Friday News Roundup - Hour 1
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-11-04/friday-news-roundup-hour-1
Weekly unemployment claims dropped to their lowest level in five weeks; GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain denied reports that he sexually harassed former female employees, and accused Gov. Rick Perry of orchestrating a smear campaign against him; and an Occupy Oakland general strike turned violent overnight. Guest Host Katty Kay of the BBC will analyze the week's top national news stories with Naftali Bendavid of The Wall Street Journal, Nia-Malika Henderson of the Washington Post, and Ron Elving of NPR.
Guests
Naftali Bendavid
national correspondent, The Wall Street Journal.
Nia-Malika Henderson
national politics reporter, The Washington Post.
Ron Elving
Washington editor for NPR.
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Great news for the Occupy Zuccotti park crowd, far left "1%er" blowhard Michael Moore and anti-Semitic David Duke join POTUS Obama in support of their endeavors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB2_0G8CKDY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbOpBSfJocs
"Celebrated redistributionists discover healthy respect for private property"
"Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops — and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.
“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.
“I had my Mac stolen — that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/18/celebrated-redistributionists-disc...
Thievery? Who could imagine such a thing on Wall Street?
It's nothing more than pure irony.
When you live and breath in a capitalistic society it is the only way that you know, it is the law of the jungle. Practiced by the lowest and the highest members of our society.
So why should we be surprised by this?
Teece Bowman wrote:
"Thievery? Who could imagine such a thing on Wall Street?
It's nothing more than pure irony.
When you live and breath in a capitalistic society it is the only way that you know, it is the law of the jungle. Practiced by the lowest and the highest members of our society.
So why should we be surprised by this?"
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Your irony compass needs recalibrating. The irony is not that people steal regardless of their economic situation. The irony is that the Occupy - fill In the blank- crowd are all in favor of redistribution of wealth, until their own possessions get redistributed.
Taking money from the American Taxpayer in order to bail yourself out of your "highly dubious" business practices....is redistribution of wealth.
My irony compass is perfectly fine.
Capitalism equals thievery in every sense of the word.
What Wall Street practices is corporate socialism for the wealthy and capitalism for the rest of us. They should have been allowed to fail.
In this case my sympathy lies with the occupiers.
Teece Bowman wrote:
"Taking money from the American Taxpayer in order to bail yourself out of your "highly dubious" business practices....is redistribution of wealth.
My irony compass is perfectly fine.
Capitalism equals thievery in every sense of the word.
What Wall Street practices is corporate socialism for the wealthy and capitalism for the rest of us. They should have been allowed to fail.
In this case my sympathy lies with the occupiers."
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Using your mathematical formula, what does Socialism equal?
Take a squint at your irony compass to check out how POTUS Obama bailed out GM and BofA using taxpayer money, and his sympathy is also with the Occupy- fill in the blank - crowd.
I am not a supporter of Obama but a lot of rightwingers keep accusing me of that association. If you read my post a couple of nights back regarding the Herman Cain/ Sexual Harassment topic you would realize that I consider Obama to be a tool of Wall Street.
And Wall Street has already all but annointed Romney.
They do not want a rabble of teabaggers to contend with, even though the tea bag contingent keeps prostrating themselves at Corporate America's feet.
Any attempt to get behind the Occupy movement should be treated as suspect by the group. There should be no acknowledgement by the Occupy Wall Street group of either political party because neither political party represents the people. Only business and corporate interests. And corporate America controls both parties.
The aspects of Occupy that interest me is that it appears leaderless, and anarchistic.
There is no chance of changing anything politically within the framework of "business as usual" politics and I see nothing on the horizon that looks anything like that from either political party except for a sniveling acquiscence of the corporate master.
Socialism is a word that is anthema to Capitalism I realize, but it is exactly what has been practiced. They took all the risk away from themselves, thus enriching themselves in the process and passed all the risk along to the rest of us. They should have been allowed to fail setting about the only meaningful change possible.
Occupy
Teece Bowman wrote:
"The aspects of Occupy that interest me is that it appears leaderless, and anarchistic."
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Occupy - fill in the blank - is certainly anarchistic, but to suggest it isn't sustained by a definite organized political entity reveals your naïveté.
"ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role in 'Occupy' Movement"
"Sources said NYCC has hired about 100 former ACORN-affiliated staff members from other cities – paying some of them $100 a day - to attend and support Occupy Wall Street. Dozens of New York homeless people recruited from shelters are also being paid to support the protests, at the rate of $10 an hour, the sources said."
Okay first I'd ask what sources? Who....name them. I'm sure they are questionable.
Even if there are Acorn members among the protesters...what of it. And $10 bucks an hour!
Wow, what thievery. Compare and contrast that to the salaries of the smartest guys in the room, none of them have been tried, none of them sentenced.
Only two Raj Rajaratnam, tried and sentenced (note the non-white sounding name!) and Rajat K. Gupta, arrested (Again, no white CEO's).
Wall Street protects its own. And you make some frivolous comment about Acorn.
Teece Bowman wrote:
"Okay first I'd ask what sources? Who....name them. I'm sure they are questionable.
Even if there are Acorn members among the protesters...what of it. And $10 bucks an hour!
Wall Street protects its own. And you make some frivolous comment about Acorn."
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Are you kidding about media relying on unnamed sources? Woodward and Bernstein lived off their Watergate story since 1972 and never revealed the source for their inside info until the source, Mark Felt, died three years ago.
How much should you pay anarchists to loiter in a park?
A federal judge in New York City sentenced Raj Rajaratnam, Wall Street insider trader, to 11 years in prison, a $10 million fine, and forfeiture of $53 million in assets. And you dismiss ACORN's string pulling of the Occupy occupants as frivolous.
"Occupy" is what any left wing nut wants it to be. It does not deserve any respect unless you respect chaos. Teece is playing bait and switch and it's getting really old fast.
Every last "genius" on Wall Street should be behind bars, or worse. And as I stated earlier, where are the white guys? This guy is just the tip of an iceberg. Where are the arrogant bastards who deserve to be locked away forever.
Where is Lloyd Blankfein, Brian Moynihan, James Dimon, and John Mack. The CEO's who were given free rein to equivocate, evade and lie before congress last January?
Given the criminality of just these four idividuals excuses thousands of ACORN agents being involved in Occupy. Probably tens of thousands....But given that there were a "few" it is a non issue. Humanity needs to rise up and dismantle this machine of destruction called Wall Street.
I think that there needs to be a radical revolution and it may not happen soon but I will welcome it when it comes. Any defense of capitalism rings hollow.
You might just as well as bet your money on the blackjack table in Las Vegas.
Baiting a switching what Monte? What?
Acorn people for Wall Street thieves?
Sorry Teece it ain't workin, I see you riding conservatives here at the exclusion of the majority of liberal posters, you are a waste of time an effort. I suggest to the sensible voices here that you be ignored. Good by Teece.
Oppulent homes of the 99 percenters:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/02/opulent-homes-of-the-99-percent-slides...
Monte, any further conversation would be pointless.
This week has certainly been a high water mark in double standard lynch mob politics. We have a black conservative that the left views as a threat to every big government social welfare program lie foisted upon the American tax payer being burned at the stake with the flimsiest evidence. While we suffer through the presidency of an incompetent liberal black man that was cordoned off from any scrutiny what so ever with screams of racism at the slightest criticism or questioning. The only thing I wonder is how liberals can sleep at night knowing that they are the fascists that they accuse everyone else of being that they don't agree with.
Though clearly Cain's sexual harassment problem is in the spotlight, apparently his more legally damaging problem was also revealed this week -- the report that financial records show his campaign has directly received at least $40,000 from the tax-exempt non-profit, Prosperity USA, owned by Cain's chief of staff, the cigarette-smoking, Koch-Brothers-connected Mark Block, who has a history of election law violations.
The problem is two-fold: Tax-exempt non-profits cannot legally give to political campaigns, and Cain's campaign has failed to accurately report its expenses and debts.
Shouldn't this be getting more attention -- for sooooo many reasons?
Barbara
Salt Lake City, Utah
Monte, me thinky you don't know what fascism means:
fascism (ˈfæʃɪzəm) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
—n
1. any ideology or movement inspired by Italian Fascism, such as German National Socialism; any right-wing nationalist ideology or movement with an authoritarian and hierarchical structure that is fundamentally opposed to democracy and liberalism
2. any ideology, movement, programme, tendency, etc, that may be characterized as right-wing, chauvinist, authoritarian, etc
3. prejudice in relation to the subject specified: body fascism
BBT- Cain has this ghostwritten book, right? And the Koch-like fascists buy unlimited electronic copies which is Cain's main income and wealth source.
Compared to accounts shuffling at John Edward's house this is like a maternity ward as opposed to one new baby. Cain clams a chauffeur daddy and Edwards a millworker pop, but they both are Bastards from the get-go. Such is fascist American one party state politics. When I get out to Occupy I'm getting me a Macbook too, just wait and see, and a digital camera and a big jar of Peter Pan! Occupy is like gameshow Christmas, man. I bet monte could "win a car." How about a permanent cruise vacation to Palestine? From a tiny acorn of manarchy a mighty oaken revolution grows. OCCUPY
Fandango: What's with that second meaning, 'ANY ideology that may be characterized as right-wing' ?
There are crazies in every group of protesters that have taken to the streets. And of course the MSM will generally focus on them.
Anyone involved with any type of movement also knows that government agencies are known to have inserted provocateurs to break things up.
Marcus Bernstein and Woodward knew exactly who their source was. They kept it secret. Will go along with you that they both have lived off of this led by the nose investigative case. Felt had an agenda...and Bernstein and Woodward followed and were knighted for following the agenda
Marcus where is that crazy ass person who always objects when certain people post something before the program starts
Marriam Webster
Definition of FASCISM
1often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
I would say it is not as much of a stretch as you might think to find the democrat party in the above definitions. Keep in mind democrats use this word all the time to beat up republicans which to my mind is truly a stretch
To the guest:
The MSM has been Cain obsessed. Not much about jobs etc.
Have been hitting the streets, knocking on doors etc for the Vote No on issue 2 in Ohio these past couple of weeks. The majority of Ohioans that I am talking with are furious with Governor Kasich for going way to far with trying to break up the collective rights of unions.
Union members who mistakenly voted for Kasich are working their hind ends off to right the ship here in Ohio.
SB5 is going down!
kathleen: The provocatures in Oakland may soon be exposed. Busting in Whole Foods was not exactly part of closing the port. Why is it that the police baton young women and shoot cannisters at uniformed soldiers while high-fiving the black clad seal-teamers? You can count the "crazies" on one hand.
Roland: I don't need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows. You can look out the window and see fascism anytime these days. It's in every food commodity you eat and the tax value of your dwelling. It's on "the View" and the "John Hagee Hour" too, flapping like a flag on every cell tower. Global fascism has transcended national sovereignty, and that is why Occupy must be worldwide.
We have transcended the fascism of Mussolini and Shrub Bush where the state allies with big business for elite profit and social repression. Nowadays Oligarchs push nations around like toy trucks in a sandbox. Masses of one billion persons count for nothing besides a commodity in China and India. It's financialist divine right. (must be God's swill.)
(Obama says he's the decider on the soot pipe from Canada? What a farce!)
I am very disappointed and angry with your program today. A recent caller was making a valid comment, and all I could hear from your panel was somebody snickering loudly. If you insist on showing such disrespect to your listeners, at least have the basic courtesy to laugh at them off mic.
MSM routinely describes Occupy as "anti-capitalist protestors" (Katty will allow that.)but from what I've researched they are actually anti-empire, anti-corruption, anti-corporate protestors. MSM is an arm of Oligarchy and propaganda is to be expected.
The "withered government" philosophies of Ayn Rand is exactly compatible with global corporatism, except for her meritocratic error: unregulated business competition and collusion elevates criminals and sociopaths, magnifies suffering exponentially.
One of the guest on the show said Republicans jobs were to get themselves back in control
No Mitch McConnell and all Reps job is to represent the welfare of the american people. With only 9% of the american people who have any faith in our congress clearly they are not doing their jobs