Just in case you were wondering who is behind OWS ...

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Just in case anyone was actually interested in who started this:

Adbusters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, anti-consumerist, pro-environment[1] organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia. The foundation describes itself as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age."[2]

Characterized by some as anti-capitalist or opposed to capitalism[3], it publishes the reader-supported, advertising-free Adbusters, an activist magazine with an international circulation of 120,000[4] devoted to challenging consumerism. Past and present contributors to the magazine include Christopher Hedges, Matt Taibbi, Bill McKibben, Jim Munroe, Douglas Rushkoff, Jonathan Barnbrook, David Graeber, Simon Critchley, Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt and others.

Adbusters has launched numerous international campaigns, including Buy Nothing Day, TV Turnoff Week and Occupy Wall Street, and is known for their "subvertisements" that spoof popular advertisements. In English, Adbusters has bi-monthly American, Canadian, Australian, UK and International editions of each issue. Adbusters's sister organizations include Résistance à l'Aggression Publicitaire[5] and Casseurs de Pub[6] in France, Adbusters Norge in Norway, Adbusters Sverige in Sweden and Culture Jammers in Japan.[7][8]

Golly gee, look who manages "Adbusters"

This is basically all the officers of the George Soros Fan Club ..

Chris Hedges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies.[1] His most recent book is The World As It Is (2011).[2]

A news reporter on a mission, who would have thunk it?

Matt Taibbi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Matthew C. "Matt" Taibbi (born March 2, 1970) is an American author and polemical journalist reporting on politics, media, finance, and sports for Rolling Stone and Men's Journal.[1] Previously he edited and wrote for The eXile, the New York Press, and The Beast. His July 2009 Rolling Stone article "The Great American Bubble Machine" famously described Goldman Sachs as "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."[1][2]

Wow, what have we here? A reporter for Rolling Stone, THE DE FACTO STANDARD of unbiased journalism.

Bill McKibben - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William Ernest "Bill" McKibben (born 1960)[1] is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College.[2] In 2010, the Boston Globe called him "probably the nation's leading environmentalist" [3] and Time magazine described him as "the world's best green journalist."[4]

In 2009, he led the organization of 350.org, which organized what Foreign Policy magazine called "the largest ever global coordinated rally of any kind," with 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. The magazine named him to its inaugural list[5] of the 100 most important global thinkers, and MSN named him one of the dozen most influential men of 2009.[6] In 2010, McKibben and 350.org conceived the 10/10/10 Global Work Party, which convened more than 7,000 events[7] in 188 countries[8] as he had told a large gathering at Warren Wilson College shortly before the event. In December 2010, 350.org coordinated a planet-scale art project, with many of the 20 works visible from satellites.[9]

Oh how lovely! This guy _HATES_ people with jobs to the point he's willing to euthanize them because HE'S GOING TO SAVE THE WORLD!!!

Jim Munroe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jim Munroe is a Canadian science fiction author, who publishes his works independently under the imprint No Media Kings.

Munroe was managing editor at the magazine Adbusters in the 1990s, before publishing his debut novel Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask in 1999. The novel was put out by HarperCollins, a major publishing company owned by Rupert Murdoch, and though the book was successful, Munroe so disliked the experience that he launched No Media Kings as a venue for publishing and promoting his own works independently, and a guide to self-publishing for other prospective writers.

In 2000, Munroe released Angry Young Spaceman through No Media Kings. He followed up with Everyone in Silico in 2002, which was promoted partly by Munroe's attempt to invoice corporations mentioned in the novel for product placement. An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil, a novel written in the form of blog entries, followed in 2004. Munroe's most recent books are Therefore Repent! and Sword of My Mouth, graphic novels set in post-Rapture Chicago and Detroit.

Munroe was the founder of Perpetual Motion Roadshow, a North American indie touring circuit that sent 100 writers, performers and musicians on the road between 2003-2007. A former video games columnist for Eye Weekly, he is a founding board member of the Hand Eye Society and has produced projects such as the Torontron.

Jim Munroe, the science fiction author, should not be confused with Jim Munroe, the American magician.

Wow, now we've got fictional novelists chiming in! Heeeeeeeeeee's an EXPERT!!!!

Douglas Rushkoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Douglas Rushkoff (born 18 February 1961) is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems.

Rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media theorist, and known for coining terms and concepts including viral media (or media virus), digital native, and social currency.

He has written ten books on media, technology, and culture. He wrote the first syndicated column on cyberculture for The New York Times Syndicate, as well as regular columns for The Guardian of London,[1] Arthur,[2] Discover,[3] and the online magazines Daily Beast,[4] TheFeature.com and meeting industry magazine One+.

Rushkoff currently teaches in the Media Studies department at The New School University in Manhattan.[5] He has previously lectured at the ITP at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and taught a class called Narrative Lab.[6] He also has taught online for the MaybeLogic Academy.[7]

Shhhhhhhh! Don't tell this guy the technology he *** ****s himself with was built with plastics derived from petroleum products by big corporations with government approval, he might get sad and kill himself (to save the environment of course).


Jonathan Barnbrook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jonathan Barnbrook (born 1966, Luton), is a British graphic designer and typographer.[1] He trained at Central St Martin's and at the Royal College of Art (both in London).[2]

OoOOOOOohhhhh.....! An ARTIST Quite obviously, another world-class expert!

David Graeber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

David Rolfe Graeber (born 12 February 1961) is an American anthropologist and anarchist who currently holds the position of Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London.[1] He was an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University, although Yale controversially declined to rehire him, and his term there ended in June 2007. Graeber has a history of social and political activism, including his role in protests against the World Economic Forum in New York City (2002), membership in the labor union Industrial Workers of the World, and an early role in Occupy Wall Street.

ZOMG! What have we here? An ANARCHIST!!!!! :headbang::headbang::headbang: RAAAWRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

Simon Critchley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Simon Critchley (born 27 February 1960 in Hertfordshire) is an English philosopher currently teaching at The New School.[1] He works in continental philosophy. Critchley argues that philosophy commences in disappointment, either religious or political. These two axes may be said largely to inform his published work: religious disappointment raises the question of meaning and has to, as he sees it, deal with the problem of nihilism; political disappointment provokes the question of justice and raises the need for a coherent ethics.

Slavoj Žižek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Slavoj Žižek (pronounced [ˈslavoj ˈʒiʒɛk]; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher and critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis.

Žižek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a professor at the European Graduate School.[1] He has been a visiting professor at, among others, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, London Consortium, Princeton, New York University, The New School, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Irvine and the University of Michigan. He is currently the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana.[2]

Žižek uses examples from popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and uses Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and Marxist economic criticism to interpret and speak extensively on immediately current social phenomena, including the current ongoing global financial crisis. In a 2008 interview with Amy Goodman on the New York City radio show Democracy Now! he described himself as a "communist in a qualified sense," and in another appearance on the show in October 2009 he described himself as a "radical leftist".[3][4] Žižek is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of the radical left.[citation needed]

It was not until the 1989 publication of his first book written in English, The Sublime Object of Ideology, that Žižek achieved international recognition as a social theorist. Since then, he has continued to develop his status as a confrontational intellectual.

He writes on many topics including subjectivity, ideology, capitalism, fundamentalism, racism, tolerance, multiculturalism, human rights, ecology, globalization, the Iraq War, revolution, utopianism, totalitarianism, postmodernism, pop culture, opera, cinema, political theology, and religion.

Michael Hardt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michael Hardt (born 1960)[1] is an American literary theorist and political philosopher perhaps best known for Empire, written with Antonio Negri and published in 2000.[2] It has been called the Communist Manifesto of the 21st Century.[3]

Hardt and his co-author suggest that what they view as forces of contemporary class oppression, globalization and the commodification of services (or production of affects), have the potential to spark social change of unprecedented dimensions. A sequel, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, published in August 2004, details the notion, first propounded in Empire, of the multitude as possible locus of a democratic movement of global proportions.

The third and final part of the trilogy, Commonwealth, appeared in the Fall of 2009.

So anyways, what we have here is a bunch of Marxist whack jobs who are trying to *cough LMAO cough* capitalize on the colossal ****ups of the Clinton and Bush administrations to push their Marxist agenda. Nope, no political opportunism going on here folks, none at all, this is a pure movement with only the best intentions by regular old minimum wage folks like you and me

 

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OH wait, you'll love this: THE FOUNDING MEMBERS!

http://activistcash.com/biography.cfm/b/3444-bill-schmalz

Bill Schmalz
Biography
Bill Schmalz is a wilderness cinematographer who, with Kalle Lasn, co-founded the anti-corporate activist group Adbusters Media Foundation.

In 1989, British Columbia’s forestry industry was under attack by radical environmentalists and fought back with billboards and television ads. Schmalz, Lasn, and other activists launched a counter-ad. But television stations refused to air it. The environmentalists protested in front of logging company headquarters and courted media attention. They were successful -- the industry’s ads were pulled after hundreds of people phoned the networks in support of the activists -- and Adbusters was born.

Schmalz was heavily involved in the first few issues of Adbusters magazine, but its unprofitability led him back to wilderness film and photography. He is still listed as a co-publisher and occasionally contributes to the magazine.

A WILDERNESS PHOTOGRAPHER!

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Oh hey look, how cute ...

http://www.gurufocus.com/StockBuy.php?symbol=BAM&p=0

George Soros owns equity in the firm that owns the park in NYC this is all taking place at.

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Didn't similar stuff come out about the Tea Party too?

I guess these days we hate anyone that is willing to protest something that they care about.

 

[Dogmeat]

Didn't similar stuff come out about the Tea Party too?

I guess these days we hate anyone that is willing to protest something that they care about.

The people who are protesting don't have a ****ing clue what they're actually doing.

The whole thing is being financed by Marxists.

The protesters are being duped.

 

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The people who are protesting don't have a ****ing clue what they're actually doing.

The whole thing is being financed by Marxists.

The protesters are being duped.

Again, heard the similar thing about the tea party... funny isn't it?

 

[Dogmeat]

Again, heard the similar thing about the tea party... funny isn't it?

Not really, it's pretty sad.

You can say what you want about the Tea Party, and I agree its pretty much just as big of farce as this is ....

But, I'll take my chances any day of the week with capitalism and corporate America vs. a Marxist system.