The Occupy Wall Street movement has received so much media coverage in recent weeks that it’s nearly impossible to keep abreast of all the developments. So many endorsements and criticisms coming from all directions enter the news cycle in such rapid succession that even the most dedicated news junkies may have missed out on many of the pronouncements. Supporters and detractors of OWS both might find it useful to have a handy all-inclusive list of who has endorsed or embraced the protest.
To satisfy that demand, we hereby present a list of groups, organizations, individuals and entities that have expressed their support for, sponsorship of, or sympathy for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Note: All entries on this list are real and verified. Below each entry you will find a series of source links documenting the support for OWS. We have striven in almost all cases to reference either first-hand statements by the groups or individuals themselves, hosted on their own Web sites; or videos of the people in question voicing their support for OWS at various Occupations; or news reports from reliable mainstream networks; or articles by publications or organizations sympathetic to the Occupy movement; or indisputable evidence, whatever the source. As a result, it cannot be claimed that these statements of support were made up or distorted by detractors of the Occupy movement.
As each new controversial endorsement has appeared over the last month, OWS supporters have dismissed them one by one as “isolated examples” that don’t reflect any overall trend toward extremism. But when viewed in aggregate like this, it becomes much more difficult to dismiss any individual endorsement as an aberration; instead, an undeniable pattern emerges.
This list is obviously incomplete; we hope to update it over the upcoming days and weeks.
If you think we’ve left out any well-known endorsers for which there is solid evidence, then please post suggestions and evidentiary links in the comments section; but please try to supply links that will stand up to any potential claims of misrepresentation.
If you disagree with the inclusion of any of the entries on this list, please post your reasoning and any contravening source links in the comments section, and we will take the evidence into account when updating the list.
Members of the media, bloggers, activists, OWS supporters and detractors as well are all free to repost this list, in whole or in part, without any restrictions. Do note, however, that it may be updated over time, so make sure to get the latest version.
And without further ado, here is…
The 99%: Official list of Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers
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Communist Party USA
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American Nazi Party |
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Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
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Barack Obama
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The government of North Korea |
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Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam |
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Revolutionary Communist Party |
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David Duke
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Joe Biden
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Hugo Chavez
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Revolutionary Guards of Iran
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Black Panthers (original)
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Socialist Party USA
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US Border Guard |
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Industrial Workers of the World
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CAIR
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Nancy Pelosi |
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Communist Party of China |
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Hezbollah
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9/11Truth.org
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International Bolshevik Tendency
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Anonymous
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White Revolution
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International Socialist Organization |
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PressTV (Iranian government outlet) |
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Marxist Student Union |
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Freedom Road Socialist Organization
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ANSWER
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Party for Socialism and Liberation |
UPDATE: Thanks to the hundreds of readers who have made suggestions for additional entries on this list. I now have a large pile of potential new OWS supporters to investigate, and will work on updating this list over the upcoming weeks. When I’ve made it more thorough, I will re-launch an updated list that will be much more “official” in its comprehensiveness, sometime later this month. Keep an eye out for it!
You are forgetting the long list of American Unions that are supporting OWS.
I’m not forgetting them — I just didn’t have time to add them yet. Eventually, I will.
Please post here any suggested unions, along with source links proving their support either coming from the unions’ own Web sites, or MSM articles mentioning their support, or photos or videos of them at Occupations, etc.
Mark Ruffalo. Please don’t leave him alone. New Hulk Angry!
I would also be interested in retailers , reataurants and others who have donated goods, etc. Is that available somewhere?
It is up to you to MAKE it available! Develop a list of retailers, post it here.
Everyone laughs about the “twinkle fingers” and the repetition of speakers…
they are using brainwashing techniques… the repetition of speakers is to stop critical thinking of what is being said… the cadence of the speakers and the limit on words/for repetition not only allows for the speech to be long..but also to have certian word be retained.. they have facilitated meetings based on the “spoke” method…and there they use hand signals as well..
those who dissent can be expelled from the occupy movement…. they use consensus to formulate ideas that are then brought to the GA (general assembly)
read about them on their own site… read the connected sites… they are communist seeking global communism and they are setting up a country within our country… they ask members to talk to lawyers from the Lawyers Guild in cases of rape and theft… no talking to police… matters are handled by the leaders. read what they are up to….
There were some reports about REI, for sleeping bags and perhaps Cabela? Not sure of others…
I know Patagonia and REI are 2 that have provided items. I wrote to Patagonia, and they said that they support the peaceful protest of OWS. Their e-mail mentioned Ben and Jerry’s (which doesn’t surprise me).
REI is not supporting OWS.
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150382965057722&id=552602721
I haven’t gotten this email myself, but I’ve sent a message to the guy who posted that asking him for a copy. If I don’t get it within a couple of days I’ll shoot an email to the REI board.
REI has not supported OWS. A story in the Washington Examiner (link: http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/dc-occupiers-convene-plot-stay-winter) posted erroneous information on Tuesday, October 25 that REI supported the Occupy protests. REI Public Affairs spoke several times with the reporter to indicate no REI store has supported the Occupy protests in Washington DC or other cities across the country. She posted a new and accurate story yesterday afternoon.
link: http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/patagonia-rei-deny-helping-occupiers
REI isn’t supporting OWS. I tried posting a link to a FB status earlier from a guy that got an email from REI, but somehow it got et up. I’ve asked him for a copy of the email, if I don’t get a response I’ll contact the REI board directly.
I saw the following Tweet from The Mark Levine Show:
marklevinshow Mens Wearhouse supports Occupy Wall Street. I won’t be shopping there anymore. fb.me/HR2ZfZW5
Men’s Wearhouse had a sign in their Oakland store window that states they support the 99%. Put them onthe list!
Damn, I am no longer a member of the IBEW (thank God!) but I’m sure their monthly newsletter would have voiced their support. Would internal newsletters like that count as good “proof” or would it have to be from a source accessible to those on the “outside” of the organization?
Yes, internal newsletters or statements by groups themselves on their own sites are excellent sources.
Well that was far easier than I thought it would be. Front page on their public sight is this article featuring a support for Occupy Boston.
http://www.ibew.org/articles/11daily/1110/111027_VerizonUpdate.htm
It inculdes in the article comments on how they publicly support the Occupy protests.
Yeah, they were a disaster when I joined them 10 years ago. Inept and good for nothing but taking dues. The CSEA did the same. Took dues for an entire year upfront and did nothing when the BS started flying.
Father in law’s a die-hard trucker. Shop steward, whole nine yeards. Always telling me stories of how they game it. But he came through the last year holding onto his job by the skin of his teeth. He got such a scare he actually gets where I’m coming from.
MIL lost hers twice. I lost mine 3-4 years ago and tried to warn them what was coming. They told me I was lazy/crazy/whatever. Maybe a little crazy – who the hell isn’t?
I will never be one of the 99%. What a load of BS. I get it; The debts are crushing and the cushy life you thought you deserved isn’t happening – but life ain’t fair. Never was. Never will be. Learn a thing or two from the Marine’s motto. Or past generations. Or watch some nature shows. It should be a very stark illustration of just how “fair” life is without human intervention.
IBEW was one of three unions my old man worked for in his lifetime (gone now). Growing up under that dark cloud, I found out enough about unions and their thuggery, that I left Pennsylvania never to return. While there always those outside 2sd (~5%)in any group, most are you described. AND I might add a major part of the reason for NAFTA and GATT with their continual push for more and moe for doing less ands less.
I don’t belong to SEIU (I resigned from their “union” years ago), but I still have to pay them over $50 per month extortion money to be able to work in the PRK (Peoples Republik of Kalifornia). The Purple Shirted Commies are sending members’ dues to support this Marxist cause.
God bless you, Gozer!! My son-in-law is a former IBEW member and damned glad to be gone as well. Me? Former UFCW member by force when I worked at a grocery store in college. Unions are a cancer on industry.
The Teamsters are all over Facebook in support of OWS. Visit their Facebook page.
Their own wesite states it as well: http://www.teamster.org/content/stopthewaronworkers
Just one more thing Teamsters is wasting my dues on. None of that money has put more in my pocket, and won’t for the next 2 years at least. Less hours, Less $$ per hour, but they can spend on this crap?
Pretty obviously skewed list of who’s contributing… It excludes some of the earliest and most vocal of supporters.
Michael Moore?
http://current.com/shows/countdown/videos/michael-moore-support-of-occupy-wall-street-decries-execution-of-troy-davis
Ron Paul?
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/ron-paul-offers-support-for-wall-street-protests
A slew of unions (USW, NY Transit, IWW).
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/111013/al-gore-occupy-wall-street
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-massive-union-just-voted-to-side-with-the-wall-street-protesters-2011-9
http://www.iww.org/en/content/iww-endorses-occupy-wall-street
That was obviously purposeful.
And a few more….
http://global.christianpost.com/news/forgotten-gop-candidate-gary-johnson-expresses-support-for-occupy-wall-street-58711/
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/14/tea-party-co-founded-expresses-support-for-occupy-wall-street/
http://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-calls-for-boycott-of-big-banks-2011-10
http://www.benjerry.com/activism/occupy-movement/
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/111013/al-gore-occupy-wall-street
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/nobel-prize-winning-economist-supports-protests.html
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=61§iontree=5,61&itemid=429
People aren’t THAT dumb… Calling this “Official” is absurd, this is a conservative/libertarian fringe news blog, nothing in any way associated with OWS, and is actually quite opposed to it. So you are either joking, or just have that low of an opinion of your readers.
I will add all of the ones you suggest, in the fullness of time. The list will become more and more thorough as I update it.
This is just the starting point. Eventually, it will feel more “official”, but yes, everyone knows that the title is somewhat snarky — the is no official anything associated with OWS. Anytime anyone says something that reflects badly on the movement, others will say “That’s not our official position! Ignore that guy!” But when pressed on what is their “official” position, everything gets loosey-goosey.
So, taking advantage of that laxness, I proposed a snarky version of the “official” list, since no one else was doing it.
One point to make, Ron Paul wasn’t endorsing the OWS, he stated if they were peacefully protesting outside of the Fed (Federal Reserve) he was all for it, he did not say he supported their agenda or all their ideals by any means. He actually admitted he was not following the OWS movement closely and was not current with what was going on. The reporter asked his feelings about the police pepper spraying protesters and he responded. He did say he believed they have the right to peaceful assembly under the Constitution and that he was against militant police action against them. Which, as much as I don’t agree with the OWS, is accurate. They do have the right to peaceful assembly, and using tear gas and rubber bullets to suppress peaceful protests is not representative of the country we all believe in. I think it important if you are going to build a list aimed at putting the OWS movement and its supporters in the spot light that you take the time to understand the context in which comments are made.
I disagree that this is not “official.” A useful definition for the word “official” is authoritative. Because the source of information is included with each organization, this is extremely authoritative/official, and much more than most information a person gets on the ‘net.
True to post-modern/nihilist form, you cannot nail them down on anything. Engage them on an intellectual basis, and as soon as you turn the corner on an underlying assumption or presupposition of theirs that they need to further examine- they slip away with some kind of post-modern/nihilist slogan or emotive non-thinking dissonance.
With a shared sense of humor your critic could have understood your terming your list the “official” one was in no way serious. What is serious is the likelihood that so many of these subversives find common cause with the idea and the intent of the OWS.
Add CWA (Communications Workers Of America.
http://cwa-union.org/issues/entry/c/occupy
THE OWS people are fighting for YOUR rights, you idiot. Why aren’t you mentioning all the MILITARY VETS, TEACHERS, EDUCATORS that are marching along with them? Probably because those facts do not fit with your extreme right radical opinions.
They’re not marching for my rights, nor for yours.
Since they have not outlined a purpose, goal, program or solution, and insist that no one (including you) has the right to declare what the movement stands for, then one can’t say that they’re doing anything for anyone‘s rights.
The percentage of military vets in the OWS movement is microscopic, and they’re ALL members of anti-American anti-military groups like Veterans Against War. Teachers’ unions supporting a socialist movement guaranteeing them jobs for life with no performance reviews? Wow, what a surprise!
Anarchists + communists + unions + conspiracy theorists = a big mess of confusion, worthy only of our derision.
I hope and pray that the Occupy movement keeps going and that more mainstream Democratic politicians embrace it. The bigger they come, they harder they fall.
I read your list, but I am not sure Ron Paul supports OWS… the article said nothing about him directly supporting OWS. I believe the article was wrongly named. From what I can see he agrees with their right to protest… and dislikes the Federal Reserve… but not sure where you think he sympathizes with them.
Zombie is a neo-con. And so is most of PJM. That’s good enough explainin’ for ya.
heh… of the ones I recognize, almost all of those on this list would be considered “the other side” by conservatives. Adding them to the list just makes Zombie’s case stronger, IMHO. I hope he’s able to add them all soon!
The point being……..when so many of America’s enemies, past and present, support a “movement”, it’s “obvious” the movement is not good for the people of the US. Make no mistake. Any organization supporting communism or socialism is an enemy of the US, because they are striving to bring down our constitutional government. And when so many unions support OWS, it’s again “obvious” that the little guy will be the one that pays. Since when have unions actually cared for the little guy, the waitresses, mechanics, independent carpenters, painters, electricians, etc. The unions are all about themselves and their members, especially the public ones, feeding at the trough of the taxpayers, like the pigs they are.
Where did you get the notion that the leadership of unions actually cares about their members? All they care about is how much they can rake in in required dues from said members, and how many more they can force to pay tribute to them for the privilege of working; whether a member of the union or not! The amount of violence inflicted by union thugs on workers, whether union members or not, is beyond belief, and it’s PROTECTED by the government! To my way of thinking, that’s NOT “caring” for your membership….
I fear too many of you have been brainwashed by the corporations and the right wing media. Unions are supposed to give us a voice. Mine does!
Unions evolved from guilds and when they were strong they were a check against “slave owners”. People will screw up anything, but people can fix it too.
Marketing and the profit margin and $ in politics have been used for the past 30 – 50 years to get US in the mess were in. Marketing and “spin” are making you believe everything woud be fine if the free market capitalism could be unchecked… now people that are at the mercy of employers and especially corporations are feeling screwed by government workers who had less pay for their service for the “good times” were promised benefits that were not delivered so you say “take it back” Why not get involved and fight for your own benefits with the help of your fellow workers rather than think underpaid government workers… Police, First Responders, Teachers, etc. should forgive the promises they recieved for their service? DeRegulation and Bankruptcy has allowed corporations to bust the Unions that gave you a decent wage and benefits.
In the South too many don’t understand that a CBA helps everyone and you need not be a member of a Union to reap vast benefits from their involvvement.
The anecdotal evidence of Union Corruption pales in comparison to the history of corporate greed and misdeeds… check your prejudice and see the truth.
People can screw up anything, but they can also try to fix it.
Bob WIlson… Libertarian at heart… President of IATSE Local 60 Pensacola, Florida
Libertarianism is a philosophy based on the non-compulsion of others.
Unionism is a philosophy based on the compulsion of others.
How you can be both at the same time shows me you are not serious or cogent in one or the other of your tenets.
In response to “Bob Wilson:”
“Unions evolved from guilds and when they were strong they were a check against “slave owners”. People will screw up anything, but people can fix it too.”
Guilds are a feudal system, that was designed to form monopolies are now considered a form of thuggery, for good reason. Unions follow in their footsteps. Sure, people will, but some systems by their very nature are extortive…and by their very nature, both Guilds and Unions are extortive.
Let’s look at a Union from a business perspective. What is a Union? It is a monopoly on the working force—an industry that deals in a particular kind of worker. Of course, as a monopoly, what is the fault with it? There is no competition, so there is no means by which the industry can be held to a higher standard beyond its own whims—and like any industry, it exists to feed those who run it.
“Marketing and the profit margin and $ in politics have been used for the past 30 – 50 years to get US in the mess were in. Marketing and ‘spin’ are making you believe everything woud be fine if the free market capitalism could be unchecked…”
The alternative to a free market is a monopoly, also known as a Command Economy. A famous example is the Hydraulic Empire. A Hydraulic Empire is rule by control of water flow to a region where clean water is not readily accessible—if the people of a city dissent, cut off the water supply to them, and give it to another city. You are minus a brewing rebellion, and plus a city that absolutely adores you. Unions function in this manner, but by controlling the flow of workers. And, like a Hydraulic Empire, the only means to destroy their stranglehold is by an outside force. And we MUST destroy their stranglehold—today’s unions create organized crime syndicates, (complete with mysterious murders!,) raise the price of goods, and filter all the excess money not to their employees (the workers) pockets—but to their own, just like the robber baronies they were employed to prevent. But one man’s gain is another man’s destitution, in a world of debt and monopoly.
You seem to have forgotten the structure of a Union: it is a hierarchy with administrators controlling the levers, who answer only to the government, who, due to the process of lobbying, answer to them.
“DeRegulation and Bankruptcy has allowed corporations to bust the Unions that gave you a decent wage and benefits.”
False: the New Deal allowed the cancerous growth of both corporations and Unions to a size that enabled them to feel no responsibility to their employees. (The New Deal rewarded corporations based on size—the line of reasoning being that a large corporation will hire more workers. Of course, the result is quite obvious.)
“In the South too many don’t understand that a CBA helps everyone and you need not be a member of a Union to reap vast benefits from their involvvement.”
Because it demands higher wages? It still taxes you the difference and more, regardless. Pay attention to the charges leveled against your “fearless leaders.” (And read “Animal Farm.” Good book.)
“The anecdotal evidence of Union Corruption pales in comparison to the history of corporate greed and misdeeds… check your prejudice and see the truth.”
Check yours. The anecdotal evidence of corporate greed pales in comparison to the history of the greed of the guilds.
“People can screw up anything, but they can also try to fix it.”
Do or do not. There is no try.
“Bob WIlson… Libertarian at heart… President of IATSE Local 60 Pensacola, Florida”
As another said, your ideals are at odds. This is New Deal philosophy you are spewing, and Libertarians hate New Deal philosophy more than anything.
You can’t stand the truth!! The info comes right from the horses mouth, and you still don’t believe it. I watched some of these people and organization speaking for myself. Who’s dumb???
Just a clarification – Ron Paul only supported the march against the fed which is a private corporation with government authority. I agree it needs audited especially when it constantly misplaces our money. Ron Paul is not in support of ending capitalism like most of the supporters are.
I am not against capitalism, but against global cabals of crony corporatism and evil practices, corruption in business and politics. I think most can say that it is not earning a living that disturbs the so called 99%, it is the corruption and control over the economy that is done for the unjust enrichment and greed of so few. I just finished working on a project for a multi-national retailer, and saw a lot of behind the scenes confidential legal contracts. The holding companies that are involved as credit partners, use tax havens, the off shore banks in Grand Cayman Islands for instance, and were using the usual Federal Reserve bank members, and they are picking the winners in the unfair competition against the local businesses all over the world, where they open up shop. Only Canada filed a suit on behalf of their own countrymen’s businesses against Chinese competitor illegally called it “dumping cheap” goods that unfairly compete to blow the Canadians out of business. They are centralizing wealth into a few hands. Only they will survive because they are dealing the cards. May God help the small businessman.
Funny that you would think endorsements from Michael Moore and the IWW would actually enhance #occupy’s credibility.
Baasil:
Your are the one that is twisting the truth!
Ron Paul didn’t say He is for them! What He said was “If they were demonstrating peacefully, and making a point, and arguing our case, and drawing attention to the Fed — I would say, good!” he told Reason magazine Friday after a town hall meeting in New Hampshire.
Now get your story straight!
“People aren’t THAT dumb… Calling this ‘Official’ is absurd, this is a conservative/libertarian fringe news blog, nothing in any way associated with OWS, and is actually quite opposed to it. So you are either joking, or just have that low of an opinion of your readers.”
Or you do not understand the jovial nature of your hosts here at PJMedia.
The term “official” is in part a joke, defining it the way you are. It is “official” in another sense, though, in the sense that it is authoritative, as another commenter noted.
Does an email from the American Federation of Musicians and Canadian Federation of Musicians sent to Members expressing support for the Occupiers count?
Post a link to it, and we’ll see!
Luanne,
Yes, AFM counts big time!! I was a member for 18 years. All they ever did was take my money and never try to get me a playing gig once in all that time. Hoever, they sure did spend my dues on a lot of coffee and donuts. I found out that the local I was in helped give a lot of money to Obama’s 2008 campaign after the election was done. I’ve never seen our dues money go to an election before. It always went to support the “1%” orchestra members and never the “99%” freelancers. I was so ticked off that I immediately canceled my membership and told them to take a hike. Out of music now anyway so I can save my money. Refuse to have my dues go to a left-wing election political action committee slush fund anymore. In the old days this was called money laundering.
Maybe you should write about the GOP in Loudon County,Va that made and posted a picture of Obama with a bullethole in his head, have no use for right wing extremeists, they are as bad if not worse than left wing..At least left wing believes and supports the 1st ammendment, obviously you do not!!
Beverly, half of the facts (which you provided) can be as bad as none of the facts. But it WAS a bad if not dumb idea. This was an email sent right before Halloween showing Obama and other top Dems made up to look like zombies (although I think Pelosi didn’t need much makeup). It pictured Pinocchiobama (my name for him) as a zombie “with part of his skull missing and a bullet wound in his head.” The email invites recipients to a Halloween parade where “we are going to vanquish the zombies with clear thinking conservative principles and a truckload of Republican candy.” The Republican Party of Virginia’s reaction was swift: “The disgusting image used today on a mass-email has no place in politics. Ever…The Republican Party of Virginia condemns the image and its use in the strongest possible terms.”
You are aware that this followed an already extant video game in which one could kill numerous prominent Republicans as zombies?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/republicans/8749212/Tea-Party-Zombies-Must-Die-video-game-riles-Republicans.html
if what you posted is true(and i would only believe it when i see it) then it would be almost as bad as making a movie about the assination of a SITTING PRESIDENT…wouldn’t you agree?
A photo with a bullet? That IS protected by 1st amendment, Einstein.
Putting a bullet in a person is not.
And a photo of a burning flag is not as bad as the actual burning. BOTH are protected….but since you are wrong, I don’t have to go much further.
NOW..WHEN THE OCCUPIERS STAND OUTSIDE OF A CASINO IN VEGAS, AND DISPARAGE THE WINNERS FOR DARING TO MAKE A BUNDLE ON HARD EARNED MONEY THEY RISKED….PLEASE TAKE A PHOTO, AND POST IT!
BUT THE MORONS BACKED BY MUSLIMS , TO TRY AND MAKE THE USA LOOK LIKE EGYPT, SYRIA, LIBYA….Doesn’t fool anyone.
but you, perhaps.
The riot should be outside the WHITEHOUSE….not the wall street gamblers that HIT IT BIG using HONEST EARNED MONEY, gambled the way they saw fit.
Typical strategy” HAVE THE HAVE NOTS riot against the HAVES.
OH YEAH…..and don’t forget to BLAME THE JEWS.
SHEESH! AT LEAST PLAY A NEW CARD…….
Where does the first amendment say you can block the street? Where does the first amendment say you can deny OTHER people their rights by blocking the entrance of a building where a convention of people with a different political viewpoint are meeting (AFP) so that a lady in a wheelchair cannot leave?
This is what fascism looks like.
AFL-CIO Dick Trumpka made a public announcement and promised support on the ground. News media carried it. I believe Obama was with him at the time. Also, I’ve been told that an “Occupy” website lists the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, and teachers unions as supporters. The teachers unions are by far the scariest of this. We send our kids to public schools who become a captive audience for self proclaimed socialists/communists masquerading as teachers.
If there are teachers unions supporting this you need to remember that the members of those unions dont have much control over what the union supports. It doesn’t make the teachers all secret socialists/commies who are out to brain wash your kids. The teachers union has absolutely no say on what goes on in the classroom.
Agreed. There’s a way to fix that situation. It’s called a Right to Work law. It doesn’t get rid of unions, but it does keep them honest, because it requires them to satisfy all their members.
The unions don’t have elections?
The CWA (Communications Workers of America) is supporting the OWS protest movement. They have literature all over our shop about it, and are planning a related march on DC this coming weekend.
Yep, CWA officially supports “Occupy” on their website: http://www.cwa-union.org/news/entry/communications_workers_of_america_endorses_occupy_wall_street_movement1#.TrBHW_Qg_m0
The AFT is a big supporter, as their own web site shows. What a shocker.
Dear Zombie; Great Job! I agree that in Nov 2012 will be an awakening. But Washington DC is not the total answer. Thats really how things started turning south. We the folks who love America and our way of life and GOD must stand together and keep OUR country intact. Where else in the world can people go to be free? It’s clear from your list and those “pending”, that communist, socialists, marxists, and radical Islams want to destroy Isreal and America. It has started, now it is time to prepare! Thank you for the clear lists of who’s who. Now let’s start with the prepare lists. If Iran and North Korean governments lauch their EMP bomb over America millions will die, those that live will need to be ready to live without electricity. And that is the truth.
Zombie
How bout taking a fire truck in and hose them off with a 6 inch round firehose
I have heard the SEIU, AFL-CIO are two unions that are supporting OWS
And you might add the liberal Democrats in our own Congress.
Really man! I don’t care for either side but this is complete crap….the Nazi Party…like the OWS are card carrying members and they can choose who support them. You are as brainwashed as they are. I am the 50% the middle who actually have common sense and don’t just regurgitate what fox and CNN teach me.
“Yellow journalism” or the yellow press is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.[1] Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism.[1] By extension “Yellow journalism” is used today as a pejorative to decry any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical fashion.
And you’ve totally missed the point. These groups believe that the protests will take America in the direction that THEY want it to go. If a dumbass jerk thinks you’re doing the right thing, it’s time to re-evaluate. If all the nastiest bass-ackwards cornholios in the world say that what you’re doing is a good thing, it’s time to jump ship.
Scott,
At the New York “encampment” I heard members of the Nazi party (they had swastika arm bands)in favor of OWS discuss the Zionist bankers of the world who control the economy. It’s alkl about about kicking the Jews out of the country. They are very much in line with the OWS protestors.
Hey, whatever helps the cause.
weirdos, burn-outs, subversives, agitators, deadbeats, criminals, union thugs, Commies and Nazis. And those are the supporters from the White House! The rest are just a nice bunch of anti-Americans!
How about ACORN (and it’s spin offs) and without a doubt top of the list is Andy Stein and the SEIU
Interesting that you did not have time to list the positive support but had plenty of time to list the organizations that would most inflame the American public. Who is your support?
My support? I have no support, nor am I asking for support. I am me.
If you don’t like my list, don’t read my list. Those who like it will read it.
C’mon Cindy: If you are going to make that charge, then you should have listed who you think are the so-called “positive” supporters. I haven’t heard of any.
Let’s see..the Teamsters, the AFL-CIO, the SEIU, the NEA, the UAW…
I read somewhere, but don’t remember source, that Soros gave his support to the movement. How? I don’t know, but must be through one of his many private orgs.
Retailers:
In DC, Starbucks was providing free coffee to the OWS Protestors. Of course this was also during the AFP Summit who unfortunately did not receive the same courtesy.
Mens Warehouse is the other retailer that comes to mind.
Unions: SEIU advertising for protestors? http://t.co/XlyczIoI
Here are some links. I hope they help.
http://laborfightback.org/Maryland_Resolution_17.htm
Maryland State and District of Columbia AFL-CIO
28th Biennial Convention Resolutions Passed November 19, 2011:
Resolution 17: Support for the “Occupy Movement”
http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/10/31/unions-stand-with-occupy-movement-in-oakland-and-nationwide/
Unions Stand with Occupy Movement in Oakland and Nationwide, including The Alameda Labor Council and California Labor Federation
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/07/143258375/joining-forces-with-the-left-occupy-swarms-capitol
“The group behind it is the American Dream Movement, which partnered with progressive organizations such as MoveOn.org and Rebuild the Dream, and major labor groups such as the Service Employees International Union [SEIU] and AFL-CIO.”
http://www.nrtwc.org/seiu-joins-occupy-movement/
SEIU supports an Occupy protest in southern California.
http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=org_pre&b_no=11556&page=1&field=&key=&n=74
President of UFW is proud that his son was arrested as an Occupy protestor.
http://www.teamster.org/content/hoffa-teamsters-stand-solidarity-occupy-wall-street-movement
Official Statement Of Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa: the Teamsters stand in solidarity with Occupy
http://www.liunabuildsamerica.org/news/story/750
Statement of Terry O’Sullivan, General President of LIUNA, On Occupy Wall Street: “LIUNA… stands with the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City and across the United States.”
I’m sure that any labor union website picked at random will have an official statement supporting the Occupy movement.
Thank you very much for supplying this information. Maybe if more people knew who really supports OWS. Fewer people would want to be involved in it.
the Union officials are supporting them, but the actual numbers of union workers joining them is miniscule. Even in NYC, the number of protesters is in the low thousands for their largest protest. This is in a city of 10 million with a large union membership.
Sorry, I hate the corruption as much as the next guy, but the publicity and cheering on of this tiny group seems a bit out of proportion. And the group seems to be full of disgruntled college students from ivy league colleges and professional leftist types, neither of whom have much in common with the working man or woman.
The media is trying to link OWS to the tea party…I am here to state we deny ALL association with them!
My daughter marched in the protest to the Brooklyn bridge and she talked to many Tea Party people who were also marching and they had some of the same concerns she has-that we are a corporate state and there is too much money in politics. The protestors were very peaceful.
So greenivy why should be believe your daughter? Credentials please! I am a teaparty member on the westcoast and I would never march with the occupy scum. Your daughter must have missed that whoever she spoke to was probably an infiltrator. The occupy group loves nothing more than to claim that the teaparty is on their side.
Ya, and the Nazi and Communists were holding hands.
It’s not that you lie, everyone has read “Rules for Radicals” and understand the lack of honesty and morality you socialists have, no what REALLY pisses me off is that you think I’m so stupid as to believe anything you say!!!!!
Thank you for your contribution. It underlies some points about the difference between the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.
Despite there being unchecked radicalism and degeneracy at the Occupy movement, there are some of the Occupiers that hold some broad views that the Tea Party shares, notably that the crony relationship between the government and large corporations is too powerful.
However, they prescribe different solutions. The Tea Party seeks to decrease the influence the government can have on who wins and loses in the private market and give America a free market economy again. The Occupiers want to give the government more power over business, and then to support the industries and companies they like and punish the ones they don’t.
Thanks for that, I will second your statement.
Pam, what are your credentials that allow you to speak on behalf of the Tea Party? I assume you have some otherwise, please refrain from putting words in others mouths.
Tencentpistol… What are YOUR Credentials to DENY any other poster’s comments? You dont even have the integrety to use YOUR own name. The OWS group is 180 degrees opposed to the Tea Party movement so can it and stick to your own issues INFILTRATOR, or should I just say TRAITOR?
I am a member of MNA and I do NOT support OWS, nor do many of my colleagues. MNA forces their political opinions down the throats of their members.
Early on, most of the union members with OWS admitted they were there because they were PAID to be there, by their unions! That’s not the same thing as being part of the movement, because they believe, or want to be there. This was reported in the mainstream media, like NYT and others, as well as Conservative sites, and all over You Tube. They didn’t even know what it was about; just they were paid to be there. I don’t know if that’s still true, for certain, but I would imagine it is; they pay union members to picket at one site’s strike, often, so it makes sense, since the leaders are supporting this, they’d pay members to participate, regardless of what the members believe about it.
So your argument is that union members are not people with their own consciences or a will of their own? People who cannot stand up and say, “Sorry, bub, but count me out.”? People willing to do their masters’ bidding without question as long as they get paid?
Not a great endorsement or excuse.
SeanB, try telling that to all the people who thought Obama was telling the truth when they voted for him. Just because someone represents you, doesnt mean they do what they are supposed to do to truely “represent” you. Many People are union members because they work in a “union shop” or because the union is supposed to protect them from abusive employers, But they dont see the other side of the coin.
Might want to add ron paul and some of his supporters to the list. Sorry but paul is far from conservative even though he says that he is.
He is not a conservative, he is more liberatarian.
Get your facts straight. Ron Paul, doesn’t support the OWS movement. He only supports their right to assemble and peacefully protest.
He supports their right to block the street and premenently obstruct the sidewalk? If he doesn’t come out against them he is a fraud.
The Teamsters are not “officially” supporting the movement, yet we are indeed supporting it.
http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2011/10/susan-sarandon-teamsters-ows.html
http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2011/10/teamsters-get-their-occupation-on-in-fl.html
http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2011/10/teamsters-occupy-st-louis-and-detroit.html
You forgot Ron Paul.
Can’t verify but I did hear from an occupier that CTA paid for the Porta-potties. My $900 per year union dues – WOW
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If I thought the OWS “movement” was really a bunch of malcontents before, this confirms it.
Well, this list doesn’t encompass all the individuals camping out in parks in various cities. It’s just a list of who has endorsed the movement. Perhaps many of the devotees are “malcontents,” but if they knew what kind of company they attracted, they might feel a little different about devoting themselves to the cause.
You’re right, I should have been more precise and upon reflection I would say that the OWS movement should be embarrassed about being endorsed or supported by many of the groups on this list. Who are, in fact, malcontents.
George Washington was a malcontent, Paul revere was also. All of the founding fathers really. Good luck with your propaganda redcoats!
Yes, but George Washington and Paul Revere were malcontents against tyrannical rule, these people are against capitalism and the American dream for Pete’s sake. Why on God’s green earth would you ever get the idea in your head that what one person worked hard for, should be yours? I was always under the understanding, that was stealing. I am so sick and tired of our government taking from the producers and giving to the non-producers. I believe that is why there is a T.E.A. Party. (Taxed Enough Already).
@cracker, yes fighting for a cause can be very noble…but the cause you are fighting for does matter….founding fathers were fighting for individual liberty…these guys are fighting for collective equality…doesn’t work
Actually neither George Washington nor Paul Revere qualify as malcontents. A malcontent is someone who is perpetually dissatisfied with everything, not someone who simply seeks a better way. So our founding fathers, while being dissatisfied with their arrangement with the British government, were hardly perpetually discordant. George Washington was the first President and didn’t campaign endlessly to amend or tear down the government either during or after his terms in office.
CPUSA however is perpetually dissatisfied with the system. They complain that Democrats aren’t catering enough to their ideals, or aren’t moving fast enough to “income equality” or whatever their euphamism of the year is, or that Republicans are reinforcing the system that keeps the people down.
I confess I’m not sure what the American Nazi Party actually believes would be a good system of government, beyond generic white supremacy (I assume anyway), but I can’t think they’re happy with anyone in power who isn’t, well, them.
The North Korean goverment makes trouble simply because it’s done so poorly in governing that counterfeiting currency, demanding tribute on the threat of distributing nuclear materials, and launching the occasional attempt at an ICBM is the only way to gain enough food to keep the people there from starving to death, and it’s not very good at that either.
I’ve just picked three of the organizations from the list, and I could go on and on (I probably have already) but I doubt that any of the organizations on the list with the exception of the US Border Guard, would appreciate being compared to George Washington or Paul Revere. I also suspect, based on the many signs I’ve seen in photos of the OWS protests and camps, that the OWS movement would identify more with the Bolshevik and Cuban revolutions than with the American one.
Hey, is that George Washington I see over there? Yeah, the dude with the dread locks slapping the bongos and smoking a blunt he picked up off the ground. It is him isn’t it, or maybe it’s Ben Franklin!
“….malcontents….”
So was Marx, Engels, Gadaffi before he took over Libya, Jesus Christ, Hitler, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Mao, Che Guevera and thousands of others, including yourself and the posters on this blog. So what’s your point, genius?
Unfortunately Cracker, OWS isn’t demonstrating against a non-representative
government as Washingon and the other founding fathers. OWS is protesting businesses and want larger government which is 180 degrees opposed to our American Revolution. Don’t even try to compare the two in the same breath.
Are you the same ‘cracker’ who brownoses mohammedans at ‘onislam’ blog? You sound like it.
Readcoats? Really?
The voice of the OWS has spoken (sigh).
The pot calling the kettle black. There are probably many patriots involvolved with the protests just as there are many patriots who dissagree with it, the goal here is to help sort out misconceptions and better educate all. I prefer an informed opinion over a cause or movement that promotes an uninformed agenda.It seems to me the liust is verifiable but the subsequent opinions are not, I choose to search for facts rather than banter emotions back and forth. Keep posting factual information and some will eventually get it.
You are absolutely, positively 100% wrong. The Founders of this country were not malcontents. They were visionaries who believed in the rights of Englishmen and that the only way to secure those rights was independence from the Crown.
On the other hand, OWS is a mob with no clear agenda other than hatred for America as it is now constituted. They can’t even manage a society of a few hundred people in a park in a modern city with all kinds of outside help. How does that compare to drafting a Constitution that provides a social contract for many millions of people?
Read Ann Coulter’s book “Demonic” to understand the difference.
THAT YOU dAD ? BYE
THE CRACKER OR TOM? BYE
So were Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini, Castro, Mao…
Being a malcontent does not by definition make you “good.” Good and evil DO trade spots in the war within man’s consciousness. It is, in fact, historically rare for a revolution to be both successful in that they overthrow and successful in that they replace with something better. More often, a successful revolution fails in the latter aspect, and something that will most likely succeed in the latter aspect fails in the former.
Or will you deny the aftermath of the Soviet revolution? The French revolution? The Maoist revolution? The Fascist revolution?
Use distinction. Generalizations can sometimes be true, but by their nature, they are more often false.
There can be no good from being endorsed by groups like the ones on the list. They are not there for the betterment of all humans in the USA, but rather, they are using the protesters as nothing more than pawns to support their own specific group causes. Once this is done, they will conveniently dump of the protesters.
I suspect many of the protesters replicate the motives of the 1960s-70s-early 80s generations: it was cool, it was a pickup site, and the kids had no idea why they were there except that it was exciting.
Don’t count on it. Birds of a feather stick together.
You might also include the National Lawyers Guild which, on its home page http://www.nlg.org , offers legal support for Occupy protesters. The NLG is an infamous Far-Left so-called legal defense organization. In the old days (via HUAC) it was identified as a communist-front group.
Will do.
Wow, a veritable Who’s Who of anti-social miscreants, racists and malcontents. Veritable proof that evil walks among us.
Yea, that it is…this’ll come in handy next summer and fall, thanks for compiling it Zombie
Already tweeted and FB’d
…..and they procreate.Scarier yet!
And unlike the rest of us, they are wont to do their procreating in public.
…and sometimes against the procreatee’s will, according to multiple reports.
Working Families Party are not on the list and I imagine they would be. What about SEIU and AFL/CIO, and the Democrat Party as a whole?
Added to the “pending” list.
Zombie
The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) launched a petition in support of Occupy Wall Street.
I covered it here: http://ironicsurrealism.com/2011/10/10/sleeping-with-dogs-the-democratic-congressional-campaign-committees-official-petition-in-support-of-occupywallstreet
It is still up. Here is the direct link: http://www.dccc.org/pages/occupy
And Rep. Steve Israel(D – NY)is the DCCC Committee Chair as I’m sure you know, sooo… he has officially endorsed OWS…(?)
Moveon.org
http://civic.moveon.org/defend_ows/
MoveOn Added to the “pending” list!
Please be patient — I won’t be able to add much if any to the list today, but perhaps later this evening I can get back to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0InbZy9p9QY&feature=player_embedded#!
Also
Working Families Party and ACORN
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/11/acorn-is-behind-occupy-wall-street/
Thanks. Added Working Families Party and ACORN to the pending list.
Though, just to be clear: I’m trying to only use source references that aren’t already “blacklisted” (however baselessly) by left-leaning sites. FrontPage Magazine may seem reliable to you and me, and may in fact be reliable, but if a leftie sees a link like that (or a link to ANY conservative site), they will dismiss the evidence as invalid, pre-emptively.
That’s why I’ve gone to great lengths to source the info in a such a way that they can’t deny it — links to Talking Point Memo, Mother Jones, MSM sites, pro-Occupy sites, etc.
Even so, it gets incredibly frustrating that we’ve basically tapped out to them and allowed the “If it’s not from Huffington, Mother Jones, or NPR, it’s a lie!” narrative to become fact.
Generally, I refuse to cave in to the narrative-bullying this way, but in this particular case I want to corner them so that there is no escape. Their main defense in this debate is to discredit the messenger — but when the messengers are they themselves, they’re trapped.
You might want to add the Los Angeles City Council to the list:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/10/city_council_passes_occupy_la_resolution_democrats_unions.php
Don’t forget that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa reportedly handed out rain ponchos to the Occupy L.A. people.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/10/06/city-hall-ok-with-occupy-la-mayor-hands-out-rain-ponchos-to-protesters/
I think ACLU organisations in a number of states have provided legal services for both ‘Occupy’ organisations and for individual protesters.
For example:
http://acluva.org/7957/aclu-of-virginia-offers-assistance-to-%E2%80%9Coccupy-wall-street%E2%80%9D-demonstrators/
Yes… ACLU across several places.
http://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/OccupyWallSt
And the United Teachers of Los Angeles:
http://www.utla.net/actions/occupylausd
added
Bridges Academy of Melrose, an Oakland Elementary will be joining Occupy Oakland general strike:
http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2011/10/28/schools-to-take-part-in-occupy-oaklands-general-strike/
Angela Davis
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/angela_davis_visits_owsp.php
Thank you Thank you Thank you!! I have just started a blog, http://www.occupyrealism.com, devoted to following the groups behind Occupy through the 2012 election cycle. I have a feeling the occupy movement is just a warmup for 2012, to see if they can get away with stealth socialism. I’ll be putting up a page just for tracking the groups soon.
Here is a list I gleaned from OUR-WA (ACORN) see logos at bottom of http://www.ourwashington.net/obtr/ and local news stories:
MoveOn.org
Washington Community Action Network
Move to Amend
occupytogether.org
From OUR-WA (ACORN) website http://www.ourwashington.net/obtr
NYC Communities for Change (NYCC) >> ACORN
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/26/exclusive-acorn-playing-behind-scenes-role-in-occupy-movement/
[NYCC] created in late 2009 when some ACORN offices disbanded and reorganized under new names after undercover video exposes prompted Congress to cut off federal funds.
ALIGN (Alliance for a Greater New York)
Venice for Change (venice4change.com)
Colorado Progressive Coalition
Blue America
Alliance for a Just Society
Adriel Nation (wiredtoshare.com)
Rebuild the Dream (Van Jones, Socialist: What Jones is offering instead, though his Rebuild the Dream hub (launched in partnership with MoveOn.org), is an open-source brand for the left, complete with a logo in the form of a red “A” (for “American Dream”) with a white star at its center, underlined by a blue stripe. It’s a graphic turn on the American flag, part of Jones’ call to the left to reclaim the mantle of patriotism. http://www.alternet.org/vision/152616/van_jones_on_america%27s_uprising%3A_it%27s_going_be_an_epic_battle/?page=entire
Rainforest Action Network
PLAN (Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada)
The Other 98%
Oregon Action
Jobs with Justice
USA Job Party WPA 21 Century
ICAN (Idaho Community Action Nettwork)
Down with Tyranny
CrooksandLiars.com
Citizen Action of New York
The Main Street Alliance
The New Bottom Line
OUR (Organization United for Reform) aka ACORN
Student Labor Action Project
Washington CAN
UnitedNY.org
ACCE (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment)
Strong Economy for All
Vocal New York
Splendid!
When I get a spare day or so, I’ll look into your list and see how many I can add to my main list.
For now, they’ve all been pasted in the the “pending” file. Good work!
Interesting that you asked for sources from everyone informing you about support from groups that don’t fit in with you list of “scary” organisations/people that have negative connotations for the majority of people, and yet this of “scary” organisations isn’t questioned.
Not quite sure of the meaning of your comment — seems a little jumbled up.
I ask for sources from any and all readers documenting the support of any and all groups. Over the upcoming weeks, I will continuously update the list with as many as I can.
Though why anyone would want to be on the same list as many of these groups and people and governments is beyond me.
If I’m at all reading you correctly, what Zombie is saying is that he’ll look into these, and IF they check out (i.e. reliable sources), THEN he’ll add them to his list. For the moment they are “pending” — which means NOT on the list, but might be put on it later.
I particularly appreciate the fact that Zombie doesn’t use any sources that those on the left could consider “partisan”; for the most part it’s the websites of the “scary”** organizations themselves; and if not, it’s websites of news sources that are mainstream or left leaning.
** “scary”? Maybe. Most of these organizations aren’t scary as long as they’re a dozen or even a hundred people meeting out in the woods to rant their hatred, or in their basement creating a newsletter about how, like Pinky and the Brain, they’re Going To Take Over The World. But putting them all together, and putting in their hands the additional manpower of the OWS crowd, they could cause some genuine harm. I wouldn’t say I’m scared, though; just “vigilant”.
Didn’t Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) say she was the intellectual basis for OWS? I think she should get credit as one of its founders.
God help us, she’s not “D-MA” yet! She is running against Scott Brown for Senate, but holds no public office. She’s another Moonbat from Harvard, aka, “The Kremlin on the Charles” and does credit herself with initiating the intellectual birth of the OWS movement, or some other such drivel….
Is that like when Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet, i.e. completely false?
Al Gore (former VP) belongs on the list.
http://blog.algore.com/2011/10/thoughts_on_occupy_wall_street.html
“For the past several weeks I have watched and read news about the Occupy Wall Street protests with both interest and admiration.”
First of all, Al Gore never claimed to have invented the internet. It is a widely known right-wing hoax to discredit him. Of course if you even bothered to research anything before spouting lies you wouldn’t have anything to say. I suggest a little-known site that could help you all. You may have never heard of it. It’s called Google.
Gore’s quote which you fools continue to misquote, was “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.”
http://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/gore_internet/
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
Yet we all KNOW that Sarah Palin said, “I can see Russia from my house” when it was really Tina Fey on SNL who said that, right?
What’s good for the goose, missy…
Thanks. So we’ll be sure to quote Gore correctly. We can now say he “created” the internet rather than saying he invented it. It still sounds pompous to me.
Elizabeth Warren did, indeed, say she created the intellectual basis for OWS – she then walked it back a bit. She is running against Scott Walker and is the former head of Obama’s newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Folks…
Pass this list to everyone on your email list. America needs to fully understand whats going on here.
Humourously enough, the crackpots at Leading Light Communist Organization (formerly Maoist Internationalist[sic] Movement) do NOT support Occupy Wall Street.
http://llco.org/on-the-occupy-movements
Wow — that’s a change of pace. A list of communist organizations that DON’T support OWS would be quite short indeed. So far, we’ve got one. Just about every other communist group I’ve looked into so far supports OWS — or at worst has a Web site that hasn’t been updated since 2008, so we don’t know where they stand.
I was wondering where Socialist Action (one of the Trotskyist off-shoots) had gotten to?
Haha, you just can’t get any crazier than LLCO.
Interesting. Stormfront appears to be resisting the bait. But Duke’s right there with the crapping hippies.
Do personal appearances count?
Then I’d like to add Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Bill Ayers, and Van Jones.
It might be nice to create a list of glittering one-percenters as some sort of Sequin-Collar Crime Auxiliary.
But speaking of Van Jones, his Rebuild the Dream organization has endorsed OWS:
http://rebuildthedream.com/blog/2011/10/06/lets-make-history-solidarity-with-occupy-wall-street/?rc=rtd_feature
Don’t forget Russell Simmons and Tim Robbins.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/13/occupy-wall-street-cleanup-russell-simmons_n_1010213.html
Barney Frank
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66412.html
Let’s not forget Cornell West.
Does he count as an individual — or a group, if we take into account his multiple pathologies?
Unfortunately I was drinking a coke and driving when my wife read me your reply; I guess that’s what dry cleaners are for.
Keep up the great work. I’ll see If I can help.
Greenpeace:
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/campaign-blog/greenpeace-supports-occupy-wall-street-peacef/blog/37414/
Thanks for doing this Zombie.
Yes, I seconded that…
Here’s a link to the IBEW http://www.ibew.org/articles/11daily/1110/111027_VerizonUpdate.htm
The relevant paragraph is “IBEW and CWA members have recently showed their support for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, protesting the special financial interests that have crashed the economy. Both unions also participated in Boston and other cities as similar rallies spread to more than 400 localities across North America.”
Don’t forget Elizabeth Warren, Democrat candidate for the Us Senate in Massachusetts, who bragged she created OWS. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/24/elizabeth-warren-i-created-occupy-wall-street.html I will link to this from my Old Jarhead blog.
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350.org co-founder Bill McKibben
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/10/05/337255/climate-activism-occupy-wall-street-movement/
Then, don’t forget Rosanne and Little Jimmy Hoffa, Jr.
Let me just say this early on, so I don’t have to respond to each suggestion:
All comments here are being reviewed for interesting tips, and good ones will be added to the “Pending List” of potential candidates to be added when I get the time.
So even if I don’t get around to acknowledging each and every tip individually, just rest assured that your comment has been noted.
You left out the professional homeless and hobos, usually male adults prone to self medicating, admittedly not a recognized international organization, but they have been showing up at the protests–apparently they share some of the same space–robbing tents and raping women. It’s the homeless one percent by necessity plundering the rich one percent slumming in the park by choice. Some of those retro anarchists have actually been calling the police to arrest those full-time homeless miscreants for bad behavior over having to share scarce sleeping spots in the park with the rich tourists in their REI tents. Priceless.
I laughed so hard upon reading this statement. Well said.
Yep…the lumpenproletariat is all too well represented, including the usual complement of hard-drug dealers and users, panhandlers, passed-out drunken bums, petty (and not-so-petty) thieves, molesters, flashers, public masturbators, outdoor fornicators, LGBT nudists, unhousebroken random poopers and pissers, you name it.
Some are along for the ride, for thrills, “street cred”, or whatever else, and some are being paid to be there.
“This sign for rent” …
Congressman John Lewis, (even though they didn’t let him speak)
http://www.salon.com/2011/10/09/john_lewis_i_support_ows_protesters/
Raul Grijalva, House of Representatives for Arizona: who ALSO called for a boycott of the very state he represents over SB1070, the anti-illegal immigration law.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDGWz93sMNo
Thank you Zombie and those Aware and Alert.
A general list of endorsers is fine and dandy, but never mind fellow travelers. It is essential to expose the movers and shakers who have driven those useful idiots in the agora.
How about Frances Fox Piven?
Video and transcript at: http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/10/4/frances_fox_piven_at_occupy_wall_street_we_desperately_need_a_popular_uprising_in_the_united_states
OK, I gotta log off for a while — but continue making suggestions in my absence! They will all be later noted.
What surprises me is the lack of support “Occupy Antarctica” is getting, even from socialists. According to the Daily Rash, a lone demonstrator in Antarctica braves -50 degree temperatures to protests Wall Street greed! Wow! http://www.thedailyrash.com/occupy-antarctica-protester-carries-on-despite-50-degree-temperatures
Debbie W-S:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439×2098335
Wikileaks
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/878699-julian-assange-rallies-protesters-at-occupy-london-stock-exchange-gathering
The ever lovable Working Families Partry.
http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2011/10/wfp-stands-with-occupy-wall-street/
and
http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/2011/10/wfp-statement-on-bloomberg-announcement-re-zuccotti-park/
Google can provide you some good links about their money campaign and voting fraud activities.
Ben and Jerry’s icecream.
Barney Fwank is supporting OWS? He is one of the architects of the legislation that brought us this disaster. I tell you what disaster is: it is the lack of coverage by the MSM of the critical issues that lead to this financial disaster. It could be a big story like Watergate, but the MSM decided to carry water for all the vultures that are picking our nation’s carcass. No disrespect to real world vultures doing their scavenging.
SEIU – http://www.seiu.org/2011/10/seiu-supports-occupywallstreet.php
NY Transport Workers Union – http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/28/1021124/-Transport-Workers-Union-votes-to-support-OccupyWallstreet%21
National Nurses United and Laborers’ International Union of America – http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/01/1021769/-Nurses-and-Laborers-unions-support-Occupy-Wall-Street
AFL-CIO Trumka – http://www.thenation.com/blog/163737/afl-cios-trumka-hails-occupy-wall-street-protests
New York State United Teachers, Communication Workers union, etc –
UAW – http://www.uaw.org/page/uaw-endorses-occupy-wall-street
More AFL-CIO, SEIU, Teamsters, New York State United Teachers, Greater Boston Labor Council – http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-labor-unions
John Boehner.
I just saw that. What a maroon! He zigged when everybody zagged. Going on the list. Anybody who ends up on it, deserves it.
And Eric Cantor, too. Which just shows you how hermetically sealed the beltway it. They actually are swallowing that MSM cum about the public supporting them.
Code Pink: http://www.codepinkalert.org/section.php?id=464
Did I miss it, or was Al Sharpton and the freaks at MSNBC left off this masterpiece?
Jesse Jackson, too.
I’m pretty sure I came across an endorsement by Algore.
Barack Obama’s “spiritual advisor” Reverend Jim Wallis definitely did.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/leftist-christian-leader-jim-wallis-occupy-wall-street-protesters-stand-with-jesus/
Perhaps at a future date when this smelly mess hits the fan, you can do a similar list of the few, but brave conservatives who were among the very first to question it, like Herman Cain.
Modern adage: “You are who you roll with.”
99%ers roll with some total freaks. Therefore…
Back in my day, the saying went, “Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.”
In Gainsville, FL, Harry’s Seafood, Bar & Grille has been donating water and ice. Big Lou’s is in charge of donating pizza. The Hare Krishnas have donated vegan meals. Ward’s Supermarket takes care of the organic produce and gave Occupy Gainesville a line of credit. http://www.alligator.org/news/local/article_c0c742be-f94a-11e0-874a-001cc4c002e0.html
Ben and Jerry’s http://eater.com/archives/2011/10/10/food-businesses-occupy-wall-street-with-pizza-ice-cream.php
What do they all have in common? They are all LEECHES, who survive by demanding either that people do something for less money than they normally do it, hand over more of the money they make doing it, or do it more without an increase in compensation, so others can benefit from what they do.
It’s like walking past a pretty pond and having all the leeches leap out of the water simultaneously and TAKE YOU DOWN. eesh, I need a shower.
You forgot ron paul!
Ron Paul himself — or Ron Paul supporters?
If he himself has embraced OWS, please provide links!
Tim Robbins, Yoko Ono, Deepak Chopra, Russel Simmons (Unirush Financial, music business), Kayne West and Lupe Fiasco(rappers), Alec Baldwin, Mark Ruffalo, Pete Seeger, James O’Keefe, Tavis Smiley are listed as supporters of OWS.
All added to the pending list.
James O’Keefe?…I don’t think so.
Something to help things along.
Top ten unlikely OWS supporters:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2011/10/top-ten-unlikely-occupy-wall-street-supporters.html
Celebrity support for OWS
http://www.observer.com/2011/09/celebrity-support-for-occupy-wall-street/
Excellent. Both links added to research pile. Thanks.
and Noam Chomsky
Young Communist League
http://www.yclusa.org/
Peoples World, affiliated with CPUSA as their online magazine, but still a separate entity.
http://www.peoplesworld.org/
Workers World
http://www.workers.org/occupy_wall_street/
Just the ones I had bookmarked that you don’t have listed. Probably more out there. My favorite is the Revolutionary Communist Party, they’re just giddy over the OWS.
Keep ‘em coming!
Just so I am clear (and send along the right stuff!) – this list is for the worldwide Occupy movement, not just the “occupiers” in the US, but in Europe, Israel, etc… yes?
Gotta log off again for several hours. Not to worry – all comments will be later digested!
May have missed them, don’t recall seeing: Ayers, Dohrn and Pivens..
Peter Joseph, founder of the “Zeitgeist movement”.
http://occupywallst.org/forum/peter-joseph-message-to-occupy-wall-street-the-wor/
You can add me to the list.
Umm, B.O. M.O. Jeremiah has to be in there somewhere..
Bloomberg
Don’t forget Brookfield Office Properties, the owner of Zuccotti Park, who allowed the occubaggers to congregate there in the first place.
If anybody like the Occubaggers were to trespass on MY property, they’d get a lesson regarding the Second Amendment. Just sayin’.
A pox on all their houses.
Might as well put me on the list, too – I don’t know what the hell I want either.
Haha! Put my cat on the list, too.
VIDEO of DNC Chairwoman Debbie “Positive Wasserman Test” Schultz from The Hill.
http://thehill.com/video/house/186717-dnc-chairwoman-says-occupy-wall-street-symbolic-of-middle-class-frustrations-
Here on the FLorida West coast we call her Debbie Wasserman Grayson…..BTW, I think Grayson endorsed them too
https://twitter.com/#!/WeOccupyAmerica
Add me to the list of supporters! It is my dearest hope that they keep right on doing what they’re doing well into November 2012!
The Black Panthers and White Revolution, in the same room supporting the same cause… I think that just broke my brain. A marriage made… somewhere… I’m not sure where, and I’m not really sure I want to know.
There’s a zebra joke in there somewhere.
Why would this surprise you? Back in the mid-Sixties, the racist, black-separatist Nation of Islam opposed the Civil Rights Movement and was vocally anti-integration; instead, it wanted the US government to cede several states to the NOI and permit creation of an all-black Bantustan so that blacks would not have to live with or be oppressed by whites.
This initiative of the NOI’s was enthusiastically supported by the American Nazi Party and its ideological brethern, for they too wanted black Americans off somewhere far away from white people.
And, of course, both were united in something else in addition to their desire for separatism and opposition to race-mixing: both groups were—are—virulently antisemitic.
I’m shocked that the angry anti anti-antiperspirant people for the freedom to stink aren’t on the list!
[I keed. I keed.]
Surely the ‘two girls one menstrual cup group’ placed and what about the ‘Going Commando’ and “Sh*tting and pissing on everything in sight” people?
All kidding aside, great sleuthing as always, Zombie!
http://www.iupat.org/politicalnews/read/95
From the International Painters and Allied Trades Website
http://www.americanindependent.com/199630/occupy-miami-picks-up-union-support
This is a great resource you are trying to put together, thank you!
ZOM
OUTSTANDING, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
You all are nuts and must be walking dead with no brains. Who in the hell made up this list I did some searching myself and the only list I can find is the zombie list get real people your not going to scare us baby boomers you have a brain and know that we can’t let Wall Street and the banks take over, much less let the GOP are Tea party take away our Social Security and Medicare we are 50 million strong so zombies be scared.
Mary…you are sadly mistaken thinking that your Social Security and Medicare won’t be touched by the Democrats/Left/Progressives. It is already running empty. To think that Obama actually used no SS checks going out to get the debt ceiling raised shows proof righ there. Was he saying that he will pull the strings of the elderly, which is just unkind or was he saying that unless te debt ceiling was raised there wouldn’t be enough money to send checks out. If the latter is the case then SS and Medicare are screwed and very soon because clearly they are misappropriating funds. Wake up and open your eyes. Your government is lying to you every day.
You apparently went to public schools because you don’t know how to punctuate a sentence. That was very hard to read and, unfortunately, it wasn’t worth the effort I went through to figure it out. Why don’t you move to Cuba if you don’t like it here.
Yeah, that should be in the dictionary under “run-on sentence”.
Your so right Mary……better to let the Nazis, Communist and all other malcontents “take over”. Oh and maybe you shouldn’t be looking for list but verifying the websites listed where they say it for themselves. We do have a brain and are using it.
Mary,
You are the one without brains. Take away Social Security?
The Left Wing opposed our controlling our own Social Security retirement fund investments.
That Big Bad Wall Street that these cretins are protesting against would have made EVERY Social Security recipient millionaires AND rebuilt American industry in the process.
FACT: If I would have been allowed to invest my SS withholding for retirement benefits only, not survivor’s insurance and Disability insurance payments and I was allowed to invest those funds in Blue Chip Stocks right now I would be retiring with over $9 MILLION in stock AND be receiving over $25,000 per MONTH in dividends.
In my example I chose only one stock, Coca Cola, which is not the highest paying nor the lowest paying as far as dividends.
If I had been allowed to do this obviously my wife and I would be able to live the rest of our lives just on the dividends alone and our Children And Grandchildren would inherit at least $9 million and more likely between $15-20 million since the stock is most likely to continue growing until we die.
Not only that but while I was still working, if I chose not to reinvest dividends paid through my working life I would have received about another $350,000.
Instead, when I die SS will pay my wife $250 which is not even enough to cremate my body.
I will receive about $23,000 per year until I die assuming SS doesn’t go broke first. That is equal to 15 years worth of the dividends paid WHILE I WAS STILL WORKING, not the dividends I would be receiving after retirement had my SS retirement funds been invested in Coke stock. The after retirement dividends for 15 years on the Coke stock I could have bought would have instead paid me $4.5 million.
So tell me again how the GOP is trying to deprive me of my retirement benefits.
To add insult to injury, I have been totally disabled for 19 years. Had I worked all the way until retirement I would be getting TWICE as much as that – $500,000 in before retirement dividends, $18 million in stock and $9 million in dividends in the next 15 years, which is $50,000 PER MONTH.
As I mentioned, SS could have continued receiving the disability insurance premiums so the benefits I have been receiving would still have been paid just as private disability insurance companies pay their insured workers their claims. That isn’t welfare, it is insurance claim payments paid for by premiums I paid though my working years.
Where is all of this money I should be receiving? It was spent by Congress when they stole EVERYONE’s retirement funds over the last 47 years.
The protestors of OWS are in the very best of hands. Let’s take up a collection so we can send them to Iran, North Korea, Venezuela or the country of their choice. I’ll spring for 1st Class tickets to get them out of here. They have no positive, productive ideas. They just want to take, take, take from hard working citizens. We are sick of their whining. Legal or not, they are damn annoying and hurt all the small businesses near Zucotti Park in New York. No one wants to eat or shop anywhere near them. It’s pathetic that Mayor Bloomberg won’t send them to Central Park where they won’t harm businesses. Oops. I forgot. Bloomberg already has his billions. No one else need try to achieve anything productive.
Actually, would that huge influx of people help the restaurants in the area? And yes Bloomberg has his money. That is their point.
I wonder what percentage of the 99% have a venereal disease? Maybe they are referring to the percentage of them that have some form of Herpes.
Thanks for the list of the world’s greatest morons.
Little Green Footballs:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39352_Poll-_43_Agree_with_Occupy_Wall_Street
I love it when a blog cites a poll, then you look at the breakdown of respondents and find out it’s 25% R, 35% D, and 40% I. Nothing like stacking the deck to get the result you want. Incidentally, the poll stated 43% agree with the views of OWS. When you look at the % that agree with the movement and not the ideas, the number drops to 25%. But Charles would never point that out. He’s too busy smearing the Tea Party with accusations about actions the OWS protesters are actually doing. Then he has the nerve to accuse the right of smearing OWS. Huh?! They’re doing a good job of smearing themselves. They don’t need any help.
You are missing the Workers World Party, the (Trotskyist) Socialist Workers Party and its organ, The Militant, the Progressive Labor Party (yes, it still exists!), and Democratic Socialists of America. All have websites with lots of OWS stuff.
http://www.americanindependent.com/199630/occupy-miami-picks-up-union-support
South Florida Jobs for Justice, claims painters union behind ows
Seattle Central Community College! Courtesy of its Teachers Union.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/31/seattle-community-college-brings-occupy-to-the-classroom-with-teachers-union-support/
Please don’t forget Manhattan Community Board #1, whose ultra P.C. super progressives passed a resolution accommodating OWS with an unenforceable “Good Neighbor Policy” while throwing besieged community residents, businesses, and workers under the bus.
Did you mention GEORGE SOROS!
All I have to say is to quote Obi-Wan Kenobi: “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy”
They even have Jabba the Moore.
You just insulted Hutts everywhere.
I thought this interesting enough to link on Reddit. One response in particular I thought valuable and repost here for your review.
“Pretty obviously skewed list of who’s contributing… It excludes some of the earliest and most vocal of supporters. Michael Moore? Ron Paul? A slew of unions (USW, NY Transit, IWW).
And a few more….
http://global.christianpost.com/news/forgotten-gop-candidate-gary-johnson-expresses-support-for-occupy-wall-street-58711/
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/14/tea-party-co-founded-expresses-support-for-occupy-wall-street/
http://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-calls-for-boycott-of-big-banks-2011-10
http://www.benjerry.com/activism/occupy-movement/
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/111013/al-gore-occupy-wall-street
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/10/nobel-prize-winning-economist-supports-protests.html
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=61§iontree=5,61&itemid=429“
Ah, sorry, forgot link to Reddit thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/lvrv7/the_99_official_list_of_occupy_wall_streets/
http://district1.cwa-union.org/news/entry/cwa_district_one_statement_in_support_of_occupy_wall_street_demonstrations/
CWA IN SUPPORT OF OWS, but not shocking.
And don;t forget the population of the American people prefer the OWS over Tea Party 2:1…. NBC/Wall Street Journal poll!
OWS rocks might as well come over before you’re to late!
Let’s see in the voting booth in 2012 how that plays out. I have a feeling you might be confused come one November morn.
Go occupy the sun.
Here’s another site with a LONG list of “supporters”
http://october2011.org/organizations
This IS SICKENING! I gave up 4 years of my Life, to Serve under president Reagan, and so many of my bretheren gave up their lives fighting Communism, for this crap to EXSIST? What the Hell!
Thank you for your service, from the non-idiotic, real 99% of America.
Thanks for doing this Zombie , this really is important work , all of us need to be aware of what, and who we are up against .
Supposedly the entire city council of Portland, OR….until the occupiers got uppity and wanted to bang their bongos in the Pearl.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/occupy-protesters-arrested-in-texas-oregon-in-many-cities-its-the-cold-theyre-fighting/2011/10/30/gIQASSS4WM_story.html?hpid=z3
Katy Perry’s scuzzy squeeze, Russell Brand, is there too. Fits right in with the grungy sods, doesn’t he?
http://www.radaronline.com/photos/image/150410/2011/10/celebs-who-occupy-wall-street
Don’t forget Deepak Chopra, Alec Baldwin, Henry Blodget and Suze Orman. Not too surprising, is it.
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/10-richest-celebrities-supporting-occupy-wall-street/
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2011/10/top-ten-unlikely-occupy-wall-street-supporters.html
And finally…..Veterans for Peace “fully supports”
Add to the list the Democratic party,Democratic senators and congressmen,Obama’s cabinet,unions,M.S.N.B.C.Congressional black caucus,etc.
Now aren’t these people going to be surprised when Mommy’s frig is empty, and
so are the store shelves. And this insult after having to walk five mules because there is no gas. Oh and forget about that dream honeymoon in Europe that dad paid for, there is no way to get there. The schools where you pick up all your “worldly” ideas will be freezing this winter, also no toilets or sinks since the pipes have frozen. Hope you have lots of candles, because the lights are going out, and so is your heat at home. Forget about cooking indoors because there won’t be any gas or electricity. But you got rid of those BAD CORPORATIONS!!!!!
Sounds like a good deal to me!
Cracker; I’m so amazed at your one sentence comments could you please explain why you feel so close to the “OWS”? I’m really interested, I’d like to understand.
came across this site, apparently the basij’s are supporting them to further illustrate Iran’s attempt to win attention from occupy protesters. it’s a fancy site, and lots of content. obviously state backed.
http://www.wsfall.com/
Wow, my list of pending new entrants to research and add is now hundreds of names long. Thanks everyone!
I’m back now, surveying all comments, and adding them to my pile.
As I suspected, this list as it currently stands is just the beginning — it will take me many many days and even weeks to keep adding to it and making it more comprehensive.
But I will try my darnedest to keep updating it. Maybe I’ll “relaunch” the comprehensive version later this month!
Great list – great job as usual, Zombie.
Might want to check the Facebook connection – I’ve clicked on “recommend” several times, but when I try to post it to Facebook it disappears (and doesn’t show up on my Facebook page). Would love to share this with my friends.
I have no idea how those Facebook things work. Maybe send an email to the PJM webmaster?
I just copied the link in the URL and sent link in a email to my trusted friends.
Aaaah the sweet sweet stench of desperation.
Nah…that’s probably just your pits. Might want to quit hanging with the hippies and criminals at the Occupy rallies.
Oh, this has made me so sad. You folks are very afraid, aren’t you? How much fear do you have in your heads that makes you like this? Some of those on your list have also “supported” the Tea Party, I hope you know, like the American Nazi Party. And David Duke? Gosh, to rebuke Duke. What has the Right come to.
You guys take care and take some aspirin. Your pointy little heads must hurt an awful lot these days.
And seek help. There are qualified doctors out there that can help you. But you have to ask for it first.
Bless you all!
The main thing I’m afraid of is that OWS will fade away before it completes its mission of destroying the left.
This comment makes this site garbage imo.
Independent media ftw.
“Gosh, to rebuke Duke. What has the Right come to.”
Correct me if I’m wrong…and I don’t think that I am, but: wasn’t Duke KICKED OUT of the GOP?
Why yes, I believe he was.
Dumbass.
My advice for you Occweenies is to just keep on doing what you’re doing. Let America see you all for what you really are.
Oh, and if you get a chance, when you come up with a list of what you guys stand for, and what you believe in–let us know. M’kay?
Laughingmonkey demonstrates the willingness of the left to swallow whatever swill their mindmasters give them. The American Nazi Party never supported the Tea Party.
http://www.americannaziparty.com/news/archives.php?report_date=2011-03-05
They very much dislike the Tea Party and with good reason.
Again, Ron Paul is NOT a supporter; kindly correct the error.
@ Air Force Vet, you gave four years of your life so idiots (like many of those listed) could protest greed; likewise, your sacrifice ensures that many knee-jerking narrow-minded right-wing sociopaths (including many of whom lauded the list), could also exercise their right to bash morons.
Neither side is satisfied until blood is finally spilled. Pitiful.
Thank you for your service, Air Force Vet.
Eat dookie, Zombie.
Wha….?
Ron Paul is not on the list. So, there is no error.
A Paulbot calling OTHERS fanatics? Pot, meet kettle.
Official Occupy list CREATED by the Tea Party…hmmm. Doens’t sound TOO fishy! Don’t forget to list the veteran organizations and all the branches of the military that are supporting OUR MOVEMENT too. I guess they are all bad, evil groups as well. Who are the Republicans, Democrats you Tea Partiers supported by? Your Tea Party gets SOME positive press, where is the Occupy’s positive press?
Dear Jeanne:
Don’t be afraid to add groups for which you can provide corroborating evidence. You might take a look at post 39 for example, where these nasty right-wing capitalists listed John Boehner and Eric Cantor. Does that mean anything to you? If you have no idea who they are — which seems likely from what I’ve seen of the gatherings — take your corporate I-Pad over to corporate Starbucks and corporate Google them. Then come tell me about bias again.
And I trust you do recognize that the groups on the list are there by there own words. Be as proud as the Nazis are; don’t lash out at those giving them free publicity. Isn’t that the main purpose of the movement, to raise awareness? Help the Zombie out. Where else are you going to get this much run for nothing?
“Useful Idiocy” is a choice.
Opinion page at Aljazeera all in! No official endorsement but not doesn’t take much reading to confirm they fully support the movement.
http://aljazeera.com/Services/Search/?q=occupy%20wall%20street
Nazis, commies and islamofascists… everyone who’s hated us for the past century, could that be a clue?
Splinter group formed in 2006 from Students for a Democrat Society (SDS)
Movement for a Democratic Society (socialist-marxist)
http://movementforademocraticsociety.org/
Great idea and great post, BUT: not to be a nit picker, however an organization that offers its professional services to OWS doesn’t necessarily mean that they support OWS. For example, if a hospital says they will treat anyone from OWS who has medical needs, does that constitute “support” for OWS? Not necessarily.
Likewise, if an individual says, “Well, OWS has a right to assemble,” are they to be counted as supporters or advocates of OWS aims? Not necessarily.
The list is great, but I would hate to see it fail to distinguish those who ardently support the aims of OWS — SEIU, Pelosi, Biden, Obama would qualify — and someone who merely spoke in favor of their right to assemble. The list gains more credibility and power if it is not cluttered with those holding a more ambiguous position.
Thanks! This is the best laugh I’ve had all day!
WHAT, WAIT HOLD ON. CUT THAT ZOMBIE DUDE SOME SLACK-ITS A ONE MAN SHOW-
AAH MR. ZOMBIE WHEN YOU HAVE TIME WILL YOU CONSIDER PUTTING JOY BEHAR ON THE LIST? ALONG WITH JANE FONDA AND ROSIE O’DONNEL AND POSSIBLY JESSICA RABBIT (ALTHOUGH THE JURY IS STILL OUT ON JESSICA!)
THANKS, OLD “6″ GUY
Soros
ACLU of Ohio
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=282954938392102
If you go their FB main page You can see the support there.
this is “official” ?
Well, since OWS attempts to avoid all criticism by insisting that they haven’t yet come up with anything “official” yet, I decided to step up where they have abdicated responsibility.
Do you really think it’s not obvious how you decided who to include in this list???
Do you really think it’s not obvious how OWS decides to NOT MENTION certain endorsements on their lists?
I think this list was made to make the occupation look bad. That is why so much information was “left out”. I have seen this 4 other times, so I doubt it is original. Some people love to plagiarize the internetz. Sorry if it was just them plagiarizing you. Oh, well. Here it goes:
If you base your beliefs on who shares them with you, and what else they believe, you should learn how to think for yourself.
As the old Chinese or Arabic proverb goes, “The enemy of the enemy is my friend.”
I also liked how Malcolm X said, ” And in my opinion, the young generation of whites, blacks, browns, whatever else there is, you’re living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution, a time when there’s got to be a change. People in power have misused it, and now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built, and the only way it’s going to be built—is with extreme methods. And I, for one, will join in with anyone—I don’t care what color you are—as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth.”
Remember, we are also endorsed by the founding fathers, Ghandi, MLK, Fred Shuttlesworth, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and many, many more.
The truth is that the tea party should endorse occupy wallstreet instead of ridiculing them. They could teach them a few things about property rights and subjective value instead of oozing all over the fox news smear campaign.
Yes, I heard you were also endorsed by Galileo, Michelangelo, Jesus, Einstein, The Bobsy Twins, Moses, Mister Magoo, Charlemagne, The Wright Brothers, Crispus Attucks, Alan Turing, Erasmus Darwin, Quetzalcoatl, The King of Siam and Bozo the Clown.
Hey, they claim the votes of the dead. Well, they *are* leftists, and they do have a Chicago pol in the White House…
You missed Mohammmad. And Mozart. Oh, and Jack the Ripper.
The occupiers make themselves look bad and the truth makes them look bad. This list is linked and you can follow up for yourself.
Look at the source material given by Zombie, those links he gave aren’t the only one’s backing up the support of those groups, but are one of a few. So, why discount the support this group is getting when facts back it up?
So.. um.. “The enemy of the enemy is my friend”, right?
Just to point out the painfully obvious flaw in that statement: That makes you friends with Nazis, communists, and racists.
Doesn’t it get to you, that by the time you’ve compiled a complete list it will actually BE alist of 99% of the American (and the WORLD) population? Maybe you should move to MARS!
Doesn’t it get to you that you have to lay down with communists, anarchists, street bums, madmen, corrupt unions and ignorant indoctrinated college kids to endorse a buffoonish protest that has no goals and no viable (or even stated) solutions, just so you can maintain your precious status as being in opposition to the Tea Party and its values? Maybe you should move back in with us in REALITY.
My question to those types, Zombie, is this : They feel guilty about living in the US, they feel guilty about being white, they want to tear down the nation and make everybody live in squalor in order to “make it up to the rest of the world”, but who do they think is going to take THEM in once they’ve torn the US apart? They seem to think the rest of the world will somehow love them and take them in anywhere they want to go as part of a new “borderless open society”. That they’ll all be free to hop off to The Benelux, Japan, Canada, or Sweden.
They don’t seem to realize that none of those entities are going to let them in.
Succinct and well put!
Really? How many of us do you think are wealthy? I make median American family income. And I bet a lot of these supporters will turns out to be quite wealthy.
Rapper Boots Riley of “The Coup” is quoted as an organizer of Occupy Oakland. Here you can see him perform ’5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO’ at Occupy Oakland protest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR2AjuEznko&feature=youtube_gdata_player
And here, ABC News quotes him-
http://abcnews.go.com/US/t/story/occupy-oakland-city-prepping-general-strike-14854851
He’s a genius….
Justin Timberlake and Olivia Wilde were gushing about the occupiers the other day. They tried to tie it together with a movie they just did.
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
“Politics makes strange bedfellows” – Charles Dudley Warner
As for misery- only the spoiled and inexperienced, those who have never had to face a challenge in their life would call our current situation “misery”.
Pete Blome, Chair, Libertarian Party of Okaloosa County
Maybe he’s changed his tune in the last few weeks, but here are a couple of excerpts from a letter to the editor in the Northwest Florida Daily News, 11 Oct (http://www.nwfdailynews.com/opinion/know-44348-letter-movement.html):
“There are a few nuts in the OWS crowd, but from what I hear, “Occupy Wall Street” is about bringing the fraudsters to justice.”
“It’s about the rule of law. It’s about the libertarian soul of America.”
In evangelical Christianity, this list and what one sees on TV – the mindlessness, the hatred, the zombielike groupthink drones (no offense Zombie)and how this all is really backed and supported by the ruling class – we have a name for it – the Anti-Christ system.
Bravo, Zombie! You brought perspective to this mess. Ditto to all the comment writers who also contributed. THIS IS A KEEPER. I find it depressing, of course, that so many fellow travelers exist. What, in your opinion, do they amount to in a percentage of the vote in 2012?
Someone (me, you?) should make a Wikipedia-page on this; “Supporters of OWS”. Also: this again shows how the so called “right-wing” as the MSM love to call Nazis and similar, really are nothing but LEFT-WINGERS! This should of course be obvious with a name like National-SOCIALISM, with it’s collectivist and anti-capitalist ideology but since we have let the Left dictate the media too long, this is not the case. So let’s make a Wikipedia-page on “Supporters of OWS” and we have like “exhibit nr 9415″ that Nazism is a leftist ideology.
nicedeb has has quite a few links which might interest you with this post Adbusters, Soros $$$ and The Confused Kids of #OWS
I see from one of the links that Bill Clinton thinks that “They’re creating a “Good Positive Debate”.
Are any of these supporters paying the city of New York the millions of dollars this protest has cost the city of New York in damages and police overtime? I have heard that figure has exceeded 5 million dollars? Just sayin…
liberalism = criminalism
liberalism poses a clear and present danger to the security of the United States of America.
The unions are saturated with Communists and they have one objective and that is to bring this country to it`s knees. These dumb people are being USED and maybe some know this, maybe some do not.
WHAT HAPPEN TO “HONEST GOVERNMENT……………FOR THE PEOPLE?” WORKING TOGETHER/BUT NOT PAYING ALL ILLEGALS BILLS????????????? WHERE IS GOOD OLD COMMON SENSE?????
You’re also leaving out Lech Walesa. Try telling him he is a commie stooge. Or the Vatican for that matter.
Wrong! Lech Walesa found out about the leftist underpinnings of the OWS movement and decided not to go. Does the “Occupy” Movement Speak for You?
Don’t think I’ve seen this one: Brookfield Office Properties, the owners of Zuccotti Park in Manhattan where the OWS protesters are camping out.Mayor Bloomberg can’t kick them out until he receives a complaint from the owners.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/10/28/ny-seizes-generators-from-occupy-wall-street/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxbusiness%2Fmarkets+%28Internal+-+Markets+-+Text%29
Brookfield Office Properties’ website: http://brookfieldofficeproperties.com/
(a couple of interesting board members)
The “usual suspects” are good to know but I would be more interested in legitimate, profit-making corporations. They’re the ones w/the behind-the-scenes clout. As part of the investor class(anyone w/a 401k, a pension plan, &/or direct stockholder) I would like to know how these corporations are investing w/my money.
I believe I named 1 in a prior posting: Brookfield Office Properties.
There is a website (occupybanner.wordpress.com) that allows you to put a banner on your site that states “I support the OCCUPY MOVEMENT”. The site states:
“What is the Occupy Everywhere movement? Occupy Wall Street/Occupy Everywhere is an ongoing series of demonstrations that began in New York City and have spread to major cities across the United States. These are peaceful protests against social and economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of corporate money and lobbyists on government.”
Along with instructions on how to integrate the banner onto your website.
So, if you integrate the banner on your site, the banner will automatically ‘link back’ to the website ‘occupybanner.wordpress.com’.
Yahoo allows you to pull a list of ALL the sites that link back to the Occupybanner website. Here it is:
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oG7zRBA7BOesYA9Rval8kF?p=occupybanner.wordpress.com%2F&fr=sfp&bwm=i
This list is not exhaustive, as some sites may link/reference the occupybanner website merely to share the news (not directly placing a banner on their website, but sharing it with their readership).
But to validate, all you have to do is click the link to visit the site, and if the banner is visible, the reference to support OWS is complete.
Thought I would share.
Why do you put communists, Nazis, Kamenei, Obama and North Korea at the top of the list?
I my Eyes it is quite obvious, that your aim is to discredit the claims of the Occupy movement.
NOT to provide people with serious information.
The Money system, as we know it to to day, is creating War, poverty and pollution.
You dont have to be a Nazi, communist or Ilamist to realize that.
Please ad me to the list! I am a part of the 99%!
.. Your list is a piece of Crap made by a Zombie (?) in order to manipulate puplic opinion.
Jakob Engelstoft Sweden.
That was quite obvious from the start!
Nowhere in the list do I see the U.S. Military and the police:
https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=8&gs_id=v&xhr=t&q=Occupy+Army,+Marines,+Air+Force,+Navy,+Police,+provide+OWS+Escort&tok=TZm_v5rp5Qpx1vrz985nog&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=occupy+a&aq=0p&aqi=p-p2g2&aql=f&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=81daeae0cefe2a66&biw=1366&bih=646
http://www.occupypolice.org/
Why shouldn’t Zombie put them at the top?
Are you ashamed?
You should be.
Duh. This is a largely conservative website, nitwit.
NO ACORN?
Please don’t forget to include Frances Piven, Stephen Lerner, Richard Trumka, Van Jones, Medea Benjamin (Code Pink), al-Sharp Ton and many Wall Street financiers.
Please add the AFGE to the list…. The American Federation of Government Employees to the list.. Their support is on their websight by their president JOHN Cage in a letter to the members dated 7 Oct 2011… Contact Tim Kauffman
202-639-6405/202-374-6491
kaufft@afge.org
ADD ME TO THE LIST!!! I’ve been RAPED by the companies that I’ve worked for for decades- worked HARD for for an average of 10 hour days and often 12-14 hours, once even 26 hours (at Lucent Technologies). I manage IT departments and have saved companies enourmous amounts of $ and fought hard to implement technologies that those compaies now love and are essential to their competative edge. Yes, I’ve been 6 figures for years now, but I also see how things are at the top- I’ve worked directly for (with) the C-Suite in four companies that have gone BIG, and it’s SICK at the top. These people are criminal in the way they skim off the workers back and take credit and money for the workers who bear the brunt of the weight of the companies. It’s sick, an it’s getting worse. It’s pure greed and selfishness, and it is destroying this nation- curruption run rampant. THAT- is what OWS is trying to stop. Keep being a Zombie or keep trying to keep OWS from keeping your reed in check if you are one of those greedies. And keep this list going, it’s no surprise to me that there is such a diverse crowd of groups involved and it’s growing, so many people have been and are being screwed. All those reading this who have seen this sick curruption and/or have been affected by it, SIGN UP TO OWS HERE- say that you agree with me. In the end, Zombie may have to buy new servers to keep up with the size of this list. Pass it on! Hopefully, Zombie, you’ll see the light too. Hopefully, you won’t delete this post.
So Joel,, are you part of the 1%,, 99% or when you figure out how you really have the American Dream and you are the 53%.. Then give it to OWS…Go out there an tell them how pitiful you have had it making 6 figures for years… You sound like michael moore saying he is not in the 1%… he says he is in the 99%.. It sounds like you have worked as hard as I have and I never made it into the 6 figures a year!! I did end up in the 53% and proud of it!!!
I’m at $112/yr and have been at the very start of three companies who have gone big- The system in these companies is temporarily hire staff to build “their” money making machines and then downsize continously so that none of the those “workers” building the machine can reap the full rewards of the machine. They slash them. And if you want to have a peice of the rewards, you can ask them, but they might put you on their list of layoffs (get rid of those who want what they help to build). Or if you are lucky enough to have huge sums of $ to buy into the company, you might have a chance- but how do you get large sums of $ when you have a family and house to support, you slave your life away. If you ask to be compensated for the sale of the company that you helped build- you are marginalized, or lied to. I’ve seen it, over and over and over- THE GAME IS RIGGED, you’re either playing it or being played. Can you honestly tell me that those at the top are giving fairly to the workers of the company? HELL NO YOU CANT- Why would they? They are going to take everything they can get from you, and if they can’t get it off your back, they’ll find a Zombie robot who’ll foolishly slave for them. It’s going to get worse, and the cause is not the people at OWS, it’s the people at the top, and it’s the politicians in bed with them.
Joel – Since you have a great deal of capital, you can start your own business. As it is your own business, you will have every opportunity to pay your employees whatever you like, so as to prevent you taking advantage of them.
Best of luck in your new endeavour.
Thank you Josh. The problems, I don’t have a great deal of capital, it was mostly all lost in the market crash, which was largely due to lobbyists in bed with DC. And that is a major part of what OWS is about.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-K-Street-Lobbyists/230303940367925?sk=info
I may own my own business some day, and I may use a model of a democratic company. I’ve seen a very successful company that did this in the move “Capitalism: A Love Story”. An eye opener movie.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Six figure salary per year – in IT from your comments – and your keyboarding and spelling skills are no better than your post demonstrates? And you saved “enormous amounts of $”? Hmmm… Maybe you should stick with the OWS crowd. I can assure you that if your professional skills are no better than you’ve proven with your post then you’d soon be unemployed by the company I work for.
NuknFuts,
That’s correct, I’ve worked on computers the majority of my life and rely on spell check. Was there a word you couldn’t understand because my spelling was that bad? I’m typing fast and not going for perfection here on this blog. I don’t believe that I saif I saved enourmous amounts of $, maybe reread what I did say. And actually, I lost enourmous amounts of $ in the stock market crash that happened due to the greed and curroption that I’m standing up to along with OWS. I’m not sure why you’re not standing up too for a more just system. You should be, give it some thought.
You seem to love generalizing, Joel.
“These people are criminal” – who “these” particularly?
You know names? One? Ten? Hundred? All?
Do you have a proof of some criminal activity?
Have you ever heard about “presumption of innocence”?
And if you do have such a proof, why didn’t you present it to authorities to stop a crime?
It seems that you preferred to keep collecting your 6-figure wages instead. Don’t you think it’s hypocritical?
“THAT- is what OWS is trying to stop,” you have pathetically exclaimed.
Are you sure? Is this that “THAT” that Frances Piven, Van Jones, Stephen Lerner, Richard Trumka, susan sarandon, michael moore, barrack obama were denoting and indicating when they spoke barracking the OWS movement?
I’ve got a completely different impression about what the OWS wants.
Their signs, slogans, mumbling and blabbering indicate that they either have no clue what they want or they want a revolution.
A revolution against what? A revolution for establishing what?
All this crap vividly reminds me how my own country was destroyed in 1917 by illiterate hordes led by a handful of International Socialist bastards.
The same happened in 1933 in Germany where hordes of illiterate and hopeless crowds led by National Socialist bastards have destroyed their country.
To me who lived under Commies 50 years, it’s such a pity to see how Americans want to destroy the once great country.
In a worst nightmare couldn’t I foresee that I escaped from one Commie country only to find myself in another one.
http://www.examiner.com/liberal-in-orlando/rich-tax-cuts-capital-gains-ronald-reagan-and-the-destruction-of-america
You are brainwashed.
Raymond,
Robert Sobel whom you’re referring to (Raymond
http://www.examiner.com/liberal-in-orlando/rich-tax-cuts-capital-gains-ronald-reagan-and-the-destruction-of-america), seems to have had F- in math in his school.
Hopefully, you have a chance to prove you’re better in math: try to calculate how big will the revenue be if you completely rip off the top 1%.
If after such a brain extorting exercise you’ll repeat the same mantra “By increasing the tax rates on the highest earners, including the capital gains rate, the United States will have the revenue to truly get back on track,” I’ll give up and suggest you to go to, say, Zimbabwe for elementary study: who knows, may be they have a better education over there…
Speak out! Tell your story. Tell the people what it is REALLY like living under communism. We need your voice.
Stolichnaya (funny nickname, btw.; why not in Russian?),
my story requires a lot of dedicated space and an appropriate time.
And my experience says that American interest lasts no longer than 2-3 posts: Americans don’t like when somebody points out their own weaknesses.
I have actually been reading for almost an hour, every post that has something to say. And I agree, your story will be well worth the space. I will read every word.
“Criminal” as it’s defined by law doesn’t apply to those at the top of companies who skim off the backs of the workers- That is the problem. Yes, I do have names, several of them in the companies I’ve worked for. The problem is, that if I give their names out they pull their recommendations for me. “These people”, at the top of the 4 big companies I’ve worked for, sold the companies and they took the $ and ran- and that is the game. You start out as empoyee # 20, the company grows to 2,000, and in the end the “Owners” (They own the workers) run off with the money that the workers slaved for. The workers are then eiher laid off by the new owners or they stay on- left with no steak in the co. because who are they supposed to reap the benifits from now- the previous owners have ran off with $ that the worker should have had a part of. That is the game- it’s a band of theives at the top, buying up and spitting out companies (people), sucking up the benifits of the workers and getting off scott free. I was #20 in a company that grew to 2,000 in 6 years, I was given bullshit carrot stick stock options and in the end the company was sold for 786 million dollars. How much was my stock really worth by then? $800. They had dilluted it. This is how the vast majority of companies work, and it fucking sick, and the companies are just the tip of the ice berg- look at the God Damned banks!! That’s a whole other rant. And people like you can so easily just say- Ohhh, it’s just a group of lazy hippy commy ignorant slop. Is that what I spent $150K on college to come out and hear after working my ass off for decades on top of that only to have the fruits of my labor go to to some theif at every compnay I’ve worked for? Who the fuck do you think you are? And you say that I am generalizing? LOOK AT ME YOU MOTHER FUCKER – I AM PISSED AS HELL AND FOR GOOD GOD DAMN REASON – I’VE WORKED HARD MY WHOLE LIFE AND HAVE BEEN FUCKED OVER TIME AND TIME AGAIN AND YOU HAVE THE IGNORANT GALL TO DENOUCE MY PROTEST?!? WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!?!?! BACK OFF THIS PROTEST AND THIS OWS MOVEMENT AND LET IT BE WHAT IT IS!!! It’s message will become clearer and it is for the good of at least 90%, if not 99%, because it will scare back the very people who helped crashed the economy and who rape the workers. The C-Suite needs to stop stealing the sweat of people- That is my part of the OWA message, and come hell or high water, I will get it across, no matter how much you aim to smear me. What you really don’t get is that unless you plan to unfairly compensate your staff (if you have one), then you are shooting yourself in the foot by trying to smear those who are standing up for your rights- whether they are “lazy” hippies, commies, white panthers, black panthers, or some guy named Joel Codey.
Joel,
let me break my answer in separate sections.
Section 1. It’s impossible not to admire how skilfully you reveal your college education by using stinky ribaldry.
Section 2. It’s very hard not to admire your ability to ask a question and immediately give an answer to yourself. For instance:
“Who the fuck do you think you are?,” you asked.
And immediately answered to yourself: “look at me YOU MOTHER FUCKER.”
I assume that you had A+ in logic in your college classes.
Section 3, with reference to everything else you wrote:
Your outrage with regard to some greedy CEOs may be very well grounded.
But your attitude towards the ways and goals of solving our real problems reveals your very much stinky Bolshevik inclination, which, to me, disqualifies you as a problem solver.
P.S. In my former country, individuals who insulted little known interlocutors with such dirty words, put themselves in a great danger of being beaten in their muzzle by those whom they insulted. But in the perverted American society, the insulted person may be penalized for his normal masculine response. I assume that you would call police…
Constantine,
It’s very easy and common to quickly dismiss someone who uses foul language when expressing their deep dissatisfaction, I was quite aware of this when I wrote it and I expected your response. My apologies for any offense taken. However, to not acknowlodge someones greivences and deep frustrations because of their language is to miss the level of emotion and expression itself. Emotion is valid, and should not always be repressed. Without it a key element of the human condition, and my condition, is lost. World you curse if you lost $100K of hard earned $ in the stock market that you worked years for, especially if it happened due to extreme greed and curroption? This is why I stand tall with OWS, as should you, their goal especailly if not distintly include ending that greed and curroption. What do you think, take a shot at the heart of it – dare to stand up for ending lobbying via monetary contributions?… https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-K-Street-Lobbyists/230303940367925?sk=info
I was #20 in a company that grew to 2,000 in 6 years, I was given bullshit carrot stick stock options and in the end the company was sold for 786 million dollars. How much was my stock really worth by then? $800. They had dilluted it.
Those numbers suggest that you never bothered to exercise your options until the company sold. The normal process by which stocks are diluted is through stock splits, but if you don’t exercise the options you miss the almost exponential growth those splits can provide. I’ve never worked in your industry, but my stepson has for almost a quarter century and my conversations with him suggest that stock purchase programs, which when done in the format of a 401K usually include substantial corporate matching funds, are nearly ubiquitous. This suggests to me that you either chose the few enterprises that don’t offer these perks or deliberately chose not get on your corporation’s bandwagon. Moreover, having been stung once you seem to have chosen to repeat the same pattern over again, twice. Maybe your employers were taking advantage of you, but from what you’ve offered so far, it seems you were probably repeatedly failing to take advantage of your opportunities.
djaces,
My stock options never got above $2,000 and the dillution happened before I had a chance to sell sooner. We were outright cheated. I can only say trust me on this.
I still don’t understand why people on this blog here don’t see the greed and curroption and how OWS is the closest thing we’ve seen yet to ending it. I don’t see another movement coming along and seizing the moment like this one. This is it. With the good, the bad, and the ugly, but this is it. It may not be pretty now, but do expect beautiful people with flowers in their hair to show up and be the face of it? People are angry, this is what you get, and so far there hasn’t violence to rival the kinds of things we’ve seen at say, the end of superbowl series. This is it, and unless you are a millionaire you should stand with them to help curb the greed. Already it’s working with Bank of America making concesions. This is it bro, help it out, see the curroption, and stand up to it.
Um, let’s see “F**cked over time and again” but making 6 figures? So I guess what you are saying is you are pissed because you are NOT in the 1%? So you have to punish those that built the companies that you made 6 figures working for? You know there are lots of opportunities in the food service industry where you won’t have to work for those slimy people….
Joel,
I agree with you & I know plenty of people in your situation like my husband. Anarchy, which the OWS protesters want ultimately, will not solve the problem. It’s a problem that permeates throughout society. It’s about me & what I can get out of it. It has nothing to do w/the common good & everything to do w/power.
What might help a little is to prosecute &B jail obvious law-breaking persons like those residing in many corporate rooms & government offices. Show the people that everyone is responsible for their own actions & must pay the price if it’s illegal.
Jeannie,
Anarchy is no govenrment, and the right is closer to wanting that than the left is. Anarchy is not what OWS wants, it’s wants exactly whay you are advocating- justice. Who doesn’t want justice to happen? Criminals. Who are the criminals? They know who they are, and they have the money to show for it, LOTS of it, billions if not trillions, are planting people and picking out isolated events at the protests so that they can quickly deamonize it so that they won’t have to be held accountable. The message of OWS- if it’s allowed to crystalize before being ruined by thoughtless sites like this, is your message, it’s a message that we want fairness and justice. I’m on the verge of burning out yet again from working too hard, and now from seeing another merger about to happen at my current company… I can’t take this much longer, I am a knowledagble skillfull and really (toot toot) a wonderful man, but i have my limits, and if I have to see much more of this injustice and be lied to and cheated by the company “owners” I will no longer be the man who I’ve strived to be. OWS is already having an affect on Bank of America, see the news today. There is more to come. Please realize that this movement is on your side, and your husband’s side. That is, unless it’s allowed to be deamonized. See the good in it, be the good in it, and it will be what you want it to be. There is movement, REAL CHANGE (not the bama fake change), but real change by the people FOR the people is starting to happen, and it’s happening with the good, the bad, and the ugly (hippies
), but it is happening and it is starting and this is the train- no matter how it’s starting out… this is it. Help to steer my dear.
@Jeaninne- This is your second call for more accountability and transparency. I think you may be one of the 99% supporters but not the ones selectively placed on this list. many commentors have even noted that they are “the usual suspects”. This list is Reductio ad Hitlerum. It is classic wedge politics, designed to create camps of “us” and “them”, to play off those who have done or are doing well by the system against those protesters who are said not to be. But this tactic fails in the face of a movement that defies facile categorisation.
jc, you speak for me and for millions of other STEM workers, but I don’t really think the OWS guys speak for us. maybe they speak, in part, for those even worse off than us, can’t even get into the field, even with bachelors and advanced degrees. but mostly they are too goofy to represent any ideas at all.
where I do identify with the OWS crowd is when they villify wall street, which is where they do agree with the tea party – but while both sides agree on the problem, there is no agreement on the solution.
be careful whose bandwagon you jump on, they’re not all headed in the same direction.
I have over 30 years’ experience in IT, and have recently updated my skills. However, there are no jobs for older Americans in much of anything, least of all in IT. That’s why I’m working in retail. Yes, I’m a good retail salesperson, just as I was a good IT worker, even though it doesn’t pay enough to live on at the moment.
Forgiveness is just fine in our personal lives, but it does not apply in the voting booth. No politician (and that would include both Obama and Romney) who helped to outsource US jobs will ever get my vote, and that’s that. If it comes down to a choice between those two, we will emigrate.
Do the Occubaggers represent us? Not just no, but HELL NO!
Does this not represent your views… What do you think, take a shot at the heart of it – dare to stand up for ending lobbying via monetary contributions?… https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-K-Street-Lobbyists/230303940367925?sk=info
You don’t believe in free speech. Anyone or any company, which is just a collection of individuals, has a right to petition the government or to speak out on matters that affect them.
If you want to end the cozy relationship that some companies have with government the surest way to do that is to cut government power by 80 or 90%. But how would banning lobbying have made a difference in your retirement savings? You seem very confused.
Joel,
I practically know you. So you worked for for decades for the likes of Lucent. Were you with AT&T before divestiture? I joined after that and saw a lot of self-important people, such as you, who, although making salaries that would be the envy of anyone else in America had an obnoxious sense of entitlement.
Tell me, were you paid for your work? If it was so bad for “decades” why didn’t you just quit? Since you are obviously smarter than any one your worked for it should have been easy for you to start your own company, perhaps a cell phone provider or undersea cable business or IT sub-contractor and clean up. But you did not do that.
Mow you expect us to empathize with your anger at being privileged all those years?
I too swam with those same fishes in corporate America and saw disappointing management practices and some stupidity resulting in AT&T and Lucent stock plummeting. But, unlike you, I take responsibility for my own outcome.
Joel, You made 6 figures and complaining about it. You’ve got a lot of nerve, seems to me you got paid for what you were doing. It is called free enterprise and that my friend is what the now goverment is trying to kill with all the regulation going on. I raised 3 kids on $80. a week and lived good, today that won’t even buy groceries, let alone rent and utilities. The Unions are killing us, they protect the deadbeats that want to get paid but not work and the ones that do work have to support them. Never would I pay someone in order to have a job. They are the reason we no longer have the steel mills here in the USA and have to put up with the crap steel from china or japan. Yes I left them without a capital on purpose. Most of those people in the occupy movements are just there like the hippies in the 60′s not even knowing why just there. You need to stop blaming corporate for your malcontent in life and get one.
Excellent work, Zombie!!!
Thanks to The Blaze for linking to you.
I’m very disappointed to see the substantially different classifications of “Supporters, Sponsors, Sympathizers” all lumped into a single listing. A sponsor is something, at least in my vernacular, completely different and a whole “other” level of commitment than a “Supporter” or “Sympathizer”. While to support or sympathize can be the “in” thing to do, it’s a completely different level when $$ are provided via a true sponsorship. I would be VERY interested in a “reveal” of who is financially backing and providing a professional level of organizing, thus paying someone on behalf/for the benefit of, the OWS movement and I think the public deserves to know this as well! The claims of “grassroots” and contrasts (often derogatory) regarding the Tea Party’s protests cannot be believed without proof.
So what many of you are saying is that you want corporations to bribe our ELECTED officials to do whatever the corporations want them to do, whether it be to allow them to get away with spilling toxins in our rivers, lakes and air or to cut taxes for millonairs and raise them on the workers? Or to allow toxic mortages, or even to add cancer causing poison to our food?
The ability for corporations to buy candidates and then make them do their bidding- NOT THE PEOPLE’S BIDDING, must end if we are to have a healthy nation for all.
You seem to have forgotten a few people:
The Decepticons
Skeletor
Sauron
The Cenobites
Cobra Command
Satan
C’thulu
But I’m sure you’ll eventually add those around the same time you’ll eventually add all of the organizations that don’t cast the protest in a poor light right?
Can you list the radio and or TV stations that are supporting OWL?
Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn [Weather Underground] Releases “Official, Collective Statement Of” Occupy Wall St. Protesters. http://storyballoon.org/blog/2011/10/06/bill-ayers-collective-statement-zuccotti-park-occupy-wall-street/
Looking forward to updated list/s! You have your work cut out for you and I appreciate what you are doing. Thank you!
List 1%’ers who support ‘em. Celebrities, athletes, professionals and CEO’s. How about the Wall St firms and vendors that are supplying them with food etc? Check their 501c3 for names of contributors. List every politician as well. We need to preserve the entire list for posterity.
You make a deal with the devil and i wont be a deal for you.
After reviewing the list of supporters, The only pattern I see is diversity.
also planning for Rose Bowel Parade;
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/41865
Nicely done. Let me state an obvious here. The Occupy movement is NOT about division. It is about the people. Not right wing or left,liberal or conservative. Those who support the movement do so on their own accord for their own personal reasons and objectives and are part of the people as a whole without discrimination or judgement. We do not all carry the exact same beliefs and not in complete agreement on every level. We come from different walks of life each of us. But we do come together as one in this movement.Your attempt is to cause division, to categorize and attempt to dismember. That is NOT what we are about. You are correct.
There was a saying attributed to a former White House staffer that went liek this, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” I suspect it was a take off from the Communist rule, “Never let a good protest go to waste.”
And, it looks like that is the case here. These were going to be protests that would get a lot of media, so they showed up to be seen and get their message across.
From what I saw, the presence of thse organized groups appeared as the movement was well into operation. Even if they were there on the first day, most of were not amoung the first rally attendees.
So I suspect they realized the opportunity for exposure and grabbed it. Kinda like the guy that is always in every photo taken at the company picnic.
From interviews of participants it looked more like a cross section of left, midddle and right; each with a view of their own.
Like all socialist organizatrions they will infiltrate or even crash the scene so they get their face in the photo.
They may claim to have been a sponsor, but was there any money involved? Just what was their support, above saying they support the rally’s intent? The support message of Ron Paul was mistaken, so howmany of the others were as well?
I personally think the rallies were not the filthy rich or the politicians who makeup the 1%. They were the fed up Americans who no longer want to be lied to, overregulated, suffering from runaway inflation, told what they must buy, and have the government in their pocket. Their protests are about the very same things as the street protests of 1775 against the English.
The leftists just tried to pirate it into being something they put on. Fertilizer. They didn’t orgamize anything. This began over twi years ago with protests on April 15 wben people said we have beeb Taxed Enough Already and they had a parties in parks all over the nation. Yep, they had TEA parties.
What a choice list of fine upstanding radical, hate groups who preach the overthrow of the USA. And people wonder why we’re going to hell in a handbasket???? REALLY?
Ah, yes, the list of endorsements. To say that this is a biased list, would be stating the obvious. To say it is VERY incomplete, is also obvious. Please let me know when you’ve cataloged a list that includes EVERYONE that supports OWS. – oh, wait, you’d have to list the entire 99% – stop wasting your time.
Ah yes, because everyone knows that if you claim to represent 99% of the people, then you actually do. Just say it, and it becomes true! Simple as that!
Found this on Riddit last night…
During the time of the Middle East revolutions, the citizens and protesters called for help from the US, and we did, along with NATO. These people were in distress and being hurt and policed outside the law.
It has come to my attention that our US citizens are being detained, beaten, shot at, hospitalized, women being thrown to the ground. Peaceful protesters walking on the sidewalk being tear-gassed and pepper sprayed.
It is time for us to call for help, we must ask another nation or ally to stand in solidarity with us. An outside group must save us from our tyrannical authoritarian government, we have the Constitutional law to stand up against our government, to protest our rights, to free speech. Yet, we are not allowed this for some reason?
Europe, or someone, please save us. We are being walked over and our leaders are not leading us the way they should. Clearly we want change, we want different leaders.
The Egyptian people wanted it, and got it. We helped. Now, someone must help us.
~They really are idiots!~ They are slowly starting to try and justify their need for violence.
Tides Foundation (funded by Soros)
http://blog.tides.org/2011/10/12/why-we-support-the-occupywallstreet-movement/
Tides Foundation funds OWS Journal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT_IPn2QIlM
Id Strongly suggest you link to original source, and ALSO arcive it locally , as “sensitive” links will get scrubbed…
No black helos here, just the facts!
Joel,
You sound like a pretty sharp guy. If you work so hard and are so talented, start your own company and give your salary away to your employees. Everyone talks about being screwed, your only screwed if you’re a victim at heart. You’re value is proven by what you do with what you are given. I wish I had time to protest this nanny state we call a government, but I have to g back to work so all these good people can still receive their entitlement checks. I have to go back to work now to do my part.
Peace.
Occupy Wall St. And Allies Rally & March United for Civil Rights
Posted Oct. 27, 2011, 8:46 p.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
( http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-wall-st-and-allies-rally-march-united-civil/)
In a demonstration of the *broadening base* of the Occupy Wall Street / 99% movement, a rally will be held this coming Saturday, October 29 at City Hall Park in New York City, **co-sponsored** by:
Coalition Black Trade Unionists (CBTU)
A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI)
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA
National Action Network (NAN)
NY State and NYC City Chapters of the NAACP
Speakers at the Rally already include:
Terrence Melvin of Coalition of Black Trade Unionists(CBTU)
Sonia Ivany of Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)
Pres. Sid Ryan of Ontario Federation of Labor
Anthony Harmon of A. Philip Randolph Institute(APRI)
Chris Provost [I believe they mean --Cory Provost --VH]- Chair of Univ Student Senate, City University of New York (CUNY)
Members of Transit Workers Union Local 100
SEIU Local 1199
I saw a item on alternet.com appealing to people to make donations to support the OWS people, providing food, other necessities. I was under the impression that the alternet people were the prime supporters of OWS.
Sean Penn – who would have guessed?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/videos/2011/10/15/sean-penn-i-applaud-occupy-wall-street.html
Please do not forget Francis Fox Piven, Bill Ayres, Van Jones, Steven Lerner,Seiu, Working Families Party, AFL Trumska, Andy Stern, Adbusters, Soros, Tides, Moveon Org., Center for American Progress, United Federation of Teachers, Code Pink, Hezbollah,… http://www.theblaze.com/stories/video-exposing-occupy-wall-street-was-organized-from-day-one-by-seiu-acorn-front-the-working-family-party-and-how-they-all-tie-to-the-obama-administration-dnc-democratic-socialists-of-america/
Do not forget the Patchouli Manufacturers. All those international corporations. – - http://www.alibaba.com/manufacturers/patchouli-perfume-manufacturer.html
They make millions by making the fragrance, so you know that sales have to be way up, as Patchouli is the bathing product used by the camping hippie,
BTW – It was comical to see the adoration Michael Moore recieved when, in Portland on his self proclaimed ‘Book Tour’ – I saw him speak, lauding the size, scope and passion of the anti-corporate group, he said was the largest in America, then to immeditely sign the books he sold there.
(If he makes any profits from the sales of his books or movies, doesn’t that make him, what is it called, a capitalist?)
note to Zombie, and everyone else. As you find these live links, by all means send them in here for evaluation. But first IMMEDIATELY PRINT to file and save A FULL PDF COPY of the entire webpage. So many of these links and pages that are considered “incriminating” by these organizations are being suddenly and completely scrubbed from their sites, as they are “outed” to the rest of the world. Then when necessary, Zombie may need to set up a source page where these scrubbed links can be seen in their PDF versions. Just a thought.
The nerve of these organizations, and the nerve of any poster who is garnering support for “Occupy”. What I am seeing is the usual tactic of the left to LIE and DECEIVE people into joining their perverse motley group.
Peaceful? Isn’t it obvious that the OWS is anything but peaceful? Their goal is to overthrow Capitalism, and they will do so if they have to LIE through their teeth, if they have to DECEIVE anyone into the false belief of their ideologies.
The fact that the Liberal Left resorts to LYING, DECEIVING, and SLANDERING as part of their “business-as-usual” techniques, I will never side with such an evil group.
And of course, I forgot Elizabeth Warren…!
I can’t wait until it snows really deep. Freeeze em.
The planned goes well start something big over here and no ones watches what we are doing over there. This is our Goverment at its best can’t balance a budget can’t discuss business to correct the problems we have. Do you know how many excutive orders have been signed since this occupation started. (Behind closed doors of coarse) Do you care?
History 101. Put 50% of the people aganist the other 50% and you have division. Be it class or wealth. Divided We Fall and they gain the power over us. (History old school) nothing new look it up. It happened before in Germany. And that went well. Right.
Both sides have opinions some good some not so good, but we all need to put it aside and focus on the real problems. We need to focus on the gutless polititions and Whitehouse Admins. who put us here. (Republicains and Democrates alike Along with the big businesses/Unions.
Keep your eyes on those who profit the most from using you.
Keep the peace and we might have a chance, don’t and you will see what real Marshall Law looks like. (Part of the transparent Plan of Change.) Note: Read Obama’s own words in his books. Then look though your own eyes and see what we all should be protesting against as one united group. Remember No Elections, No Rights. Socialism. Do your homework find one country this works. Good Luck.. Find your purpose use your thoughts not theres read between the lines. I think you will find we all want some of the same things. I wish you all luck and PRAY daily.
God Bless the USA…….
WOT? No mention of George Soros? Does that mean he has washed his soft, well-manicured but neverthless dirty hands of all this anti-rich-people business? Or is he hiding behind some organization so as not to be exposed as being behind this group of racist Weirdos? I know for a fact that he was behind the infamous pro-palestinian/anti-Israel New Israel Fund whose aim is to topple Netanyahu and his ‘rightwing’ party and replace it with its radical Leftwing stooges. Someone paid for the many hundreds of new, posh, colorful tents, 90% of which remained unoccupied throughout the rebellion period in Tel Aviv and elsewhere. The organizers are a band of spoilt-brat kids of rich Leftwing elitist families. their slogan is the well-worn one calling for ‘social justice’ which really means setting up a communist-type government. At least, so far, there has been no violence during several large demonstration, apart from vicious verbal attacks on PM Netanyahu and his government.
A list of the all to familiar chaos causers who want to destroy our country.
Good job with this list. Recently I have been reading of the small businesses adversely affected by the various OWS groups. Just saw where one at the OWS site laid off 25 people. Additionally, there are costs to cities aka non occupying taxpayers. Is there a list or compilation anywhere of the personal and public economic damage these irresponsible, self indulgent people are causing?
Obama, Biden and Pelosi must be thrilled to be in such company. Isn’t it funny how all the “bad people” manage to find each other?
What does “awaiting moderation” mean?
It means I’ve been busy with non-blog work issues for the last 18 hours and haven’t had time to “approve” any of the 300+ comments that came in unexpectedly in the interim. I only have very limited time for blogging, and often the aftermath of making a quickie post like this can take days of effort. I’m doing my best to catch up at the moment during a spare half hour. Once I “approve” each comment, they finally appear on the thread. Comments on the Tatler are generally auto-approved; comments on the rest of PJM usually require moderation. The editors sometimes do it, but sometimes they are busy as well, and it is up to the individual authors.
I’ve read several articles connecting Soros and his money to OWS. Just including one link. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=47009
The writer of that article probably is factually correct on George Soros, tho he seems to have a biased concern with ‘antisemitism’, which in the end I believe is a ‘false-flag sheild’. George Soros also contributes to that landromat for other Foundations already mentioned here the TIDES Foundation (and not to forget the TIDES Center). Just looking over the board members, one of the first names that stuck out at me was Joanie Bronfman (yes, of THAT wealthy Bronfman family who have been supporters and members of the Zionist Org). Soros is just one of the ‘left’ pinch hitters, as are other very wealthy members of the same cabal for the ‘right’. Here is the link to TIDES grantees with Adbuster on the list (I didn’t peruse any of the others): http://www.tides.org/utility/search/?cx=003949354664956518032%3A9pat6u0jfgw&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=Adbusters&sa=Search#1088
TIDES has contributed to ADBUSTER which is given the claim for calling out for the Days of Rage leading to a movement of people under the Occupy name. Kalle Lasn, the main guy for Adbusters as already mentioned is openly ‘antisemtic’ according to the usual accusation when the J-word is mentioned. How odd he should be funded by TIDES with Jewish sponsorship monies. He is clearly Anarcho-leftist and is affiliated with a similar character having prepared the ground for the Occupy Wall St. Movement a week to two week before if officially began: David Graeber (also Jewish btw) http://chronicle.com/article/Intellectual-Roots-of-Wall/129428
This reply isn’t all meant for you Loral. Just presented the opportunity to provide more info. I’ve been following OccupyLA and indeed the usual anarcho-leftists, Marxist/Communists, Unionists and lukewarm socialists are floating about. A Jim Rafferty from the National Lawyers Guild (which has rightly been identified as a Communsit front) was offering legal advice. I checked out some of his law partners and they are all socialists–one having ran as a Communist in an election–another an Arab mixing Socialism with Muslim/Palestinian causes (having had some legal conflict as well). One Union member (Mario Brito) offering his services and representing himself to the media as a spokesman (against the wishes of the participating members of the movement) is a Communist.
Many members of the Occupy movement members want to be inclusive, so that any of these ideologues and special-interest groups as individual can participate as individuals in their ‘leaderless’ stance. Some of these ad hoc participants have mostly middle to slightly leftist leanings, with some others being sensitive to ‘race’ and any notions of ‘antisemtism’, which one by mistake posted a blog claiming to expose infiltrators revealed ‘Antifa’ involvement as self-appointed guardians of the Occupy movement. Antifa are of course anarchist Trotskyites who proclaim to fight Fascims (and racism), but aren’t attacking REAL Fascists, just anyone who doesn’t share their views and are known to be violence prone, as well as ‘anonymous’.
Here is the blogsite one of the OccupyLA web-contributors posted to (claiming not to know who Antifa were): http://ladylibertyslamp.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/infiltrators-of-the-occupy-movement/ You will note the blog admin. ‘Thelibertylamp’ identifies himself as ‘Antifa’ in the comments section and the blogroll confirms the character of this blogster even more. Antifa is international in scope, composed of many umbrella groups and all work in anonymity online, as well when carrying out violent destructive acts…so I am left suspicious about the ‘We are ANONYMOUS’ meme playing a role behind the Occupy movment.
I am not going to knock down everyone in the movement, because most of them are probably activist idealists who want to do something about the corruption, the corporatism and many even understand overall the Bankster racket (The Fed. Reserve) is above it all. My concern is that too many of them are naive, in spite of their righteous complaints in whom, exactly how and what they can do about it, other than just chipping here and there at the structure. They are aware of infiltration by diehard ideologues and special interest groups, as well as possible ‘provocateurs’ from authorities representing the establishment they have set themselves to ‘Occupy’. They seem to be trying hard to remain individualist and ‘leaderless’ in spite of differences that can be found in any gathering of people. My fear is they will get used in some way that could be harmful not only to them, but to society at-large (the rest of the 99% as the have it). It’s bizzarre really that they should have somehow arrived at this tactic of forming and expressing themselves. It’s not going to work (I can’t imagine how), except in a direction the naive among them wouldn’t want.
In my view, this is the 1% brewing things up as a cover to lead their own opposition using mostly naive well-meaning concerned and righteously upset people fed up with the clearly failing system of political, financial and economic structure as it has become. I’m pissed too and I know where the linch-pin of the racket, the rigged system lay (and LIES!).
For decades we have allowed our govt to change education full of left wing multicultural, socialist, & class-war propaganda creating a huge demographic of indoctrinated citizens that believe capitalism is evil. Until culture & morality are no longer controlled through debt by a controlling elite we cant stop history from repeating itself. Capitalism has been undermined since the creation of the Federal Reserve so it has not shielded us from this control through debt. To help save America, instead of assisting in her demise this huge demographic needs a quick & easy way to understand including a historical perspective of what is actually happening. In this link is what I think every OWS protester & American with their head buried in the sand needs to understand to begin to wake themselves up, you agree? https://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=294421993905616&topic=669
I got where you are coming from Jeff. I overwhelming agree!
SEIU is in.
http://campaigns.dailykos.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=46
“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”
Van Jones.. “Take Back the American Dream Movement”. See tape of October conference. Jones states his support of OCWS. He suggests progressive, liberals use the Party model to come together under the principle of rebuilding the “American Dream”, as he defines it. Near the end of the tape about 30 progressive group/organization leaders declare their memberships (some in the millions) support for “Rebuild the Dream”. AFLCIO, AFGE, SEIU, Moveon.org, NGL Task Force, People for the American Way, Sierra Club, Energy Action Corp,League of Young Voters, Democracy for America, Opportunity Agenda, Jobs for Justice, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Hip-Hop Caucus, etc. etc. Watch the tape.
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2011/10/03/watch-live-van-jones-american-dream-conference-in-washington-d-c/
Blockbusters is one the bottom banner on Occupy stream
Clinique and Papa Johns has ads on it.
It’s past Halloween, you can take off that ridiculous tin-foil hat anytime now.
You left out some high profile OWS supporters on your list…Count Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, Adolf Hitler, Benedict Arnold, Pontius Pilate and Emperor Nero were left out, how come?
In case you missed it, there is no need to invent losers that support OWS. Plenty of real ones have already presented themselves as evidenced by this growing list.
Have a nice day.
Nowhere in the list do I see the U.S. Military and the police:
https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=8&gs_id=v&xhr=t&q=Occupy+Army,+Marines,+Air+Force,+Navy,+Police,+provide+OWS+Escort&tok=TZm_v5rp5Qpx1vrz985nog&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=occupy+a&aq=0p&aqi=p-p2g2&aql=f&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=81daeae0cefe2a66&biw=1366&bih=646
http://www.occupypolice.org/
I suggest a reading of the CPUSA’s new constitution as it appeared in the Center Magazine, September-October, 1970, “Constitution for a United Republics of America: A model for discussion, Version xxxvii” (1970)(updated in 2010) and a comparison of the Communist Manifesto, the Humanist Manifesto, and our current environment. In 2008, the CPUSA opened a new national office in Manhattan, NY. One of the comments made during the accolades of praise regarding the growth of the Party and their youth movement was: “The Party should be optimistic because we now have a Marxist headed for the White House.”
A side note: The CPUSA and the CPGB have been working together for about 10 years (or more) to bring about the downfall of both continents.
A GUARANTEE: We are on the down slope of a 20 year economic cycle. The people who PUT Obama in office are doing their best to take advantage of this cycle. Therefore, THEY WILL NOT STAND IDLY BY AND WATCH THEIR AGENDA BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE. Although I have no concrete proof, my research indicates a very strong possibility that a SHADOW GOVERNMENT exists in Chicago, IL.
I would like to know where the $500,000 in donations came from and who took tax deductions for them, as I understand the IRS ruled that they are deductible. I was falsely accused by the same IRS of tax fraud on totally bogus charges that I lied about charitable contributions and 529 savings which I used for grandchild’s college tuition.
I’m pretty certain Fidel Castro has voiced his support….I would also be interested in the % of OWS protestors who actually have full time jobs.
Harry Reid
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/harry-reid-occupy-wall-street-the-1-percent_n_1069452.html
http://ufcwblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/ufcw-international-stands-with-occupy.html
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread769776/pg1 (video, longshoremen)
http://www.ilaunion.org/news_occupy_wall_street.html (longshoremen union statement)
I tried six times to cut and paste this article and send it to family and friends and it would not do so. When I cut out the body of the message and tried again, it would send. When I tried with another article, same size, it would send. Each of the six times I tried to send this article, I could not do so.
Just wondering!
Home addresses please. So we know where to go when the street fighting breaks out.
Al Gore belongs on the list.
http://blog.algore.com/2011/10/thoughts_on_occupy_wall_street.html
“For the past several weeks I have watched and read news about the Occupy Wall Street protests with both interest and admiration.”
I’m shocked Francis Fox Piven is not on top of this List. She made a speech at one event in New York but she should be included since this movement is based on her life’s work as Revolutionary. TheBlaze.com had a video of it if hasn’t been scrub from the internet. Open Society gives money to so many left-wing organizations it would hard to find which ones or even if Open Society would give funds to a 3rd party that would dirct funds in support OWS. Soros would have the money to support the printing of the Occupy Wall Street Journal newspaper that’s a huge expense by someone & Open Socity would pay that cost if Soros ordered it to.
She’ll be added when I get some time to update the list.
I plan to relaunch this list in a couple weeks, vastly improved, incorporating as many suggestions as possible from both sides of the aisle.
You people are misguided, the list above that Mr. Zombie provided is
1.) Filled with lies(some are not actually supporters of the movement)
2.) Why the heck would White supremacists support OWS, White racists and supremacists are overwhelmingly republican, Mr. Zombie is probably confusing OWS with the Tea “Racist” Party.
3.) Many of the guys on the list are FRINGE elements of the left and their beliefs are actually opposed to what the 99% are trying to achieve.
4.) First of all why is such a hot chick like Alexis Garcia with a conservative website like this? she is hispanic and we all know that the Republicans hate the Latino folks.
Also, she is real hot and Conservative women are usually, I mean ALWAYS ugly.
Alexis please stop being a republican, a hot chick like you should be a democrat, do you have a boyfriend?
Was there honestly any point to your post? It is easy to say some one lied…try proving it.
“the list above that Mr. Zombie provided is”
1.) Every item in the list has a source link, apparently in your haste and deluded denial you missed that.
2.) Provide one documented act of racism by real tea party activists. Take your time. Meanwhile feel free check out this blog and Kevin Jackson who still has not found a racist at a tea party since he started looking.
http://theblacksphere.net/dont-treat-boyeeee/
Then please check out Herman Cain, Rep. Allan West and Allan Keyes. Think for yourself for a change.
3.) You meant the 0.99% right? I have yet to see a real live OWS person. So far the only ones I have seen been in pictures and on Camera. Zero seem to be around in my day to day activities. If they were the 99% then I would have been running into them every day multiple times a day. Of course this is not happening… So much for the 99%.
4.) I know some Hispanic republicans that would beg to differ with your baseless accusation here. Best you keep that bit to yourself when you run into them next…
So, let me get this straight… the black panthers, various white power groups, socialists, communists, nazis, david duke, north korea, and Iranian theocrats ALL support OWS? Funny… that would be about the only thing all those groups would be agreeing on. In fact its such a scattershot list that it defies credulity.
Here is the International Longshore and Warehouse Union or ILWU. There local 21 has been violently protesting the hiring of another union in Longview WA. Their national president Robert McEllrath was arrested for trespassing and blocking a train.
http://www.ilwu.org/?p=3140
Articles about the situation:
http://tdn.com/special-section/grain_terminal/?oCampaign=hottopics
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable of leading are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or to succeed are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
Finally, a way to describe Obama and his voters
Ineptocracy – a new word and its definition describing what has happened in the US !
Great find.
Are there no conservatives or independents that acknowledge the
#OWS folks might have real (but unarticulated) issues?
Everybody has real but unarticulated issues. The key is the articulation.
I could stand on a street corner with a sign that says “No on Yes,” and you could legitimately say that I have “real but unarticulated issues.”
Until they’re articulated, the OWS positions are beyond criticism — and that’s the whole point. I don’t play that game. I know full well that the absence of articulation is conscious, so as to dodge any analysis.
George Soros should round out the remaining 1%… and that is everybody… right?
Francis Fox Piven is a huge supporter, she even spoke at one of the rallies.
Might be better to make a list that contains people not in support of the 99%, that is what 99% means right, almost everyone?
Post owned. Close thread.
Just because a smattering of useful idiots CLAIM to represent 99% of humanity doesn’t mean they DO represent 99% of humanity. Since the number of protesters in fact equals about .01% of the population, and the MSM polls showing 30%+ positive responses are incredibly flawed and designed to skew that way, it’s much more likely that the percentage of support is far, far, far below 99% or even 9.9%. And most of those 9.9% are, as others have noted, “the usual suspects.”
Comment owned, thread continues.
More like closer to 0.99% imop.
Simply put,just because you say 99%, does not mean 100% of the 99% approve of the representation. So please do not claim to represent people who would rather not be represented by you.
IBEW Local 199
http://www.ibew199.org/
I believe this guy is a big supporter, too.
http://themorningspew.com/2011/11/01/occupy-breaking-bad/
I don’t understand the border guard support , all the others however are supporters I would expect to see on any list of those wanting to destroy the United States of America . Anyone truthfully educated about America and her history versus the history of marxists , communists , nazi , socialists , and the other failed societal experiments would understand that there has never been anything better than we have here , capitalism and all . Let me take this opportunity to thank every failed educator, ( That is Apparently all of them in the country ), for our incredibly ignorant youth .
Great article. Thanks. Suggest you spell out full name for CAIR.
did I miss George Soros?
Hey all you brain dead Zombies: wouldn’t it be easier to just prepare the, “short list,” of those few remaining organizations that don’t support the Occupiers – - you know, the remaining 1%?
Love this site; it provides an emotional outlet for Fire Wire’s Zombies when they run out; or, forget to take their Meds.
Again, as i said before. Just because you squawk 99% like all the other parrots, does not mean that 99% are part of, or support, OWS. Please do not claim to represent people who do not want you to represent them. Of this “99%” you claim to represent, I’m sure a majority of them would think you are an idiot.
http://progressivetoo.com/2011/10/09/seiu-pledges-support-for-occupy-wichita/
…And Ron Paul.
And your source link says it all…
Washington Education Association – http://www.washingtonea.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3011:supporting-the-99-percent-&catid=180
I copied this from the US Border Guards website: “Occupy Phoenix”
On October 15th, 2011, the U.S. Border Guard deployed an urban combat trained security squad to the Occupy Phoenix rally today as armed peace keepers and legal observers. Border Rangers who patrol the border took a non-political stance to defend peaceful assembly and free speech of all citizens by exercising our right to keep and bear arms. Phoenix Police units were on scene also keeping the peace. Our founding fathers and founding mothers knew full well that the 2nd Amendment is what protects all our other amendments from tyranny. The U.S.B.G. protected the rights of all parties involved.
Is it fair to call them supporters?
Not in my opinion. It would be fair to say they were supporting their 1st amendment rights though. Your text said it clearly “a non-political stance to defend peaceful assembly and free speech of all citizens”.
The Tea Party is also tainted with blood money from the Kochs. Does that mean all of its proposals are invalid?
The Tea Party makes no effort to hide its goals, ask anyone of them and you will get one or more of the following:
Taxed Enough Already
Less Spending
Balance the Budget
Smaller Government
Adherence to the Constitution
So if the Koch Brothers want to spend their money on those issues I fail to see the problem?
I am a little disappointed with this blog. I see no list of detractors of the movement. And many of these “endorsements” seem at least to me people and organizations that are overall simply against America in some way, shape, or form and are using these demonstrations as a way to point and laugh at us. These “endorsements” do not seem to reflect the idea that these organizations are behind the demonstrations. It is similar to a “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” type of approach. These organizations are simply piggy backing off of a legitimate movement, and this blog is giving them more legitimacy than they deserve.
Knowing who support the 99% is less important than…
Knowing who the 99% supports…
Just because a group supports them doesn’t mean they support that group.
It is a literal and logical fallacy to assume otherwise.
The Border Patrol should be left out. They are there the same as the police. Because they support the right to protest does not mean that they agree with the protestors.
Police forces of any type may be ordered to do crowd control, no matter whether or not they sympathize with the crowd, whenever there is a crowd assembling for any reason within their bailiwick.
Police show up at Tea Party events too. They know by now that we aren’t going to attack the police or anybody else, but outsiders could appear on the scene and cause trouble or commit various crimes. I expect that some of the police sympathize with us and others don’t. It isn’t my business to ask them while they’re in uniform, nor is it their business to tell me.
They’re not Customs and Border Protection, the government agency. They’re a neo-nazi group. It’s true that they do talk about taking a non-political position there, but if you listen to what they say, and read what they write, it’s clear that they’re supporters (eg. they want their 2nd amendment to add teeth to OWS’s 1st Amendment because OWS protect against tyranny). If they’d been at a Tea Party, they’d be MSNBC’s constant face of the movement.
Thanks for pointing all that out. Sheesh, I thought it was obvious.
This is the first I hear of this so I for one appreciated the explanation.
Did any of these groups support the Tea Party? Surely there was some unwelcome support, but I’d be curious to know if it could match the level of “isolated examples.”
Reductio ad Hitlerum
“This technique is used to persuade a target audience to disapprove of an action or idea by suggesting that the idea is popular with groups hated, feared, or held in contempt by the target audience. Thus if a group that supports a certain policy is led to believe that undesirable, subversive, or contemptible people support the same policy, then the members of the group may decide to change their original position. This is a form of bad logic, where a is said to include X, and b is said to include X, therefore, a = b.”
Ross, Sheryl Tuttle (Spring 2002). “Understanding Propaganda: The Epistemic Merit Model and Its Application to Art”. Journal of Aesthetic Education 36 (1). http://www.jstor.org/stable/3333623. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
I just copied and pasted this from the US Border Guard’s website: “OCCUPY WALL STREET”PROTESTS
“Occupy Phoenix”
On October 15th, 2011, the U.S. Border Guard deployed an urban combat trained security squad to the Occupy Phoenix rally today as armed peace keepers and legal observers. Border Rangers who patrol the border took a non-political stance to defend peaceful assembly and free speech of all citizens by exercising our right to keep and bear arms. Phoenix Police units were on scene also keeping the peace. Our founding fathers and founding mothers knew full well that the 2nd Amendment is what protects all our other amendments from tyranny. The U.S.B.G. protected the rights of all parties involved.
Is it really fair to list them as supporters?
Folks, just face it J. McCarthy had it right! Too bad America didn’t have the stomach for “it”! This goes to show you that when given an inch a mile is taken! OWS is communism on display pure and simple! Commie’s save your breath, I’ll not be back here!
That’s nice. Apparently I can only post things if it supports the views of this site.
With a slogan like: “Voices from a free America”, who would have thought there would be heavy moderation against dissenting viewpoints?
Keep up the good work. Seems like there’s some similarities between here and some of the people and groups on the list as well.
Sorry, your comment along with 300 others had to wait in a Loooonggggg moderate queue today while I was at work. I’m approving them all now, including yours. Sorry for the wait.
There is no policy against dissenting opinions, as you can clearly see from this thread. Just a blogger too busy to moderation frequently.
Pay no heed to these misanthropes. We are afflicted with a generation of children of indulgent parents; the only entity capable of bringing down even the most magnificent civilization.
God bless you, Zomb. You do the Lord’s work.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer article today listing sponsers.
http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2011/11/occupy_movement_accepts_modest.html
I can only wonder: who is happier tonight? Jonah Goldberg or David Horowitz?
Perhaps Mark Steyn can help us in our determination.
Those who have eyes, see. Those who have ears, hear.
It was stated (#113) that you should create a Wikipedia page. I think that that’s a bad idea – no one ‘controls’ those pages. Leftists could really mess up the whole page.
I find that I have missed something. Zombie RULES.
100 years from now, noone will know, but I do.
Thanks.
Our Catholic newspaper here in Louisville, Kentucky is suggesting that Occupy Wall Street and the Church are in agreement about the economy. The article cites “a Vatican official,” but I will be at least one person dissenting. This is troubling, to say the least.
http://erecord.archlou.org/WebProject.asp?CodeId=7.5.6.2&BookCode=
K Elaine, This is troubling for real Catholics and deserves an explanation. First, the PCJP did publish a document about the current state of the economy that correctly addresses the ills that are afflicting the world’s economies and the need for reform. Really, no one in his right mind could say that the state of the world economy is not in need of serious analysis and reform. But we should realize that this is NOT a Magisterial document and the PCJP is a low-level Vatican bureaucracy — two distinctions that will be entirely lost on the anti-Catholic media but will be used to slam the Church as somehow a front for socialism. But the document is very problematic with some frightening prescriptions for reform.
Second, it completely ignores the wonderful Catholic principle of subsidiarity, and it strangely omits any mention of the only real way of achieving some measure of justice and peace in a fallen world — through the Mystical Body of Christ on earth — His Church. So, it seems that the document is right about what is wrong, but it’s wrong about the solutions. My hope is that the Vatican will clarify things with an official Magisterial document that includes true Catholic principles and true Catholic solutions involving Grace and Sacraments. Remember that nothing said in the PCJP document is doctrine, and since it does not address the subjects of faith or morals, Catholics are not at all obligated to agree with or follow any such “teachings” (in contrast to the foundational social teachings of the Church, the defense of Life and Family, which Catholics certainly ARE obligated to follow). Let’s hope the higher-ups rescind the PCJP document. And let’s pray that the Church purges itself of the progressive, modernist poison that has infiltrated it since the 1920s — much like America.
Sounds just like a left wingy, liberal mob. Read Ann Coulter’s book.. “Demonic”
You forgot to include Bob Robinson in your list of OWS supporters.
I am not a communist, socialist (A Fox No News Handle)or any other Nazi type of anarchist but a lover of real democracy not democracy by Multi National Corporations who are now controlling all the so called “FREE MARKET ECONOMIES”
The Congress of the United States and the United States Senate have in most cases surrendered their ethics and morals to the Rush Limbaughs, Eric Cantors and Mitch McConnels, and John “Boners” of this unregulated capitalist society.
Many of our young people born in the 60′s 70′s and 80′s have fallen in bondage
to the Reaganomics lies. Ronald Reagan should have been tried for treason for
his complicity with the government of IRAN making a deal with them before he
took office to not release the hostage until J. Carter was out of office.
Then Reagan gave away the store.
Millions of American Voters have fallen to the brainwashing of the right and the
Tea Partiers, who were far more violent than anything happening in the nation wide fight of young Americans demanding change.
Hannity, Oreilly, Van Susteren, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor all speak with forkded tongues and have sold out their congressional favors to the Mega Corporations like, Bank American, JP Morgan Chase, Verizon and the biggest thieves in the world running the power death squads is Goldman Sachs and their
racketeers like Corzine.
For heaven’s sake be careful who you are supporting. Although I agree with much of what you are saying, I can’t possibly throw my money in with the scoundrels listed here. I would in essence be agreeing and supporting their cause.
What a huge list of unproven claims. Is your belief system grounded in reality in the least little bit?
OWS is, from what I can tell, a group of collectivists of many stripes. That explains why the communists and the Nazis support them.
Since you say you are a big supporter of democracy, aka mob rule, I must assume you, too, are a collectivist. So it is no surprise that you would support OWS. The US is not a democracy but was founded as a republic that protects individual rights and where we are each free to pursue happiness whether that means being an artist or a tycoon. That bothers you I guess. Somehow you think you would be better off in a country that was run by an iron-fisted mob. I have some relocation suggestions for you to consider.
Your article is irrelevant. Perhaps these entities do support OWS — it does not indicate that OWS supports them.
Mod parent +1 / Insightful.
Where’s the Like button?
Did you notice the most vile Marxist/progressive/America-hating stooge who supports OWS fervently? Need I remind you that Barack Obama wholly and gleefully endorses OWS and all its other supporters, (Iran, communists and socialists and white supremicists) AND gave in to at least one of OWS’s demands: forgiving the debt of their student loans. Never in fifty years have I witnessed a communist in the White House. Perhaps we should use OWS’s tactics on the West Wing during daylight hours.Tea Partiers storming the White house so Obama can see the anger and disgust in our eyes…
Being a minority, I have never see so much racism lately except that coming from the left. Some of it is blatant, by some of it they hide under that very thin veneer of what they call tolerance. They just cannot seem to hide it.
Did you already forget the most vile Marxist/progressive/America-hating stooge who supports OWS fervently? Need I remind you that Barack Obama wholly and gleefully endorses OWS and all its other supporters, AND gave in to at least one of OWS’s demands: forgiving the debt of their student loans. Never in fifty years have I witnessed a communist in the White House. Perhaps we should use OWS’s tactics on the West Wing during daylight hours. Storm the White House and let Obama see the anger and disgust in our eyes…
Obama not only endorses it, he and his minions planned and orchestrated it with the full knowledge that eventually it would escalate into violent confrontations with police and conservatives who have had enough of these childish tantrums. Then there will be a contrived national emergency which will require a suspension of elections and “Presto” a dictator for the foreseeable future. It is all in the marxist plans for revolution.
Clearly the Mayor of Oakland, California who have given city employees the day off (paid?) to support their citywide “strike”, shutdown November 2, 2011. All the police, of course, have to work but their charge is to stand around and watch I think. Oh yes, and be available as a scapegoat should violence break out.
http://loganswarning.com/2011/10/26/nyc-2nd-islamic-organization-to-join-occupy-wall-st-protesters/
Muslim American Society (MAS)
Got these?
Natasha Lennard (NYT)
Richard Cohen (WaPo)
Don’t forget the Vatican man..
And also the Lucis trust, I will find a link
You have Cain ads, I’m noticing some truth websites promoting him a little too much. Why man why? If you stand for truth and freedom why are they supporting and promoting the corruption. Your better off supporting OWS than German Cain.
So what are you, a racist?
After reading most this I really get how stupid most of you are.For those of you that are not stupid great job keeping the stupid ones misinformed and distracted.
Simply saying everyone is stupid only proves that one person is. Mr. Zombie accepts support from both sides, so why don’t you try to support yours, rather than unintelligibly insult others.
A listing of some that maybe already covered in this extensive listing and ommentaries:
George Soros’ Tides Foundation and other links to his “priorities” funding sources
Credo Nation
Democracy for America
PCCC
AFT
Campaign for Americas Future
ChangeNation
NEA
AFSCME (Federal Employees Union)
Nation
Food and Commercial workers Union
Obs: People attending the OWS movement, saying they’re with A TeaParty, should be asked who is their faction’s head organizer…chances are they don’t know the person’s name, city nor state.
These are OWS members posing as Tea Party members merely to validate OWS as a Tea Party sympathetic brotherhood.
Most importantly primaries are upon us. Soon, general elections, too. We The People must mobilize a massive voter turnout because, as this post by Zombie demonstrates, Wisconsin Recall Election was a dress rehearsal while OWS is the “real thing.”
Massive fraud as never before seen in our election cycle has befallen We The People’s Beloved USA. Truly dark forces are fully mobilized to do irreparable harm to Our founding Fathers “experiment.”
Van Jones’ videos more often than not outline his “top down/bottom up and inside out” plan for making the USA a socialist type command economy.
Top down = Mr. Obama, Axelrod and Holder’s DOJ. Axelrod has his fingers on every nefarious action emanating from the White House. Mr. Holders DOJ will file injunctions in every state, county and municipality if he sees an election result is unfavorable to Mr. Obama’s re-election bid.
Bottom up = Zombie has it covered. OWS and its minions led by Trumka and Bill Ayers.
Inside out = a bit more insideous. This is every fellow traveler “mole” in the White House, acting as a government in waiting, once re-election results are in. They, Mr. Cass Sustein, Ms. Sibelius, et al, will flood every area of America’s productive capacity with rules and regulations designed to stifle and choke America’s excellence into submission.
The Plan in action:
1) Mr. Holder’s DOJ will spring into action if election results are unfavorable to Mr. Obama’s re-election bid.
2) National Popular Vote Movement folks have been busy canvassing every State legislature to vote on and approve a “winner-takes-all” legislation. Believe it or not, this favors Mr. Obama in those States having larger Electoral College representation…thus guaranteeing Mr. Obama’s re-election bid. One asks How? Remember SEIU’s fixing voter machines in Nevada’s mid-term election and Harry Reid won? That’s how!
3) And of course busy work by OWS folks. Oh! They already have every social service political organization , operating extra electorally but fully capable of altering an elections outcome with fraudulent registrations, false ID’s and rolls upon rolls of non-existent individuals. All this is already in place and underway. Just ask any illegal alien, they’ll tell you representatives at WICS office asked them to register to vote.
Fraud on a scale as never before seen in Our Beloved USA this election cycle, will be rampant and difficult to 1) identify, 2) contain, and 3)prosecute.
McCarthyism at it finest. Great job! It’s good to see the Black Panthers and the NAZIs finally get along! HYSTERICAL!!!
REI denies any donations were made to OWS and they further state they only support outdoor related causes. I have seen this to be true in my local stores and area.
I would like ‘laura’ to repost the entire email she received from Patagonia on this issue, including the email address of the writer.
FULL text of the email I received from REI is below.
Links…
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/dc-occupiers-convene-plot-stay-winter
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/patagonia-rei-deny-helping-occupiers
Email from REI…
Hello Victor,
Thank you for contacting REI and for giving us the opportunity to provide accurate information regarding the cooperative?s giving efforts. REI has not directly supported the Occupy protests. In fact, REI supports nonprofits dedicated to conserving outdoor places and promoting volunteerism. We do not accept unsolicited requests for donations.
A story in the Washington Examiner (link: http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/dc-occupiers-convene-plot-stay-winter) posted erroneous information on Tuesday, October 25 that REI supported the Occupy protests. REI’s Public Affairs Department spoke several times with the reporter to indicate no REI store has supported the Occupy protests in Washington DC or in other cities across the country. The reporter then posted a new and accurate story on the afternoon of October 25 (link: http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/patagonia-rei-deny-helping-occupiers).
REI is proud of its giving program and works hard to ensure that the dollars we donate are directed towards organizations and projects that are in line with our mission. Due to the extraordinary volume of requests that REI receives and the limitations of our funding, we have been forced to create parameters around our giving program and do not accept individual or unsolicited requests for donations and/or grants. The following are the criteria to be considered for REI grant funding:
REI?s grant process starts with our own employees nominating projects and groups with which they are personally involved. Grant guidelines and applications are sent to nonprofit organizations based strictly on those nominations from our employees. Nonprofit groups must have an established 501(c)(3) status.
REI targets support to nonprofits that have either conservation projects, or programs directly increasing access to and participation in outdoor recreation. Outdoor recreation activities must align with REI?s lines of business ? hiking, camping, cycling, paddling, and/or skiing.
REI does not participate in or fund events, team, or personal sponsorships, auctions, or fundraisers. We are unable to accept unsolicited requests for donations or sponsorships outside of our employee nomination process.
For more information about REI’s giving programs, please visit the following link:
http://www.rei.com/reigives
Again, thanks for the opportunity to connect directly. We welcome you to forward this e-mail to your friends and personal network, should you care to do so.
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You gotta be kiddding right? What a complete waste of my time and energy reading the comments from your “hater” supporters
Apparently you missed the source links. This list is not fabricated and unsupported crap like your comment.
CPUSA/OCCUPY
http://www.corbettreport.com/articles/20080212_moveon_obama.htm
“MoveOn’s nationwide network of more than 1,700,000 online activists is one of the most effective and responsive outlets for democratic participation available today.”–Communist Party, USA, from “Unity and Coalitions”
http://cpusa.org/link/category/21/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104×990534
(NOTICE: how they use the word “solidarity” and this was written in 2004.)
(The very same people who own obama own this protest now.. and are using uneducated college students (nothing new there) … moveon.org is funding it, various CPUSA affiliates are funding it (similar groups like the New Party – obama’s old party), and unions… go check out Van Jone’s American Dream Contract – a rehash of the New Party – all marxist wet dreams – There is a large expose on the American Dream Contract website!)
BARACK OBAMA>JESSE LEE/ NITA CHAUNDRY>MOVEON.ORG/CPUSA
http://moveon.org/press/pr/obamaendorsementrelease.html
Http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/14278
http://biggovernment.com/rebelpundit/2011/10/17/update-communist-marching-with-occupychicago-identified-as-ofa-organizer-for-president-obama/
http://theintelhub.com/2011/10/18/solid-evidence-that-occupy-wall-street-is-a-communist-movement-run-by-socialists-who-wish-to-bring-down-the-free-enterprise-system/
http://www.cpusa.org/
http://www.cpusa.org/solidarity-with-occupy-wall-street/
http://www.thecypresstimes.com/article/News/National_News/CONGRESSMEN_FAIL_TO_INCLUDE_DEMOCRATIC_SOCIALISTS_OF_AMERICA_MEMBERSHIP_IN_THEIR_ELECTION_CAMPAIGNS/32227
http://marxiststudentunion.blogspot.com/2011/10/marxist-student-union-endorses-occupy.html
http://m.facebook.com/CPUSA.Memphis?_rdr
These are the people you are affiliated with. They have their plan within the “plan.” They are not infiltrating the movement, for as James Raines said “there is no infiltration, we have been here since the beginning.”
Stephen Lerner
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/seius-stephen-lerner-invokes-bill-ayers-days-of-rage-to-take-down-wall-street-this-september/
http://wtpotus.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/unions-plan-to-destroy-our-economy-in-may/
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-03-22/news/30073732_1_stock-market-seiu-secret-plan
http://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2011/10/10/breaking-operation-occupywallstreeters-seius-stephen-lerner-leaks-plan-to-terrorize-corporate-executives/
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=352685
1. “Barack Obama?” That’s *President* Barack Obama. Journalists refer to the President as “President (name),” then “Mr./Ms. (name),” and then “name.” You would know that, if you were actually a journalist.
2. Let’s see a list of people/groups/entities who *oppose* OWS. That would be more telling. I support Outback Steakhouse, but do they ever call me? Drop me a line? Nothing.
So now protesting is against the good of the people??? The author of this article is “zombie”, that makes sense as he is clearly braindead. Go back to school and learn about the constitution. Facking moron…
Where do I say that protesting isn’t a good thing? I think it’s great thing. Hope the OWS keeps going — so everyone can see what’s under the surface.
The political supporters need to face impeachment.
Yet another to add to the list, it’s late, and I’ll try to come back with links, but here it is: Lasn, of Adbusters, not only supports Ows, and makes partial claims to causing it. Adbusters is from Vancouver, BC, subscription of 120,000, published bi-monthly, costs ten dollars Canadian -more expensive than GQ, People and I believe Vanity Fair. Lasn pulls in several million a year, not including ads, which, ironically, his magazine has, ads can cost a few thousand. Claims he has 80,000 supporters who are ready to act, the world round. I was suspicious when it first started, given that police and politicos were suddenly allowing people to protest, for great lengths of time, when in the past they’ve simply shut down anything longer than an afternoon. And yeah, the ‘protestors’ are being oddly handled with care, while pissing and shitting all over everything, destroying the Art Gallery lawn, having DJ raves til 4am. The pics are nasty. I’d characterize the citizens not occupying as very patient, but very angry. I’m bookmarking this page.
So what exactly does this list show? That OWS is “run” by every fringe organization possible, or that any fruitloop seeking a little publicity and relevance is attaching their name to the most visible protest movement on the planet?
The same sort of strategy was used against the anti-war movement of the 1970s (They’re communists! Anarchists! Nihilists!). It didn’t make them any less right in protesting an unjust war, fought without good reason, against an indigenous people using munitions and chemical weapons the natives had no resources to make. (Wow! Isn’t that what we went to war against Saddam for? Isn’t that what the Navajo, Cherokee and countless other tribes endured in the Westward Expansion?).
Lists like this are worthless distractions to OWS’ central message:
Our system is beyond broken and long overdue for overhaul.
If that’s too much to consider, feel free to cling to lists like this in order to maintain the status quo until you’re marginalized into total serfdom.
Because as it stands you’re not people anymore. You’re revenue streams, consumers, customers, patrons, shoppers, users, and chumps.
History and your brain do not intersect.
Really?
Citations, proof, or you’re no better than a faux news pundit pulling fictons out of their orifices.
48 hours and nothing? Didn’t eat enough brains yet to formulate anything beyond an ad hominem reply?
Back up your assertion of how my “history and [my] don’t intersect” with facts or admit you’re just riding someone else’s wave for ten minutes of internet fame.
Describe the “overhaul” we are in need of. Do you have a founding document, a blueprint, for this new social contract you seek?
I am saddened to learn that our organization, the Racial Nationalist Party of America (RNPA) did not make your ‘comprehensive’ list.
If you had checked out our website at http://www.rnpaheadquarters.org you would have been made aware that we were one of the earliest supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
What I find hard to believe is that there are some, such as yourself, who are not supportive of this historical effort. As a person who has physicall fought communists in the streets of Buffalo, even battling them in the sanctimonious halls of City Hall, it would be an act of gross misrepresentation to argue that I am somehow supportive of all their aims.
What I believe is that the Status Woe is so corrupt that it must be confronted squarely. The fact that the Left began this movement to confront this corruption is irrelevant, in my opinion. I supported the Tea Party on many ideological fronts, without openly doing so for fear of them being tar brushed by the left. I support the Left on this anti-corruption drive.
IMAO if you redefine lobbying for what it is, bribery, then enforce it as such, you will in effect reduce the amount of corruption in Washington, and elsewhere. But first, you have to draw attention to it. I do not find this unreasonable.
“IMAO if you redefine lobbying for what it is, bribery, then enforce it as such, you will in effect reduce the amount of corruption in Washington, and elsewhere. But first, you have to draw attention to it. I do not find this unreasonable.”
Karl,
Lobbying is protected by the 1st Amendment as free speech. Individuals and collections of individuals, like corporations, have a right to petition the government on matters that affect them. It would be tyranny for interested parties to be silenced when laws that affect them are being debated.
And since government power has grown exponentially in the last century, so has lobbying.
I support them. I am one of the 99.
How about the socialist Workers World Party? Here: http://www.workersworld.net/ and Here: http://www.workers.org/
Is there a way to share this list on Facebook and make it viral?
They do have the right of peaceful assembly, but camping out for days on end on other people’s or public property goes beyond peaceful assembly. Where is it written that they have a right to be squatters and to obstruct the use of the property by other citizens.
Would be interesting to know how many of them are on unemployment.
Zombie:
Here’s a couple more supporters (as per their own websites). In fact, The Center for American progress (George Soros/Podesta) even have a site for educationing students of all ages about the movement and the right way to protest.
http://campusprogress.org/articles/teaching_the_99_percent_a_lesson_in_movements/
http://blog.tides.org/2011/10/12/why-we-support-the-occupywallstreet-movement/
I’d like to know, why are you creating this list? If you manage to identify a whole bunch of extreme supporters of this movement, what purpose does that actually serve? What’s the purpose of the list if it ends up being completely unsurprising and average?
It’s fairly obvious you’re coming at it from a biased angle, not from a neutral point of view – if you want to speak up against it, wouldn’t it be smarter to enlighten people about the actual movement, rather than its controversial endorsements?
Great list and work! Also make sure you add Buddy Roemer, one of the lone GOP supporters:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65526.html#ixzz1aPclt2X8
Add me to the list! Politics does make strange bed-fellows!
i am 99 % and was in occuply l.a. i was hoping susan sarandon would share her famos tuna pie. sadly it looked good but was spoiled and soggy. matt damon brought little tiny meatless balls and a noodle. joy behar contributed some dry chafing buns and fleishmans margerine. now you know why i protest..
And how many of these groups get “donations” from GEORGE SOROS- “the Man Who Broke the Bank of England” in 1992. Center for American Progress, MoveOn.org, America Coming Together. Soros states, “the MAIN OBSTACLE to a stable and just WORLD ORDER is the United States”. Soros donated $23,581,000 dedicated to defeating President Bush. How much will he spend to have HIS AGENDA RE-ELECTED??? new political fundraising group called DEMOCRACY ALLIANCE, which supports progressive causes and the formation of a stronger progressive infrastructure in America. EVERYWHERE he throws his $$$ around, ends up on fire…chaos in the streets & his sight is set on THE USA. In October 2009, Soros founded the Institute for New Economic Thinking-a think tank composed of international economic, business and financial experts, mandated to investigate RADICAL NEW APPROACHES to organizing the international economic and financial system. Regarding the political gridlock in America, Soros said, “Today China has not only a more vigorous economy, but actually a better functioning government than the United States”. Like father, like son- Alexander Soros focusing his philanthropic efforts on “progressive causes that MIGHT NOT HAVE WIDESPREAD SUPPORT”. Alexander serves on the boards of OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATION and Global Witness and led the list of student political donors in the 2010 election cycle. Open Society Institute=Policy Matters Ohio=Apollo Alliance=Center for Economic & Policy Research=UNIONS…Union members who descended on Occupy Wall Street encampments hope to turn young demonstrators into enduring labor allies. In the throngs of unemployed 20-somethings gathered in cities across the U.S., labor leaders see a chance to improve their movement’s image with a generation of future workers who will be crucial to unions’ survival. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204505304577002161777571378.html
HIS HAND IS IN THE COOKIE JAR…keep digging!
What a great grouping for our president to be in.
Nazi impersonator Iott donates to Boehner PAC http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=88&SubSectionID=275&ArticleID=15983&TM=52285.16
Looks like planned murder (parenthood) should be included on this prestigious list: http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/02/planned-parenthood-teams-up-with-occupy-wall-st-movement/
I am looking forward to a complete listing of the unions supporting OWS. I know the IBEW, Teamsters, UAW, NET, TWU, AFSCME, AFT, and other hard-core communist unions are on-board. A full list would be enlightening! An interesting aside would be those unions that ARE NOT. Well, not yet!
Good work on the list, Zombie, I hope you will take it to the company and individual level. I do challenge companies with whom I do business and here’s the reply I received from REI.
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Question to REI: I have heard rumors about REI providing support to the Parasites on Parade movement, more popularly labeled Occupy Wall Street. I am hoping that this is not the case but since I enjoy shopping at REI in Englewood, CO., I wanted to extend the benefit of the doubt to your company. I would appreciate knowing that you do not support these harmful children.
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REI Response
Hello,
Thank you for contacting REI and for giving us the opportunity to provide accurate information regarding the co-ops giving efforts.
We have not directly supported the Occupy protests. In fact, REI supports non-profits dedicated to conserving outdoor places and promoting volunteerism. We do not accept unsolicited requests for donations.
A story in the Washington Examiner (link: http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/dc-occupiers-convene-plot-stay-winter) posted erroneous information on Tuesday, October 25 that REI supported the Occupy protests. REI Public Affairs spoke several times with the reporter to indicate no REI store has supported the Occupy protests in Washington DC or other cities across the country. She posted a new and accurate story yesterday afternoon.
link: http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/patagonia-rei-deny-helping-occupiers
Again, thanks for the opportunity to connect directly. We welcome you to forward this email to your friends and personal network.
Wishing you happy outdoor adventures!
Christopher D.
Online Sales Ops Specialist
http://www.rei.com / http://www.rei-outlet.com
PO Box 1938, Sumner, WA 98390-0800
Phone: 800-426-4840
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AFL-CIO: Richard Trumka.
Responding to a question after his speech at the Brookings institution this morning, Trumka said:
“I think being in the streets and calling attention to issues is sometime the only recourse you have because…you can go to the Hill, and you can talk to a lot of people and see nothing ever happen.
Wall Street is out of control. Calling attention to it and peacefully protesting is very legitimate way of doing it. I’ve done it thousands of times myself and I’ll do it again.”
ALPA: Air Line Pilots Association.
Over 700 hundred Continental and United pilots, joined by additional pilots from other Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) carriers, demonstrate in front of Wall Street on September 27, 2011 in New York City.
TWU: Transport Workers Union.
Transport Workers Union president John Samuelson says his union and the Occupy Wall Street protesters are “singing the same song and fighting the same battle” against economic inequity.
SEIU: Service Employee International Union.
The SEIU (Service Employees International Union) that represents security officers, doormen, porters, maintenance, aides, window cleaners and food service workers will also be showing their support by joining protesters.
Teamsters Union.
The Teamsters union is now supporting Occupy Wall Street.
NNU: National Nurses United Union.
National Nurses United (NNU), the nation’s largest registered nurses union and professional association, representing 170,000 direct care RNs, stands in support of, and in solidarity with, the ongoing OcuppyWallStreet.org street protests and rallies.
LIUNA: Laborers International Union of North America.
The workers who build America – the half-million men and women of LIUNA – are united behind the fight against corporate tyranny and for economic prosperity for all and stands with the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City and across the United States.
USW: United Steel Workers.
“The United Steelworkers (USW) union stands in solidarity with and strongly supports Occupy Wall Street. The brave men and women, many of them young people without jobs, who have been demonstrating around-the-clock for nearly two weeks in New York city are speaking out for the many in our world. We are fed up with the corporate greed, corruption and arrogance that have inflicted pain on far too many for far too long.
http://hr2012.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/number-of-big-labor-unions-supporting-occupy-wall-street-growing/
Do you enjoy a decent wage and health benefits at your job? Thank a union.
Like your forty hour work week? Before unions it was 58+ with wages that were poverty level.
11.9% of Americans are unionized, the other 88.1% enjoy at least some of the benefits put in place because of the actions of unions and their members in the last century.
If you think that companies would pay you a living wage, grant you vacations, afford you a 401K, or group health insurance if left to their own devices, you are seriously deluded.
“Do you enjoy a decent wage and health benefits at your job? Thank a union.”
The majority of workers have those without a union.
My grandfather was a teamster his whole working life and when he finally retired he discovered he didn’t have much of a pension as the “union” took over management of that back in the 60′s. Punk gangsters who rob their own.
Love America? Kill a union.
From: Harry and the Potters
To:
Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 11:44 PM
Subject: Harry and the Potters at #OccupyBoston tomorrow!
Hey guys!
We are very excited to be performing tomorrow at #OccupyBoston.
We will be performing either at 4pm or 5pm.
We may not have any microphones, so we would seriously LOVE if you came down and helped us sing our wizard anthems. We’ll need all the vocal power we can get. Wizards Represent!!!!
Please ignore the Fox News spin. These protests are not about liberal or conservative values. They’re about the very basic idea that government should serve the people (and not the corporations). It’s about the hope that we can continue to be a “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” In the wake of the Citizens United ruling, this idea, one of the core values of our democracy, is being eroded faster than ever. This protest movement proves that people are engaged and that they care about our country. It is our way to let the politicians know that they are beholden to the people they were elected by rather than the corporations that filled their coffers. We are thrilled to lend our support in a very small way.
Let’s show Wall Street and all those mainstream media outlets that we still give a damn about democracy even if they don’t. Let’s show them wizards and muggles standing in solidarity!
We hope to see you tomorrow at #OccupyBoston.
P.S. Please spread this around. Social media is the one media to which we still have access.
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Thanks!
So let me get this straight… you’re using technology created by Microsoft, Cisco, Apple, Samsung, etc., driving cars made by Ford, Toyota, Honda, eating food bought at Kroger, Safeway, Giant, wearing clothes bought at Anthropologie, Gap, A&F, Anne Taylor, Macy’s, etc., using gasoline obtained and made by Chevron, Exxon, BP. And, finally, these corporations are financially viable and able to do these great things based on our financial system, including Wall Street and the “evil bankers”. And you’re protesting? Wake up, honey, and smell the coffee… Which, by the way, is provided by corporations as well.
As a wise man once said, “The problem with socialism is socialism. The problem with capitalism is capitalists”. And actually damn few of those are problems.
One other suggestion; disband Harry and the Potters and get a job.
National Lawyer’s Guild, founded by George Soros
Still waiting on the Charles Manson statement of support.
There’s some serious WTFage in some of these comments. Do all OWSers drink their own urine?
Zombie,
Good job compiling this list. It’s being posted on other blogs.
In all fairness, credit should go to John Paulus – international blogger. His website was where I first encountered this story, and he made no mention of Zombie, so it is safe to assume that Zombie chose to plagarize from http://www.johnpaulus.com without giving proper credit to the person who did all of the hard work.
If Zombie wants to spread this around, that’s great, but the fair and proper course of action is to credit John Paulus and provide a link so readers can see the original source.
He lifted it from me. I’ve never even heard of John Paulus.
Check the posting dates on the blogs — you’ll see that mine was the very first anywhere, since I wrote it.
Anyone mention Van Jones?
Planned Parenthood supports OWS, please add:
http://www.americanindependent.com/202231/planned-parenthood-to-join-awake-the-state-at-rallies-tomorrow
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/02/planned-parenthood-teams-up-with-occupy-wall-st-movement/
I’ve now posted an update:
Also, I just now noticed that my beautiful formatting had gotten somehow screwed up by WordPress, but was able to restore it — refresh the page to see how nice the list SHOULD have looked all this time.
I was sent a video interview of one of the OWS Protesters that knew of Homeless People being PAID to go to the OWS Site. I posted it on my FaceBook page with a little comment on my own.(www.facebook.com/lugslush) Here is the link to the video http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Fvideo%2Facorn-rebranded-pays-homeless-to-occupy&h=wAQG44HBPAQFxIRnBvHjdpjZzye11be9a1J8Hc68LOJ2feg
I Hope this helps
Hey does anyone have a list of groups that support the Tea Party movement to compare to the OWS groups?
As far as I know Bob there is no easily found comprehensive list for the Tea Party as is drawn up here. I am in no doubt that such a list could be drawn up also. At the top will be the ususal super-rich (and not so rich) doling out their monies through similar tax-free foundations and other means to think tanks and ideologues on that ‘prescribed’ side of the 1% ledger of instruments of control. It is the common dialectical process, of the rich and their ‘prescribed’ politicians, bureaucrats, media and academic figures also. It is what most people don’t get.
The Tea Party, as far as I know , didn’t start out as a controlled movement, but was soon hi-jacked by the money powers with their ‘elect’, mostly Neo-Cons and submerged practically back into the Republican whore party (as no doubt the Occupy movement is being subsumed by the Left-Liberal whores of the Democrat Party. The 1% controls the political, financial and economic discourse at all times. Meanwhile, Big Gov’t gets bigger as Big Corporations get bigger as partners in the process of dis-enfranchising the majority of the population–the latter not seeing the big picture of how they have been and are being betrayed.
Here’s an article that might interest you or anyone with a mind to get out-of-the-box most all have been frog-boiled into adopting as their own ‘correct’ insight etc.: The One Percent: Gigantic Government + Gigantic Corporations= Massive Wealth In America http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-one-percent-gigantic-government-gigantic-corporations-massive-wealth-inequality-in-america
U.S. Military Vet Scott Olsen (who got his skull cracked by Oakland Police) and hundreds of other Military Vets including:
George Weber
Aaron Hinde
Shawn Riley (marine)
Joe Carter (Seargent)
Gary James Johnson
Shamar Thomas (seargent)
http://online.wsj.com/article/APc43a6cf8468b40468d62f26add155afe.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-11-01/occupy-wall-street-veterans/51031852/1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/02/still-fighting-for-their-country-veterans-occupy?newsfeed=true
http://occupywallst.org/article/military-veterans-join-99-wall-street/
It seems as though, yes, the U.S. military has been compromised by communist extremists!! I also heard Republicans leaders are starting to get brainwashed too…. one by one!! It’s almost like this country is becoming North Korea! Here are the Republicans who support Occupy Wallstreet:
Eric Cantor
Paul Ryan
Mitt Romney
Daniel J. Halloran (NY city councilman)
Bill Flores (Texas Rep.)
71% of New York Republicans
36% of Republicans nation-wide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9107TqJa5_s (Romney on C-Span)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHzgk05ERdc (Rush Limbaugh)
http://biggovernment.com/reasontv/2011/10/07/reason-tv-what-we-saw-at-occupy-wall-street/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/did-you-know-that-occupy-wall-street-validates-the-conservative-world-view/2011/10/31/gIQAiB0YZM_blog.html
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66971.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20125515-503544/poll-43-percent-agree-with-views-of-occupy-wall-street/
Olson’s skull was fractured by protesters throwing bottles and rocks at police.
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_19235491
yea u don’t hear about when they want to spread my money around it is okay,but when it comes time to use they’re money,it’s no you can’t have anything of mine.
Don’t forget Mayor Bloomberg…
Don’t forget all the polls that show support for the OWS movement! In all cases more support than for the Tea Party!
Yes, let’s not forget those polls come next November. We’ll see what happens. Last election, the unpopular fringe Tea Party swept practically all open seats in the House of Representatives. Will OWS be able to repeat the feat? I shall be waiting with bated breath.
Meanwhile back in reality, Tea Party candidate Herman Cain:
“PRINCETON, NJ — Herman Cain is the only candidate whose Positive Intensity Score has increased in comparison to Gallup’s initial measurement earlier this year. In fact, each of the eight candidates Gallup tracks began with scores in the double digits, but now only three remain in that range.”
I would only add to the quote above that not only is Herman Cain the only candidate whose Positive Intensity Score increased, he is the only candidate whose Positive Intensity Score has not decreased.
See for yourselves:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/150482/GOP-Field-Cain-Image-Better-Earlier-Year.aspx
I checked a few of the links (North Korea, Iran, Nazis), and none of them say they donated any money.
These are lies and propaganda.
Who said anything about donating money? Look at the title: “supporters, sponsors and sympathizers.”
Besides, the money system is being abolished anyway, right?
Why don’t we add Aliens to the list. or Maybe even Dr Robotnik or the Decepticons. If you are gonna use Blogs and Tabloids and Main Stream Media then we should just include what ever. Im sure Pinky and the Brain should be on that list too. I bet the Retired Islamic Suicide Extremist support the movement to!
Evidence hurts, doesn’t it?
In future, please ask before borrowing the hard work of others. This very same article appeared on the conservative website: “John Paulus – International Blogger” and yet here it is, copied almost word for word. John put in a lot of hard work compiling all of the links and sources for his recent blog entry, and I don’t think he would appreciate having you stealing from him and passing it off as your own work. http://johnpaulus.com/blog/2011/11/01/jon-corzine-million-dollar-parachute-fannie-and-freddie-bonuses-list-of-occupy-wall-street-supporters/
A simple thank you and credit to John Paulus should be sufficient when borrowing from his blog in future. The fact that his listing (with links) was followed by “Courtesy: John Paulus” should have been a clue that it was his work, not yours.
I realize that the fact that John is open and upfront about being a gay Republican may make using his name troublesome for some in conservative circles, but let’s get serious about what really matters – getting rid of Obama – and leave the petty social issues to one side for now. Regular readers of John’s blog know where his true loyalties lie.
We are all on the same side, and I know we are all eager to accomplish the same goals, but we don’t need to engage in plagarism or theft to do so. Thank you.
He lifted it from me. I’ve never even heard of John Paulus.
Check the posting dates on the blogs — you’ll see that mine was the very first anywhere, since I wrote it.
Hey Genius observe the dates:
By John Paulus – November 1, 2011
vs
October 31, 2011 – 10:48 am – by Zombie
Get a clue hero.
Don’t forget that obese Canadian Commie, Michael Moore
Christian Science Monitor
Thank you so much for this list! Add as many as you can because it shows how much support for OWS is growing. I’ll give you a couple of reasons why I support the movement. I didn’t agree with the bailouts to the banks, but I did hope that with that money the banks would loan to small businesses which inturn create jobs. But, no the banks are just holding on to that money and haven’t helped in any way to get the economy growing. I also want to limit lobbists influence on politicians with payoffs. I want the donations to elect officials coming from us the people not big corps. I really don’t understand why you all are against OWS for supporting these things.
We’re against it because it’s just a gimmick to try to overturn our democratically elected institutions.
If they can win at the ballot box, more power to ‘em. But they won’t. So we’re just concerned they’re going to try a “power play” outside the electoral system.
http://sharkattackmedia.com/2011/10/22/paid-to-occupy-a-special-report/
Working Families Party is supporting OWS.
Men’s Wearhouse, at least the Oakland branch of the chain….
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/11/picture-of-the-day-mens-wearhouse-stands-with-occupy-wall-street/247782/
The Indoctrination of American Youth and the Marxist Nature of the Occupy Movement
The ongoing and now extreme indoctrination of Americans, especially young people, through thinly veiled Marxist education in public and private schools as well as the popular mass media has made child’s play of creating a Marxist color revolution with the purpose of putting an all-powerful collectivist totalitarian government into power that will be able to seize property and deny, with even more complete impunity, the God-given natural rights of the citizens and which will still be:
covertly controlled by the billionaire and trillionaire organized crime networks. The elitists have backed many collectivist authoritarian movements, both communist and fascist, throughout history.
With regards to the Tea Party Movement, many truly patriotic Americans were quite disappointed as the Tea Party morphed from a largely Constitutionalist and Libertarian movement into a full blown neocon love fest. This has often been claimed to have been a psyop and infiltration operation but this need not be the case. Many Americans have been fooled into believing in a false dichotomy of left and right, liberal and conservative, communist and fascist.
http://theintelhub.com/2011/10/19/the-indoctrination-of-american-youth-and-the-marxist-nature-of-the-occupy-movement/
“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it”
“The plan, I think, is the old one of world dominion in a new form. The money-power and revolutionary power have been set up and given sham but symbolic shapes (‘Capitalism’ or ‘Communism’) and sharply defined citadels. Such is the spectacle publicly staged for the masses. But what if similar men, with a common aim, secretly rule in both camps and propose to achieve their ambition through the clash between those masses? I believe any diligent student of our times will discover that this is the case.”
“Between the Sam Newhouses and George Soros’ on the Left, and the Koch’s and the Rupert Murdochs on the Right, a dozen billionaires are able to define political discourse in America.
So while we’re busy arguing about government intervention, we ignore the long list of things these billionaires apparently agree on”.
insider Harold Rosenthal explained how they pit labor (Left) versus management (Right):
“In modern industry … capital, which force we represent, is [at] the apex. Both management and labor are on the base of this triangle. They continually stand opposed to each other and their attention is never directed to the head of their problem.”
“At first, by controlling the banking system we were able to control corporation capital. Through this, we acquired total monopoly of the movie industry, the radio networks and the newly developing television media. The printing industry, newspapers, periodicals and technical journals had already fallen into our hands. The richest plum was later to come when we took over the publication of all school materials. Through these vehicles we could mold public opinion to suit our own purposes. The people are only stupid pigs that grunt and squeal the chants we give them, whether they be truth or lies.”
It’s amusing to see “progressives” rail against the Tea Party (vice-versa) and their sponsors. They are as much billionaire puppets as the rednecks they condemn.
How eye opening. Both sides are bad and controlled by evil rich people so when the OWS want to collectivize society they are misled and when the TEA party wants freedom and smaller government they are also misled. Tell me then, what Utopia do you wish to outline for us? What would a society not controlled by these monied interests look like?
Not sure what you are asking John. Are you looking for a Utopia? Certainly not what specific ‘monied-interests’ have any interest in! The situation today didn’t begin yesterday…it’s been an ongoing program of those ‘monied-interests’ ie. specifically the Bankster class that were able to set up the private unconstituional money-debt racket called the Federal Reserve, which system is run on nearly a world-wide scale. In my view, this is the apex of the cancer which has been the destructive force behind the subversion of societies globally in many ways by their control over all other institutions within and without gov’ts. It is the cause of ignorance, poverty and war to the profit of that specific monied-interests, by which the other wealthy class are enthralled by and the creation of the gab between rich and poor as individuals and nations.
P.S. The Federal Reserve is a branch of the other Central Banks, direct offshoots of the Bank of England (which is private criminal-racket in the ‘City of London Corporation’). The problem can be fixed, the private enterprise system preserved as it was meant to be (not the monopolistic centralist thing called Big C-Capitalism/Corporatism invested in the Bankster criminal racket).
The OWS protests are Hegalian in nature.
This is a grand set up.
Do not fall for it.
You’ve forgotten the biggest supporter of all: 56% of Americans.
Ha ha, very funny.
You’re not supposed to believe the propaganda — you’re just supposed to hope it works on dupes.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sympathized with the “Occupy Wall Street” movement’s dissatisfaction with economic inequality at a press conference Wednesday, but said protesters should not blame the Fed for bailing out the banks. Sources:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/02/bernanke-on-occupy-wall-street-fed-not-part-of-the-problem/#.TrKD7eAatrE.facebook
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/markets/economic-growth-will-remain-slow-ben-bernanke-says/1199792
What about George Soros and George Kaiser? You probably won’t find their direct involvement but take a look at the organizations (MoveOn.org, The Tides Foundation, Media Matters, etc.) and politicians (Obama, Reid, Pelosi, et al.) they support – they are deeply involved and supportive financially and ideologically.
Don’t forget the American Library Asscoiation.
“The last thing 32-year-old Mandy Henk expected from volunteering at the Occupy Wall Street library was an invitation to speak at the American Library Association’s 2012 Midwinter Conference in Dallas, Texas. That speaking engagement will help raise her profile among the 10,000 other librarians there to network and share new ideas, she said.
Henk, a certified librarian who handles circulation, reserves and interlibrary loans at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., joined the movement in late September and rediscovered the role she cares most about — connecting people with information. Since then, she has commuted back and forth between Greencastle and Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan with a focus on developing new models for libraries at a time when many are facing budget shortfalls.
‘I’m a faculty librarian, so being professionally active is something that my peers at my home institution judge me on,’ she said. ‘Having the opportunity to refine my skills working with such a diverse population is really valuable in that regard.’”
http://sales-jobs.fins.com/Articles/SBB0001424052970204777904576651373797984258/The-Career-Road-of-Occupy-Wall-Street
Also see
http://safelibraries.blogspot.com/
No Soros?
Any ‘Stimulus’ money being spent with this group other than the money coming from the various unions? George Soros has to be involved, he has to payback as a quid pro quo the money he made from the Brazilian oil loan guarantee. This is looking more and more like a criminal organization and subject to a RICO charges; thats why Eric Holder has stuffed the AG full of Marxists and fellow travelers so as to stop all investigations. More and more our so called ‘government’ is looking like “Animal Farm.”
Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless movement. It’s meant to start conversations. If you ask any American, they can list off at least a few things wrong with our government. I don’t think any of us actually want our government to have corporate sponserships… creating loopholes that help huge businesses with high profit margins and CEOs with ridiculous salaries, not only dodge taxes – but get huge refunds.
It’s about getting all kinds of ideas! Talking about possibilities and what might work and what won’t work. Being that it is such a huge movement and it’s gaining attention and it doesn’t have any set demands…. OF COURSE all of the socialists, communists, anachists and any other -ists are going to be in support of it! Not to mention the democratic party… the list of the organizations that want to high-jack this movement is infinate! I bet, right now, a new organization is forming for that sole purpose.
The most important thing is that all these organizations are supporting OWS – NOT the other way around!
This is about ideas! Not just lefty socialist ideas either! If you join your local Occupy movement – your opinions will be just as valued as the next person. Everyone has their own ideas about what would be the best. We need to stop attacking each other and talk about them… I bet we can find common ground.
I support OWS. I believe in Capalitalism. I am not a socialist or a communist. I want campain controbution reform. I do NOT think it’s realistic to have mortgage or student loan bail out… but am still pissy that the banks got it. I’m not a hippie… I hate that each election time we have to pick the lesser of two evils… even though they both sold their souls to Wall Street.
Then take a long hard look at who comprises the vast majority of the OWS protesters. You will find that they are mostly communists or socialists or anarchists or nihilists. Most signs overtly call for the complete destruction of capitalism. They want a “people’s revolution” ending with total state control of the economy. If you believe in capitalism and still support OWS, you are either grossly ill-informed, naive, or both.
“Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless movement. It’s meant to start conversations. If you ask any American, they can list off at least a few things wrong with our government. I don’t think any of us actually want our government to have corporate sponserships… creating loopholes that help huge businesses with high profit margins and CEOs with ridiculous salaries, not only dodge taxes – but get huge refunds.”
And that’s why I HAD sympathy. As you can tell, this leaderless movement quickly became a mob. Of course, it has had plenty of handholding from those responsible for the “few things wrong” with the government. (George Soros, for instance.)
“It’s about getting all kinds of ideas! Talking about possibilities and what might work and what won’t work. Being that it is such a huge movement and it’s gaining attention and it doesn’t have any set demands…. OF COURSE all of the socialists, communists, anachists and any other -ists are going to be in support of it! Not to mention the democratic party… the list of the organizations that want to high-jack this movement is infinate! I bet, right now, a new organization is forming for that sole purpose.”
That’s what public forums are for. You don’t need a “movement” consisting of…
http://www.votersopinion.com/?p=1628
“The most important thing is that all these organizations are supporting OWS – NOT the other way around!”
I personally know some of the people who helped start OWS—that’s not true.
“This is about ideas! Not just lefty socialist ideas either! If you join your local Occupy movement – your opinions will be just as valued as the next person. Everyone has their own ideas about what would be the best. We need to stop attacking each other and talk about them… I bet we can find common ground.”
I agree, but OWS never became what it was intended.
“I support OWS. I believe in Capalitalism. I am not a socialist or a communist. I want campain controbution reform.”
I do, and for OWS, as well, if its to be a means to “discuss.”
“I do NOT think it’s realistic to have mortgage or student loan bail out… but am still pissy that the banks got it. I’m not a hippie… I hate that each election time we have to pick the lesser of two evils… even though they both sold their souls to Wall Street.”
Its more like Wall Street has sold its own soul to the government. Well, had it forcibly taken…(New Deal.)
This was Anonymous’ original (and quite admirable,) intention with the movement, it is true, but such a purpose is NOT POSSIBLE in a protest. At this point, it would be better to host an internet forum dedicated to this goal, but a protest will never achieve enlightened discourse…as by its nature, it can barely achieve discourse at all.
What about Van Jones, and all of Progressive cronies.
What these idiots at OWS need is an organizing, motivating cause and slogan to rally under and I’ve got just the one for them: “Society Organized to Vindicate Injustice in Economic Transactions”…better known by its acronym SOVIET. Have them start forming little SOVIET committees to deal with all this purported injustice. Of course the irony will be lost on their uneducated asses but it might make for a chuckle or too for the rest of us.
Well Zombie my hat’s off to you on knowing what the readers want to know and be able to use. Based on the number of trackbacks and comments this is definitely the most well-trafficked post I’ve ever seen on PJM.
WHEN WILL ONE OF YOU FREE LOADERS ASK YOUR PRESIDENT AND NANCY PELOSI HOW MUCH MONEY THEY HAVE MADE FROM THE AMERICAN STOCK MARKET AND THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM. OBAMA WILL LEAVE THE WHITE HOUSE AS A MULTI MILLIONAIRE, AFTER COMING TO THE WHITE HOUSE POOR AS A CHURCH MOUSE!
PELOSI’S HUSBAND IS A MULTI MILLIONAIRE NOW, AS HE OWNS THE CHARLIE THE TUNA COMPANY, WORTH BILLIONS. WHY NO QUESTIONS????
When did any thinking person believe this was “spontaneous?” With Soros involved (he reportedly talked recently with the NYPD Commissioner, along with his other activities) and SEIU, that this was just a computer generated suggestion that people come to NYC and set up camps, etc.??
This is pure, abject anarchy (the big A has shown up at Oakland)and nihilism (crapping in public, public sex, “topless” women–and rape).
Now, incredibly(?!) they have assembled multiple committees to govern themselves. They even have declared a new “nation” or something, in, but not part of the U.S.
And when they collapse or destroy the U.S. socio-politico-economic system, do they believe they (who probably have few if any achievements in their short lives) can put together a new system which won’t look (and act) like those of Russia, E. Germany, N.Korea, China, Cuba, where millions have died or been murdered and the economy is 3rd world (except for their militaries and rulers). Who will/would come forward and “offer” to build a new, “social justice” system who would not do the same things as in the above mentioned countries?
A character in a comic opera asserted “Things are not always as they seem.” That was true in Russia and China; it would be true here too. Great wonders promised, great tyrannies delivered.
If you are dubious about what I have written, take a good look at the shambles and people hurting in Oakland. “You have to break eggs to make an omelet.” But omelets are not what are being made in Oakland; abject, deliberate destruction is. And take a quick look at world history: Monarchy, Aristocracy and Democracy (according to Aristotle) are the three forms of governance, and the first two are very much more common than the third. Think about it, look beyond the “News” in the “Media.”
International blogger John Paulus defends himself: The list is fair use and I didn’t get the list from “Zombie”. I never passed off the list as my own. In fact, I conclude the blog by stating, “Courtesy” and not “By”.
I’m totally OK with John Paulus or anybody reprinting it. Like said at the bottom of my post:
I want anybody and everybody to reprint it, without restriction.
In this situation, this post has been linked and cross-linked hundreds of times around the world in the first few days, and after perhaps the first hour or two there were bloggers re-linking to secondary sources, and people quickly lost track where it originated. But rest assured: This post is the original.
Are you “International Blogger John P..?” Isn’t every blogger international? Why do you keep including that goofy title when you name him?
Bottom line is… wait for it…
We cannot pull out the hand of the 1% from our government. Our government is too reliant upon it. This impolite suggestion would create only chaos and a monumental class war. This country would not come back from the destruction this would cause and our new name would be the Untied Sates Of Anarchy.
I find all of this very interesting. I have read it all and I still have no idea exactly what the position is of these campers and why they are demonstrating. The news continues to cover that they are there, but not what their demands or platform is. Based on what I’ve read herein, there seems to be a large widely diverse group of people who want something from someone. I just don’t get it frankly. I was raised that you get what you earn. If you take something from someone it is stealing. It is unfortunate that the economy is in the toilet. It is also unfortunate that so many people are out of work. Please explain to me why it should be me who pays for others problems? No one has ever come to my rescue when I needed help. I’ve had to help myself. Please explain if you can what it is all about. …
It’s about twenty-somethings with excess energy and hormones being indoctrinated by Gramscian professors so that they could then be willingly duped into having an exciting “protest” by communist manipulators, who hope to harness the youthful energy to overthrow the United States.
On a 1 – 10- scale, these descriptors apply to the protestors:
Knowledge of historical facts: 2
Basic grasp of how economics works: 1
Likelihood of their revolution coming to pass: 0
How cheap is that? Lets have a tea party?
Add Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois. There is a You Tube video interview of her marching with the Occupy Chicago useful idiots. Look for xdm45acp’s Channelon You Tube. Great videos of Occupy Chicago.
50 Cent
Amalgamated Transit Union
American Nazi Party
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream
Clutch Magazine
David Banner
deathbytrolley.wordpress.com/
Mayor Joseph O’Brien of Worcester
Million Worker March
National Nurses United
Neil Gaiman, Gloria Steinem
New York chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War
notepad-plus-plus.org/
Occupy the SEC Group
OWS Labor Outreach Committee
Pete Seeger
Robert Davis [Independent] for US Senate of N.Y.
Socialist Action
thefeministwire.com
Tides
US Muslims
We the People
http://www.benzinga.com/
http://www.parentsforoccupywallst.com/
http://www.thenation.com/
Thanks. Added to the “investigate” pile”
When you can show a clear connection between the decisions of the OWS and the purposes of the above groups, and can also show how the money given was tied to those decisions, then you will have some merit to your story. Otherwise, it just sounds like another guilt by association story.
I’m not saying there is a “connection”, monetary or otherwise, between these groups and OWS. I’m only saying they all like OWS.
Everyone is judged by the company they keep. “Guilt by association” and “Commendability by association” are how society works. If the American Nazi Party and David Duke endorsed a Republican presidential candidate, do you think we’d ever hear the end of it? And on the flip side of the same coin, candidates often brag about endorsements from admirable people and groups.
I’m just laying out the facts. If they are of no concern to you, then feel free to ignore them.
Great article, Zombie. I shared it with some folks who dismissed it by saying, “Just because a group or person that is horrible agrees with a particular idea or group doesn’t mean that the group they agree with is horrible.”
I was curious to see how you would respond to this? Or how any of you commenting would respond?
It’s a cumulative thing. Like I said in the post itself:
The list merely shows what kind of groups approve of OWS’s message or appearance. Nothing more, nothing less.
If your friends choose to ignore the list, then that is their prerogative.
But ask yourself: Would you want to agree politically with even one of the groups on the list, much less all of them?
I hear and read about how unions are taking advantage of workers. Answer to their whinning and crying, VOTE OUT ALL UNIONS!!! We did and things got a whole lot better between management and workers. Get some “Balls” and throw out the union thugs or you will be putting up with their crap until you retire.
The MSM Discovers the OWS
The mainstream media, currently Barack Hussein Obama’s mainstream media, has long specialized in selective reporting and commentary, highlighting stories and events which comfortably mesh with their liberal slant, overlooking or otherwise minimizing those that don’t.
The liberal print media has perfected that science of unethical journalistic malpractice by squeezing non-meshing stories into inch and a half boxes on pages 49 or 71 which few people read while the liberal broadcast and cable media simply ignore them since, after all, their time is limited.
Matt Drudge unearthed and publicized the whole, sordid Bill-Monica tale weeks before the MSM ever mentioned sleaze in the Oval Orifice and stained blue dresses. Bubba was their boy and they would do nothing to tarnish his aura. Sound familiar? Time reporter Nina Burleigh even offered Clinton a Lewinsky during his impeachment saga to thank him for keeping abortion legal.
Bubba wisely passed, I think.
Former presidential hopeful Jumpin’ Johnny Edwards didn’t pass on much in his pursuit of the 2008 Democrat nomination, least of all with Rielle Hunter. While his wife lay dying, he was kicking up his tarheels for months with Rielle, fathered her child, and paid her off, all under the unknowing noses of the keen investigative staffs of the MSM who didn’t want smarmy facts to get in the way of Edwards’ candidacy.
Ultimately, it took the National Enquirer to expose Edwards publicly after he exposed himself privately.
Yet, two years later, the mainstreamers were all over Republican Mark Sanford’s scandal when he was caught doing an Edwards with an Argentinian floozie instead of governing South Carolina or hiking the Appalachian Trail.
To paraphrase the motto of the degraded Old, Grey Lady, The MSM covers all the news it sees fit to cover.
In the latest example of skewed reporting, mainstream newsers covered the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations from Day One, but there’s MSM coverage and then there’s honest coverage.
Since the protests against greed were occurring in the belly of the greed beast–where at least half of Americans have invested their futures–and were taking place in the economic capital of the world and spreading like a plague throughout the country, the MSM could hardly avoid noticing, even if it was noticing selectively.
Now seven weeks old in New York, from the outset the demonstrations had an anarchic streak. Within days they began attracting more and more dregs of civilized society and as they contaminated the land they drew more and more neo-Nazis, neo-Communists, and those good, old-fashioned stalwarts of every social upheaval: revolutionaries, anti-Semites, cop-haters, skinheads, perverts, thieves, and vagrants.
However, what has become curiouser and curiouser in the past week is the liberal mainstreamers’ awakening to the growing chaos, not to the anarchic elements of that chaos but mainly to the rapes, the molestations, and the thievery going on in various OWS encampments when representatives of the so-called 99% took time outs from protesting and disupting to violate the human rights of their fellow ninety-nine percenters.
Those attacks on individual rights and safety were considered newsworthty, radical efforts to undermine the foundations of the nation were not. (Read more and see OWS photos at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5895.)
George Soros’ group Moveon.org supports the OWS: http://www.moveon.org/event/faq/index.html?expand_all=1&faq_id=131
Didn’t the Tea Party also protest?
The TEA Party peacefully assembled and cleaned up after themselves. The OWS people have started riots. There is no guarantee of a right to riot in the Constitution.
Do not forget the OWS people defecate on Police cars and relieve themselves near business entryways. They live like pigs….
In Charleston, WV, the Occupy rotestors were told to leave a city park after they had overstayed their permit. The AFL=CIO is putting them up on property they have, and will supply power for them. If the protestors want to get to the heart of the problems, they should protest the unions, then the colleges whose outrageous tuition and cost increases have mede the high student loans necessary.
Karl Denninger from Market Ticker and he has been claiming that these are peaceful and they are Marxists or communists
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=197025
Karl Denninger on his blog The Market Ticker. He has been a huge supporter of OWS, attended a protest and he claims that these are peaceful people and they are NOT Marxists or communists. He may not be influencial enough to make the list but just in case….
From his blog today:
“But if these guys are all a bunch of closed-minded Marxists and Communists, then how come this group of Republicans from the local college went out there and found….. applause?
And how is it that I, also a conservative when it comes to economics who believes in Capitalism, used the People’s Mic in Pensacola and found the response for my message was….. applause?
C’mon folks. Let’s face it: The so-called Republicans that trumpet The Constitution are simply wrong when it comes to this group and their intentions, and the vast majority of the verbal bomb-throwers from The Right have not spent one minute at one of these gatherings personally and as such have absolutely no basis for their claimed opinions.”
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=197025
Ah here we are.
The Right Wing ”Guilt By Association” bullshit machine is now working hard.
Never mind that these fringe groups range from the extreme right to the extreme left, from extremist policital groups to lunatic conspiracy groups.
Never mind that groups have historically been bitterly OPPOSED to each other (Nazi Party and Communist Party for one (see Second World War).
Thank you for your illogical mud slinging towards OWS.
When will you be discussing the Tea Party supporters? Like Stormfront and the KKK?
Ah here we are.
The Left Wing ”Guilt By Association” bullshit machine is now working hard.
Except in your case, you don’t have any evidence to support your claims, whereas I do.
Yep. You[ve got great evidence as the Nazi Party and the Communist party have been in agreement throughout history and have never EVER had conflict or fundamental disagreement throughout history.
Sure Operation Barbarossa during World War II didn’t actually exist. yup. Three million troops supported by thousands of Panzer tanks and the Lufftwaffe surged into the Soviet Union to ”help their allies”.
Far Right Bagger double standard. You are scum.
Wow! Completely ignore all evidence because it does not follow your preconceptions. Typical MSM Kool-Aid drinker.
The extreme right (Nazis) and left (Communists) are close to identical. In fact, they did ally themsleves at thebeginning of WWII. Of course, once they win, heaven forbid, they will fight for control (after a mass-killing of all of the OWS people, SOP) as they did during WWII, but hopefully we will not hit that stage. Unless OWS wins.
Of course they ”allied” at the start of the war. Neither were ready to take each other on. Stalin had purged his army of officers he considered his ‘enemies’ and hitler had France, Denmark, Norawy, Belgium, Holland and the United Kingdom opposing him on the Western Front.
Stop being a fucking idiot. ”Nazi’s and Communists are close to identical”.
Stop listening to Glenn Beck and take out a god damn history book you lunatic far right moron.
The fact that two collectivist tyrannies are enemies, like the Soviets and the Chinese Communists, does not mean that they cannot both support the same rebel army when it comes to destroying the United States or that one or the other should be an ally of ours.
The Soviets in particular were, at the same time, allied with Islamic militants in one part of the world, Iran, while fighting them in another, Afghanistan and Chechnya.
One of the great Leftist propaganda successes of the 20th century was the notion that Nazis and communists were political opposites. They have far more similarities than differences.
Fascism and Communism are political OPPOSITES?
Tell that to the roughly 15 MILLION PEOPLE who died on the eastern front during the second world war.
Stick your far right propoganda where the sun don’t shine you despicable lying piece of crap.
And oh. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dawn-teo/video-scuffle-ensues-when_b_358152.html By this sites logic The Anti-Immigration Tea Party are Nazis.
By ”this sites” logic of course
“Yep. You[ve got great evidence as the Nazi Party and the Communist party have been in agreement throughout history and have never EVER had conflict or fundamental disagreement throughout history.”
They have never had a FUNDAMENTAL disagreement. There are plenty of minor disagreements worth starting war over.
“Far Right Bagger double standard. You are scum.”
Here open Hell’s gates, as one Zen parable, goes.
Look at yourself. Trolling a forum, spouting nonsense, trying to revise history to meet your own dualist ends…. Yet who are you defending, really? A “peace loving” movement that just keeps ACCIDENTALLY performing acts of “mob justice” and calling it democracy, all the while chanting SIDE BY SIDE with a crowd of communists, than saying “oh, they only SYMPATHIZE” when someone calls foul? OWS bears a LOT of resemblance to certain cults out there, and takes initiative on similar lines of reasoning.
Keep everything calm and polite and civil, and you will find that it is then that Truth wins. Only Falsehood must rally and chant and riot, for it must drown out Truth.
“And a great fire came, but God was not in the fire. And the sky rumbled, and lightning came forth, but God was not in the lightning. And the ground shook, but God was not in the shaking. And then there was silence, and lo, the Spirit of God.”
“The Right Wing ‘Guilt By Association’ bullshit machine is now working hard.”
Guilt by Association? I’ve heard plenty of supporters of OWS PERSONALLY praise these kinds of institutions. I’ve heard OWS supporters, people who were heavily involved in OWS’s formulation, praise the Fascist economic model AND the Communist economic model. (One is a wartime model, the other, folly.) (And yes, the OWS people have done a lot of disturbing things. http://www.votersopinion.com/?p=1628
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=27275 )
Its not guilt by association—it is collaborating in the pursuing of a crime.
“Never mind that these fringe groups range from the extreme right to the extreme left, from extremist policital groups to lunatic conspiracy groups.”
A falsehood and artifact of flawed Dualist political philosophy. In reality, Conservativism, (Classical Liberalism,) was there at the creation of Western Culture. It has been labeled as “fringe” by a formula designed to be agreed upon by all philosophies involved.
“Never mind that groups have historically been bitterly OPPOSED to each other (Nazi Party and Communist Party for one (see Second World War).”
Bitterly opposed for nationalist reasons.
However, they share the same theories of economic structuring, humanist policies, one country/one party attitude, atheist leanings, expansionism….
Actually, Nazi is short for the German for “National Socialist.”
One difference: Fascism’s economic model was a success because they 1) did not completely centralize all industry (but they were planning to) and 2) they pilfered from their conquests. Russia did, too, but they didn’t have nearly enough to pilfer.
Remember how Mussolini was allied with Germany during that world war? Mussolini was a self-described Communist.
You really need to brush up on your ideology. Study the so-called “Age of Enlightenment,” and you will see the strands that tie all socialist philosophies together—a hatred of western culture, of Christianity, of Classical Liberalism, of Judaism, and, in some sick cases, (the philosopher who suggested there would be vending machines that would kill you for a penny,) life itself.
“When will you be discussing the Tea Party supporters? Like Stormfront and the KKK?”
All of whom the Tea Party successfully showed their disdain for. (Those parties sought alliance with the Tea Party for the same reason they now seek alliance with OWS—they want to break the system, and it seemed like the Tea Party would seek to do so. Only the Tea Party is a life-loving, peace-loving, democracy-loving movement.) And its been very well proven that the Republican party was the initiator of the Civil Rights movement, and saw it out to its end, despite Liberalism’s attempt to end it. A very small minority of Republicans are White Supremacists, and in case you haven’t been paying attention to the other comments, there is at least one White Supremest here, who, though not a fan of OWS, was definitely a fan of their sudden antisemitism, and is also not, as near as I can tell, Conservative, in ANY sense of the word. Indeed, more White Supremacists are Liberal or Libertarian in leaning.
Indeed, the Fascist parties of the world have ALWAYS been progressive. Hitler’s desire was to build a new social order. Who does that sound like? Not Conservatives.
I originally sought compromise with the OWS movement. There seemed to be the seeds of something actually reformative. So don’t go claiming bias on my part. OWS has EARNED my disdain. Enjoy your cake, sir.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBpbm_ak_Xs&feature=related )
evidently a smear, seeing as it omits the support of many noteworthy and respectable individuals- evidently implying that because islamists, communists, nazis etc. support OWS that OWS are supporters or apologists for those extremists in return. That would be like me saying, for example, that because racists are more likely to vote republican, that republican candidates are necessarily racist, which is obviously untrue. In other words, it’s a complete fallacy.
As Zombie said elsewhere on the blog, he’s attempting to place people on the list who the Left Wing Media cannot associate with without losing support, that they won’t immediately dismiss as factually supporting the OWS movement if they see them on the list.
There are a lot of people who SHOULD be on the list who are infamous who aren’t on the list, as well.
If you didn’t notice, there is documented evidence linked to on this list for each supporter, so that it can be verified it is NOT a smear.
I agree, however, that it would be appreciated if as many factual supporters were listed as could be documented.
Additionally, racists have always been historically more likely to vote Liberal. (And not Classically Liberal, mind you. That would be Republican.) It is uncertain today which side they take, but it is more likely the majority of racists are still Liberal. (Certainly the case among those of Antisemitic persuasion.)
I wish these idiots would finally learn and start having exactly the same ideals and value’s as us non-supporters of Occupy Wall Street do. Everyone thinking alike and not having the right to express otherwise..now thats the real America we all believe in and love.
You mean like obeying the law?
“I wish these idiots would finally learn and start having exactly the same ideals and value’s as us non-supporters of Occupy Wall Street do. Everyone thinking alike and not having the right to express otherwise..now thats the real America we all believe in and love.”
Ooh. Sarcasm. That takes individuality.
Have you ever considered that maybe the truth lies BETWEEN conformism and nonconformism? And haven’t you ever found it SO ironic how conformist all of you anticonformists are? (If you think you aren’t conformist, and are part of the OWS, go ahead and check out the videos of OWS protestors chanting and shouting in unison. Which is a very maoist practice, by the way. Of course, there WERE people with the likeness of Che on their shirts.)
Just so you know, vandalizing other people’s property and otherwise infringing on their rights may be a form of self-expression, but self-expression is protected not on the basis that it is self-expression, but on the basis of whether or not it is destructive to the self or others. The moment you use your rights to infringe upon the rights of others is the moment we have a right—nay, a DUTY—to infringe upon yours.
Here’s a ditty to chant and shout as if it justifies hating and destroying your fellow human beings:
Peace, love, and joy. None destroy.
(And try to do some research into Mao’s revolution. Might make you think twice before you hang effigies of your fellow country men…)
There is also Lisa Simeone, host of NPR’s “Soundprint”, who was fired for supporting one of the groups that made up Occupy D.C. Here’s the link.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/20/national/main20123277.shtml
California Teachers Association – CTA
http://www.cta.org/Issues-and-Action/School-Funding/Tax-Fairness/Occupy-Wall-Street.aspx
> Download CTA poster, placard & flyer.
> Post your thoughts to Occupy Education.
You left out NAMBLA. They have been active with Occupy Tucson, maybe with other Occupy locations as well.
Please provide a link to support that claim. Otherwise, I’d find it very very hard to believe.
I’ll take on Max load’s bit. It goes something like this: the common idea seems to be that somehow just printing money to solve a ‘crisis’ is bad. No. Printed money, plastic money, is based on two things-fiat currency and resources. First, America is accepted as the fiat currency, predominantly globally. And fiat currency is based on resources, possession of, control of. Included in physical resources is the ability to use them-brains, that is. America has a lot of resources, and has control of a lot of resources. So long as America has that, it can print as much money as it wants to. Afghanistan can’t. I’m not talking right or wrong, I’m talking basic reality. And the idea that civilization is collapsing, along with the environment, is fantasy. Did you know the Greeks, several thousand years ago, were bemoaning the same? Also interesting is the map of how many are involved in this ‘global’ protest. Small groups of 100 or so, mostly in First World countries, except for France, cause france couldn’t give a shit, and some heavy action on the east coast. Maybe ten, fifteen thousand people, worldwide. Sidebar: both Lasn and Elizabeth Warren claim they created the Owsie (Oh, did diddums get a boo boo?) movement. And yes, these people want to eliminate capitalism. Capitalism aint a philosophy, it’s based on the old hunter gatherer mode – management of resources. So, unless you eliminate the human reace, you aint eliminating capitalism. I say this as a dirt poor canuck, very, very poor, who thinks it’s a pretty good set up we got going.
What the hey, one last thing before I go – corporations are evil? No, humans can be evil, corporations cannot be. Evil is a human attribute. And anyways, yes, there has been many deliberate and foul actions resulting in death of people, environmental damage, and whatnot. But, those selfsame corporations, like big Pharma have, oh, only cured a jillion odd diseases, and invented pretty much everything that allows us to bitch and whine and so on. I wouldn’t be paying attention to what I consider a bogus little non-movement, if it weren’t for all those ever so happy puppy and rainbows organizations supporting this rancid bowel movement.
I just love the fact that our president and vice president are supporting this “Occupier” movement along with all those other great supporters of the American way of life. In Oakland just three days after Obama’s adviser suggested that the “Occupiers” needed to get Militant the violence and destruction break out. The way I see it Obama is setting this up so the violence will happen just before the elections are due to take place and then declare martial law and suspend the elections.
Rahm Emanuel reports that he knew about the operations while he was at the White House. Not only high caliber weapons but conversion kits to make semiautomatic weapons full auto, and explosives as well and the makings for grenades and an uncounted number of rocket launchers.
Operation Gunrunner–in which the government authorized the sale of weapons with the intent of letting these weapons fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, which were used to Kill an American border agent.
Operation Castaway–in which the government authorized the sale of weapons knowing they would fall into the hands of Honduran gangs, such as MS13 and the Mara Salvatrucha and the rival Mara 18, An estimated 20,590 people died violently here in the last five years, according to the Madrid-based nonprofit Observers of Violence in massive shoot outs to control the drug industry.
and the best one yet sales inside the USA
Project Gangwalker the ATF and the DOF allowed the straw purchases of weapons which eventually ended up in the hands of United States gang members in Indiana” Operation Community Shield,” individuals are from El Salvador, three are from Mexico, one is from Honduras and one is from Haiti. ICE said the individuals are members or associates of the following street gangs: MS-13, Sur-13, and Zoe Pound. Charged in connection with the shooting of an Indianapolis police officer last week are gang members, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office Gonzalez-Ramirez is a member of the Puros Vatos Locos street gang, and Taboada-Perez is a member of the SCT-13 gang. Both have tattoos that express allegiance to those gangs, authorities said. and other weapons have been found at crime scenes in that state and surely have spread out from there to other gangs.
Now picture gang bangers in armed flash mobs, And just where did that army that Obama formed disappear to?
Add to that a state governor that thinks there should be no elections for two years until the congress can fix the problems they are facing. And Obama does not think that Americans understand democracy as well as he does.
It all leads to the UN small arms treaty that Hillary signed off on all to disarm the American populace.
And the round about EPA ammunition suspensions under the lead ban that stops the supplies of ammunition getting to the people with out congressional oversight.
And all these are now excuses to suspend the second amendment rights of the citizens. As well as the up coming elections for civil unrest.
It all sounds treasonous to me
I am disturbed by Disturbia’s repeated mentioning of John Paulus, “the internationally renowned blogger” and that “His JohnPaulus.com website is in the top 1% for recorded comments.”
For one thing, I never heard of John Paulus either. I did go to the site and checked the comments. One article had only 45 comments and they were mostly from John Paulus. I remember Little Green Footballs had thousands of comments for one single post several years back. So it seems to me his claim that his blog gets the top 1% comments to be a little suspicious.
And why your repeated requests to cite him? He posted AFTER zombie’s posts.
Zombie is far more well known as a blogger than John Paulus. And if you thought Zombie was against gays, you are way wrong. I think Zombie is more socially liberal but more conservative in terms of economic model and governmental rule (less government).
This whole page is a farce. It is obviously intended to discredit the Occupy Movement. Do not waste your time here if you are a supporter of the movement.
Don’t let . . . on the way out, etc. etc.
“Zombie” (a soulless corpse with no brain activity), what an apropos name for a moderator of this absurd blog. What a complete and utter waste of energy. Instead of directing your power of thought toward helping people, you instead only bring them down further, spiraling deeper into your own pathetic, paranoid, and corrupt version of reality. It’s sad & soulless individuals like yourself that only worsen the cause, that give “true” Americans a bad name. You are probably a right-wing shill, but if not, your blog is reprehensibly foul and unforgivable. You and your manipulating and deceitful ilk are the “true” terrorists.
I AM helping people. I am helping to save them from the nightmare anti-utopia envisioned by the Occuposers.
“‘Zombie’ (a soulless corpse with no brain activity), what an apropos name for a moderator of this absurd blog. What a complete and utter waste of energy. Instead of directing your power of thought toward helping people, you instead only bring them down further, spiraling deeper into your own pathetic, paranoid, and corrupt version of reality.”
Irony.
Please tell me…how has OWS helped anyone? By spreading antisemitism, supporting Islamic Mullahs who desire to start a nuclear war, brainwashing its followers with group chants, and spread drugs and violence where it should, if it followed its tenants more thoughtfully, be spreading peace and understanding?
“It’s sad & soulless individuals like yourself that only worsen the cause, that give ‘true’ Americans a bad name.”
True Americans respond to the charges leveled against them with a refutation, not a mindless rant consisting entirely of Ad Hominem attacks.
Hell isn’t just a place, you know.
“You are probably a right-wing shill, but if not, your blog is reprehensibly foul and unforgivable. You and your manipulating and deceitful ilk are the ‘true’ terrorists.”
The increasing anti-Right bend in OWS rhetoric displayed here is unsurprising. At first, my friends who identified with the movement informed me that they identified with both parties…how sad it isn’t true.
Of course, Conservatives are against Antisemitism, against Maoist brainwashing practices, against mob justice….against pretty much OWS has become.
I am surprised that any human being on this Earth in your position would attempt to turn the charges of Paranoia leveled against you on your accusers. Of course, such is the nature of paranoia: it sees itself when someone shows them a mirror.
If you can balance this and include sponsors that don’t sound crazy, then, aside from knowing whom to boycott, you could probably try to get this into Wikipedia. You are pretty close to their rules. (But good luck!)
Did Obama actually clearly support them?
Don’t forget the AdBusters, who claim responsibility for starting the whole thing.
http://www.adbusters.org/
I’m unpleasantly surprised, disappointed, and suspicious about the inclusion of 911truth.org being on here. That is a legitimate movement to investigate and uncover the truth about 9/11, whereas OWS is undeniably a radical leftist movement that will ultimately have unfortunate consequences.
911truth.org are a bunch of kooks. Sorry, I gotta calls it as I sees it.
Radical Muslim terrorists flew airplanes into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Period. End of conspiracy.
Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton:
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=32494
“Here’s Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Labor telling Occupy LA that they are right about everything. He even gets in a dig on the Koch brothers. Oddly there’s no mention of George Soros, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates or any of the other progressive billionaires who supported President Obama:”
Some here are all bent out of shape because they think it’s unfair to tar the OWS people by listing their supporters, you know, people like Bloomberg and Obama. But we don’t need a list of supporters to condemn OWS. We can just look at their signs, read their proclamations, listen to their interviews and see who is involved, like the communists and the Nazis marching down the street along with the anarchists.
What’s more informative is what the list says about the OWS supporters and what THEY believe in – collectivism, statism and tyranny mostly.
The US border Guard is listed under “supporters, sponsors, and sympathizers”. However on their site this is exactly what is posted…”“Occupy Phoenix”
On October 15th, 2011, the U.S. Border Guard deployed an urban combat trained security squad to the Occupy Phoenix rally today as armed peace keepers and legal observers. Border Rangers who patrol the border took a non-political stance to defend peaceful assembly and free speech of all citizens by exercising our right to keep and bear arms. Phoenix Police units were on scene also keeping the peace. Our founding fathers and founding mothers knew full well that the 2nd Amendment is what protects all our other amendments from tyranny. The U.S.B.G. protected the rights of all parties involved.”
This does not exactly sound like they “support” the OWS movement in as much as they simply support free speech. Even the police officers in each of the respective cities are their to protect the free speech of the protesters just as they are protecting property. This does not mean the police are supporting the protesters and I think the same goes for the US border guard.
Sorry for the grammatical error….there not their. And for the record I do not support the OWS movement. I do believe they have the right to assemble and protest peacefully.
Any union member who does not want to their dues to support their union leaders political targets, can declare Financial Core per U. S. Supreme Court decision COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICAN v. BECK (No 86-637, June 29, 1988). The become a dues paying non-member with union contract protections.
There are a few very important isssues that need to be addressed. CHEMTRAILS MUST STOP! Our drinking water must be clean and free of harmful toxic chemicals. The Patriot Act must be deemed unconstitional. The spy on you bill must be deemed unconstitional. The National I.D.card must never become law. Church and State law must be enforced. We the people must be aware and allowed to vote on any new ammendments bills and new laws. Here something new you can preach……..As we walk and yell and shout…….We all closed our bank account…. …..We Know Where Our Money Went…….But Your Not Getting Every Cent Thanks God Bless .
Is this site still active? There hasn’t been an update in awhile…
Your list is not complete. You’re missing this:
VATICAN SUPPORTS OCCUPY WALL STREET
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/275-42/8069-vatican-supports-occupy-wall-street
I wouldn’t characterize Ron Paul’s statement as unqualified support. There’s plenty in his brief response to indicate he would only support protests aimed at the FEDERAL RESERVE, and only IF they were PEACEFUL. (It’s always good to actually read an article, not just the headline. In this case, the headline was terribly misleading.)
“Texas Congressman and GOP Presidential candidate Ron Paul has offered support for ‘some of the Occupy Wall Street protests’ that have now spread nationwide, The Hill reported Monday.
‘If they were demonstrating peacefully, and making a point, and arguing our case, and drawing attention to the Fed — I would say, good!’, he told Reason magazine Friday after a town hall meeting in New Hampshire.’”
Continue reading on Examiner.com Ron Paul offers support for Wall Street protests – Spokane Conservative | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/ron-paul-offers-support-for-wall-street-protests#ixzz1dMEbzrlZ
If you read the comments on the sites of the so called supporters you will find the list to stumping for wall street. Example is the so called support from whiterevolution.com. I don’t see it as support but more understanding of a long term problem in this country. Read for yourself.
The Occupy Wall Street herds are a mixed lot. Many of the protest’s organizers were originally allied with the ‘Anonymous’ group of hackers. As an outgrowth of the ‘Black Block’ anti-racist, anti-establishment, anti-corporate left wing consortiums of a decade ago whom I and others in the White Nationalist movement fought in the streets from D.C. to Boston to York and all over, they are decidedly leftists. However, along with that liberal anti-elitism comes a sympathy for the Palestinian cause. Additionally, they can’t criticize Wall Street or corporate media or the banking industry without criticizing Jews, by definition. What that has led to is, in isolated but growing areas of their multi-city protests, a vocal naming of the Jew. It remains to be seen whether, in hindsight once America goes down, these and subsequent protests will be seen like the Stamp Act and Intolerable Act protests of the predecessors to our Founding Fathers are seen, today. One thing is certain, however: people from every end of the political spectrum now object to the status quo. Everyone hates the rich. Everyone distrusts the controlled media. Everyone resents the banking industry and the Federal Reserve. We all would like to “occupy Wall Street”. More and more people are willing to name the Jew.
Who wants to occupy Pennsylvania Avenue?
“However, along with that liberal anti-elitism”
Its ironically pro-elitist. My friends who identify with the cause have been known to claim that Fascism had a good economic model, (they forgot it plundered from its victims—itself, an economically wise thing to do. But not a moral one.) Sure, its anti-establishment, but who are the people complaining the most? College kids, and no greater elitist can be found.
“comes a sympathy for the Palestinian cause. Additionally, they can’t criticize Wall Street or corporate media or the banking industry without criticizing Jews, by definition. What that has led to is, in isolated but growing areas of their multi-city protests, a vocal naming of the Jew.”
I should hope not. The Palestinians desire to start a third world war, after which it is believed will come an Islamic messiah. And growing antisemitic sentimentality has for many Western countries been a sign of a coming fiscal and cultural collapse.
“It remains to be seen whether, in hindsight once America goes down, these and subsequent protests will be seen like the Stamp Act and Intolerable Act protests of the predecessors to our Founding Fathers are seen, today.”
They won’t. Trust me on that one. The Founding Fathers gave a legacy of Classical Liberalism—a desire to help one’s fellow man, an institution devoted to Benevolence, and a firm faith in Hospitality and Charity.
“One thing is certain, however: people from every end of the political spectrum now object to the status quo. Everyone hates the rich. Everyone distrusts the controlled media. Everyone resents the banking industry and the Federal Reserve. We all would like to ‘occupy Wall Street’. More and more people are willing to name the Jew.”
I have, as a Conservative, been more concerned with spreading my faith in Hospitality and Charity, (PRACTICAL Hospitality and Charity,) to all my fellow Americans, including the rich ones, and including the Jew. (Indeed, I am strongly in favor of shutting down the Tyrannies of the Middle Eastern regimes, freeing my Christian and Jewish brethren, and even the Animists, from oppressive Islamic rule. I’d rather not see World War Three happen when the Muslim Brotherhood gets their hand on a nuclear bomb.) Tidings of Comfort and Joy!
Yes, I hate the present status quo—the status quo of a people wholly dedicated to their destruction and the destruction of everyone around them. (No, not da’Jooooooos.) I maintain that the present government should be held to a standard, but I hold that so should the present culture. Our society is on the fast track towards an untimely death.
1.6 fertility rate. That’s what we have here, in part thanks to an anti-maternal culture, the legalization of abortion, and the enabling of purposeless divorce. And its also the average in Europe. Their population is growing, but that’s because of Islamic immigration, all of it purposefully aimed at conquering Europe without a shot. The Islamic world has been trying for years, and now the antisemitic fascist types have returned, and are opening the door.
Support our allies in Israel and South Sudan! An iron veil is falling across our country, and it is our duty to see that the veil splits.
Up here in wannabe Vancouver, I’m getting defriended (by a drug dealer who’s so stupid he hasn’t realized that now he’s big time on ye olde police files, and a guy who’s known by the whole town as a rich kid, whose mommy gave him everything)because I’ve had the audacity to mention things like – bank transfer day? Hey, where do you think them loans to start up a credit union comes from? That’s right…oopsie. Moving money around in their playground, that’ll show ‘em. And stuff like, up here? Canada’s posting growth in all sectors, mininum wage is going up, housing for the homeless, and you know-good stuff. As in, canadaians aint got no reason for doing anything. Never mind that OWS Vancouver has maybe 50 people, Calgary-yeesh, 3. And Gregor’s doing a bang up job, actually. But hey, losing ‘friends’ on effbook is like, not even as bad as getting an owsie. Har har.
Forgot – not one canuck bank got any bailout money.
This needs to be spread around
Imagine the odds of this happening.
Do you know the park in NYC that the Wall Street protesters are occupying?
It’s Zuccotti Park.
Did you know this park is not owned by the city of New York?
It is owned by Brookfield Properties.
Who was just hired by Brookfield Properties as an attorney?
Vice President Joe Biden’s son.
Who sits on the board of Brookfield Properties?
Mayor Bloomberg’s live in girlfriend.
Now, guess what company just received some of the last of the Obama Stimulus $.
That’s right, Brookfield Properties.
Now on completely unrelated note but equally curious.
Wisconsin is shaping up to be the swing state in the 2012 presidential elections.
Not Florida, not Ohio, but Wisconsin.
Now guess who owns the company that will be tabulating the electronic votes in Wisconsin.
The largest contributor to the Obama Presidential campainge, George Soros.
Stalin said – “He who votes does not have the power. He who counts the votes has the power.”
This story is total crap. they resist sponsorship and affiliation:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/occupyphoenix/occupy-wall-st-statement-of-autonomy/276885542356121
Anyone can state their support, but that doesn’t make them an affiliate because they don’t have any.
What does the title of this blog post say?
Let’s read it out loud together, so that maybe you can understand it this time: “Occupy Wall Street’s supporters, sponsors and sympathizers”
They may say they “resist sponsorship,” but when you accept money and donations, then my friend, you have been sponsored. Millions of dollars worth of cash, food, tents, and other good have been donated to OWS.
You may not like the facts, but your not liking of them doesn’t make them go away.
your all brainwashed createns, now make a list of all the great support they have, wait i forgot your close minded and only feel your right talk about the trash bringing this world down, i cant wait till you eat your words.
Then suggest adding them.
So, you can’t? I am really quite curious.
Maybe we oppose this movement because it is run by those who bring people down. George Soros, for instance, who has gone to great lengths to “unify the world,” under guess-who, including corrupt stock market deals, (which are responsible for the current economic troubles of Russia,) corrupt political dealings, (he is the only man to benefit from the rejection of the new gas pipeline—which has raised a number of eyebrows, considering how buddy-buddy he is with Obama,) and distributing a great deal of propaganda. And concerning that propaganda, a great deal of it has been spread by your own cohorts in OWS.
This movement is reminiscent of the story G.K. Chesterton told concerning a wooden lantern. Many people in the town came together as a mob and decided to tear it down, each for their own reason. They went to a nearby monk, (this was in the days that the monastic were often revered for their wisdom, but such days were passing by this time,) and asked him what he suggested. The monk began speaking, saying “now, if we consider the theological nature of light…” at which point he was, quite excusably, knocked down, and the mob continued off to tear down the lantern, impatient as they were. When they had done so, (it was night,) darkness descended, and a scuffle ensued, for some had come to replace it with a new, more efficient electrical light, some because their deeds were evil and they sought the cover of darkness, and some because they just wanted to knock things down. Eventually, the mob dispersed and the lantern was restored.
A beautiful story, and one would’ve thought it was said of today’s troubles. In reality, is was written of a great many troubles of his day. G.K. Chesterton’s standards were raised later by the great C.S. Lewis and the great J.R.R. Tolkien. These three men have contributed greatly to the Classically Liberal, aka Conservative, philosophy, and were also strict anti-fascists. Odd, considering that one of the many contradictory narratives among the OWS protestors, is that Conservative philosophy is fascist. Perhaps this narrative is one of the many results of a bad education brought to you by the Fascist-inspired New Deal politics, which some among the OWS would strengthen?
as a former marine i am sad to say i faught for this country and people like you, if i had a choice i would open my arms to the world to come and have their way with this country and people like you. im ashamed to call you fellow americans.
Why did you leave out Folk Slingers Arlo Guthrie and Pete Saeger, along with Woody’s Grand Daughter Sara Lee Guthrie? Don’t buy into Glenn’s fear mongering.
OWS is going to be what the people make it. I hope we can focus on things that will help all 7 Billion Humans, flying through space on Beautiful Mother Earth.
Since we need sound money, which we have never had, lets gt out of the Fed. The best way I’ve hard to do that, is to follow what North Dakota has been doing fine with for 90 years, with its State Bank. Other States are studying how to do it.
If we don’t fix Healthcare, the price will double in 10 years, probably with less care. Vermont’s and Montana’s Single Payer could very well be worth other States checking out.
And need we mention that ending the wars is a must. Why the hell not close all over seas Military Bases, and put the Vets, and others to work rebuilding this Broken Promised Land?
But on other thing: Communities should study how to set up the Worker Ownership of the Mondragon Cooperative, of the Basque in Spain. There is an Evergreen Cooperative in Cleveland, and Richmond California, is putting people to work by starting smaller Cooperatives. Its a better way to work. Don’t we all want that?
“Why did you leave out Folk Slingers Arlo Guthrie and Pete Saeger, along with Woody’s Grand Daughter Sara Lee Guthrie? Don’t buy into Glenn’s fear mongering.”
Fear is a necessary emotion—without it, we would have gone extinct long ago.
Please assume benevolence until malevolence can be readily proven—if you wish the same to be assumed of you. It is such charges that are causing the divisiveness alive and well in the Western World.
“OWS is going to be what the people make it. I hope we can focus on things that will help all 7 Billion Humans, flying through space on Beautiful Mother Earth.”
Everything abstract is what people make it.
Concerning the blind worship of Mother Nature to be found here, I find, like G.K. Chesterton once pointed out, that those who admire Nature’s virtues in the daylight often commit her atrocities by the moonlight. Nature is just as flawed as humanity—indeed, there is reason to suppose that Nature has corrupted us, not the other way around. “Nature is our sister, not our mother; she, too, has fallen.”
“Since we need sound money, which we have never had, lets gt out of the Fed. The best way I’ve hard to do that, is to follow what North Dakota has been doing fine with for 90 years, with its State Bank. Other States are studying how to do it.”
A worthy ambition, perhaps.
“If we don’t fix Healthcare, the price will double in 10 years, probably with less care. Vermont’s and Montana’s Single Payer could very well be worth other States checking out.”
What do you mean by “fixing” Healthcare? If you mean abolishing the Insurance industry, I am behind you. But that is most assuredly NOT what you mean—you mean that you desire the nationalization of the Insurance Scam, which will result in the deaths, not merely the destitution, of millions.
“And need we mention that ending the wars is a must. Why the hell not close all over seas Military Bases, and put the Vets, and others to work rebuilding this Broken Promised Land?”
Because most of the Broken Promised Land is run by Islamic Mullahs who desire to start a Third World War, and the only way to stop them is to support the rebellions and have the Islamic Brotherhood’s stranglehold on power eroded. You would have us send the Vets into a death trap. To send them there, without proper armament, would get them killed by the fascists who run most of those countries.
“But on other thing: Communities should study how to set up the Worker Ownership of the Mondragon Cooperative, of the Basque in Spain. There is an Evergreen Cooperative in Cleveland, and Richmond California, is putting people to work by starting smaller Cooperatives. Its a better way to work. Don’t we all want that?”
The only reason such an initiative has survived is because it has borrowed the livelihood of its Capitalist surroundings. It is quite arguable that, in fact, the Mondragon Cooperative has contributed to the recent fiscal crisis. (Mob rule. Oh boy. That worked so well for China.)
Looks like this site is still alive…an odd thought struck me the other day. Based on the first intuition, when I saw what was happening, and questioned why was stuff happening up here in Canada – oh, I see, to make it look global…the thought being that the people of North America proper, are seeing this for what it is, an attempt to generate tension, and then capitalize on that tension, and wisely holding back. They’re hopefully not buying the bread and circuses sideshow going on.
All of these people and organizations are filth and need Borax.
THESE however;
white revolution
david duke
american nazi party
Traitorous, and THAT has its own payment required.
Its pretty amazing. I suspect that if you combine the list of OWS supporters with TP supporters, you’ll find that everyone making less than a million bucks a year or more is pissed of with our current government. Maybe we should all get together and form the “None of the Above” Party.
Check the hooker’s unions. The Democrats in San Fran. want legalized prostitution. (so do i, but no one should be forced to join a union)
This kind of hatred and deliberate misinformation is the reason threre’s so much distrust in this country.
As a 99%er, I spend Saturdays on a street corner in a small town respectfully exercizing my Constitutional right to free assembly and freedom of speech. We are not violent, do not seek to change anyone’s perception of us, but hope to get you talking about the message, rather than the messenger. We represent the aspirations of most Americans, who BTW, are NOT rich, and do not seek to discredit anyone. I am a 100% disabled Vietnam Veteran seeking fairness in my country. We are not backed or supported by these radical groups, and we don’t do the heinous things you claim. vets4afairamerica.
“This kind of hatred and deliberate misinformation is the reason threre’s so much distrust in this country.”
Concerning the charge of hatred, I do believe that, like me, our hosts here at PJMedia are not indulging in such a vice, but are rather criticizing their fellow man, as all men have the right to do under the U.S. Constitution. As an artist, I find criticism helpful. I would think as a critical thinker, you would, too, but I find that political activists do not like to critically think…a sad but noteworthy fact in need of correcting. Concerning the charge of misinformation, check the sources. You have refuted none.
“As a 99%er,”
This term at this point has such a negative stigma, I would avoid it, altogether.
“I spend Saturdays on a street corner in a small town respectfully exercizing my Constitutional right to free assembly and freedom of speech. We are not violent, do not seek to change anyone’s perception of us, but hope to get you talking about the message, rather than the messenger.”
A noble ambition, which I sympathize with. It would do a great deal for your cause if your compatriots, rather than responding to the charges leveled with obfuscation and misdirection and mumbled socialist-reminiscent slogans, would answer these criticisms:
a) For all OWS’s talk of desiring to see the reform of Wall Street and its cabal, (Wall Street IS a casino,) OWS carefully avoids speaking of the reform of the Government, beyond an INCREASE of regulation, despite the historical facts that INCREASED regulation is followed by an increase in corrupt dealings, and a mechanism has been provided to explain the cause and effect phenomenon responsible, which no OWS supporter has yet to refute.
b) For a group obviously inspired by the notion of order, OWS has been known to leave quite a mess in its wake, and is well known for harassing bystanders, including young children, and has not answered for its faults.
c) For a group so concerned by the prolific amounts of propaganda, (some imaginary, on their part, such as the supposed “media blackout,” which it has been revealed, contrary to OWS’s claims, happened to the Tea Party in its beginnings, as well,) the OWS uses a great deal of brainwashing techniques.
“We represent the aspirations of most Americans, who BTW, are NOT rich, and do not seek to discredit anyone. I am a 100% disabled Vietnam Veteran seeking fairness in my country. We are not backed or supported by these radical groups, and we don’t do the heinous things you claim. vets4afairamerica.”
Then prove it. A quick search on Google will reveal the charges leveled against you, and you will find that the Mass Media has not, contrary to OWS claims, manufactured them, but has done its best to support and cover up the actions of OWS. Instead, it is small, Conservative blogs like this that have levelled the charges against you, with a great deal of backing.
At best, this argument you have provided is a simple Apriorism fallacy.
A small town’s riot is not a good example, in this context. I live near Portland, and I can tell you, the Occupy Portland movement has caused a great deal of trouble for my family, personally.
In its beginnings, I almost sympathized with the OWS movement—it seemed to be a movement dedicated to transcending the political order, and restoring the balance between charity and thrift. But it has since alienated the greatest supporters of such a balance, contributed to the paranoia of society, leveled unfair charges against those it claimed to support, (the Classical Liberal, also known as the Modern Conservative,) and has failed to answer the charges leveled against it with anything more substantial than claims of mob unaccountability. It has come to the Point of No Return for OWS.
There are a few problems. One of them is that free speech has time and place restrictions. There are also these things in our country my people call “property rights”. If you follow the first and respect the second, good for you. However, please recognize that there is more than occasional abuse of them by your fellow protesters.
Also, none of this is misinformation. It’s just information on one side. Unless one of these endorsements is not actually an endorsement, in which case please elaborate.
As for the violence aspect, you yourself may not be violent and that’s good. However, we have plenty of reports of violence at Occupy camps and by Occupy protesters. This is because the Occupy Movement welcomes degenerates, radicals, and people with no real opposition to violence or respect of private property. The violence and crime fairly well documented, for a vague, amorphous, wibbly-wobbly protesty-westy thing as the Occupy movement. The Occupy Movement doesn’t self-regulate like the Tea Party does.
I don’t know what you mean by “100% disabled.” Do explain.
WHAT IS REALLY BAD IS ALL THOSE PEOPLE TOOK TIME OUT TO PROTEST,WHERE WERE THE REST US.WHY ALWAYS IS IT OTHERS DOING OUR JOB???
Talking things out reasonably and politely. Its almost like protests DON’T get things done, but only get people, quite understandably, angry at you.
Words of grace turn back worlds of anger.
That, and most of the U.S. is Capitalist, not socialist or anarchist. Its almost like Capitalism is the mode of operation of the Middle Class, which is the single largest demographic.
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