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NEWSFLASH! Pepper spray doesn’t hurt!

By on November 20, 2011 in Banks, Business As Usual, Crime and Punishment, Culture, Economy, Impotent Modern Media, Military, Police, Politics, Scumbag System, Television

Pepper spray does not hurt, it “creates compliance”. The U.S.A. does not torture, it “intensely interrogates”. Pizza is not bread, cheese and tomato sauce, it’s a “vegetable”. Bank credit cards aren’t traps designed to suck as much cash out of your pocket as possible ion the form of interest and fees, they’re “smart money”. Freedom is slavery. War is peace. Ignorance is strength.

Orwell was right.

 

Charles J. Kelly, a former Baltimore Police Department lieutenant who wrote the department’s use of force guidelines, said pepper spray is a “compliance tool” that can be used on subjects who do not resist, and is preferable to simply lifting protesters.
“When you start picking up human bodies, you risk hurting them,” Kelly said.

via Nation & World | UC Davis officers in pepper spray incident placed on leave | Seattle Times Newspaper.

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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests

By on November 12, 2011 in Banks, Culture, Economy, Politics, Scumbag System

From the moment Matt steps to the plate, this one is going over the wall.

We’re all born wanting the freedom to imagine a better and more beautiful future. But modern America has become a place so drearily confining and predictable that it chokes the life out of that built-in desire. Everything from our pop culture to our economy to our politics feels oppressive and unresponsive. We see 10 million commercials a day, and every day is the same life-killing chase for money, money and more money; the only thing that changes from minute to minute is that every tick of the clock brings with it another space-age vendor dreaming up some new way to try to sell you something or reach into your pocket. The relentless sameness of the two-party political system is beginning to feel like a Jacob’s Ladder nightmare with no end; we’re entering another turn on the four-year merry-go-round, and the thought of having to try to get excited about yet another minor quadrennial shift in the direction of one or the other pole of alienating corporate full-of-shitness is enough to make anyone want to smash his own hand flat with a hammer.

via How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests | Politics News | Rolling Stone.

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Most unemployed cut off from benefits

By on November 5, 2011 in Banks, Business As Usual, Culture, Economy, Politics, Republican, Scumbag System, Tea Party Loons

So the long-term unemployed are being completely screwed by not only big business but the Republican majority in Congress that won’t do a thing to help them.

But who will Republicans help? Well, their rich banker friends, that’s who! As seen in this CNN story from 2010, the bankers backing Republicans in Congress are doing juuuuuust fine: Big banks mint money again: $18.7 billion

Occupy Wall Street chant: Banks got bailed out, we got sold out.

Why can’t Conservatives see this? They can’t all be that stupid, can they? Is it wanton ignorance, then? Conveniently ignoring the problem while they drive their 2.5 children to mall to buy more superfluous stuff? Do they just hate the poor and unemployed?

 

The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America’s unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits.

Early last year, 75 percent were receiving checks. The figure is now 48 percent — a shift that points to a growing crisis of long-term unemployment. Nearly one-third of America’s 14 million unemployed have had no job for a year or more.

via Most of the unemployed no longer receive benefits.


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Don’t trick-or-treat at the bank

By on October 31, 2011 in Banks, Business As Usual, Just Funnin'!

I really can’t believe this.

I went to my local branch of Bank of America today and there were six kids standing outside of the front doors, crying!

I asked them what was wrong and they said that they had been inside to trick-or-treat like they do every year but that this year, the bank vice-president told them that for every five pieces of candy corn she gave them, they’d have to pay her a full-size candy bar!

 

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Dear Banks, As I stuff this letter: P.S. I love you

By on October 29, 2011 in Banks, Economy, Lyrics Spoof, Music, Politics, Scumbag System, Social, Twitter

As I stuff this letter
send my love to you
remember that I’ll always
dislike most of what you do
Treasure these few words ’till you surrender
and change your ways forever
P.S. I love you
You, you, you

This kind of creative non-violence is just the kind of thing that generates lots of negative branding, and makes companies crazy.

via Keep Wall Street Occupied. Send Them Your Love Letters « Shoq Value.

 

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