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Occupy 15th Street: The Washington Post Anti-Business Section

By Tim Graham | October 10, 2011 | 08:51

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Leftist media critics resent that newspapers have a "Business" section or that PBS used to show "Wall Street Week," as if reporting on business automatically means you're pro-business. The Washington Post on Sunday seemed to be working overtime to publish an Anti-Business section, with two columns endorsing the "Occupy Wall Street" protests, an enormous article by liberal Post wunderkind Ezra Klein on how the Obama "stimulus" was too tiny, and a whole page devoted to the Bloomberg expose of the Koch brothers' shenanigans in Iran.

Steven Pearlstein wrote a column on how "Obama can learn from Wall St. protest." Michelle Singletary's column was titled "Rage, rage against Wall St." and compared the protesters to Rosa Parks fighting racism on the bus.

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“This movement at the moment is all about being angry and having rage,” [protest leader Kalle] Lasn said in an interview. “But in the next few weeks, as it is grows, it will become clear it’s a positive program about political and social change.”

Lasn said he hopes the next big protest will happen Oct. 29. The magazine is encouraging people to stage protests in capitals in the United States and cities abroad the weekend before the G-20 summit. The summit, a gathering of finance ministers and central bank governors from the 20 largest economies, is being held Nov. 3-4 in France. Lasn said that one demand protesters can unite behind is a global financial transaction levy dubbed the Robin Hood tax, which is intended to make the financial sector contribute to fixing the economic crisis it helped create.

“We want to get millions marching on Oct. 29,” Lasn said. “This could be the beginning of a whole new global future where we the people call the shots. I just hope it doesn’t align itself with the Democratic Party. I hope it stays aloof from the U.S. two-party system. It should become a real people’s movement.”

Throughout history, great change has evolved from small civil protests.

It took a Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, to inspire the Montgomery bus boycott that eventually resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation was unconstitutional.

Singletary added: "Are you fed up? If so, you can find local Occupy Wall Street events at www.occupytogether.org, which says it’s the unofficial hub for those who want to take action against corporate greed."

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I keep thinking "Tea Party"

Submitted by DumbCanuck on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 8:59am.

...and how much maligned this "terrorist"organiztion was in the media.

I've already heard of stories of people hiding out among the protestors who are fugitives from justice, how they're showing people how to escape from handcuffs -- in the presence of small children, how the Atlanta protest silenced a conservative from "addressing the assembly" in a very strange you-tube video,
and many other similar stories that have NOT been reported by the established media, yet it's the Tea Party that are portrayed by this very same media as racists and terrorists, and funded by the Koch Brothers, while this Soros-funded affair is a 'grass-roots' campaign.

"There... Are... Four... Lights!"

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No, you can not ignore Sarah Palin

Submitted by JamesPhilip on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 10:51am.

Since this site has chosen to ignore the speech Sarah Palin gave on Friday....
I submit a video you should watch. This is what I consider to be one of, if not the best, speech that Sarah Palin has ever given.

Question... after you watch it, do you really think any of the Republican candidates could or would be able to make a similar speech? That is why she is not running. She has a more important mission.... to attack the entire corrupt political system and to promote Conservative principles.

Sarah Palin Unshackled - Defending the Republic - http://tinyurl.com/6bdpfvz

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James

Submitted by kata on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 11:07am.

please knock off the spam. This is your 8th cross post.

Give Peas a Chance. ☑ ABØ in 2012
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Please stop it.

Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:22pm.

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Looking forward to the rain.

Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:27pm.

"Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets."
-Travis Bickel, "Taxi Driver"

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Did anyone read the Washington Post's...

Submitted by Conservator on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:59pm.

...Eli Saslow's gushy exaggerated article today? Saslow is the guy who wrote, "The sun glinted off his chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games back in 2008.

Occupy Wall Street: Newcomers bring their worries and hopes to New York protes - Monday, October 10, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/occupy-wall-street-newcomers-brin...

No bias here....

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Good news everybody, and

Submitted by Jack Bauer on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 1:40pm.

Good news everybody, and counter-revolutionaries...

More countries join the growing #INTERNATIONALOCCUPYWALLSTREET movement by declaring solidarity with their American comrades...

The ever expanding list includes Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Lilliput, Grand Fenwick, the Banana Republic, the Gap Islands, Ruritania...

All demanding the end of capitalism and the dictatorship of the proletariat... can the Republic possibly ignore this mighty pressure to re-join the 19th Century...


All of the above Mr Obama? --- How about ALL OF THE BELOW, instead.
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If we've lost Grand Fenwick,

Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 6:29pm.

we're doomed.  Or not. 

At least Chavez and Achmadinnerjacket are consistent, all crazy all the time. 

To re-elect Obama would be like the Titanic backing up and hitting the iceberg again.
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