Pretoria

"Join the Navy and see the world"

Veterans for Peace

We Are the 99%

The American Dream

A Show of Force

Chase Bank

LOVE

There's a LAW about wearing masks in a demonstration!!!

All photos courtesy of Murray Head

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Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, Orly files AGAIN!!

I was rooting around for a conspiracy theory tonight on the internet and look what I found!  A site that proclaims to be the be all end all place to go to read about Obama Conspiracy theories, in fact the title of the blog is Obama Conspiracy Theories.

Gotta give credit where credit is due and this blog has a great post about the latest lawsuit initiated by none other than Orly Taitz and what is she suing and pursuing?  Why she wants to see a certified copy of Obama’s birth certificate.  And I thought this half -ass, half-baked theory had been laid to rest.  Guess the major newspapers are not delivered in Moldova.  Well there’s no reason for me to reconstruct this information, I’m going to re-post it here.

Queen Birther, Lady Liberty or bat-**** crazy, Orly Taitz (pictured right) can still draw a crowd.

Her antics yesterday in Hawaii generated enough traffic at The Fogbow to take the site down, as well as spawn some brief outages here at Obama Conspiracy Theories. The number of visits here doubled from the day before, and what is more significant, “new visitors” achieved pre-long form levels of 50% of total traffic.

Local Honolulu TV station KHON2 even gave a short mention of Taitz on its web site under the “most popular story” section. The station quotes Taitz:

We were able to get to the bottom of Watergate and it’s time to get to the bottom of Obama forgery-gate, or Obama fraud-gate – it’s time,

and Hawaii Deputy Attorney General Jill Nagamine from a letter:

You are seeking disclosure of privileged or other protected matter, and there is no exception that applies to allow disclosure to you.

Visit Dr. Conspiracy at http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/

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President Obama WANTS Medicare to Go Bankrupt!!!

Michele Bachmann

CONSPIRACY THEORY WEDNESDAY

Did you think I had abandoned this subject?  Seems so, I know, but I think it’s just that the flux of conspiracy theories had subsided somewhat.  But not for long…. Michele Bachmann, the erudite congresswoman from Minnesota came up with a doozy in June.  I have been remiss by not bringing this up sooner, sorry about that!

Maybe my timing is perfect, now that for at least the moment, the country isn’t going bankrupt.  No thanks to the Tea Party Republicans, that lunatic fringe group which has engulfed the Republican party.

Michele, a wannabe candidate for the Presidency (oh my dear God!) delivered the following diatribe accusing President Obama of secretly wishing Medicare would go bankrupt because then retirees would be forced to choose Obamacare.

“This hasn’t been talked about very much – the president’s plan for senior citizens is Obamacare,” Ms. Bachmann told party activists here. She added, “I think very likely what the president intends is that Medicare will go broke and ultimately that answer will be Obamacare for senior citizens.”

Are you f_____g kidding me?  I thought Sarah was one of the dumbest women ever to speak in public, shame on the Republicans for allowing her to make a mockery of a campaign for the Vice-Presidency AND now this idiot – HOW did she ever get elected???  You know the old adage, “if you haven’t got anything nice to say, don’t say anything”?  Well Michele should take this to heart and insert the word intelligent for nice.  With that montra, she would’t be able to speak for quite some time. Amen to that!

Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly said the following about Bachmann: “Bachmann’s principal problem is that she combines the worst of two important traits: she’s strikingly ignorant about public policy and she’s paranoid to the point of delusion.”

I literally can’t write anymore about her, she is an affront to my intelligence and that of my readers.

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RED is Dead or so the Rushmeister says!

FEMA is True to BLUE

FEMA is NO’T giving aid to Texas because it is a RED state and Obama knows that they won’t be voting for him! Now, that’s a good one.  I wonder if Rush Limbaugh lies awake at night dreaming this crap up OR does he have writers?  He actually stated this untruth on his show May 5th.  Poor Texas, they are not getting the help they deserve except that they ARE!!

Although FEMA has not issued a disaster declaration which would allow it to provide aid to civilians, it has in fact supported Texas with 22 FMAG – Fire Management Assistant Grant declarations including 15 since the beginning of April.  

The following is from a report by NBC’s  Dallas-Fort Worth affiliate; FEMA has provided aid that “[helps] firefighters pay for things such as equipment repairs, food and shelter.” As The Houston Chronicle states: This aid covers “75 percent of Texas’s costs for emergency response work.”

RED is RED whether it’s pink, wine, cardinal or scarlet and in case Rushie couldn’t recollect which states voted for Obama and those that didn’t, that is, besides Texas, he need only look south.  Obama lost Alabama by 11 points in 2008 but when the tornadoes hit that state, the President signed a disaster declaration for Alabama, that little ole Southern redheaded belle of a state.

Well so much for that Swiss cheesey conspiracy theory – it stinks and is full of holes

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He’s Alive, He Was Dead Years Ago, Where ARE Those Photos?

Conspiracy Theory - Osama was really an American Airlines Pilot

Conspiracy Theory Wednesday

Great timing, that’s what I say… at least for me!  It couldn’t have been better timing; Thank you President O’Bama! I do worry that a Conspiracy Wednesday will come and go and no new conspiracy theory will crop up.  AND then I discovered the Tea Party theories which seem to spring forth like the fountain of youth.  AND NOW!!! It couldn’t have been more than a New York minute after the announcement that U.S. forces had conducted a ground attack on a house where Osama Bin Laden was residing/hiding, that the conspiracy theories burst forth.

Where was the body?  Why did they drop the body in the ocean?  Why doesn’t President O’Bama  release the photos?  How can we be sure that the DNA is really Bin Laden’s? OMG, it just goes on and on.  I’ve saved the best for last;  The raid was arranged so as to insure O’Bama’s re-election.  Wow, you gotta have a LONG memory from now to the next election day.

So which one should we explore? I don’t know that it makes any difference because those that believe it to be true cannot be confused by the facts.  Here are the facts as presented by those that should know and do know as opposed to those who don’t know anything for sure but have no compunction about casting aspersions and veiled falsehoods  taking skepticism to art form.

The body of Osama Bin Laden was washed according to Muslim tradition, wrapped in a white sheet, prayers were said, and as Muslims strive to bury the body as quickly as possible after death to avoid embalming, the body was disposed of at sea.

Sounds reasonable to me.  I am one of those people who kind of wish we could have seen the body- NOT because I’m into gore, BUT because I knew they would never believe anything that could possibly put our President in a good light.  Some of them are claiming the glory of the kill should go to George Bush.  And why I might ask?  He said he didn’t give OBL much thought and he wasn’t that important after all!!! Oh but then that must mean that Osama was killed after all.  Well really you can’t have it both ways.

I hate to give SP any air time at all, so suffice to say she tweeted some disdainful remarks  on Twitter.  Well what can you expect from  such a twit?

Let me end this blog with what I consider to be the quote of the day.  It’s from Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for George W. Bush;

“If you doubt he’s dead, no photo will satisfy. For the rest of us, Navy SEALs don’t miss,” Fleischer wrote on Twitter.

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/141402/20110504/osama-photo-decision-fuels-conspiracy-theories.htm#ixzz1LRchazT2

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YES! There’s A New Conspiracy Theory…

Scanned Copy Released During Campaign

At long last the President’s long form Birth Certificate has been found, created, copied, exposed, revealed -WHATEVER!! So my God, what will Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin harp on now?  Never two to leave much to your own imagination, it took a few hours but sure enough here it is!

The only reason President Obama showed the world his Birth Certificate is….are you ready?? Because if you saw it published then you would be distracted from really hearing the news of the day which came from Ben Bernanke!!

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke held a press conference today to discuss interest rates. And what did we learn today once we got over the SHOCK of seeing the birther conspiracy evaporate into thin air?  Well apparently, the Feds are going to keep interest rates low because although the economy grew by 3% and unemployment rates dropped, the rate of inflation rose 2.7%.  YES, omg, this is just AWFUL and it SO awful that President Obama was able to time the release of his Birth Certificate AND arrange for the Federal Reserve to make this stunning announcement. 

And better yet, guess who was behind this all?  Well in a way, Donald Trump – at least according to Sarah Palin who is quite sure that the Donald bringing up the birther issue forced the President’s hand.  Wowie!  I’ll bet even the puffed up, side-swept head of Trump himself never really believed that HE would be the ONE.  Actually I thought Keanu was The One!  Amazing isn’t it that after all the rallies, the speeches, the harangues, the signs, the chanting about this birth certificate, that it was our (New York’s very own) Donald who brought the house down.  Oh Sarah, you half-term Governor, Vice President wannabee, how sad, how sad you are!

As for the idiot who escaped from his village, Glenn Beck, well I expect nothing less than the mad ravings of a certifiable lunatic.  Let’s see just how far this one can go.

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Peter King and the Rise of Islamophobia

Shame on Peter King!

This post was supposed to be yesterday’s Conspiracy Theory Wednesday and once again I find myself apologizing for being late.  Oh well….

It’s not that there’s any lack of crazy conspiracy theories out there;  I just have to search and read through to see if it this stuff is even readable.  But no problem this week, because of on New York‘s very own U.S. Representative Peter King has raised Islamphobia to a new level of histrionics.  And with that comes a whole slew of way out there conspiracy theories.

Have you heard of the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory? No, well then you must read this.  If you regularly read this blog I know you’re probably wondering why does she want me to read about another fringe lunatic thought process?  Wellllll…..because every now and then I have to remind myself that these people actually vote and procreate and omg, you have got to know who is out there beyond your own comfort zone of intelligence.  Scary? Yes! But knowledge is power and in order to fight the craziness, you need to know from whence it came.

http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/150444/welcome_to_the_shari’ah_conspiracy

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

I strongly suggest you copy and paste the link and have yourself an enlightening good time reading this.   Here’s a  passage and teaser for you;

“Anti-Muslim diatribe and activity have reached what Marshall Breger, a law professor at Catholic University, an Orthodox Jew and a Republican, has described as a “season of singular national distemper where, for reasons best understood by social psychiatrists, the American people have entered into what can only be described as ‘open season’ on Islam.”  …Alternet.org

There is a cottage industry of anti-Muslim fearmongers among us!

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President Obama is REALLY a Master Hypnotist!

There Must Be A Revolution Going On!

CONSPIRACY THEORY WEDNESDAY

Just when you think you’ve heard them all, rest assured you have NOT!  Conspiracy Theory Wednesday is in full swing because the Tea Party Movement is chock full of conspiracy theories.  As long as they spout them, I’ll print them.

This one is a doozy!  Both Democrats and Republicans agreed that Bill Clinton had great charisma and charmed crowds but…hypnotizing ??

I have copied this article from Mother Jones. Dave Gilson,  senior editor at Mother Jones posted this article in April 2009.

The Conspiracy: Barack Obama is not just an unusually eloquent speaker; he is an expert in mass hypnosis (hopenosis?). By tapping into the sinister techniques of neuro-linguistic programming, the president subliminally convinced Americans to elect him—and who knows what he’ll make us do next? Among his “trance induction” tricks: “extra slow speech, rhythm, tonalities, vagueness, visual imagery, metaphor, and raising of emotion.” And his “O” logo was even designed to look like a crystal ball.

The Conspiracy Theorists: The Obama-as-brainwasher-in-chief theory was first presented in an unsigned 67-page document posted on an Arizona libertarian’s website last October. It was picked up by conservative blogs, message boards, and Rush Limbaugh, who told listeners that “a bunch of surgeons and doctors” had diagnosed Obama’s “hypnotic effect.” “The people most susceptible to neuro-linguistic programming are young people and highly educated people,” he explained. “I find it interesting, too, that many Jewish voters are supporting Obama…Maybe it is hypnosis.”

Meanwhile, Back on Earth: We elected a president who uses rhythm, tonality, and visual imagery in his speeches? My God, what have we done? Does that mean that red-staters are immune to his awesome mesmerizing powers? And why can’t he use self-hypnosis to quit smoking?

I think it’s important to inject some humor into our week, don’t you?  Thank the Tea Partiers for this opportunity to laugh out loud at your computer screen.

 

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IDIOT SPEAK – Glenn Beck “I’m just sayin”

Are you f____g kidding me?  It’s not often I put unprintable words in my blog but Glenn Beck is the exception to the rule.  This fucking moron, this preposterous puffed up adder idiot went over the line last night with his remarks about the earthquake in Japan.

On his first day back from vacation, Glenn Beck addressed the earthquake in Japan, and said he thinks that it could be a “message [is] being sent” by God.

Speaking on his radio show Monday, Beck said, “I’m not saying God is, you know, causing earthquakes,” before quickly adding, “I’m not not saying that either.”

He then said that whatever one called God, “there’s a message being sent. And that is, ‘Hey, you know that stuff we’re doing? Not really working out real well. Maybe we should stop doing some of it.’ I’m just saying.”

It’s Conspiracy Theory Wednesday and I’ve been exposing some of the Tea Party Movement‘s many conspiracies.  Thank you Glenn Beck for making this Wednesday’s blog soooo   easy. AND he used a phrase on the Lake Superior State University‘s 2011 Banished Word List! “I’m just sayin”??!! Good God Glenn! Pathetically trite.

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First They Came For The Bilderbergers

What Bank is your Mommy?

CONSPIRACY THEORY WEDNESDAY

It’s Wednesday and therefore time to explore another conspiracy theory!  Since I finished posting COUP D’ETAT ,  an extensive theory as to WHO was involved in the assassination of President  Kennedy, I wanted to continue with conspiracy theories.  In about a New York minute, I knew where I could find a treasure trove of theories to explore – The Tea Party Movement.

This week I found an article in The Economist in which Bob Inglis, a Republican candidate who lost in the primary speaks about a meeting he had with Tea Party-activists just before the primary. I’m going to include the link to the full article, however I just can’t resist posting the part where Bob Inglis is quoted.

“…This week’s Mother Jones has an interview with Bob Inglis, the Republican congressman from South Carolina who just lost his primary to a tea-party-backed candidate despite having a 93% rating from the American Conservative Union. Mr Inglis, a former right-wing firebrand from the GOP‘s Class of 1994, says he lost his seat because he simply couldn’t go along with the kind of radical conspiratorial rhetoric required to remain viable in Republican politics today. He tells the story of a meeting with tea-party activists that took place shortly before the primary.

‘I sat down, and they said on the back of your Social Security card, there’s a number. That number indicates the bank that bought you when you were born based on a projection of your life’s earnings, and you are collateral. We are all collateral for the banks. I have this look like, “What the heck are you talking about?” I’m trying to hide that look and look clueless. I figured clueless was better than argumentative. So they said, “You don’t know this?! You are a member of Congress, and you don’t know this?!” And I said, “Please forgive me. I’m just ignorant of these things.” And then of course, it turned into something about the Federal Reserve and the Bilderbergers and all that stuff. And now you have the feeling of anti-Semitism here coming in, mixing in. Wow.’ ….”

The tea-party movement: First they came for the Bilderbergers | The Economist.

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