Occupy Wall Street: What rough beast?
"The Occupy Wall Street movement is growing, and lots of activity is taking place in social media," writes Social Media Research Foundation Director Marc Smith of Connected Action, who generated the "NodeXL SNA Twitter Map" above tracing the connections among people who tweeted the term “#occupywallstreet yesterday. Click here for larger image.
By Sissy Willis of sisu
"DUMB MOBS," we tossed into the twitterflood of #occupywallstreet commentary this morning as Mark Steyn's "pampered, elderly children of a fin de civilisation overdeveloped world" slouched inchoately towards a public square near you, even as "progressive" opportunists seeking to distance themselves from their own crony-capitalist corruption were scrambling to align themselves with the delusional "99%. Howie Carr said it best:
The fact that the national Democrats are trying to throw in with these layabouts tells you all you need to know about both groups …
In a few months, we’ve gone from grassroots to George Soros astroturf. From Arab Spring to Irish Spring.
Smith's "Node XL SNA Twitter Map" brought to mind this image from an earlier post comparing the flocking behavior of Darwin's Starlings on Otmoor to the behaviors of humans signaling each other on Twitter: "Individuals, but moving in a single entity. And the reason for this behavior? Well, thousands of eyes looking for predators on the roost site. Nothing could escape their gaze, no raptor could surprise this soaring mass of bird flesh … The birds are also maneuvering for position, social position."
We were intrigued with the elegance and suggestiveness of "sociologist of computer-mediated collective action" Marc Smith's visualization (top) of who was twittering whom yesterday on the topic de jour …
Read full post here.
Nothing would suit me better than to see the OccupyWherever Idiots get LOTS of publicity.
LOTS, and MORE LOTS…
Beautiful.
I submit a video you have to watch. It is Sarah Palin’s speech on Friday night. This is what I consider to be one of, if not the best, speech that Sarah Palin has ever given… especially after her saying no to running for the Presidency.
Question… after you watch it, do you really think any of the Republican candidates could or would be able to make a similar speech. That is why she is not running. She has a bigger mission…. to attack the entire corrupt system and to promote her Conservative principles.
Sarah Palin Unshackled – Defending the Republic – http://tinyurl.com/6bdpfvz
A radical government in the majority organizing soon-to-be-violent protests against itself funded by its own main financial contributors. How nutty is that? Even the MSM is showing signs of being creeped out.
And today, the protests have been endorsed by Hugo Chavez and Mahmud Abhadinijad. Brilliant!
And the only presidential candidate criticizing the protests is the Hermanator. The rest are probably listening to the “conventional” RINO wisdom of staying out of the fray for fear of upsetting the independents. Yeah, I can’t wait to see the polls telling us how this is selling with the independents. My guess? It isn’t. Go Cain!
BTW, this is the same GOP that fought hard to distance itself from the Tea Party majority during the various Congressional battles last year that now fears alienating the a dangerously radical minority.
The trustafarian having a bowel movement on the squad car is a prime example of American decay.
The filthy actions of these students is a product of the N.E.A.
The prominence of dems and their unions sure looks good on T.V.
Keep it up lefty’s, keep it up!!!
http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/korea/articles/20111007.aspx
I’m betting that the sleep-over kiddies would learn a lot from a field trip to N. Korea, where predictions say a million people will die this winter from famine, cold, and medical lack.
Even the Red Chinese won’t send them food.
Cain’s vocal criticism of the protests is looking less and less like a gaffe. The way things are shaping up, even the democrats will probably start distancing themselves from them.
Just when I thought the Palins,Bachmans,Angles of the world had been exposed her comes this freshed faced,boy liar to continue with the same old hogwash that has polorized America for the last three years. It is one thing to be a conservative, I actually think 98% of people are to some degree, this nut job has Nazi blood in his veins and will say anything he can to sensationalize a reader. It is obvious he has some serious issues and knows nothing of the facts of life in America, except fro his obstructionist,extremist views. If he did not have a forum to print this bs he would be trying to figure out the problems in America rather than inciting other fools.
That has to be a record for violating Godwin’s Law, Homer.
First post.
Wow.
Wonderful post. Thank You PhillipJames for posting the Palin video.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/10/report-shows-that-the-obama-recovery-is-worse-than-the-recession-on-income/
Well, we have suffered through three years of OccupyTehWhiteHouse.
WTF.
OMG.
That out of the way, let me turn to why I believe Injustice may be the most important American publication this year. Simply, the book details quite specifically how the U.S. DOJ has been corrupted, hijacked might be a more appropriate term, by so-called “progressive” ideology to the extent that it no longer functions remotely as a genuine Department of Justice, but as something out of Orwell’s Animal Farm or Ugo Betti’s Corruption in the Palace of Justice. Just as in Orwell, justice is selectively and unequally applied and, as in Betti, the fish rots from the top.
–Roger L. Simon
The Department of Racial Justice under Holder. Law through the lens of racism and Collectivism.
I wonder why Reich Wing journalists are “infiltrating” these movements. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/conservative-journalist-says-he-infiltrated-escalated-dc-museum-protest/2011/10/09/gIQAIKxCYL_blog.html
The stench of fear from the Reich Wing is palpable.
The only time it is a “good” thing that the people express themselves publicly, is when they are bankrolled by our Koch Masters and the like. That way you know the message is properly controlled to reflect what Real Americans believe.
Nothing would suit me better than to see the OccupyWherever Idiots get LOTS of publicity.
LOTS, and MORE LOTS…
Beautiful.
Posted by: Ragspierre | Sunday, October 09, 2011 at 03:43 PM
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Lies + ad hominem + two minute hate = UAssMORON post.
Poor stupid, RACIST, lying, evil, Collectivist harpy(tm).
OccupyWherever = The Eloi Protest
http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?136581-BoatLift-An-Untold-tale-of-September-11-Resilience
Counter The Eloi Protest with that video. I had never heard that story told.
Anybody care to join me in a BlueBell or Baskin-Robins BUYcott…???
http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/10/10/luxury-ice-cream-retailer-unit-of-multi-national-corporation-endorse-occupywallst/
USA moron: “The stench of fear from the Reich Wing is palpable”
LOL!!
No comment required!
USA moron: “The only time it is a “good” thing that the people express themselves publicly,….”
LOL!!
The poor little lefties. Since everything they do is directed by their “betters”, they cannot even conceive of a scenario where individuals aren’t being directed as to what to do!!
LOL!!
Thus, the continuous projection.
USA moron, don’t worry. You are a good little foot soldier and I’m sure you can count on your superiors tossing you a cookie now and then.
LOL!!
FYI moron, only 36% of independents think that our community organizer in chief deserves a second term.
Yikes.
That’s got to hurt.
And it’s become quite transparent that obambi’s collapsing base is really what these “protests” are all about.
Protest Wall Street? Why not tell obambi, since Goldman-Sachs and Soros-funded groups backed him?
LOL!!
obambi’s ONLY hope is to convince just enough people to ignore his record and then “trust” him (obambi) to go after the latest lefty-designated “bad guys”.
It’s always 1917 for the pathetic lefties.
Yes because The Teabilly “movement” WASN’T bankrolled, organized, and branded by the likes of your Koch Masters, and Dick Armey. Got it. “Please tell us, patriots, what big money groups are funding, organizing, and branding the 99%ers? Specifically. With factual, verifiable evidence of the same.
“And it’s become quite transparent that obambi’s collapsing base is really what these “protests” are all about.”
Yes, we know Rush told you that last week. Any evidence of that, whatsoever? Thought not.
And Obama STILL polls better than either the generic Teatard, and specific Teatards. Getting excited for Mittens, yet, Patriots? Because your Masters will be installing him as your nominee very soon
I still wonder why the Reich Wing is “infiltrating” these movements. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/conservative-journalist-says-he-infiltrated-escalated-dc-museum-protest/2011/10/09/gIQAIKxCYL_blog.html. I suppose one day we’ll get a pretzel-logic-free rationalization about how it’s a good thing when Teabillies do it. Real America, and all. Also, too, Kenneth Gladley fell down, ipso facto, Democrats are racists.
//Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is upset at the growing movement and the media’s coverage of it, hoping that a modern day version of protests from five decades ago isn’t being recaptured now.
“It’s really important for us not to give any legitimacy to these people in the streets,” said King on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Friday evening. “I remember what happened in the 1960s when the left-wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy. We can’t allow that to happen.”//
Stench. Fear.
http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2011/10/10/question-asked-and-answered/
Duh, UAssMORON.
Will that penetrate your crap-filled skull…???
Not. EVER.
Because it will NEVER occur to you that PRECISELY what you accuse the TEA Party of is embodied by your Collective, including the “infiltration” you have your hair on fire about today.
The guy was WRONG, and STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooopid. But he was both those things in employing the same tactic as your Collective. Which I never heard a peep against from you.
Poor stupid, RACIST, lying, evil, Collectivist harpy(tm).
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/10/new-poll-shows-obama-losing-to-herman-cain/
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/10/guess-which-president-has-raked-in-the-most-wall-street-bucks-in-a-generation/
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/587521/201110100805/51-Dont-Want-Second-Term-For-President-Obama.htm
More urgent calls from the GET-A-CLUE PHONE that UAssMORON and her Moonbattery Commanders will NEVER answer…or even acknowledge.
All good.
Yeah, ’cause the Teabillies will totally nominate a black fella.
And yay! the Borg Collective has simultaneously jumped on something called “Poll Position” because it says what they like. They even ignore Rasmussen, which shows Cain peaking 3 points behind Obama – just like every other Teabilly flavor of the week did. I mean, how many great-white-hopes do you guys have left back there? Palin – whoops. Bachmann – whoops. Perry – whoops. Rick Santorum – well he says the 99%ers are legit – whoops.
Speaking of which, the rabble who the Clownselor has been charging 75% contingent fees all these years, have gotten to Mayor Bloomberg – notoriously famous capitalism-hater.
Last week: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/08/bloomberg-occupy-wall-street-jobs?newsfeed=true
Today: http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/10/10/bloomberg-occupy-wall-street-can-stay-indefinitely/
And what does the WSJ think it’s doing by reporting this? Didn’t they get Peter King’s memo that reporting things that hurt the Clownselor’s feelings, are uaAmerican, and cant be allowed?
Lies + ad hominem + two minute hate + projection = UAssMORON post.
Poor stupid, RACIST, lying, evil, Collectivist harpy(tm).
The Daily Caller quotes former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer as commenting:
It’s almost as if President Obama won’t cross across a Wall Street picket line except to get inside with [his] hand out, so he can raise money. That sort of support causes him to look hypocritical.
Whoa… Ya thank…!?!?!
K Street is STRONGER than ever under the fascist economics of the Obamabanana Republic.
Go Eloi…!!! And DO stay in NYC “forever”…or until the first good cold snap.
EXCELLENT PR for the grown-ups of the productive class.
“When I said that it was the job of policy intellectuals to fill in the details for the Occupy Wall Street protestors, I didn’t mean ‘don’t worry your pretty little heads about it, we’ll work it out,.’ I meant job literally as in responsibility: people like Joe Stiglitz and me have an obligation to work on this, helping to translate what justifiably angry citizens are saying into more fleshed-out proposals.”–Krugman, New York Times website, Oct. 7, 2011
Yeah, who better to fill Trotsky’s shoes than Paul “Enron” Krugman. The Collective needs its intelligentsia. (Actually, UNintelligentsia…but, hey….)
Let’s see, the #OWS organizers say they’re “occupying” 1000 cities; outside observers count 147.
There are over 18,000 cities, towns and communities in the US.
They say they’re “occupying” a city if they have a dozen people standing on a street corner. By that standard, I’ve been occupying Studio City for the Tea Party since 2009.
They say the public is flocking to them. It’s been my experience that outside of German porn stars and horseflies, not many people flock to folks sitting in their own excrement.
I suspect the accounts we are receiving of this “movement” may not be overwhelmingly precise.
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