Below, a selection from today’s truly amazing series of articles in the mass media, articles that illustrate a real sea change in the attitudes of the American people regarding Wall Street and the whole PermaGov system as it currently operates. The hypnomedia is a corporate business. It operates on the same basic principle as does the rest of the corporate world. No customers, no profits. No profits, the bosses soon lose their jobs. They lose their jobs, they lose their whole raison d’etre. Bet on it. These pricks live for money just as do the Wall Street people. They are caving, because they need money more than they need to obey PermaGov orders.
Can’t be losing that new Audi A8, now can they? The house in Scarsdale, the tuition at Princeton and Exeter, the little love nest around the corner with Miss Thing in permanent residence?
Nope.
Sea change time instead.
Watch.
International Business Times:
Bloomberg Tells Occupy Wall Street to Leave Zuccotti Park
Occupy Wall Street’s nearly four week camp out in Zuccotti Park might come to an end Friday morning. Mayor Bloomberg visited OWS Wednesday evening in lower Manhattan to notify protestors that New York City has given them until 7 a.m. Friday to clear out of the park for a routine cleaning.
The cleaning would take place for four hours and then demonstrators would be allowed to return to the area “for lawful use consistent with [city] regulations.”
“People will have to remove all their belongings and leave the park… After it’s cleaned, they’ll be able to come back. But they won’t be able to bring back the gear, the sleeping bags, that sort of thing will not be able to be brought back into the park,” NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly told the Post.
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Authorities say new rules will be enforced after the clean-up and evacuation tomorrow.
“The protesters have set up living spaces with tarpaulins, mattresses, sleeping bags, tables, bookshelves, gasoline-powered generators and other items that are inconsistent with the rules and normal public use of the Park,” the Brookfield letter stated.
Occupy Wall Street protestors claim the “cleaning” is a de facto eviction as the City plans to ban sleeping bags, other “gear,” storage of personal property on the ground, and lying down on the ground or benches after the clean-up.
“The last three weeks have created unsanitary conditions and considerable wear and tear on the park,” a statement from Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said. “The situation is not in the best interests of the protesters, residents or the city.”
Protestors issued a statement Thursday stating plans to lock arms in defiance of the police and in defense of First Amendment rights. The demonstrators plan to resist and encourage protestors to join the coalition at 6 a.m. Friday morning.
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“We won’t allow Bloomberg and the NYPD to foreclose our occupation. This is an occupation, not a permitted picnic,” the statement continued.
Wall Street Protesters Confront Mayor Bloomberg While He Dines at Fancy Restaurant
Tonight, as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg dined at the posh Cipriani restaurant downtown, Occupy Wall Street protesters attempted to deliver him a petition with 310,000 signatures supporting the their right to remain Zuccotti Park, where they have been camped out for 28 days. But the mayor refused to come out of the restaurant, instead making his exit out of a back door.
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Mayor Bloomberg visited the protesters Wednesday to offer assurances, but he didn’t stay long.
Luke Richardson, a 25-year-old protester, told the New York Daily News: “I think we did the right thing – we booed him out of here.”
NYC official says cleanup of protest site has been postponed; demonstrators consider new march
NEW YORK — The cleanup of a plaza in lower Manhattan where protesters have been camped out for a month was postponed early Friday, sending cheers up from a crowd that had feared the effort was merely a pretext to evict them.
Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said the owners of the private park, Brookfield Office Properties, had put off the cleaning, scheduled for 7 a.m. More than hour beforehand, supporters of the protesters had started streaming into the park, creating a crowd of several hundred chanting people.
A confrontation between police and protesters, who had vowed to stay put through civil disobedience, had been feared. Boisterous cheers floated up from the crowds as the announcement of the postponement circulated, and protesters began polling each other on whether to make an immediate march to Wall Street, a few blocks away.
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In a last-ditch bid to stay, protesters had mopped and picked up garbage. While moving out mattresses and camping supplies, organizers were mixed on how they would respond when police arrived.
Some protesters said they would resist; others planned to cooperate but engage in nonviolent civil disobedience if they are not allowed back in the park.
Han Shan, 39, of New York, a spokesman for Occupy Wall Street, said it was clear to everyone that the plan is to shut down the protest.
“There is a strong commitment to nonviolence, but I know people are going to vigorously resist eviction,” he said. “I think we’re going to see a huge number of supporters throughout New York and the surrounding area defend this thing … I’m hoping that cooler heads will prevail, but I’m not holding my breath.”
Some 600 to 700 protesters gathered in early morning darkness. Many had not slept and were busy cleaning while a light rain fell. The group’s sanitation team had hired a private garbage truck to pick up discarded curbside garbage.
CBS News!!! (CIA’s first conquest in the Operation Mockingbird ’50s!!!)
Occupy Wall Street: More popular than you think
The conservative criticism of the Occupy Wall Street movement is that it is a “growing mob” (House majority leader Eric Cantor) of “shiftless protestors” (The Tea Party Express) engaged in “class warfare” (GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain) whose grievances – whatever they are – are far outside the political mainstream.
The polls don’t back that up.
A new survey out from Time Magazine found that 54 percent of Americans have a favorable impression of the protests, while just 23 percent have a negative impression. An NBC/Wall Street Journal survey, meanwhile, found that 37 percent of respondents “tend to support” the movement, while only 18 percent “tend to oppose” it.
The findings suggest that the right’s portrait of the movement as a collection of lazy hippies who need to stop whining – to “take a shower and get a job” (Bill O’Reilly) – isn’t resonating with most Americans.
That’s because while the protesters’ aims are vague – Bill Clinton said Wednesday that they need to start advocating specific political goals – their frustrations are easily identifiable and widely shared. The Occupy movement may be a big tent (one with room for opposition to fracking, calls for campaign finance reform, and a host of other positions), but nearly everyone involved says they are angry that a small group of wealthy Americans have grown increasingly rich while “the other 99 percent” have been left behind.
That’s a belief that seems to be shared by Americans across the political spectrum. In 2010, as CBSNews.com reported in a story on the income and wealth divide last month, researchers and Harvard and Duke asked Americans how they thought wealth is spread among income groups, as well as how they thought it should be spread. Overwhelmingly, Americans said they wanted a more equitable distribution of wealth; they also underestimated just how large the wealth divide has grown. (See chart below.)
As the study’s authors noted, “All groups – even the wealthiest respondents – desired a more equal distribution of wealth than what they estimated the current United States level to be.” Republicans, Democrats, independents, as well as rich, middle class and poor all said that wealth shouldn’t be so concentrated among the highest earners.
That goes a long way toward explaining the Occupy movement’s potential staying power and cultural resonance. While most Americans wouldn’t camp out in the freewheeling quasi-society that has sprung up in Lower Manhattan, the vast majority seem to share the protesters’ sense that the economic deck is stacked. They’ve seen the government bail out the banks that helped create the economic crisis, seen corporate profits hit all-time high after all-time high, seen CEO pay balloon to 350 times that of the average worker. They’ve seen average hourly earnings (adjusted for inflation) stagnate for half a century while CEO pay increased 300 percent since 1990. They’ve seen social mobility decline and friends and neighbors join the ranks of the long-term unemployed while the wealthiest Americans have had their tax burden reduced and have increased their share of the nation’s wealth. (For the details behind these statistics, see the extraordinary valuable graphics put together by Business Insider.)
There’s no denying that some of the protesters fit critics’ characterization of them – many, though certainly not all, of the most committed demonstrators are the sort of outspoken young leftists that O’Reilly seems to disdain. And there’s no question there is a wide variety of opinions about how to move forward – both within the movement and the public at large. But the polls and the data suggest that the protesters’ underlying concerns resonate widely. Occupy Wall Street may have an uncertain future – demonstrators in New York may be de facto evicted Friday morning – but it clearly seems to have tapped into a widespread sense that the economic system is out of whack. And that makes it far more difficult for critics to blithely dismiss the protesters as outside the American mainstream.
Bloomberg blinked.
That means Wall Street blinked.
The media is blinking.
Blinking green!!!
GREEN LIGHT!!!
That means “GO“, people!
Blink. blink, blink, blink, blink, blink.
Now what can the Bloombergs do? A full-on assault?
Tahrir Square West.
It didn’t work there and it will not work here. Media will amplify the violence into WW III, Wall Street-style. Bet on it.
Wait for winter to do its nasty work?
Could be.
Will the weather get bad enough soon enough to stop this change in its tracks?
We shall see.
Very soon.
The movement is growing exponentially and the current ten day forecast calls for lightly mixed weather with highs near 70 and lows near 50. Not bad enough to end it, by any means.
Hmmm….
Ten days ago the media was almost universally treating this thing as a buncha hippies getting high in the park.
Hmmmmmmmmm…
Watch.
May we all be born(e) into interesting times.
AG
