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?
am-m. i just found out about that around 10 minutes ago while editing. wondered if we should run this considering. here’s the link w/video
link to thelede.blogs.nytimes.com
at the beginning the guy is screaming “that was an undercover cop..that was an undercover cop”
very bizarre.
not sure what to make of that guy. thanks for the link though, that is scary.
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.
my point was that the news i was watching, while showing footage, didn’t mention why the students were protesting..at least not the night i was watching at my mom’s.
here’s an interesting video about oakland published in france.
link to observers.france24.com
Colbert is beyond brilliant and hilarious to boot.
In front of Sproul Hall
Like the legendary Mario Savio
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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.
link to youtube.com
In Poland, today
yes, the date on that is today dumv, that what’s happening now?
Yes. The peaceful manifestation ( about 15 thousand people) walked through streets of Warsaw.
Some ,whatever you call them, “elements “tried to stir some problems. Police, as seen on you tube, was ready on their positions to attack. Luckily, people did not fall for provocations ,although there was some mild violence. MSM did not fail to lie and manipulate. They are just disgusting. Well paid, willing servants of the “democratic” regime.
People , in general , are very fed up with the way the whole situation in the country is going. The whole Europe is waking up to see that they’ve been cheated. Big Time.
Nigel Farge, wonderful as always, explains what is going on in the EU.
In short, nothing great. He says as it is, no embellishment.
Just the naked truth. And the Truth is ugly. Very.
link to youtube.com
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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’).
Wonderful…..
Speech by Charlie Chaplin in movie “The Great Dictator”
“I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business.
I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone.
I should like to help everyone if possible: Jew, gentile, black man, white.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.
We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.
We don’t want to hate and despise one another.
In this world there’s room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness, hard and unkind.
We think too much and feel too little.
More than machinery we need humanity.
More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.
Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together.
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me I say, “Do not despair.”
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.
And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers, don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think, and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.
Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men with machine minds and machine hearts.
You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men!
You have the love of humanity in your hearts.
You don’t hate. Only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers, don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty!
In the 17th chapter of St Luke it is written, “The Kingdom of God is within man. Not one man nor a group of men, but in all men. In you!”
You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness.
You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.
Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.
By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power.
But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people.
Now let us fight to fulfil that promise!
Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.
Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!”
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Interesting song,:”Rich Man’s Solution”.
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Another view of the police-at-Cal
Excerpt: It was an unbelievable scene representing a moral breakdown on the part of the university. Predictably, word of the beatings and arrests spread quickly, leading to a significant increase in the size of the protest, which led to further confrontations and more arrests as the night went on.
I am truly dumbfounded by the way the university responded. It’s not like the whole thing caught them by surprise. The protest was well advertised. The organizers made their intentions clear, and the university was sending out “warnings” to faculty and staff all week about the impending “disruptions”. Which means that they decided in advance to do whatever they had to to prevent the students from setting up camp.