Are We Idiots?

[we_are_toast]

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Time to go long Guillotine manufacturers?

[metalman]

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great... sleazy bankers breathing new life into sleazy unions.

[metalman]

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hmmmm.....

no mention of this on foxnewsdotcom nor googlenews headline page??????

you tryin to start trouble pwcmba???

google news has it...

Monsters and Critics.com

Demonstrators protest at Chicago banker's meeting

KWQC 6 - 23 minutes ago
AP - October 27, 2009 3:14 PM ET CHICAGO (AP) - Police estimate about 2000 protesters, joined by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, marched to demand banking reforms ...
"Showdown In Chicago": Thousands Of Protesters Gather, Jesse Jackson, Labor ... Huffington Post (blog)

Thousands protest bailout bonuses at Chicago bank meeting AFP

Thousands Rally For Financial Reform In Chicago TPM LiveWire (blog)

Chicago Tribune - Bay Area Indymedia

[strittmatter]

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hmmmm.....

no mention of this on foxnewsdotcom nor googlenews headline page??????

you tryin to start trouble pwcmba???

[Slimprofits]

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On the final day of a three-day protest directed at the banking industry's top trade group, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson addressed a crowd of what is reported to be more 5,000 people, along with did AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, SEIU President Andy Stern and Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger.

http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswir...7906/index.php

[Slimprofits]

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who organized this protest? let's send money.

The SEIU

http://action.seiu.org/page/s/abarsvp

http://www.seiu.org/2009/10/photos-t...ard-change.php

and the AFL-CIO

[metalman]

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More coverage-

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1310035421&play=1

number of protestors has grown to "several thousand" WOW.

who organized this protest? let's send money.

[pwcmba]

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More coverage-

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1310035421&play=1

number of protestors has grown to "several thousand" WOW.

[pwcmba]

Banksters not welcome in Chi town!

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2...-showdown.html

Bank protesters descend on downtown Chicago

October 27, 2009 10:39 AM | No Comments

Streets near the Loop are shut down as several hundred protesters rallied this morning against the American Bankers Association holding its annual convention in Chicago.

At about the 10:30 a.m., the northbound lanes of Michigan Avenue were closed as the protesters marched across the bridge and gathered near Pioneer Court.
The demonstrators had arrived in buses on Upper Wacker Drive and Michigan Avenue just south of the Chicago River.
Check back for more details.

[staci_vay]

Re: Are We Idiots?

Heck, we don't have to worry anymore about banks entering into foreclosures. With the storke of a pen, we just added $100 trillion in notional value to banks balance sheets with the new mark to magic FASB rules. Banks will be much happier now and much more solvent. Amazing after all this stimulus and bailouts, all anybody needed to do was stoke a pen and create fictitious bank value. When will the American public wake up??????????????????????

[Chris Coles]

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I was in no way implying that there was violence -- I was responding to the "pitchfork" comment -- It was clear that the young man had used paint.

No Problem Rajiv, I had not assumed you were thinking the worst and I should have put a big smily at the end to show that.

[Rajiv]

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I was in no way implying that there was violence -- I was responding to the "pitchfork" comment -- It was clear that the young man had used paint.

[Chris Coles]

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Yes, but we do see batons, handcuffs and tazers and of course "star trooper" helmets!

BBC TV and Channel 4 TV news reports have clearly shown that there was very little violence. The young man is almost certainly wearing red paint on his face. The worst that I have seen was some idiots breaking a window in RBS and being clearly watched and subsequently caught and charged.

The UK has got civilised protest down to a fine art form that many other nations could learn from.

[Rajiv]

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Yes, but we do see batons, handcuffs and tazers and of course "star trooper" helmets!

[tombat1913]

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He's right, I don't see one pitchfork!