MSM avoid mention of "Occupy Wall Street" because their Masters Order them to do so....

[Cal33]

"Occupy Wall Street" is composed mainly of college students, and
they will try to keep it up indefinitely.

I think corporate execs. are afraid of them, should they keep it up
indefinitely. They are afraid of having more and more Americans
beginning to realize that the endless greed of Corporate America is
bringing misery and death to hundreds of thousands of individual
Americans - 47,000 Americans die each year from lack of medical
attention alone - and is the principal cause of the decline our
nation today.

That is why they are doing their best to suppress this information
from being broadcast.

Remember how the anti-war gatherings of young Americans in the 1960s
grew and spread throughout our whole nation during the Vietnam War?
They played an important role in helping that war come to an end.

Today, just imagine if young people also held such gatherings at
the business centers of cities throughout our nation. More and
more Americans will no longer be kept in the dark that Corporate
America is the responsibe party for the financial disaster facing
America, and no amount of their continuing lies is going to help
them any longer.

That is why they are afraid.

Is it possible for DUers to help spread "Occupy Wall Street" and
let it grow in all cities throughout America?

Corporate America has done enough harm to our nation. Let's
try to help those who are fighting back. It's about time!

[midnight]

1. K&R

[villager]

2. No question about it -- it's not part of the "approved narrative..."

n/t

[dkf]

3. And then there is this: Public pension funds hammered by a perfect storm

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1996345

Wall street = the ability to save and retire. Saving money in a bank doesn't even keep up with inflation.

[Cal33]

5. There is the alternative of using a "Credit Union." There is a credit union in a shopping

center right nearby to where I live. I must have passed it hundreds of times, but
it meant nothing to me since I didn't know what a credit union was. I learnt it
from a DUer right here. I imagine there might be others like me.

A credit union functions exactly like a bank, with this exception. When you join it,
you become a part-owner of it. Every member is also a part-owner of it.

There are all sorts of credit unions: For the US military, veterans, Federal
workers, state workers, county workers, credit unions for those living in a
certain area, etc. You do have a somewhat higher interest rate than a bank offers.
Credit Unions are also covered by the FDIC.

You can look up Google for one near you.

[dkf]

8. Credit union or bank...

You can't retire on cash in the bank. You need higher rates of return than that or you have to make a LOT.

[Cal33]

9. Very true. I know a couple of people who bought condominiums and

rent them out. That plus their pensions allow them to live nicely. And they
also have medicare. There are all kinds of investments that one can make.

[PATRICK]

4. Corporate united control

coupled with fractured media with a consistent intent and message. Sacrificing the large effects on the majority of a single media(large newspapers, radio, the few broadcast major networks) while pooling ownership into fewer hands allows more tools for gaming truth, less failures of the big lie causing national damage. Sure the alternate, truth, can go "viral" among the other viruses, but the single outreach is gone. The real web of deceit has few spiders.

Truth has more power so even the pretense at "news" is reduced to fewer journalists doing more entertainment and emptier, slanted opinions, producing a meaningless fog. Fog gathers more thickly around truth beacons and both truth and the public are under constant assault under the mesmerizing valueless propaganda entertainment where the lowest common denominator(and off the critical points) is the only forum cleared out for supposed participation.

Lying and diversion is diversified. Truth is cast out wholesale and isolated. Intuition and right feelings can't link to thought much less right action.

[tritsofme]

6. I feel the media coverage has been appropriate.

In proportion to the relevance of the story.

Should the major networks interrupt programming on the hour to list a new demand by the tens of dozens gathered?

[Cal33]

7. No, not by the hour. Once a day will suffice. The anti-Vietnam War movement also

began small. It took years before it became nationwide. And it was
for a worthwhile cause. I hope "Occujpy Wall Street" will also
turn into a nationwide movement.

This is also for a very worthwhile cause. The greed of corporations
is threatening the livelihood not only of the USA, but that of the
entire globe!

[brooklynite]

22. What was the difference in the story between, say, Tuesday and Wednesday?

Other than the " pizza deliveries" story (which was covered), nothing " newsworthy" happened.

[truedelphi]

14. the relevance of which story?

To me almost no story in the last fifty years has been as important as the fact that our National leaders insisted on letting an inner cabal headed by just a few individuals to strip the wealth of this nation from People on Main Street and offer it over to the Upper Elite of Wall Street.

And this not ony happend, but the wealth that was heisted had no regulations in efect and basically no one overseeing it. Thus I am able to call it a heist.

There was a young, articulate Black man who was running for office in 2008. In LaCross Wisconisn, in October of that year, he put forth the idea that if Wall Street ended up sitting on the monies that the people of this nation had offered it, he would make it an immediate prioirity to mandate that serious regulations went into effect during his first year as President.

I haven't seen that guy around much, although some here tell me he did become President.

All I know is that the Banking firms and financial firms are still unregulated, and if they go belly up a second time, nothing has changed. Once again, we the folks on Main treet will be required to Bail them out. That way, not only our kids and grandkids willl be liable for this mess, even our great great great grandkids will be.

Sometimes Dylan Rattigan talks about it, and once and a while Matt Taibi gets a place at the table with Bill Maher, but usually no one in the media that I notice mentions this happening.

[EFerrari]

10. The movement is spreading to other cities.

Good luck to them trying to hide this, say, for another week.

[Cal33]

11. Oh, Wow! This is the first time I've heard anything like this. I sure

hope it will become nationwide! God bless those young people!
And thanks for the info.

[EFerrari]

13. Portland & Chicago. I saw more last night

but can't find them paging darn it. Well, we'll see. There seems to be some action in Los Angeles, too.

[sabrina 1]

12. 'let it grow in all cities throughout America?'

27 US cities are now planning similar occupations in solidarity with the Wall St. protesters. And across the country, people are arranging car pools and buses to come support them in NYC.

Thanks for your post, since the media won't cover it, the people will have to do it themselves, and so far, they've been doing great.

Right now there is a huge crowd in NYC. Many have been arrested today, with the police seemingly targeting the media team, arresting two of them. The live feed is down maybe as a result of that. They need more media people, since the police keep arresting them.

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution it's not working, but when it was earlier, it was awe-inspiring to see so many people there.

:kick:

[Cal33]

15. This is now looking like it might turn into a NATIONAL MOVEMENT, just as the

anti-Vietnam War protests did. People are waking up, FINALLY.
I hope these protests will keep up. Bringing America back
to democracy, to the point where the ordinary people actually
DO have some say is a worthwhile project.

[xiamiam]

26. I think the MSM just revealed themselves to the masses..even the ones who still believed

these are their kids getting arrested and talking on college campuses and travelling on buses to be a part of it..their kids, and brothers and sisters in the streets ..it will grow, mark my words..and the MSM has just made sure of that by ignoring them

[libodem]

16. freedom of the press

Yeah, right.

[Cal33]

18. But the young people are beginning to protest en masse, in the way their

grandparents had done 50 years ago. They inherited their genes, all right!
I hope they will succeed just as well. Apparently the protests in NYC
are turning into a national movement.

[Selatius]

29. Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.

Most people don't, so of course their interests are neglected in reporting.

[Rex]

17. The corporate media works for Wall Street and is a cancer

to the American people. We should have fair and balanced news, but the M$M has paymasters that work directly against democracy and capitalism to make sure we live in a plutocracy.

[Cal33]

19. If "Occupy Wall Street" becomes a national movement - and it looks like

it will be, since about a dozen cities have also joined - things are bound to change, although
this will take a long time, since there is so much that needs to be changed. The American
people have finally begun to fight back against corporatization of America.

[oldlib]

20. What is their platform

aside from controlling wall street? Do they adopt the principals of the Democratic Party?

[Cal33]

28. They are definitely progressive, and make no bones about it.

[LatteLibertine]

21. I definitely admire them

and support what they are doing. The "plebs" have been ignored and abused long enough.

Rawk! I'm going to be a parrot again. I hope they start demanding real campaign finance reform and term limits for Congress.

That issue needs to be discussed regularly and kept in the forefront. The media can't ignore it forever. Be loud and be consistent.

[libodem]

23. .

:kick:

[EndElectoral]

24. If this was the Westboro Baptist Church the media would be all over it.

[Hoosier Daddy]

25. Exactly

I don't know why anybody's wondering about this. The MSM is just as corporate as Goldman Sachs.

[truthwillout777]

27. we should go to the media and demand they cover it

The Media Will Not Cover the Wall Street Protest? Take the Protest to the Media!!
http://getsmartnews.com/news/220689

[EmeraldCityGrl]

30. CNN ran a pitiful little news clip early this

morning showing three people being quietly and carefully removed from the street.

Blatant misrepresentation of what is really happening. Keep putting pressure on the MSM

to report the story in full.