#Occupy Demonstrators In Times Square, New York City
October 15, 2011 (Photo: © 2011 John De Guzman)
They say it’s because you’re lazy. They say it’s because you make poor choices. They say it’s because you’re spoiled. If you’d only apply yourself a little more, worked a little harder, planned a little better, things would go well for you. Why do you need more help? Haven’t they helped you enough? They say you have no one to blame but yourself. They say it’s all your fault.
-- We are the 99 Percent, the Tumblr Of #Occupy
Mother Jones online has an interactive map of the growing international scope of the #Occupy protests. They also have a timeline of the development of the actions since they began in New York City on September 17th, along with charts and links to additional information.
(Click To View Larger Map. It's Easy And Fun!)
However, as most already know, The Revolution Will Be Digitized and is primarily taking place in Tweetspace -- where, unfortunately, Big Brother can listen in and run analytics on them just as well as Twitter can.
MEHR:
This is Why They Hate You and Want You to Die
By Josh Brown (The Reformed Broker)
You want to know why everyone in this country hates you and wants you dead, you big stupid fucking bank?
Here's why, pay attention:(Reuters) – Bank of America Corp will pay $11 million to ousted executives Joe Price and Sallie Krawcheck, a large payout at a time when banks face protests over pay but smaller than the eight-figure packages some executives received before the financial crisis...
Elevenmilliondollars? What the hell world are you inhabiting? Eleven million dollars for two departing executives because things didn't work out?...
It's not that this isn't your prerogative as a private company - it is. But ...almost like you're making these payments to get a reaction out people.
...when thousands of people are massing in every major city in the country to make the case that you don't deserve to exist... when you're being investigated for employing robo-signers just to maintain a certain level of foreclosures processed per month. At a time when you're laying off rank-and-file employees not by the hundreds, not by the thousands - but in the tens of thousands.
At a time when retired seniors, desperately seeking income, have been pushed into annuities, life settlements, commodities and junk bonds because of the zero percent interest rate policy that was meant to nurse you and your balance sheet back to health - and this is what you do with their money? With OUR money?
Are you crazy?
You pay fired executives more in severance than the average American worker will earn in a lifetime. For most people on the outside looking in, this seems like it's from outer space, another world entirely. These numbers just do not exist to regular human beings, they cannot be fathomed.
The ordinary American is not a class warrior or a woe-is-me whiner coveting the rewards of others - the ordinary American simply believes that extraordinary rewards should go to those who do extraordinary things, not to paper-pushing failures at parasite banks.
So let me give you a hint... This is why they hate you. This very type of thing, while just a single example, epitomizes the piggish mentality that has set you apart from everyone else. This is why they're marching against you and calling for boycotts and writing their politicians. And this is why your whole model and way of life is on its way to being dead. Forever.
...You blew the second chance you got with TARP to re-enter society as a productive component of commerce. You went back to bonus-swilling, full-retard mode as though nothing ever happened and 13 million people weren't sitting around in their post credit-bubble joblessness for three years now.
...You've managed to awaken one of the most indolent, lethargic and apathetic populaces in the history of the world... a slumbering nation of 300 million from it's Entennman's and Zoloft-induced stupor. America is awake now and it's pissed.
Good luck with that.
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