Good Morning!
Greetings from “The Heart of the Klamath”!
Ask Sitting Bull about government promises
When I think about how the corporate shills in the media try to convince us that we should continue to allow ourselves to be nothing more than serfs for the “common good” (ie, the 1%), it angers me.
I don’t like having smoke blown up my butt.
I don’t like being lied to.
So, why do they do it?
Because there is a certain segment in our society that will believe it.
They WANT to believe it.
They don’t want to hear bad news.
It’s easier to remain deluded.
But, not everybody will fall for the lie.
In Northern California:
@OccupyReddingCA on twitter
OccupyRedding.org is CALLING FOR YOUR SUPPORT:
We’re EVERYWHERE
When: November 5, 2011
Where: Chase Bank, Mt. Shasta Mall to BofA Hilltop
Time: 11:00 AM until approximately 12:30 PM
Did you see the headline this morning?
US added 80,000 jobs in October; jobless rate dips
Economy generates 80,000 jobs in October; unemployment rate falls to 9 pct.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The American economy added 80,000 jobs in October, and job growth in the two previous months was much stronger than first thought, an encouraging sign as the nation searches for a way out of the jobs crisis.
The unemployment rate dropped to 9 percent from 9.1 percent, the first time it has fallen since July, the government said Friday.
“Those are pretty good signs,” said Michael Hanson, senior economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. “We’re hanging in there.”
It was all over the corporate news networks, so it must be true. BANK OF AMERICA SAID SO!!
Calico Blackie says:
If you believe that this bit of “news” was any more than skillful manipulation of statistics to benefit the stock market and enrich the 1% even more, take your place behind the goat in the picture.
Saw this yesterday, tweeted by “blogdiva”
Dear Media: you missed this information regarding Oakland
Submitted by OccupyLurker on Thu, 11/03/2011 – 11:39am
“Some important facts that you will not find in the mainstream (corporate) media today which (completely co-incidentally I’m sure) will be the total polar opposite message we’ll hear from the blowhards who only get their information from that corporate owned media bent on misrepresenting this movement:”
“None of the “violence” of yesterdays demonstration was planned by, condoned, or in any way sanctioned by the general assembly at Grant Plaza (the protest base and “organization” for lack of better word) or the New York general assembly at Freedom Plaza that the Oakland assembly had originally gathered in solidarity of (“the movement” for those still unsure of the who/what/where).”
“So all claims that broken windows and burning dumpsters “represent” Occupy Wall Street or Occupy Whatever should be called out for what they are: transparent attempts to manipulate the masses that only get their “information” from corporate media.”
Mayor Quan with an empty gesture. Blowing smoke up our butts again. She looks like she's holding a stinking rotten piece of meat
“- Do a Google search for “Oakland Liberation Front.” They are a self invented, radicalized, pseudo-anarchist group styled after Black Bloc that attempted to subvert the protests yesterday.”
“They have not been involved in any way with holding space in Grant Park in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street to help raise awareness regarding corporate influence in government, and have not participated in any way with any of the General Assemblies. They are not part of Occupy Oakland at all.”
“When “Oakland Liberation Front” Black Bloc provocateurs acted against the principles of the actual movement by inciting vandalism during the march, the crowds turned against them.”
“When other windows were broken, Oakland assembly participants guarded the locations so they would not be damaged further or looted.”
“What is being blatantly demonstrated here is how the media will manipulate the message away from the facts, and why.
“Again, this is a protest and movement against the corporate influence and corruption of the government caused by the few, by reminding everyone of the resulting disaster it has wreaked on the economy and the effects of which the rest of us feel.”
“When that same collection of corporate entities also own the media which ultimately creates the message for the masses, the most true aspects of everything to do with the movement will never be covered, and instead be misrepresented to influence public opinion away from the underlying facts.”
Whew!
That was a lot of reading, but well worth it.
Did you hear that a protester got deliberately run over by a car in Oakland during the general strike?
I read this comment about it yesterday:
People who say things like this……I wonder who ties their shoes for them in the morning?
“So I guess when they are not busy throwing firebombs at the cops, they suddenly need their help when one of their own gets hit by a car. What a joke.”
“So I guess revolution is OK, just as long as nobody on their side gets hurt.”
All Calico Blackie can say is:
Throwing firebombs?
Better lay off the meds buddy. You’re starting to hallucinate!
If you think you have a right to run someone down in the street with your car because they’re in your way, you might be a sociopath.
Look at your life, look at your priorities, and look at your choices.
Maybe you went wrong somewhere.
I’m sorry I mentioned OWS and gave them free publicity. I MUST BE PUNISHED HARDER!!
But hey! Don’t worry, be happy!
Sarah Palin weighs in on Occupy protesters (oh dear Lord)
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – Sarah Palin is joining the chorus of Occupy Wall Street critics who say that any blame for our nation’s economic ills should rest at the front door of the White House.
She also sees those who are involved in the movement as a group of Americans seeking a handout.
She said President Barack Obama and the Occupy Wall Street protesters share the same vision of feeling entitled to other people’s productivity and money.
(Sorry about that last one. I know you didn’t need to start your day with Sarah Palin’s butt)
On that note……Protests that can be ignored tend to.…get ignored.
The corporate media wants us to stay in “The Twilight Zone”
One of the positives that have come out of recent developments with the “occupy” protests is that we’re getting darned hard to ignore.
We are not going to just go away.
We protest as “Occupiers” and not as compliant sheep in a herd, or as tea partiers whose movement has been co-opted.
They can’t ignore us.
No more of this:
“Let’s get a half-dozen people together and protest by silently complying with all of the rules of the location we’re occupying. But, we’ll have signs.”
Then at 11:
Local 11 o’clock news: “The whole world is burning. We’re getting screwed. But wow! Here’s a video of a cat on a trampoline!”
Yep. This is IMPORTANT NEWS!
If not a cat on a trampoline, then it’s the “tramp du jour” getting out of a car and flashing her cooter at us.
So, if we’re not fed cats and cooters and other distractions, we’re fed skillfully manipulated misinformation.
Have you seen this?
From CNN:
Many companies pay no income taxes, study finds
By Charles Riley @CNN
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The corporate tax rate is 35%. But an examination of 280 of the nation’s largest corporations suggests that many aren’t paying anything close to that. The real tax rate paid by a slew of major corporations averages closer to 18.5%, according to a study released Thursday by two liberal tax research groups.
Calico Blackie says:
Our mainstream media abandoned these ideas years ago
Well CNN…..We didn’t need to know that it was reported by “two liberal tax research groups” to know we’re getting screwed.
When did the terms “liberal” and “conservative” become dirty words used to discredit an entire group of people? Both groups have good and bad ideas.
The article continued:
“The study looked at 280 companies in the Fortune 500 that were profitable for all three years between 2008 and 2010. The results: 111 companies paid effective tax rates of less than 17.5% over the three-year period; 98 paid a rate between 17.5% and 30%; and 71 paid more than 30%.”
“The average rate? 18.5%. Some companies paid zero. And 30 actually owed less than nothing in income taxes over the three years.”
Calico Blackie says:
Hmmmm…………
You don’t have to be liberal OR conservative to see that something is wrong with this picture.
Notice any difference? We’re still getting bent over the log
Meanwhile:
Kidakita on twitter reports that he is seeing a lot of tweets calling for a total change in the government and a complete break from our present system.
That’s counter-productive.
We’ve got to fix what’s wrong with our current system. If we have to jail a whole gang of bankers and their cronies, let’s put the wheels in motion to accomplish this goal.
But we also have to ensure that they don’t just throw us the piss boy, or some other underling to prosecute.
Politicians come and go, but big corporations always stay around.
We need to clear up the corruption!
If we are denied the right to do this “cleaning up”, then well……
Let’s not go there yet.
Mercedes ad 1943. Remember, the fat cats will always be around if WE allow them to stay
We could either win and achieve the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, or we could end up at Wounded Knee.
More on that tomorrow.
Stay Together
Stay Strong
Don’t listen to media lies
We are hardened country folk!
OCCUPY REDDING CA
We Support Occupy Wall Street
Calico Blackie
