Thread: Occupy Wall Street around the world.... Your thoughts and feelings about it!

Interesting - how foreign corporations are operating in Russia - do they have to pay bribes too?

Of course, they do.

Throwing stuff at policemen will not win the heart and minds of most Americans:

Violence Escalates At 'Occupy' Protests In New York City | Fox News

Scott

Originally Posted by fortheether

Throwing stuff at policemen will not win the heart and minds of most Americans:

Violence Escalates At 'Occupy' Protests In New York City | Fox News

Scott

We wanted to shut down business as usual. I think we've done that.

Would it be somewhat criminal if I wanted to shut them down?

Some small businessmen in the area are now protesting the occupiers:

Downtown Workers in NYC Take on 'Occupy' Protesters - Fox News Video - Fox News

Funny sign: "Occupy a Desk!"

Scott

Are these the goals of the occupiers???

Blog: What does Occupy Wall Street Want?

I found some here:

99 Percent Declaration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Liberty Square Blueprint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You folks that support this movement what do you think of these goals?

Scott

Originally Posted by fortheether

Are these the goals of the occupiers???

Blog: What does Occupy Wall Street Want?

Scott

LOLWUT? Is this some kind of a joke?

• Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Unionize ALL workers immediately.
• Raise the minimum wage immediately to $18/hr. Create a maximum wage of $90/hr to eliminate inequality.
• Institute a 6 hour workday, and 6 weeks of paid vacation.
• Institute a moratorium on all foreclosures and layoffs immediately.
• Repeal racist and xenophobic English-only laws.
• Open the borders to all immigrants, legal or illegal. Offer immediate, unconditional amnesty, to all undocumented residents of the US.
• Create a single-payer, universal health care system.
• Pass stricter campaign finance reform laws. Ban all private donations. All campaigns will receive equal funding, provided by the taxpayers.
• Institute a negative income tax, and tax the very rich at rates up to 90%.
• Pass far stricter environmental protection and animal rights laws.
• Allow workers to elect their supervisors.
• Lower the retirement age to 55. Increase Social Security benefits.
• Create a 5% annual wealth tax for the very rich.
• Ban the private ownership of land.
• Make homeschooling illegal. Religious fanatics use it to feed their children propaganda.
• Reduce the age of majority to 16.
• Abolish the death penalty and life in prison. We call for the immediate release of all death row inmates from death row and transferred to regular prisons.
• Release all political prisoners immediately.
• Immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Abolish the debt limit.
• Ban private gun ownership.
• Strengthen the separation of church and state.
• Immediate debt forgiveness for all.
• End the 'War on Drugs'.

In other words - we do not want to work, let them rich feed us.
I thought better of these clowns. This is ridiculous!

Thank you Russian tax payers for subsidizing a TV channel that reports the reality about these demonstrations, instead of the propaganda version that they are crazy hooligans or lazy hippies.

Originally Posted by Ramil

In other words - we do not want to work, let them rich feed us.
I thought better of these clowns. This is ridiculous!

Look at it from a different perspective:

This is a country that can afford to start neo colonial wars on a bi-annual basis, that is pouring money and aid over corrupt dictatorships and that has filthy rich people who have never worked a day in their lives. It thinks it has a moral right to tell other countries what to do and it uses regular citizens money to save incompetent and corrupt banks and bank directors.

Yet, in this country sick citizens are not guaranteed treatment, a decent education is a class privilege and hundreds of thousands are homeless and millions are living in poverty.

Of course something is wrong! Yes, there are lazy free-riders in this world, but there are also greedy thieves who will stop at no amount of immoral behaviour to stuff their own pockets. Unfortunately America has a lot of such people, and unfortunately these people also have the backing of the US military, police and media.

I think the OWS are right to protest and should continue until the elections in order to try to really make a difference.

If regular Americans finally wake up to the sorry state they've been lead into by banks and corporations, it would be a really good thing.

Originally Posted by Ramil

LOLWUT? Is this some kind of a joke?

• Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Unionize ALL workers immediately.
• Raise the minimum wage immediately to $18/hr. Create a maximum wage of $90/hr to eliminate inequality.
• Institute a 6 hour workday, and 6 weeks of paid vacation.
• Institute a moratorium on all foreclosures and layoffs immediately.
• Repeal racist and xenophobic English-only laws.
• Open the borders to all immigrants, legal or illegal. Offer immediate, unconditional amnesty, to all undocumented residents of the US.
• Create a single-payer, universal health care system.
• Pass stricter campaign finance reform laws. Ban all private donations. All campaigns will receive equal funding, provided by the taxpayers.
• Institute a negative income tax, and tax the very rich at rates up to 90%.
• Pass far stricter environmental protection and animal rights laws.
• Allow workers to elect their supervisors.
• Lower the retirement age to 55. Increase Social Security benefits.
• Create a 5% annual wealth tax for the very rich.
• Ban the private ownership of land.
• Make homeschooling illegal. Religious fanatics use it to feed their children propaganda.
• Reduce the age of majority to 16.
• Abolish the death penalty and life in prison. We call for the immediate release of all death row inmates from death row and transferred to regular prisons.
• Release all political prisoners immediately.
• Immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Abolish the debt limit.
• Ban private gun ownership.
• Strengthen the separation of church and state.
• Immediate debt forgiveness for all.
• End the 'War on Drugs'.

In other words - we do not want to work, let them rich feed us.
I thought better of these clowns. This is ridiculous!

Welcome to the club bro! xD

I'm glad your eyes are open now.

"Let them rich feed us" - as far as I understand, the "rich" will be those with max salary of $90 an hour. LOL
Which are being planned to be taxed up to 90%. Now do simple math, and finally realize, fellow Americans, all they want is everyone making no more than $40,000 a year ($20 an hour). In fact, they want to take away (basically, steal) YOUR money and YOUR property! Would you sign up for this retarded commie manifesto?

Originally Posted by Ramil

LOLWUT? Is this some kind of a joke?
In other words - we do not want to work, let them rich feed us.
I thought better of these clowns. This is ridiculous!

Ramil... if someone already responded to you... sorry... but when I read this I too was surprised and took a look at the link. There is now this note:

Admin Note: This is not an official list of demands. The user "bchang1987" who posted this speaks only for themself, not the movement. This website would never in a million years endorse a list of demands of the 1%.

Now... I did come across what IMHO is an interesting blog from a 1% who claims he is also a 99%

Scott might be able to support this one...

What the Occupy Movement Should Demand - Barry Schuler's Synapsis

Originally Posted by Ramil

LOLWUT? Is this some kind of a joke?

• Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Unionize ALL workers immediately.
• Raise the minimum wage immediately to $18/hr. Create a maximum wage of $90/hr to eliminate inequality.
• Institute a 6 hour workday, and 6 weeks of paid vacation.
• Institute a moratorium on all foreclosures and layoffs immediately.
• Repeal racist and xenophobic English-only laws.
• Open the borders to all immigrants, legal or illegal. Offer immediate, unconditional amnesty, to all undocumented residents of the US.
• Create a single-payer, universal health care system.
• Pass stricter campaign finance reform laws. Ban all private donations. All campaigns will receive equal funding, provided by the taxpayers.
• Institute a negative income tax, and tax the very rich at rates up to 90%.
• Pass far stricter environmental protection and animal rights laws.
• Allow workers to elect their supervisors.
• Lower the retirement age to 55. Increase Social Security benefits.
• Create a 5% annual wealth tax for the very rich.
• Ban the private ownership of land.
• Make homeschooling illegal. Religious fanatics use it to feed their children propaganda.
• Reduce the age of majority to 16.
• Abolish the death penalty and life in prison. We call for the immediate release of all death row inmates from death row and transferred to regular prisons.
• Release all political prisoners immediately.
• Immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Abolish the debt limit.
• Ban private gun ownership.
• Strengthen the separation of church and state.
• Immediate debt forgiveness for all.
• End the 'War on Drugs'.

In other words - we do not want to work, let them rich feed us.
I thought better of these clowns. This is ridiculous!

From what I read on the website, which I had to find by clicking from the link from the other guys' "blog" about another website - this list was by no means a final, put-this-out-to-the-media-to-represent-us list.. Correct me if I'm wrong or if it's already been pointed out, but..

THIS WAS CLEARLY MARKED UNDER ::
Posted 1 month ago on Oct. 23, 2011, 11:21 p.m. EST by anonymous
This content is user submitted and not an official statement


.. Here's the direct link, без игр:
Forum Post: Proposed list of OWS Demands | OccupyWallSt.org

Likely you'll notice on the third or fourth line, yeah, this was posted by some guy, and was not official.

Hope the deadline on mind-closing hasn't passed yet.