Night before last I was visiting my Mom and over dinner we watched some television news. I have not had reception at my house since last spring and I’d forgotten all the reasons why I’d opted out. Channel 5 news had a segment on a puppy kidnapped from the rescue center with the overriding message ‘thieves do not make responsible dog owners’ and something about not eating imported honey.
Then they showed a clip of protesters in front of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley. They were occupiers and although the television said there were a couple hundred of them it looked like around 700 to a thousand to me. Later it was reported that 3,000 were there.
Both my mother and I were wondering what they were protesting about.
The television didn’t mention why they were there but the programming kept cutting back to the crowd and updating us on the tent situation (4 tents..still negotiating) between stories of the puppy and other vital Bay Area news. Berkeley is not far from Oakland which has a strong robust OWS presence. But what’s happening at UCBerkeley?
Google is my friend. In the twelfth paragraph we are informed but do not blink because this is the only mention of the alleged cause of the protestors throughout the entire article:
Several on campus criticized the university for using any force against the protesters, who have watched the police response overshadow the issues that led to the demonstration: budget cuts, tuition hikes and tax policy.
(my bold)
Budget cuts, tuition hikes and tax policy. Hmm. Don’t you find it a tad unusual the TV anchors didn’t mention why all the students were protesting? What has happened to journalism in this country?
Last night a friend sent me this photo at top from the ongoing occupation of Sproul Hall. GO TEAM, we’re everywhere. “Occupy Cal not Palestine”. Then she wrote me back and told me this same banner was just featured on Colbert Nation. Last night he covered the protest. OWS is a “cancer on capitalism has spread to every corner of the US”, and after flashing a photo of a person captioned ‘goldman sachs’ (is GS one person?) stated OWS has moved to ‘patchouli granola dump site’ ‘hippie haven’ of UC Berkeley….and here it comes… “drastic state wide cuts in education spending” and showed close up footage of police abuse which he dubbed “nudging with battons”.
Stephen Colbert to the rescue.
(Hat tip Karen Platt)
I heard someone was shot and killed @- Occupy Oakland. Being in the Bay Area, do you have anymore info on that?
Colbert and Stewart are just Zioflunkies.As their shows are at the mercy of their network owners,all Zionists,they will not upset their applecart.And isn’t Stewart’s brother the head or onetime head of the NYSE?
Occasionally they might throw a backhanded bone to the people,but they are part of the con.
In front of Sproul Hall
Like the legendary Mario Savio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcx9BJRadfw
There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”
And that is how i feel about Zionism
It looks like people are unhappy everywhere ,( especially in the USA and Europe).
People start realising ,that they ‘ve been pushed into the corner by corrupted, ruthless politicians, who at the same time, are creating some sort of suspicious, international mafia ring ,which is heavily supported by brainwashing MainStreamMedia , police and special, “security” forces.
In Poland, today ,there is an anniversary of regaining so called independence (in 1918). Many average people/citizens went onto the streets to manifest their dislike and frustrations with the way the current government rules.
They were “welcomed”, not so warmly, by the police, security officers and antifa (called for help from Germany, sic.).
Mild violence erupted, there are some wounded. Majority of people are very disoriented and divided. MSM, as always lies and misinforms, so people are even more disoriented and divided.
Here is a video of how ordinary citizens are welcomed by “their “government representatives in uniforms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ouZNXFTwy4
Colbert showed the “Occupy Wall Street not Palestine” sign but left it to the viewer to notice it. He did NOT have to even show it.
Then he showed the police brutality and called attention to the minification thereof by some newsy (which called it “police nudging”).
I would say it was VERY GOOD coverage of the protest and of the police brutality and of UC-Berkeley mismanagement and lying (UC ad: ‘our campus supports activism or protests or something’).