M$M Cuts Oakland OWS Live feed to avoid showing.... [Archive]

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 10:08 PM

...people being tear gassed and rubber bulleted on the streets of America

from twitter..

Woman in a wheelchair in the middle of the gas cloud: http://yfrog.com/h8dgtfxjj #occupyoakland
11 minutes ago
Max Blumenthal
MaxBlumenthal Max Blumenthal
#OccupyOakland protester bleeding from head after police fire teargas, percussion grenades yfrog.com/h6lnyewj
11 minutes ago
poems
Ghostpickles poems
#OccupyOakland Cops just opened fire on peaceful crowd with less-than-lethal rounds and teargas. Open act of war on American people by Gov't
12 minutes ago
Oakland North
northoaklandnow Oakland North
Eyes.burning. throats on fire. Tear gassed. #occupyoakland. Ppl crying and coughing
19 minutes ago
David Ferreira
FourYawkeyWay David Ferreira
horrific: police just started teargassing & firing rubber bullets a minute after ABC cuts its live feed. #occupyoakland #ows
20 minutes ago
JKD
JacqKD JKD
POLICE JUST FLASHBANGED US. Smoke everywhere. People running. (Including me.) #occupyoakland
21 minutes ago
AK Press
AKPressDistro AK Press
#OccupyOakland local news channels are cutting their live feeds to avoid showing crowds being tear gassed right now
21 minutes ago

Link (http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23OccupyOakland)

Me thinks the oppressors in Oakland have opened a big can of worms...

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 10:12 PM

From ABC

before...

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6045/6281597203_d587261850_z.jpg

after...

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6239/6281604911_748b57dc9d_z.jpg

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 10:32 PM

Live feed from the OWS people.........

http://www.occupystream.com/

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 10:46 PM

Raw Video of the Oakland attack on peaceful protestors...

bytMNoKNeRA

ElNono

10-25-2011, 10:49 PM

Looks like M$M is reporting on it...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/tear-gas-fired-occupy-oakland-protest.html

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 10:54 PM

Looks like M$M is reporting on it...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/tear-gas-fired-occupy-oakland-protest.html

Local source..and a blog at that....watch the M$M turn this on the protestors...

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 10:58 PM

Update: ....the police are retreating and occupiers are retaking the park...

Trainwreck2100

10-25-2011, 11:00 PM

that phrasing doesn't sound very peaceful

ElNono

10-25-2011, 11:01 PM

Local source..and a blog at that....watch the M$M turn this on the protestors...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/25/BAUB1LLTC9.DTL&tsp=1

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 11:06 PM

Yeah, let's see how much they show in Atlanta....from reports, looks like things could reach a tipping point soon...

live stream: http://www.occupystream.com/

Trainwreck2100

10-25-2011, 11:07 PM

Yeah, let's see how much they show in Atlanta....from reports, looks like things could reach a tipping point soon...

live stream: http://www.occupystream.com/

lol tipping point

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 11:10 PM

lol tipping point

you can't see what's right in front of you, can you? ......

MannyIsGod

10-25-2011, 11:14 PM

Why they fuck are they tear gassing peaceful protests. This is NOT fucking Syria.

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 11:15 PM

shit could be going down in Atlanta....Oakland protestors are reengaging police...

ABC News is showing sharks right now

:lol

MannyIsGod

10-25-2011, 11:24 PM

WOW - this is REALLY pissing me off. There's no justification for these actions. None.

ChumpDumper

10-25-2011, 11:26 PM

Sorry dan, it's all over the news. You aren't looking.

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 11:27 PM

...that's how fast this goes down....I said a year....we may not make it...

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 11:28 PM

Sorry dan, it's all over the news. You aren't looking.

Of course it is now....they look stupid as shit....how they covering it?

vato loco

10-25-2011, 11:29 PM

its on cnn

does this happen wit a white president in charge?

ChumpDumper

10-25-2011, 11:29 PM

Of course it is now....they look stupid as shit....how they covering it?:lol thanks for confirming you weren't looking at all.

:toast

They beat you to the story,

ChumpDumper

10-25-2011, 11:30 PM

its on cnn

does this happen wit a white president in charge?Maybe sooner.

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 11:33 PM

its on cnn

does this happen wit a white president in charge?

Yes....this is about Obama's inaction too...in has not held WS accountable...he has not taking the reigns against the banks...Timothy Geithner is still there ....

Trainwreck2100

10-25-2011, 11:33 PM

WOW - this is REALLY pissing me off. There's no justification for these actions. None.

Well it is oakland

ChumpDumper

10-25-2011, 11:35 PM

Yes....this is about Obama's inaction too...in has not held WS accountable...he has not taking the reigns against the banks...Timothy Geithner is still there ....What specific legislation or executive order is occupy Oakland calling for?

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 11:40 PM

:lol thanks for confirming you weren't looking at all.

:toast

They beat you to the story,

I'm not on 24-7 like you Chumpy....and I rarely watch cable news.

ElNono

10-25-2011, 11:41 PM

Well it is oakland

this

ChumpDumper

10-25-2011, 11:41 PM

I'm not on 24-7 like you Chumpy....and I rarely watch cable news.That's not what is being discussed here.

You made a claim that was patently and provably false. That you don't know how I could prove you wrong is even more laughable.

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 11:42 PM

the fact remains...ABC News and all the other M$M are still wondering how to treat these attacks....by morning they will turn it on the protestors...book it...

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 11:43 PM

That's not what is being discussed here.

You made a claim that was patently and provably false. That you don't know how I could prove you wrong is even more laughable.

That's what your talking about Chumpy.....put down the bong...

ChumpDumper

10-25-2011, 11:45 PM

the fact remains...ABC News and all the other M$M are still wondering how to treat these attacks....by morning they will turn it on the protestors...book it...All the other?

You haven't looked at ANY of them.

That's what your talking about Chumpy.....put down the bong...Yes, I'm talking about your being full of shit.

Again.

Stringer_Bell

10-25-2011, 11:46 PM

Let's be honest, if the Oakland people didn't look like a bunch of homeless people leeching off each other and stinking up the place, they PROLLY wouldn't be getting kicked out right now.

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 11:49 PM

All the other?

You haven't looked at ANY of them.

Yes, I'm talking about your being full of shit.

Again.

Fact: Did they show the attacks live? ...no

your the one who is full of shit chumpy...

Nbadan

10-25-2011, 11:50 PM

Let's be honest, if the Oakland people didn't look like a bunch of homeless people leeching off each other and stinking up the place, they PROLLY wouldn't be getting kicked out right now.

that maybe, but the equal rights protestors were black...

DarrinS

10-25-2011, 11:56 PM

Yawn. Clicking over to ESPN.

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 12:02 AM

Yawn. Clicking over to ESPN.

change is never easy for the simple-minded....

The oakland livefeed is showing the attack again for those interested

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 12:22 AM

overhead video of police using chemical agents on the people of Oakland tonight

http://www.ktvu.com/video/29587140/index.html

Cry Havoc

10-26-2011, 12:40 AM

Yawn. Clicking over to ESPN.

Yep, no one has been killed/maimed yet so it doesn't interest you. Not shocking.

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 12:41 AM

Meanwhile in Atlanta police continue to arrest peaceful protestors

Occupy Atlanta | Police arrest protesters
By Christian Boone and Rhonda Cook
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Protesters had been ordered to leave the park. Those waiting to be arrested were sitting in a circle with their arms locked. Police starting handcuffing them with plastic handcuffs around 12:45 a.m. Many protesters would not get up on their own and some had to be dragged. Most protesters went peacefully.

Some of the people waiting to be arrested waved small American flags. About 40 to 50 people remained inside the park after midnight, including Sen. Vincent Fort (D-Atlanta), former Atlanta city councilman Derrick Boazman and Joe Beasley, the southern regional director of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Several hundred others were in the street, chanting and carrying signs. Fort was arrested around 1 a.m.

Motorcycle police moved in about 12:15 a.m. Wednesday and a helicopter circled overhead. Officers were also on horseback. Police went from tent to tent with flashlights, urging people to leave before a second warning was issued. Tents were removed from the park and placed on Peachtree Street.

Deputy Police Chief Calvin Moss announced at 11:52 p.m. Tuesday that the executive order allowing protesters to stay in the park has been revoked. Protesters were told to leave the park and any belongings left behind would be treated as abandoned property....

AJC (http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/occupy-atlanta-police-arrest-1209963.html)

ElNono

10-26-2011, 12:42 AM

Yawn. Clicking over to ESPN.

Special Olympics?

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 12:47 AM

rioting protestors

http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/nadinbrzezinski/AvoBHktbizHJnAltpbAgmergwDqtwCrksixnuCmyCaCJcGBnzu FaulteEekf/p86.jpg.scaled1000.jpg

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 12:50 AM

rubber bullet wound suffered tonight in Oakland

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y293/randymi34/308124_225284950871554_211470812252968_648605_1692 289504_n.jpg

MannyIsGod

10-26-2011, 12:50 AM

Yawn. Clicking over to ESPN.

I don't think you could make yourself look worse if you actually tried.

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 12:54 AM

Coverage for the Occupy Oakland demonstration was just terminated coincidentally just as the police arrived on the scene — the only livestream available is without sound. According to various sources, the media has been told to turn off their cameras and depart the scene and they reportedly acquiesced.

Link (http://www.politicususa.com/en/police-censorship-occupy-oakland)

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 01:07 AM

Meanwhile in Oakland, police have just fired another round of tear gas and imploding grenades at protestors

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

Trainwreck2100

10-26-2011, 01:10 AM

it's fucking Oakland, this shit happened before occupy protests

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 01:18 AM

More live video from Oakland...

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8405688

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 01:43 AM

....united we stand

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To our brothers and sisters in Oakland and Atlanta tonight....stay strong.

Halberto

10-26-2011, 01:52 AM

ElNono

10-26-2011, 01:56 AM

It's a conspiracy!

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 02:50 AM

Fact: Did they show the attacks live? ...no

your the one who is full of shit chumpy...

overhead video of police using chemical agents on the people of Oakland tonight

http://www.ktvu.com/video/29587140/index.html

More live video from Oakland...

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8405688:lmao

Wild Cobra

10-26-2011, 02:58 AM

rubber bullet wound suffered tonight in Oakland

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y293/randymi34/308124_225284950871554_211470812252968_648605_1692 289504_n.jpg

Well, why were you protesting in Oakland, and what did you do to piss the cops off?

Cry Havoc

10-26-2011, 06:40 AM

http://www.ktvu.com/video/29587714/index.html

Trying to help an injured person? That's a flash-bang.

SnakeBoy

10-26-2011, 06:55 AM

http://www.ktvu.com/video/29587714/index.html

Trying to help an injured person? That's a flash-bang.

I guess it wasn't their street after all.

MannyIsGod

10-26-2011, 07:17 AM

Snake boy thinker being upset over this is fake outrage.

DarrinS

10-26-2011, 07:20 AM

When you're being arrested, is the proper OWS hand signal "down twinkles"?

DarrinS

10-26-2011, 07:50 AM

Scoreboard:

"The Man" (unionized public servants): 1

Rebels without a cause: 0

SnakeBoy

10-26-2011, 01:00 PM

Snake boy thinker being upset over this is fake outrage.

:lol Still butthurt :lol

MannyIsGod

10-26-2011, 02:12 PM

If butthurt means I have your idiocy pegged then I'm butthurt

4>0rings

10-26-2011, 02:49 PM

Police say they were not percussion grenades but someone from the crowd throwing firecrackers. That's some big ass firecrackers.

Stringer_Bell

10-26-2011, 03:41 PM

When you're being arrested, is the proper OWS hand signal "down twinkles"?

:lol

http://cynthiadouglas.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/WorholDownTwinkles001.jpg

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 05:02 PM

Dan, I'm with you on the excessive force, but shut up about the media already. Do you think the camera guys want to stick around when the police department warns that tear gas is coming? Use your head.

Yeah, right....they stick around in war zones, and this blackout included most coverage from the air....funny how police synced their advance with the media having to go gas up the chopper...

Coincidink?

:lol

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 05:04 PM

:lmao

:rolleyes

Haven't seen Chumpy so off his game in a long time...

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 05:18 PM

The local police's use of force seriously injured an Occupy activist and Iraq War veteran.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/386993/thumbs/r-OCCUPY-OAKLAND-VETERAN-SHOOTING-huge.jpg

Scott Olsen, 24, remains sedated on a respirator, in stable but critical condition at Oakland’s Highland Hospital after being hit in the head with a police projectile.

Olsen's roommate, Keith Shannon, 24, told The Huffington Post that Olsen is still in the emergency room.

"Right now, he's under sedation," Shannon said. "He walked into the hospital." But soon after his arrival, Shannon said, doctors found that there was swelling in Olsen's brain and put him under. He did not get a chance to talk to his friend. "They are waiting for a neurosurgeon to examine him to see if he needs surgery or not," Shannon said. If he doesn't need an operation, he'll be moved to the intensive care unit.

Huff (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/26/iraq-vet-oakland-police-tear-gas_n_1033159.html)

MannyIsGod

10-26-2011, 05:27 PM

You have to be a complete asshole to minimize this. I don't care what you think about the media coverage, but for you to justify actions in America that I would expect in a country like Syria then is complete bullshit.

Its asinine for people like Darrin to act like people who care enough about the way our government is bought to protest are cry babies when all people like Darrin do is sit around and post Youtubes about ridiculous shit all day. I can't believe you at times, Darrin. You have the gall to conside yourself a fucking "alpha male" when you and I both know that you wouldn't know how to take control of a situation if your life depended on it. You're the god damn definition of a follower.

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 05:28 PM

Another view of Oakland last night...

Rgn4IXHyVdI

a even larger number of people are gathering again tonight...

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 06:40 PM

:rolleyes

Haven't seen Chumpy so off his game in a long time...Well, I've seen you own yourself like that fairly often.

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 06:41 PM

Another view of Oakland last night...

Rgn4IXHyVdI

a even larger number of people are gathering again tonight...Why?

Halberto

10-26-2011, 06:52 PM

Wow.... I'm shocked at the callousness of some of you. You're fucking idiots. Seriously, I pity you.

FuzzyLumpkins

10-26-2011, 07:05 PM

Why?

I imagine they are going for symbolic effect from the MLK/Gahndi stripe.

You keep on tear gassing them when they aren't looting and the like and you start looking like a tyrant cause well that is what tyrants do.

MannyIsGod

10-26-2011, 07:09 PM

Wow.... I'm shocked at the callousness of some of you. You're fucking idiots. Seriously, I pity you.

People like Darrin have more important concerns like lightbulbs and dishwasher soap.

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 07:09 PM

MannyIsGod

10-26-2011, 07:11 PM

Trainwreck2100

10-26-2011, 07:12 PM

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 07:21 PM

I don't think that will be much an issue considering the makeup of the movement. If Oakland decides to teargas nonviolent protesters again then fairly soon you'll have people like me joining their ranks. There is only so much we should have to put up with and everyone reaches a breaking point somewhere.I agree with the sentiment. Reminds me a bit of the Bonus Army, except they actually had a reason for being there.

Ultimately there will be actual organized movements coming out of this.

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 07:32 PM

I agree with the sentiment. Reminds me a bit of the Bonus Army, except they actually had a reason for being there.

Ultimately there will be actual organized movements coming out of this.

:lmao

The OWS crowd.... is very well organized....of course, Chumpy has been reading too much of the 9/11 commission report lately to understand what's actually going on...the disconnect is very wingnut like though...me thinks Chumpy has crossed over to the dark side...

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 07:34 PM

If they can keep it nonviolent on their end. Good luck.

Weren't you in the 'winter is gonna end this soon' crowd just last week

:lol

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 07:37 PM

I imagine they are going for symbolic effect from the MLK/Gahndi stripe.

You keep on tear gassing them when they aren't looting and the like and you start looking like a tyrant cause well that is what tyrants do.

They won't be able to help themselves, tyrants can only stand freedom of speech for so long.....expect the CIA to attempt to inflitrate the OWS movement and try to undermine the message before this grows out of their control...

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 07:39 PM

:lmao

The OWS crowd.... is very well organized....of course, Chumpy has been reading too much of the 9/11 commission report lately to understand what's actually going on...the disconnect is very wingnut like though...me thinks Chumpy has crossed over to the dark side...Disconnected is your saying the MSM is refusing to cove the event live, then providing live links from the MSM.

Weren't you in the 'winter is gonna end this soon' crowd just last week

:lolNope. You're wrong again.

Keep the streak alive, dan.

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 07:42 PM

Maybe you can tell me what these folks are actually calling for, dan.

I'm all for their right to protest, but what exactly is it?

Thanks in advance.

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 07:46 PM

Disconnected is your saying the MSM is refusing to cove the event live, then providing live links from the MSM.

One camera out of many which were there last night, and there was no audio..hell, I'm the one who provided that video...my point was that the M$M complied with the Oakland Police to not cover them shooting chemical agents and rubber bullets at Americans close up...I stand by that statement and unless you can prove otherwise, I am right and you are wrong...

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 07:48 PM

Maybe you can tell me what these folks are actually calling for, dan.

I'm all for their right to protest, but what exactly is it?

Thanks in advance.

You are out of touch...they've had a list of demands since this started...

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 07:49 PM

One camera out of many which were there last night, and there was no audio..hell, I'm the one who provided that video...my point was that the M$M complied with the Oakland Police to not cover them shooting chemical agents and rubber bullets at Americans close up...I stand by that statement and unless you can prove otherwise, I am right and you are wrong...It's a conspiracy!

Do you ever just step back and read what you post?

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 07:49 PM

You are out of touch...they've had a list of demands since this started...Which are....?

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 07:51 PM

tbh I don't know why I should know the list of demands for each and every occupy movement in all the cities where they are occurring.

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 07:53 PM

Have you forgotten how to use the Google too?

http://www.thetruthdenied.com/news/2011/09/29/the-declaration-of-the-occupation-of-new-york-city/

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 07:54 PM

tbh I don't know why I should know the list of demands for each and every occupy movement in all the cities where they are occurring.

All the cities are synced with Wall Street...duh!

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 07:56 PM

It's a conspiracy!

Do you ever just step back and read what you post?

Everything is a conspiracy to you Chumpy......except the 9/11 commission report that features Tenet lying so much I'm surprised there aren't some of RG's infamous flying unicorns in the report...

:lol

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 07:56 PM

That list isn't a call for anything.

That's a bitch list.

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 07:58 PM

Everything is a conspiracy to you Chumpy......except the 9/11 commission report that features Tenet lying so much I'm surprised there aren't some of RG's infamous flying unicorns in the report...

:lolWhat do you think really happened on 9/11, dan?

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 07:58 PM

Who came up with that list?

Did everyone in the movement across the nation take a vote on the content?

Please explain.

go to the website and learn about the movement yourself, unless your real goal is not to learn about the movement...

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 07:59 PM

go to the website and learn about the movement yourself, unless your real goal is not to learn about the movement...I asked you what they were calling for and you came up with nothing.

That about sums it up for me.

Thanks for your help. :toast

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 08:00 PM

What do you think really happened on 9/11, dan?

:lol

0BwOXlGbW6Q

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 08:00 PM

go to the website and learn about the movement yourself, unless your real goal is not to learn about the movement...How did that website become the official website?

How did that bitch list become the official bitch list?

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 08:01 PM

:lol

0BwOXlGbW6Q:lol

After all these years, dan is still a fucking coward.

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 08:25 PM

go to the website and learn about the movement yourself, unless your real goal is not to learn about the movement...I went to the "about" section of the website and found that the only person listed is a former musician(?) currently working on a documentary called “The Truth Denied, Chemtrails Kill.”

Does she speak for you, dan?

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 08:29 PM

:lol

After all these years, dan is still a fucking coward.

...and there you have it...the last refuge of a desperate internet bully.....when all else fails use foul language....I'm done with you....loser...

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 08:32 PM

...and there you have it...the last refuge of a desperate internet bully.....when all else fails use foul language....I'm done with you....loser......and there you have it...dan was looking for an excuse to run away....coward....

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 08:35 PM

lol foul language

http://spurstalk.com/forums/search.php?searchid=3135798

lol last refuge

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 08:36 PM

Who's running? I'm still here....I'm just not going to debate you anymore...

Conservative blogger gets busted trying to plant drug paraphernalia at one of the occupy sites...

in the video, Maloney is seen giving out Che Guevara rolling papers. A male protester shouts "false, false!" as Maloney is confronted by cameraman Joey Boots, a regular guest on the Howard Stern show. Boots accuses Maloney of trying to create a photo-op for Fox News. Maloney responds by stating that he is just "giving away free stuff" because he is a "nice guy". Boots suggests that Maloney give away blankets if he wants to help so bad.

tFnotKQNaeY

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 08:39 PM

Who's running? I'm still here....I'm just not going to debate you anymore...Anymore?

You never were debating. You were just owning yourself and then trying to mitigate the damage you did to yourself.

Do you consider yourself an internets bully since you use foul language fairly regularly?

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 08:55 PM

Occupy day 40

h_hFJktvxVQ

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 09:04 PM

Occupy day 40

h_hFJktvxVQHow could you watch this?

He said "fuck" at the 2:30 mark.

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 09:34 PM

Quit being butthurt and go away...

Thousands of protestors running through new york right now

http://www.emergencystream.com/

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 09:36 PM

Quit being butthurt and go away...Quit being a coward.

Thousands of protestors running through new york right now

http://www.emergencystream.com/What do they want?

Does it have to do with chemtrails?

Oh, it's a MAINSTREAM MEDIA feed!

:lmao

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 09:42 PM

The crowd seems to be getting bigger as they march....really proud of these people

http://www.emergencystream.com/

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 09:43 PM

They certainly aren't running.

Are they marching against chemtrails?

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 09:48 PM

OK, now they're running.

From the motorbike cops.

DarrinS

10-26-2011, 09:51 PM

Who's running? I'm still here....I'm just not going to debate you anymore...

Conservative blogger gets busted trying to plant drug paraphernalia at one of the occupy sites...

tFnotKQNaeY

Hilarious

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 09:52 PM

Are they actually going somewhere or are they just wandering around the city?

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 09:57 PM

This is just incredible....the cops have tried to stop them ....but they just keep going...

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 10:12 PM

Looks like they are back at the park....surrounded by 100's of police....hope nothing else happens tonight...

Halberto

10-26-2011, 10:27 PM

Darrin my left nut is smarter than you.

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 10:41 PM

Occupiers have successfully reoccupied the plaza in Oakland...100's of police are converging on the area..

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/livenow?id=8405688

MaNuMaNiAc

10-26-2011, 10:50 PM

I must admit I'm not really up on the current situation of the protests, but I hesitate to take anything Nbadan says seriously. This is a man that thinks Chavez is benevolent and good and has his people's best interests at heart... to say Nbadan talks out of his ass is the understatement of the year.

Honestly, Dan, do the protesters a favor and get off their side. Fucking partisan hack if I ever saw one.

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 10:53 PM

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 10:56 PM

by the way....how's that international forum going? ....I have big ideas if you've officially abandoned it..

MaNuMaNiAc

10-26-2011, 10:57 PM

What are your credentials again? Oh that's right you have none...

I have thousands of post in this forum....

Hell, I started it..

:lmao my credentials?

I don't give a fuck if you started Spurstalk, you're still full of shit 90% of the time. You twist everything to push your bullshit agenda. You're a hack, face it. You're just the original one, if that makes you feel better.

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 10:57 PM

:lmao my credentials?

I don't give a fuck if you started Spurstalk, you're still full of shit 90% of the time. You twist everything to push your bullshit agenda. You're a hack, face it. You're just the original one, if that makes you feel better.

Hell.you can't even run a forum...

MaNuMaNiAc

10-26-2011, 10:58 PM

by the way....how's that international forum going? ....I have big ideas if you've officially abandoned it..

Can't wait to hear them. I'm all ears

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 10:59 PM

How about you just hand me the keys...I'll make it bigger than this forum..

MaNuMaNiAc

10-26-2011, 10:59 PM

Hell.you can't even run a forum...

maybe so, but you're STILL full of crap Dan.

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 11:01 PM

Love ya....chumpy too...

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 11:07 PM

looks like we could get another round of tear gas in Oakland....

Where is Nightline? Bernie Maydoff...

:lol

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 11:11 PM

Live stream from Oakland...

http://www.livestream.com/occupyoakland

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 11:12 PM

Much like you, it's not as important as you think.

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 11:20 PM

Aerial view looks ominous as Oakland police line up possibly to engage protestors

http://www.keloland.com/custompages/cbslive/

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 11:20 PM

Much like you, it's not as important as you think.

:sleep

MannyIsGod

10-26-2011, 11:21 PM

:lmao @ Dan's never ending delusions of grandeur.

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 11:23 PM

Who invited you to the party? delusions of grandeur? :lol

.....geezz get a job...

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 11:27 PM

3 wanna be forum moderators....this can't be a coincidink....

ChumpDumper

10-26-2011, 11:30 PM

3 wanna be forum moderators....this can't be a coincidink....So your being called a delusional windbag has to be a conspiracy too, eh?

Quelle surprise!

Nbadan

10-26-2011, 11:44 PM

That means soooooo much coming from a douche like you...I just can't tell ya...

....right there man....right there....

Nbadan

10-27-2011, 12:20 AM

Looks like police are getting ready to crack some heads in San Francisco

OccupySF has received reliable word from law enforcement and government officials that a police raid will happen tonight

Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/OccupySF)

Nbadan

10-27-2011, 12:22 AM

Public Defender Jeff Adachi, Board President David Chiu and State Senator Leland Yee are at Justin Herman Plaza hoping to stave off a potential police raid. Labor leaders and members of the clergy are also there.

Nbadan

10-27-2011, 12:44 AM

Let's recap

Let the Marines lead...

thousands of protestors led by Marines re-occupied the plaza in Oakland tonight....

hundreds more arrests were made tonight in cities across the country, many in NY

There is a impending police raid on the peaceful protestors in San Francisco...many town leaders have joined the protestors tonight to try and discourage a impending police attack.

Thousands of protestors from Oakland are trying to load the BART transportation system to get to San Francisco to support fellow protestors but are being denied entry by police..

redzero

10-27-2011, 01:30 AM

What are your credentials again? Oh that's right you have none...

I have thousands of post in this forum....

I didn't realize "thousands of posts on an internet forum" is a credential.

ElNono

10-27-2011, 01:37 AM

Is the M$M still hiding the truth?

ChumpDumper

10-27-2011, 03:12 AM

Is the M$M still hiding the truth?YES!

Here is a link to a story about it from CBS News!

ChumpDumper

10-27-2011, 03:14 AM

That means soooooo much coming from a douche like you...I just can't tell ya...Um, there were three of us.

And you said it wasn't a coincidence.

Again, do you even realize what you post?

Wild Cobra

10-27-2011, 03:26 AM

Impossible to know the whole truth.

Olsen for example sustained injuries probably from his fall. Could he have just passed out? Maybe he was hit, but why did he drop as if he fainted? Did he lock his knees like they tell you not to in the military?

ChumpDumper

10-27-2011, 03:28 AM

Do you get dizzy spinning so hard?

Wild Cobra

10-27-2011, 03:31 AM

Do you get dizzy spinning so hard?
No, just making sure people know that there are other possibilities than what is reported.

Cry Havoc

10-27-2011, 06:16 AM

boutons_deux

10-27-2011, 07:08 AM

http://front.moveon.org/war%2Dveteran%2Dwounded%2Dby%2Dpolice%2Dat%2Doccup y%2Doakland%2Dstun%2Dgrenade%2Dthrown%2Dat%2Dfolks %2Dhelping%2Dhim/?id=32340-4330971-cVGaVzx

ElNono

10-27-2011, 08:50 AM

MannyIsGod

10-27-2011, 09:25 AM

Where's the transcript?

:lmao

This shit will never get old.

MannyIsGod

10-27-2011, 09:26 AM

Who invited you to the party? delusions of grandeur? :lol

.....geezz get a job...

Pft, I have two and I'm a full time student. All of that and I still have time to make you look like a fool.

:toast

Cry Havoc

10-27-2011, 09:51 AM

http://www.businessinsider.com/marine-to-police-you-did-this-to-my-brother-2011-10

MARINES TO OAKLAND POLICE: 'You Did This To My Brother'

Marines around the world are outraged by the injuries inflicted by police on Scott Olsen at Tuesday's Occupy Oakland protests. Olsen is in a medically-induced coma after getting hit in the head by a police projectile.
The following picture is taken from the Reddit thread "How I feel, as a United States Marine, about what occurred in Oakland."
This man is not alone. In the five hours since the thread went up there have been over 600 comments.

http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/4ea91b91ecad046a47000010/marine.jpg

This was the #1 link on Reddit over the past 24 hours.

Cry Havoc

10-27-2011, 10:00 AM

In b4 WC says he's not a real marine because he's got an ear/lipring and is probably a faker, or denigrates him for some strawman tangent.

Cry Havoc

10-27-2011, 10:16 AM

"His skull was able to be cracked from being hit by a tear gas canister, so he obviously isn't a real soldier."

MannyIsGod

10-27-2011, 02:17 PM

Good thing no flashbangs were used.

QqNOPZLw03Q

DarrinS

10-27-2011, 02:24 PM

http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/10/occupy-oakland-protesters-violence

Divisions in the #OccupyOakland Protest Seed Unrest

Violence came in waves. Many demonstrators peace-saluted police and called through bullhorns: "This is a peaceful protest! This is a civilian movement!" But from the moment I arrived in Oakland at 10:15 p.m., I saw a visible minority spoiling for conflict. Tinder had built across the night at the intersection of 14th Street and Broadway, a mixture of expectation and adrenaline. Protesters had balked at what they saw as disproportionate policing: They'd been teargassed once already. But how to respond was a matter of intense debate in the crowd of about 1,000.

People shouted each other down while police—as many as 100, in full riot gear, from several different counties—bristled in their formation behind a single metal barricade; news and police helicopters provided the soundtrack. Xavier Manalo, a 25-year-old tennis instructor holding the forward-most protest banner, admitted there were "rogue elements" in the group but insisted the "pressure of the peaceful will be the deterrent" to the violence.

Manalo was wrong. I saw groups of protestors arguing, not only with the police—who were the constant subject of heckling and catcalls—but with each other. There were calls to retaliate by throwing things like eggs back over the barricade, just as a big group of around 40 people started to chant, "Don't Throw Shit! Don't Throw Shit!"

Time passed and restlessness set in. Another fight broke out in front of me.

"You don't need to be splitting this fucking movement!" one man yelled at a guy holding a bullhorn who had been trying to reassure police of the group's peaceful motives. He was angry that the man with the megaphone had characterized a group of demonstrators as violent. "You don't have to be doing their fucking work for them!" he yelled.

No one appeared in control and the group was divided into two groups: the largely peaceful, and a small, visible, determined group of agitators.

At the height of this melee, I saw two men throw bottles at the police. People screamed and scrambled for air ahead of the inevitable: a half-dozen canisters of tear gas—some crackling and echoing off the Rite Aid building. Caught up in taking pictures, I breathed and choked. It felt like I had swallowed chilies and then rubbed the chilies into my eyes for good measure. I heard reports of rubber bullets and saw demonstrators tending to the distressed. My Twitter feed told me of at least one bloody injury—a man hit in the head with a canister—but the gas made the intersection impossible to rejoin for 10 minutes to confirm injuries.

A brief lull, then this scene repeated. The group came back together—around 800—with protesters calling to those who were still cowering behind bus shelters or cleaning their eyes to "not be afraid," to "not run away." And so it began again: talks, disagreements about engagement, improvised debates about the meaning of nonviolence, and a swirling sense of anticipation.

The breaker: Another bottle was hurled from the crowd and tear gas canisters were lobbed back. Accord between the protestors had not been reached.

In the end, the group waned, the police swelled, and there was a steady stalemate at the metal perimeter of the intersection—not only between protesters and police, but also between protesters and other protesters. People circled on bicycles; meditators chanted, eyes clenched; and reporters simply waited.

"Occupy Oakland is no longer playing a part in this protest," one officer told me—rogue actors, he suggested, had taken control. And indeed by midnight, the earlier calls for peace had fallen away to catcalls and heckling.

"We're losing if we're losing people," said a 24-year-old protester who said his first name was LaMarr. "It's about to be over soon."

As the protesters filtered away, I spoke with a group of tired cops covered in blue and orange paint—and that wasn't all, said one sergeant who wouldn't give his name. He said they'd also been pelted with glass and vinegar, and one officer claimed to have tasted urine in the mix. So how did tonight compare with others he's seen? He laughed and said, "Well, it's not quite a homicide."

DarrinS

10-27-2011, 02:35 PM

Good thing no flashbangs were used.

QqNOPZLw03Q

Ever heard of a tear gas grenade?

MannyIsGod

10-27-2011, 02:37 PM

Ever heard of a tear gas grenade?

Oh, is SOP to toss a fucking grenade of any sort into a group that is obviously helping someone who is injured?

Ever heard of common sense?

DarrinS

10-27-2011, 02:40 PM

Oh, is SOP to toss a fucking grenade of any sort into a group that is obviously helping someone who is injured?

Ever heard of common sense?

Probably not common sense to throw bottles at police, either.

RandomGuy

10-27-2011, 02:48 PM

I didn't realize "thousands of posts on an internet forum" is a credential.

http://www.trephination.net/gallery/macros/youarenot.gif

MannyIsGod

10-27-2011, 02:50 PM

Probably not common sense to throw bottles at police, either.

Did you see bottles being thrown in that video? No?

ElNono

10-27-2011, 03:58 PM

Why aren't the cops tossing water bottles instead of tear gas grenades?

DarrinS

10-27-2011, 04:05 PM

Did you see bottles being thrown in that video? No?

Oops

eHlHiNEZ1wA

MannyIsGod

10-27-2011, 04:10 PM

I see the words "that video" confused you. Understandable.

For the record, a cop throws a grenade at me at that range when I'm not doing shit to them and bottles thrown at them is compeltely legit.

FuzzyLumpkins

10-27-2011, 04:18 PM

in Darrin's world if i slap you its okay to hit me over the head and kill me. His corporate lobbyist overlords better hope that soldier lives.

DarrinS

10-27-2011, 04:21 PM

Police never use tear gas to break up unruly mobs.

MannyIsGod

10-27-2011, 04:24 PM

:lol helping someone hurt equals being unruly. You're such a good little boy, Darrin.

FuzzyLumpkins

10-27-2011, 04:25 PM

Police never use tear gas to break up unruly mobs.

Its called appropriate use of force and not carte blanche.

DarrinS

10-27-2011, 04:26 PM

:lol helping someone hurt equals being unruly. You're such a good little boy, Darrin.

You don't know what really happened, do you?

MannyIsGod

10-27-2011, 04:31 PM

You don't know what really happened, do you?

I know that common sense tells me that grenade in the video I posted did not need to be thrown. The police officer who threw it even did it a cowardly way as it was evident he was trying to hide it. The people in that crowd were not threatening anyone (which considering the situation is commendable).

Every action by the Oakland PD and the people they answer too after this event only proves that further. They're walking their bullshit back faster than even you could muster.

FuzzyLumpkins

10-27-2011, 04:32 PM

You don't know what really happened, do you?

Its quite simple. The police told all the press to disperse. Lined up theeir Riot Rockettes with shields and batons used a loudspeaker to tell the crowd they would either disperse or be made to disperse at which point the crowd told them to go fuck their pig selves and a few threw some debris in which not a single officer was harmed. In response the police launched metal canisters containing tear gas into the crowd and advanced. Most of the people ran because despite your attempt at categorization of the whole, the vast majority are peaceful. At least one man might die because of police action.

Cry Havoc

10-27-2011, 04:45 PM

To protect and serve. Lawl.

Nbadan

10-27-2011, 10:35 PM

I didn't realize "thousands of posts on an internet forum" is a credential.

Says the guy who spends his days posting in the cesspool called the club.....I can't even read that forum anymore...

Nbadan

10-27-2011, 10:41 PM

Its quite simple. The police told all the press to disperse. Lined up theeir Riot Rockettes with shields and batons used a loudspeaker to tell the crowd they would either disperse or be made to disperse at which point the crowd told them to go fuck their pig selves and a few threw some debris in which not a single officer was harmed. In response the police launched metal canisters containing tear gas into the crowd and advanced. Most of the people ran because despite your attempt at categorization of the whole, the vast majority are peaceful. At least one man might die because of police action.

Don't forget that a few good men, Marines, led a group of protestors past police back into the plaza last night...

Nbadan

10-27-2011, 10:59 PM

Hey, what'd you know...protestors were firing at police

http://i.imgur.com/27Gqp.jpg

redzero

10-27-2011, 11:05 PM

Says the guy who spends his days posting in the cesspool called the club.....I can't even read that forum anymore...

I don't know why, since you will fit right in with your fellow mentally retarded conspiracy theorists like mouse and cosmored.

Nbadan

10-27-2011, 11:11 PM

I don't know why, since you will fit right in with your fellow mentally retarded conspiracy theorists like mouse and cosmored.

You seriously trying to compare me to Mouse....run along little boy before you get hurt....back to the cess pool from where you came...

Nbadan

10-27-2011, 11:18 PM

Google does the right thing...

We received a request from a local law enforcement agency to remove YouTube videos of police brutality, which we did not remove. Separately, we received requests from a different local law enforcement agency for removal of videos allegedly defaming law enforcement officials. We did not comply with those requests, which we have categorized in this Report as defamation requests.

Good on Google. This report, reflecting the months from January to June of this year, sets an important precedent, one that is surely relevant as videos of violent police behavior from the Occupy protests grow in number and play counts. With this report, Google seems to be indicating that users who post such videos have the company's protection. In places like Egypt and Tunisia, the spread of videos portraying government brutality seems to have galvanized protesters. If Google were to take down such videos, that could have a powerful detrimental effect on the Occupy movement.

Altantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/10/google-refuses-to-remove-police-brutality-videos/247462/#.TqmXLkLmFsk.facebook)

redzero

10-27-2011, 11:24 PM

You seriously trying to compare me to Mouse....run along little boy before you get hurt....back to the cess pool from where you came...

:lol I forgot, you have thousands of posts on an internet forum. You're clearly not the one to mess with.

Nbadan

10-27-2011, 11:44 PM

Yeah, yeah, my post count...who are you again?

redzero

10-27-2011, 11:50 PM

I don't think that being a punchline on a forum is a good thing. You probably should stop bragging about it.

Nbadan

10-27-2011, 11:58 PM

Oh...Your still here...what were we talking about again?

Yes...I'm sure you have made quite the impression in the Club.....probably have one or two people who really give a shit whether you ever post again or not...I'm not one...

redzero

10-28-2011, 12:03 AM

I don't only post in the Club. I don't know where you're getting that from.

And you have no room to call anything a cesspool, since everybody on here thinks you're a joke with delusions of grandeur, just like your buddy mouse.

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 12:07 AM

What are you Manny's bitch...your Manny's bitch aren't you? How precious....

I could start a thread that my balls itch and it will have 100 unique views by next week....200 within 2 weeks.....

....but nobody cares.....keep telling yourself that bitch....

redzero

10-28-2011, 12:24 AM

I could start a thread that my balls itch and it will have 100 unique views by next week....200 within 2 weeks.....

:wow Wow, what an accomplishment. That should go on your resume right after "I have thousands of posts on an internet forum."

Cry Havoc

10-28-2011, 12:35 AM

I could start a thread that my balls itch and it will have 100 unique views by next week....200 within 2 weeks.....

:lmao

Did this guy really just say that.

:lmao

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 12:36 AM

:wow Wow, what an accomplishment. That should go on your resume right after "I have thousands of posts on an internet forum."

Resume? why would I ever need a resume?

Unlike yourself who still think about small things like resumes I am self-made, family and love rich, and well respected within my profession.......you on the other hand seemed possessed with a immature, alpha-dog mentality with I'm sure has worked out so well for you in your career......

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 12:39 AM

:lmao

Did this guy really just say that.

:lmao

He really said that....unlike yourself, I understand the power of numbers...100 or 200 views may not seem impressive on its own, but multiply that by the 200 threads I start each month...for years..

redzero

10-28-2011, 12:42 AM

Damn, nbuhdan, you're a badass. When is your autobiography coming out? I'm sure everybody on here is dying to read it.

ChumpDumper

10-28-2011, 12:42 AM

...and there you have it...the last refuge of a desperate internet bully.....when all else fails use foul language....I'm done with you....loser...
What are you Manny's bitch...your Manny's bitch aren't you? How precious....

I could start a thread that my balls itch and it will have 100 unique views by next week....200 within 2 weeks.....

....but nobody cares.....keep telling yourself that bitch....:rollin

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 12:43 AM

Funny you should say that, I am currently working on a book on Mathematics.....

.....this is my down time...

redzero

10-28-2011, 12:47 AM

So, which director do you want to direct to big screen adaptation of your amazing life? Scorsese? Fincher? The Coens? Your phone must be ringing off the hook day and night.

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 12:51 AM

Wait till I start my new website....

ChumpDumper

10-28-2011, 12:52 AM

Wait till I start my new website....Will it be about chemtrails?

Drachen

10-28-2011, 12:54 AM

So, which director do you want to direct to big screen adaptation of your amazing life? Scorsese? Fincher? The Coens? Your phone must be ringing off the hook day and night.

isn't mouse a director

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 12:55 AM

Will it be about chemtrails?

chemtrails? No....but if Manumaniac doesn't get the international forum going soon I'm gonna light that place up...

redzero

10-28-2011, 12:58 AM

Good luck on your new website. What this world really needs is another website created by a delusional conspiracy theorist.

Hell, you might get three hundred unique viewers a day! Think about that.

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 12:58 AM

isn't mouse a director

Mouse needs to get his ass to Austin and cover the OWS crowd....maybe think up a few pranks...like citibank logoed deodorant....

ChumpDumper

10-28-2011, 12:58 AM

chemtrails? No....but if Manumaniac doesn't get the international forum going soon I'm gonna light that place up...Why?

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 12:59 AM

Good luck on your new website. What this world really needs is another website created by a delusional conspiracy theorist.

Hell, you might get three hundred unique viewers a day! Think about that.

I hope so, that would mean hundreds of $$$ per day....

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 01:02 AM

Why?

I've given him years....but I am only so patient....

Halloween would be a perfect time..

ElNono

10-28-2011, 01:03 AM

I can't find the videos on YouTube! Can you spell c-o-n-s-p-i-r-a-c-y!!!!

ChumpDumper

10-28-2011, 01:03 AM

I've given him years....but I am only so patient....

Halloween would be a perfect time..Given him years for what?

Drachen

10-28-2011, 01:04 AM

I hope so, that would mean hundreds of $$$ per day....

lol. 100 visitors a day will net you about 8 bucks a month.

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 01:04 AM

Given him years for what?

Get that forum going....

ChumpDumper

10-28-2011, 01:05 AM

Get that forum going....Why is that important to you?

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 01:05 AM

lol. 100 visitors a day will net you about 8 bucks a month.

...not quite....

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 01:06 AM

Why is that important to you?

Political forum is exploding...I'm simply thinking of expanding...so to say...

ElNono

10-28-2011, 01:07 AM

Why are you still posting here dan when you could be making the big bucks on your website?

ChumpDumper

10-28-2011, 01:10 AM

Political forum is exploding...How much money are you making off it?
I'm simply thinking of expanding...so to say...How much money will you make off it?

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 01:11 AM

Why are you still posting here dan when you could be making the big bucks on your website?

It's not about the cash...and it's certainly not about 'visions of graduer' either.....

redzero

10-28-2011, 01:11 AM

Nbuhdan's talents are clearly being wasted here. He should be out making the big bucks, and exposing the American government's lies on a fancy new website.

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 01:17 AM

There are plenty of websites which already do that....my site will be unique, proprietary and perpetual..

...and you know what I'm gonna do...I'm gonna give it all away....

Does that piss you off?

MannyIsGod

10-28-2011, 01:18 AM

:lmao

redzero

10-28-2011, 01:19 AM

Does that piss you off?

:madrun That makes me furious! :madrun

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 01:21 AM

Anyway...gotta run....remember ....halloween.....

watch out...

Wild Cobra

10-28-2011, 02:18 AM

Oops

eHlHiNEZ1wA
What a stupid child.

Maybe that guy with the fractured skull was hit by a protestors rock?

ChumpDumper

10-28-2011, 03:01 AM

What a stupid child.

Maybe that guy with the fractured skull was hit by a protestors rock?You're an idiot.

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 08:43 PM

All this is pretty simple really..

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/310511_282946218402505_106312466065882_978208_1456 870208_n.jpg

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 09:52 PM

Has America Become an Oligarchy?

The Second Gilded Age...

Still, statistics indicate that the growing disparity is genuinely overwhelming. In fact, the 400 wealthiest Americans now own more than the "lower" 150 million Americans put together.

Nearly two-thirds of net private assets are concentrated in the hands of 5 percent of Americans. In comparison, the upper 5 percent of Germany hold less than half of net assets. In 2009 alone, at the same time as the US was being convulsed by mass layoffs, the number of millionaires in the country skyrocketed.

Indeed, if you look at the reports it compiles on every country in the world, even the CIA has concluded that wealth disparity is greater in the US than in Tunisia or Egypt.

A New 'Gilded Age'

In a book published in 2010, American political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson discuss how this "hyperconcentration of economic gains at the top" also existed in the United States in the early 20th century, when industrial magnates -- such as John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan -- dominated the upper stratum of society and held the country firmly in their grip for years.

Writer Mark Twain coined the phrase "the Gilded Age" to describe that period of rapid growth, a time when the dazzling exterior of American life actually concealed mass unemployment, poverty and a society ripped in two.

Economists and political scientists believe the US has entered a new Gilded Age, a period of systematic inequality dominated by a new class of super-rich. The only difference is that, this time around, the super-rich are hedge fund managers and financial magnates instead of oil and rail barons.

A Threat to the World Economy

The academics fear this change could have serious consequences for the country's economic future. As they see it, this extreme inequality threatens to dramatically slow growth in the world's largest economy. This is part of a development, they argue, that has been under way for years but remained largely hidden in the years of cheap credit, rising real estate prices and excessive consumption -- when it seemed everyone was on the way up. And the problems only came to light with the arrival of the financial crisis.

Through the 1970s, income for Americans across all social classes rose nearly in lockstep, by an annual average of roughly 3 percent. Starting in the 1980s, however, this trend underwent a fundamental transformation. Granted, the economy continued to grow -- but almost exclusively to the benefit of the country's top earners. The major economic expansion under President Ronald Reagan benefited only a few, and the problem only grew worse under George W. Bush.

At least since the beginning of the millennium, it has no longer been a simple matter of two societal extremes drifting further apart. Instead, the development is also accelerating. In the years of economic growth between 2002 and 2007, 65 percent of the income gains went to the top 1 percent of taxpayers. Likewise, although the productivity of the US economy has increased considerably since the beginning of the millennium, most Americans haven't benefited from it, with average annual incomes falling by more than 10 percent, to $49,909 (€35,184).

Link (http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,793896,00.html)

A more pertinent question would be.......WHEN did America become an Oligarchy.

I was tempted to claim that happened during the Reagan Administration, but we DID have an Opposition Party during that time. It just wasn't very effective.

Nbadan

10-28-2011, 11:59 PM

Looks like the action is in San Diego tonight...arrests of peaceful protestors have been taking place all day and now this...

http://s1-03.twitpicproxy.com/photos/large/435604341.jpg

Nbadan

10-29-2011, 12:02 AM

Looks like a mob of people on the move again

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupysandiego

Nbadan

10-29-2011, 12:20 AM

Reports are that over 1000+ people are headed (marching) to the San Diego civic center where arrests have been taking place all day...police are arresting anyone who sits down or lays down...

Nbadan

10-29-2011, 12:23 AM

absolutely no M$M....yeah, coincidink...

Wild Cobra

10-29-2011, 12:26 AM

Maybe the M$M sees no interest in a bunch of lame brain protesting.

Nbadan

10-29-2011, 12:33 AM

Yeah, 1000's of people are marching through downtown, many getting arrested and the M$M doesn't give a shit....very telling...

Nbadan

10-29-2011, 12:41 AM

Riot police ready to crack head in San Diego

http://www.occupystream.com/

Cry Havoc

10-29-2011, 12:44 AM

What a stupid child.

Maybe that guy with the fractured skull was hit by a protestors rock?

Dude. Be more stupidly obvious in your trolling. You are not nearly as clever as you think you are, and it's really fucking pathetic.

Cry Havoc

10-29-2011, 12:56 AM

My name is Wild Cobra, and I make snide comments about marines in critical condition.

Fucking pussy.

Wild Cobra

10-29-2011, 01:04 AM

So allegations of how it happened are proof for you? I am only pointing out alternate possibilities. I have an open mind. Do you Crybaby?

For the record. I never said it didn't happen because of police action.

Cry Havoc

10-29-2011, 01:05 AM

So allegations of how it happened are proof for you? I am only pointing out alternate possibilities. I have an open mind. Do you Crybaby?

Look at the big man who's served in the armed forces. Calling other people names on a message board. You're so tough, WC. Such a badass. XD You mad, dude? I getting under your skin? Getting to your conscious? It's okay. No worries. It's patently obvious to everyone with half a brain how ridiculous you are.

Cry Havoc

10-29-2011, 01:07 AM

For the record. I never said it didn't happen because of police action.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Because insinuating doesn't mean shit! Neither does a flashbang in the faces of people rushing to help a marine in critical condition!

I'm ashamed of you. And you say you've served. NO serviceman I've EVER met would have the frame of mind to say the drivel you've spouted. Pathetic.

hitmanyr2k

10-29-2011, 01:13 AM

I'd rather be a Crybaby than a coward pussy bitch making fun of a marine in critical condition. You got a problem with that, pussy?

That's nothing new from Wild Cobra. He's the guy that called our troops in Iraq "pussies and mommy's boys" a few years back and he's still the same bitch today.

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2798101&postcount=40

Cry Havoc

10-29-2011, 01:16 AM

That's nothing new from Wild Cobra. He's the guy that called our troops in Iraq "pussies and mommy's boys" a few years back and he's still the same bitch today.

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2798101&postcount=40

To be fair, it's difficult to sound tough with your mouth firmly around the shaft of the GOP.

Wild Cobra

10-29-2011, 01:21 AM

That's nothing new from Wild Cobra. He's the guy that called our troops in Iraq "pussies and mommy's boys" a few years back and he's still the same bitch today.

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2798101&postcount=40
That's right. Be a history revisionist. I said "The few who are the big pussies and mommy's boys."

Do I need to direct you to a dictionary?

Wild Cobra

10-29-2011, 01:24 AM

Look at the big man who's served in the armed forces. Calling other people names on a message board. You're so tough, WC. Such a badass. XD You mad, dude? I getting under your skin? Getting to your conscious? It's okay. No worries. It's patently obvious to everyone with half a brain how ridiculous you are.
LOL...

Some days back, it appeared you had a mental breakdown and now you are accusing me of something similar?

You can't get under my skin. All I have to do is look at you sideways and you freak out.

hitmanyr2k

10-29-2011, 01:28 AM

That's right. Be a history revisionist. I said "The few who are the big pussies and mommy's boys."

Do I need to direct you to a dictionary?

There's nothing revisionist about it. You called troops serving in Iraq pussies and mommy's boys...period. Doesn't matter if you try to qualify it with that "the few" bullshit. Like I said before, no troop's service in war deserves to be ridiculed by your bitch ass.

Wild Cobra

10-29-2011, 01:33 AM

There's nothing revisionist about it. You called troops serving in Iraq pussies and mommy's boys...period. Doesn't matter if you try to qualify it with that "the few" bullshit. Like I said before, no troop's service in war deserves to be ridiculed by your bitch ass.
LOL...

You just won't admit you made a mistake, will you. Shows you have no manhood. You're the pussy.

FuzzyLumpkins

10-29-2011, 01:50 AM

What a stupid child.

Maybe that guy with the fractured skull was hit by a protestors rock?

She is young. Whatever you may think of her, you're old, stupid and manipulated. There is no hope for you.

Cry Havoc

10-29-2011, 01:57 AM

LOL...

Some days back, it appeared you had a mental breakdown and now you are accusing me of something similar?

You can't get under my skin. All I have to do is look at you sideways and you freak out.

:lmao Don't confuse my intolerance of your idiocy for anything more than being completely blown away that someone can be as stupid as you are.

hitmanyr2k

10-29-2011, 01:58 AM

LOL...

You just won't admit you made a mistake, will you. Shows you have no manhood. You're the pussy.

You can pathetically try to dance around what you said all you want. You just keep proving you're a bitch and you'll always be one. These troops served extended tours, multiple tours and an idiot like you made assumptions and called them pussies and mommy's boys because they donated money to a candidate that you didn't favor. You're a disgrace.

Vici

10-29-2011, 01:59 AM

I'm ashamed of you. And you say you've served. NO serviceman I've EVER met would have the frame of mind to say the drivel you've spouted. Pathetic.

People like this are pathetic. They aren't taken seriously because what they have to say is retarded. They use the crutch of "I've served" in hopes of gaining some legitimacy where their intelligence failed. My family has served on this continent over a hundred years before this nation existed and that shit doesn't impress me.

Wild Cobra

10-29-2011, 03:03 AM

You can pathetically try to dance around what you said all you want. You just keep proving you're a bitch and you'll always be one. These troops served extended tours, multiple tours and an idiot like you made assumptions and called them pussies and mommy's boys because they donated money to a candidate that you didn't favor. You're a disgrace.
I'm not dancing around what I said. I said what I said. You are the one trying to make more of it than it is.

My God. You are pathetic.

Cry Havoc

10-29-2011, 03:21 AM

I'm not dancing around what I said. I said what I said. You are the one trying to make more of it than it is.

My God. You are pathetic.

A marine in critical condition? Something to make light of! Let's push our agenda now!

You're an awesome veteran.

Cry Havoc

10-29-2011, 03:22 AM

In fairness to WC, he probably thought the soldier was black at first and thus lacked the requisite skills necessary to dodge a tear gas canister to the face. Totally understandable oversight.

RandomGuy

10-29-2011, 02:37 PM

That's nothing new from Wild Cobra. He's the guy that called our troops in Iraq "pussies and mommy's boys" a few years back and he's still the same bitch today.

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2798101&postcount=40

Wow, I had forgotten about that.

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=105959

RandomGuy

10-29-2011, 02:43 PM

What a stupid child.

Maybe that guy with the fractured skull was hit by a protestors rock?

Olsen suffered a skull fracture after a flying tear gas canister apparently struck him, leaving him bloody on the ground until he was taken to a hospital in critical condition. He has since been upgraded to fair condition.

Read more: Wis. Iraq Vet Injured at Oakland Occupy http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/national/wis-iraq-vet-injured-at-oakland-occupy-oct-27-2011#ixzz1cCYz3Ek8

Maybe it was pink unicorns.

Maybe it was you that did it. Where were you at the time?

boutons_deux

10-29-2011, 03:07 PM

Doctors: Scott Olsen suffered brain damage and is unable to speak

The Iraq veteran seriously wounded Tuesday night at “Occupy Oakland” sustained minor brain damage and has been rendered unable to speak, doctors said Friday, adding that he will likely be able to make a full recovery in time.

Scott Olsen, 24, was said to be otherwise lucid and able to communicate with his family by writing notes, but his ability to spell is also damaged, according to sources who spoke with The Guardian. He is, however, able to understand what’s being communicated to him.

Keith Shannon, Olsen’s roommate who served with him in Iraq, explained that “He cannot talk right now, and that is because the fracture is right on the speech center of his brain,” the paper added. “However, they are expecting he will get that back.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/28/doctors-scott-olsen-suffered-brain-damage-and-is-unable-to-speak/