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Freeloaders freeloading off the Freeloaders…and they are NOT happy!
Confused yet?? Yeah…me too! Oooohh the Irony of it all!! ~ mellie
Occupy Wall Street kitchen staff protesting fixing food for freeloaders
By SELIM ALGAR and BOB FREDERICKS
Last Updated: 10:58 AM, October 27, 2011
Posted: 1:43 AM, October 27, 2011
EXCLUSIVE
The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday — because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters.
For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.
They will also provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day.
NY Post: Chad Rachman
TUMMY TROUBLE: Protesters and hangers-on were disappointed in yesterday’s fare supplied by cooks who plan to serve only brown rice instead of fancy feasts in protest over an influx of “professional homeless” eaters.
To show they mean business, the kitchen staff refused to serve any food for two hours yesterday in order to meet with organizers to air their grievances, sources said.
As the kitchen workers met with the “General Assembly’’ last night, about 300 demonstrators stormed from the park to Reade Street and Broadway, where they violently clashed with cops.
Sorry…just HAD to add this! ~ mellie
h/t breitbarttv
CEO Peter Schiff confronts Occupy Wall Streets ’99%rs’
H/T the Blaze
So,who is Peter Schiff?
| Peter Schiff |
CEO & Chief Global Strategist
Mr. Schiff is one of the few non-biased investment advisors (not committed solely to the short side of the market) to have correctly called the current bear market before it began and to have positioned his clients accordingly. As a result of his accurate forecasts on the U.S. stock market, economy, real estate, the mortgage meltdown, credit crunch, subprime debacle, commodities, gold and the dollar, he is becoming increasingly more renowned. He has been quoted in many of the nation’s leading newspapers, and appears regularly on CNBC, CNN, Fox News, Fox Business Network, and Bloomberg T.V.
Mr. Schiff began his investment career as a financial consultant with Shearson Lehman Brothers. A financial professional for over twenty years he joined Euro Pacific in 1996 and has served as its President since January 2000.
| Name: | Peter Schiff | ||
| Title: | CEO & Chief Global Strategist | ||
| Company: | Euro Pacific Capital | ||
| Location: | Westport |
Info from Europac.net
ACORN at Occupy New York
Exclusive Report by Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role in ‘Occupy’ Movement
By Jana Winter
Published October 26, 2011
| FoxNews.com
The former New York office for ACORN, the disbanded community activist group, is playing a key role in the self-proclaimed “leaderless” Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing “guerrilla” protest events and hiring door-to-door canvassers to collect money under the banner of various causes while spending it on protest-related activities, sources tell FoxNews.com.
The former director of New York ACORN, Jon Kest, and his top aides are now busy working at protest events for New York Communities for Change (NYCC). That organization was created in late 2009 when some ACORN offices disbanded and reorganized under new names after undercover video exposes prompted Congress to cut off federal funds.
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ACORN Plays Key Role in ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Movement
Former New York office for ACORN, the disbanded community activist group, is playing a key role in ‘leaderless’ Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing ‘guerrilla’ protest events and hiring canvassers to collect money for various causes while spending it on protest-related activities, sources tell FoxNews.com.
NYCC’s connection to ACORN isn’t a tenuous one: It works from the former ACORN offices in Brooklyn, uses old ACORN office stationery, employs much of the old ACORN staff and, according to several sources, engages in some of the old organization’s controversial techniques to raise money, interest and awareness for the protests.
Sources said NYCC has hired about 100 former ACORN-affiliated staff members from other cities – paying some of them $100 a day – to attend and support Occupy Wall Street. Dozens of New York homeless people recruited from shelters are also being paid to support the protests, at the rate of $10 an hour, the sources said.
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Occupy Wall Street Occupies GE CEO’s Front Lawn…
Now THIS is where they need to be, other than at the White House….I’m just saying. ~Mellie
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Protesters Occupy GE CEO Jeff Immelt’s Connecticut Front Lawn
Forbes Staff
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Occupy Wall Street protesters took a field trip from Zuccotti Park on Saturday morning, all the way to the wealthy suburban enclave of New Canaan, Conn., where they took their anger at income and tax disparity to GE CEO Jeff Immelt’s front lawn.
“In the land of the free they tax me but not G.E.!” read the invitation to take an hour bus ride to Immelt’s family home to join the protest, organized by liberal political party Connecticut Working Families. “General Electric made billions last year; they paid no taxes, outsourced thousands of jobs, and got over $3 billion in tax refunds! Join us on a free bus trip to G.E’s CEO’s front lawn to see how our friends in the 1% live.”
A crowd of about 100 protesters from Connecticut Working Families, Occupy Wall Street and local offshoot Occupy New Haven spent the afternoon standing outside Immelt’s 6-bedroom, 10-bathroom, $5.25 million home. Photos from local news site New Canaan Patch show a police officer guarding Immelt’s gates while protesters hold placards reading “Mr. Immelt, Meet the 99%” and “Jobs Not Bailouts”.
Read More at Forbes.com
Funny thing though… Mr. Immelt supports the Occupy Wall Street Movement
GE’s Immelt empathizes with Occupy Wall Street
By Annalyn Censky @CNNMoneyOctober 17, 2011
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — General Electric’s CEO Jeff Immelt said Monday he empathizes with the grievances of the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
“Unemployment is 9.1% and underemployment is much higher than that, particularly among young people that don’t have a college degree,” he said. “It is natural to assume people are angry, and so I think we have to be empathetic and understand that people are not feeling great.”
Speaking at a ThomsonReuters event in New York, Immelt went on to discuss the gap between CEO pay and average wages, one of the main sources of discontent among the Occupy Wall Street activists.
“I think the discrepancy is certainly one of the problems today in terms of why people feel the system is unfair,” he said. “So let’s be honest about that. It is part of the problem.”
Read more of this at CNN.com
Occupy Wall Street: The 1% that support the 99%
‘Occupy’ protesters find allies in ranks of the wealthy
‘Tax me, I’m good for it,’ some in the richest 1 percent say in support of the protest
By Miranda Leitsinger Reporter
msnbc.com
The “Occupy Wall Street” protesters — also known as the “99 percent” — have struck a chord with at least a few members of an unexpected audience: America’s rich and privileged.
United under the banner “We are the 1 percent: We stand with the 99 percent,” a band of entrepreneurs, trust fund babies, professionals and inheritors has taken to the web to share their abhorrence of corporate greed and support for tax code changes that would see them pay a higher share of their considerable wealth.
Some are probably not actually in the top 1 percent wealthwise — calculated at earning a yearly salary of more than $506,000, according toThe Wall Street Journal— but all are certainly well off and supportive of reforms that would narrow the widening gap between America’s elite and poorest citizens.
Farhad A. Ebrahimi, 33, who shares his inherited wealth through a charity that he founded, says he attends the Occupy Boston protest every day. He said that his inheritance put him squarely in the top 1 percent, plus he makes enough on investment income every year to be in the highest tax bracket.
Courtesy of Burke Stansbury
Burke Stansbury is sympathetic with the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Burke Stansbury, a 35-year-old communications specialist for nonprofit groups, has been loosely involved with the protests in Washington, D.C. (known as Occupy K St), donating homemade food, tarps and money. He inherited a little more than $1 million and stands to inherit more.
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