Daily Topics - Monday November 21st, 2011
By shawnt56
Hour One: An iconic moment for the Occupy Wall Street movement... / Plus, the latest from Wisconsin on "Recall Walker" efforts - John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Hour Two: OWS...Arrested, processed and ready for more - J.A. Myerson, Truthout
Hour Three: "This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement" - Sarah van Gelder, Yes Magazine
Comments
#2
Radiolucently ugly? Radiolucent sound like it radiates light. Other than that, I can't figure it out.
#3
Not to step on Chris Hedges, but Bill Maher said years ago, "We shouldn't be so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance."
#4
OWS ZOMBIES ATTACK BILL O’REILLY!
Dateline: New York City
No sooner than having pronounced the Occupy Wall Street movement as “dead”, does Fox News host of The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly, suffer an attack by zombie Occupiers while shopping at a local market. Said the curmudgeonly commentator, “It was horrible. There I was pushing my shopping cart, suddenly surrounded by a crowd of drooling mouths and blank stares, not unlike that of my show’s audience. Luckily I was able to momentarily distract them with an offering of a frozen cheese pizza and get away”.
The next day over 30,000 Occupy Wall Street zombies marched through the streets of New York City. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, appearing at a news conference, expressed that there was no need for alarm.
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Hi Thom!
I'm ALL for restructuring the budget because the military-industrial complex is way out of control, however, slashing defense spending will have actual repercussions-- not just for Mr Attached-Servents'-Quarts-- but for the people who work in the defense biz. Sadly, it's one of the few things that we produce anymore and cuts could really impact unemployment.
Yes, there are other places we could spend much of that money (infrastructure!) but a simple slashing will decimate jobs in that sector. Philosophically, they are arguably jobs that we shouldn't be reliant on, but, sadly, that's how we're structured. I would love to see those resources and minds applied to improving solar power, for example, but since this isn't Sim City (regardless of Herman Cain's worldview) we can't just easily reallocate military materiel development and production to peaceful development
Also, if there was even a chance that these cuts were going to go through (this is cynical me talking now), don't you think that Lockheed-etc.-etc. would be restructuring preemptively?
I hope I'm wrong here...