Thousands to occupy Wall Street in protest

**StrontiumDog** · 06-10-2011, 01:53 PM

Anonymous Vows NYSE Attack to Support Wall Street Protests - Bloomberg

Anonymous Vows to Attack NYSE

By Michael Riley and Nina Mehta - Oct 5, 2011 9:31 PM GMT+0700

Anonymous, a group of self-styled hacker-activists behind attacks on corporate and government websites, vowed to support the Occupy Wall Street protests by erasing the New York Stock Exchange “from the Internet” on Oct. 10.

The group posted a video message on YouTube declaring war on the world’s largest stock exchange in retaliation for the mass arrests of Wall Street protesters, and posted a link to the video on one of several Anonymous Twitter feeds.

The two-minute message didn’t elaborate on the threat or whether it referred only to an attack on the NSYE website, which would have no effect on trading.

Anonymous has launched several so-called directed denial of service attacks on websites over several months, including actions in December against the sites of MasterCard Inc. (MA) and Visa Inc. (V) Members of the group use specialized software to launch the attacks, which can slow or crash the site for a short period of time, according to court documents.

Richard Adamonis, a spokesman for NYSE Euronext (NYX), which operates the exchange, said the company doesn’t comment on rumors or security matters.

NYSE.com includes corporate information, press releases, trading notices, the company’s rules and bylaws, and access to services for companies whose stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The trading systems are run separately through a secure data center in Mahwah, New Jersey.

Stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange trade on almost all U.S. exchanges and other systems where investors can buy and sell securities, including electronic communications networks, broker-dealers and dark pools, or private venues that match orders without displaying prices in advance.

**StrontiumDog** · 06-10-2011, 01:56 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15187257

6 October 2011 Last updated at 01:50 GMT

Wall Street protesters march in New York

The BBC's Laura Trevelyan reports from one of the demonstrations

Thousands of protesters have marched on New York's financial district, with rallies also held in other US cities.

Powerful unions gave a high-profile boost to the long-running demonstrations, as their members joined the rally in lower Manhattan.

Students at several US colleges walked out of classes in solidarity.

The activists have vented grievances over the 2008 corporate bailouts, high US unemployment and home repossessions, among other things.

Hundreds of demonstrators were arrested last weekend on the Brooklyn Bridge.

'Country upside down'

On Wednesday, smaller protests were held from Boston and Chicago to Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations are in their third week

The biggest event took place in New York, where at least 5,000 activists joined forces with members of unions and community organisations to march on Wall Street.

"Our workers are excited about this movement," United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew told Reuters news agency. "The country has been turned upside down. We are fighting for families and children."

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Communications Workers of America and the Amalgamated Transit Union joined the New York march, as did the nation's largest union of nurses, National Nurses United.

The Occupy Wall Street protests started on 17 September with a few dozen demonstrators who tried to pitch tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange.

Since then, hundreds have set up camp nearby in Zuccotti Park and have become increasingly organised, lining up medical aid and legal help and printing their own newspaper.

Protesters in New York City on Wednesday carried signs reading "Jobs Not Cuts" and "Stop Corporate Greed" and chanted "Wall Street is our street".

"We're here to stop corporate greed," Mike Pellegrino, an NYC Transit bus mechanic, told the Associated Press news agency. "They should pay their fair share of taxes. We're just working and looking for decent lives for our families."

Hundreds of college students at New York's public university system walked out of classes on Wednesday afternoon.

At the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, students walked out of their classrooms at noon, holding signs reading "Eat the Elite" and "We Can Do Better than Capitalism".

'I'm the 99%'

In Boston, about 200 Northeastern University students protested against what they called corporate control of government and spiralling education costs.

Protests in other US cities have attracted thousands of supporters

In San Francisco, a crowd of several hundred marched in a loop around the financial district, chanting "They got bailed out, we got sold out". Union nurses had a large presence at the protest.

In Chicago, dozens of activists kept up their protest at the heart of the financial district, banging drums and holding up signs.

Protests have also been held recently in the cities of Las Vegas, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington; and in the states of Missouri, Ohio and Florida.

MoveOn.org - a liberal activism website - is encouraging participants to post photos of themselves with the caption, "I'm the 99%" - a reference to those not among the wealthiest 1% of Americans.

The rallies have been largely peaceful apart from occasional scuffles, including the arrests of more than 700 protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday.

Several Democratic lawmakers have expressed support for the protesters, but some Republican presidential candidates have lambasted them.

Herman Cain called the activists "jealous" and "un-American" on Wednesday at a book signing in Florida.

On Tuesday, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was quoted as calling the protest "class warfare" while campaigning in Florida.

**sabang** · 06-10-2011, 02:01 PM

What were the regulators doing ?

Working for Goldman Sachs.

**robuzo** · 06-10-2011, 02:14 PM

Because a crazy, fundamentally unsound ideology ruled the day:
Greenspan Concedes Error on Regulation - NYTimes.com
. . .a humbled Mr. Greenspan admitted that he had put too much faith in the self-correcting power of free markets and had failed to anticipate the self-destructive power of wanton mortgage lending.

“Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity, myself included, are in a state of shocked disbelief,” he told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
- - -
"Shocked disbelief" because you are an ideologue with no common sense and no real-world knowledge. The Chicago School has been totally discredited, but like the preachers who keep getting the timing of the second coming wrong, they never relent. Alan Greenspan is still treated like an eminence grise despite being terribly, disastrously wrong. The Randians in the Republican Party, such as the Tea Party, are still taken seriously, despite their ideology having been demonstrated to have calamitous results.

**Agent_Smith** · 06-10-2011, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

On Tuesday, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was quoted as calling the protest "class warfare" while campaigning in Florida.

This "class warfare" is wearing thin as a talking point. Fox News/GOP better think of something a bit more creative to ridicule middle class taxpayers with other than this hackneyed term.

**The Ghost Of The Moog** · 06-10-2011, 02:32 PM

The US needs to call out the National Guard and remove these anarchists with water cannon, non-lethal ammo and stinky bombs.

**robuzo** · 06-10-2011, 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by The_Ghost_Of_The_Moog

The US needs to call out the National Guard and remove these anarchists with water cannon, non-lethal ammo and stinky bombs.

I think the bankers and traders will give up peacefully. There is no reason to resort to violence unless absolutely necessary.

**BobR** · 06-10-2011, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by BugginOut

God ol' dearly missed George telling it liking it is.

Ironic that the most intelligent and truthful commentary I've ever heard about the current state of the Western World came from a so called comedian. Carlin was a brilliant man.

**BaitongBoy** · 06-10-2011, 02:52 PM

In the immortal words of Leonard Cohen, "Democracy is coming...to the U S A "...

Is this the "same" thing that is happening all over the world?

Originally Posted by The_Ghost_Of_The_Moog

The US needs to call out the National Guard and remove these anarchists with water cannon, non-lethal ammo and stinky bombs.

This post suggests that, in some ways, it is not unlike the revolutions in Africa and the Middle East...and Europe...and...

Some people believe that protestors should simply be "removed"...
But if you have way too many protestors...things become a little more complicated...

Kent State had the National Guard "attend" in 1970...sore spot in USA history...

**Neo** · 06-10-2011, 05:15 PM

This is an interesting point from post #134

The form of resistance that has emerged looks remarkably similar to the old global justice movement, too: we see the rejection of old-fashioned party politics, the same embrace of radical diversity, the same emphasis on inventing new forms of democracy from below.

The 90's were a hotbed of anti-government and anti-capitalist activity in reaction to the erosion of human rights through legislation and the increasing power of corporations and their growing unacountability.

Today, even where the media acknowledge the protests, they seem to frame it in terms of a new phenomena, when in reality the growth in awareness can be retraced through recent times and all the way back through the decades to the post WWII grass roots counter-culture movements.

What could be said though is that the last decade had seen a pacification of a generation through fear and media manipulation, but we are now seeing the next generation rejecting the excess and banality of it's peers, catalyzed by a lack of prospects and joined by the complacent majority that have finally been forced to wake up from the dream.

1992

**Neo** · 06-10-2011, 06:01 PM

There's a lot of talk about JP Chase Morgan donating $4.6 million to the NYPD..
but I can't find a definitive source.

**misskit** · 06-10-2011, 06:15 PM

^http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corpora...icle/ny-13.htm

**Neo** · 06-10-2011, 06:52 PM

Yup, that would seem definitive.

New York City Police Foundation — New York

JPMorgan Chase recently donated an unprecedented $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation. The gift was the largest in the history of the foundation and will enable the New York City Police Department to strengthen security in the Big Apple. The money will pay for 1,000 new patrol car laptops, as well as security monitoring software in the NYPD's main data center.

New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly sent CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon a note expressing "profound gratitude" for the company's donation.
"These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe," Dimon said. "We're incredibly proud to help them build this program and let them know how much we value their hard work."

It's the same piece being circulated on the web, but with no source and no comment from any of the majors it was difficult to verify.

How can a corporation donate in that way?
I would have thought it would be illegal, that police funding should come from public resources, well you live and learn.

So with JP Morgan paying the police and Bloomberg as mayor, the protesters are really up against it.

**Neo** · 06-10-2011, 06:56 PM

Maybe they'll just put a big wall up across Manhattan and call it the Green Zone.

**Boon Mee** · 06-10-2011, 06:59 PM

Originally Posted by Neo

Maybe they'll just put a big wall up across Manhattan and call it the Green Zone.

But more probably those dirty stinking hippies will go home and think about getting a job, eh?

**Neo** · 06-10-2011, 07:08 PM

And pay their taxes like true American patriots do, eh Boon...

**misskit** · 06-10-2011, 07:08 PM

^^You must be as old as the hills to still be calling people hippies.

**misskit** · 06-10-2011, 07:10 PM

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Heh...guess who's been throwing money at these lunatics and their silly protests? Evil George Soros

The article didn't say that. Where's the link?

**Neo** · 07-10-2011, 12:51 AM

Occupy Wall st, gold derivatives and financial propaganda...

**OhOh** · 07-10-2011, 02:17 AM

I think Stacy would be hot.

**OhOh** · 07-10-2011, 02:32 AM

If you are interested in this "Finacialisation" idea you may like this little story.

OWS: Want To Turn The Tide? in [Market-Ticker]

**OhOh** · 07-10-2011, 02:41 AM

Good point about the state bank of North Dakota.

It seems to be a community owned bank whose remit is to spend and invest in North Dakota to the benefit of the state , not the banks.

**misskit** · 07-10-2011, 06:30 AM

The NYPD's Violent Crackdown on Occupy Wall Street Protesters

At around 7:10 p.m., a cavalcade of police vans and trucks blazed south on Broadway toward Liberty Plaza.[at] Some protesters had decided to march in the direction of Wall Street itself, which is just a few blocks away from the plaza. Police confronted the protesters before they could reach their destination, and video recorded at the scene shows several incidents of apparent police violence. In one clip, a senior officer later identified as Lieutenant Brian Connolly can be seen beating protesters with a baton. Another officer then doused the crowd with pepper spray. Connolly, who was awarded the Medal for Valor in 2007, struck local Fox television journalist Dick Brennan with his baton. A Fox photographer, Roy Isen, was sprayed in the eyes with mace. Another journalist, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange.org, posted videos of himself being similarly pummeled. Dozens of arrests were recorded Wednesday. (The NYPD did not respond to a request for comment.)

After a confrontation, at least one motorcycle-mounted officer appeared to purposefully drive into a protester; his motorcycle ended up on the ground. Two other motorcycles were eventually knocked over after officers initiated a scuffle. Police on foot quickly swarmed Beaver Street shortly thereafter, near the intersection with New Street; officers herded demonstrators and photographers onto the sidewalk, roughly shoving some. A young woman was apprehended, thrown into the grill of a car, and arrested. Approximately six officers piled on top of another man, putting him in custody.

Full story here

The NYPD's Violent Crackdown on Occupy Wall Street Protesters | Mother Jones

**misskit** · 07-10-2011, 06:36 AM

On Thursday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he has faith the NYPD, despite what happened wednesday night. He said he would not comment on what one officer "may have done with his baton."

Occupy Wall Street: Quiet Day Follows Wild Night

**Boon Mee** · 07-10-2011, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by misskit

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Heh...guess who's been throwing money at these lunatics and their silly protests? Evil George Soros

The article didn't say that. Where's the link?

Listen to the video. O'Reilly is stating the obvious.

Let's get down to the real issue, shall we? The genesis of Occupy Wall Street distilled to two words: student loans

"...student loans are de rigueur. How do I know that? Because it seems as if every one of the loopy Occupy Wall Street dudes and dudettes interviewed complains about those students loans. (See here, for example.) Two out of thirteen of the demands on the Occupy Wall Street website focus on student loans:

Demand four: Free college education.
[snip]
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

It’s pretty clear that a core issue animating these protesters is the ridiculous debt obligations that they voluntarily assumed. It’s therefore almost funny to see the working class union types leaping on board to help out kids whose demands, if acceded to, will pile ever greater debt on the ordinary working stiffs in America."

Dig it 'cause that's the root, eh?

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