Molotov 25 October 2011
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, Europe, Greece, Occupy Wall Street, Pan Arab Revolt - 2011, Viva La Revolucion!.trackback
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A protester throws a molotov cocktail towards riot police during a demonstration in Athens [Milos Bicanski/Getty Images]
Seems appropriate.
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From BHHM from the end of the last thread (in re: Oakland protests, which are going 15, 16 hours after the rousting in Ogawa Plaza this am):
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution
Always so amazing to watch a police state crack down on a people yearning for Democracy and Freedom …
… oh, wait ….
Goldman Sachs guy gonna be arrested in the morning…
Throwin us a bone…
Federal prosecutors are expected to file criminal charges on Wednesday against Rajat K. Gupta, the most prominent business executive ensnared in an aggressive insider trading investigation, according to people briefed on the case.
The case against Mr. Gupta, 62, who is expected to surrender to F.B.I. agents on Wednesday, would extend the reach of the government’s inquiry into America’s most prestigious corporate boardrooms. Most of the defendants charged with insider trading over the last two years have plied their trade exclusively on Wall Street.
The charges would also mean a stunning fall from grace of a trusted adviser to political leaders and chief executives of the world’s most celebrated companies.
A former director of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble and the longtime head of McKinsey & Company, the elite consulting firm, Mr. Gupta has been under investigation over whether he leaked corporate secrets to Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund manager who was sentenced this month to 11 years in prison for trading on illegal stock tips.
The case against Mr. Gupta, who lives in Westport, Conn., would tie up a major loose end in the long-running investigation of Mr. Rajaratnam’s hedge fund, the Galleon Group. Yet federal authorities continue their campaign to ferret out insider trading on multiple fronts. This month, for example, a Denver-based hedge fund manager and a chemist at the Food and Drug Administration pleaded guilty to such charges.
A spokeswoman for the United States attorney in Manhattan declined to comment.
😯 Mr. Gupta, in his role at the helm of McKinsey, was a trusted adviser to business leaders including Jeffrey R. Immelt, of General Electric, and Henry R. Kravis, of the private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company. A native of Kolkata, India, and a graduate of the Harvard Business School, Mr. Gupta has also been a philanthropist, serving as a senior adviser to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mr. Gupta also served as a special adviser to the United Nations.
His name emerged just a week before Mr. Rajaratnam’s trial in March, when the Securities and Exchange Commission filed an administrative proceeding against him. The agency accused Mr. Gupta of passing confidential information about Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble to Mr. Rajaratnam, who then traded on the news.
The details were explosive. Authorities said Mr. Gupta gave Mr. Rajaratnam advanced word of Warren E. Buffett’s $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs during the darkest days of the financial crisis in addition to other sensitive information affecting the company’s share price.
At the time, federal prosecutors named Mr. Gupta a co-conspirator of Mr. Rajaratnam, but they never charged him. Still, his presence loomed large at Mr. Rajaratnam’s trial. Lloyd C. Blankfein,:roll: the chief executive of Goldman, testified about Mr. Gupta’s role on the board and the secrets he was privy to, including earnings details and the bank’s strategic deliberations.
The legal odyssey leading to charges against Mr. Gupta could serve as a case study in law school criminal procedure class. He fought the S.E.C.’s civil action, which would have been heard before an administrative judge. Mr. Gupta argued that the proceeding denied him of his constitutional right to a jury trial and treated him differently than the other Mr. Rajaratnam-related defendants, all of whom the agency sued in federal court.
Gupta under the Blanknfein bus.
An habitue of Scum Land. Not much else t add.
Gupta. Sounds like a turban headed Tallybanistani. Why is always some darkie type? It msut be weak genes or something
Well THEIR game, in which the US and the immigrants and second generationals participated, was they played at being “the better blacks”: NO We are not racists, we are not a racist nation, look at our compliant smart rich imported “blacks”. And so on. There was always bound to be a price… a showily paid price. Sounds like Raj and Gupta are paying it.
Hard to care.
yup.
i’m hoping that before the pitch forks and torches break into the vaults of Goldman Sachs the vainly sacrifice one of their own on the altar of “justice” not as some sort of appeasement, but rather an appetizer for the long pig feast to come 😈
video of Tear gas shelling concussion grenades tonight in Oakland
OWS’s Beef: Wall Street Isn’t Winning – It’s Cheating
Daily Beast says Atlanta is evicting their Occupy as well. Another asshole mayor…. I recall not liking him when he went in (Kasim Reed)
Oakland STILL lobbing tear gas… STILL.
Boing Boing</a. .
They did use it.. live vid picked it up, the video should be on archive soon.. Pittsburgh deployed them during the G20…
Deafening Machines.
Some very sick irony in all that.
Just one among a slew of military-grade weapony now aimed at civilians, their domestic rollout, (and contractual grafters wet-dream) all courtesy of that Neocon-necrophiliac, that Zionist Hell-on-Earth bent sicko at DHS,…. CHERTOFF.
Well, eventually, however reluctantly, I think individuals long before they consent to ANYTHING let alone identify themselves as part of “a movement”, individuals need to come to some serious resolution regarding how they feel about coercion to say the least, and. in its most coercive form: the use of violence on the other.. People (I’d like to believe) are in the midst of mulling thru the conscientious objections one has over violence and premises held regarding the illegitimate or legitimate use of force on the other..
.It is not enough IMO to profess “love” for Police or “Marines” individually or in the abstract , – without acknowledging, however implicitly, that their use of force is at times,……necessary.
Oh yu can go down the Love the Sinnerbut not The Sin road, but how can you love what is wrong? Necessarily one admits gradations.
And that’s not necessarily an endorsement either.
But you know, if we were talking Ethics 101 meets 5 Dollar ATM Fees that can all be handled quite civilly.
And a strong argument could be made among us in Frivoloushitville USA that the cost of getting het up about three hundred hundred bucks an ass-bite year could be better Karma-expressed as Bankster forgiveness or personally written off while individual and movement resources protesting the goddamn unfortunate perturbance could be better spent in the community.
But that’s. NOT. REALITY.
Reality IS THIS – Ethics 101 meets Psychotically Decompensating Insatiable Militarist Kleptocrats Deploying THEIR Brutal. Paranoid. Police State against its Citizens.
I see #occupyviolence emerging before long…
I do too.
the BHHM live stream link had both atlanta and oakland on it simulataneously …LRAD reportedly being deployedin Oakland …thats the sound canons for “crowd dispersal”
Donny “Douchebag” Deutche wanted a Kent State moment…
apparently they are evicting Baltimore too…. and moiv said “Tennesee”… too but I am unsure where…
This is coming down from the Feds… Dem pretzel Dem AG and a shit load of Dem mayors.
I’m beginning to feel that the Dem sponsored crackdown is “good”: it will assure there is no co-option or selling out to those vichys because of their use of the kocksuking pinkertons…and I really don’t think they’re going to stop anything…a lot of these folks have no where else to go…
Can’t he just swallow a TV whole and die?
to be fair, I don’t think he wanted it so much as he was saying that it was sort of inevitable.
Quite a few city crackdowns… Providence and I guess DC too.
Hell even Melbourne!
Going to be very hard to actually stop this:
Past my bedtime back in the late 50’s but I think* (memory fades now and again) I think I remember seeing a rebroadcast of Mike Wallace interviewing Fidel Castro and Wallace asked something like this:
“You come and fight , you come down from the mountains, you approach the cities, and you are always thrown back to the hills,
Why do you do it?”
And Castro said, :Because we only have to win ONCE.
Hey, LOL, mighta been a CBS’er with Mao, Hell, I don’t know anymore. 😉
Point made, tho.
oh I remember that interview…. think it was when Fidel came to NYC
and …..then, ….….later…..
(fuck the Daily Mail’s (picture source) ‘text,’ ..outside of the headline: Gassed in her wheelchair at the battle of Oakland: Disabled woman caught up as riot police beat back protesters trying to retake Occupy Wall Street camp, (a camp which they have far, far more ownership in than the sleazy Mother Fuckers calling the shots), and most of the ‘comments,’ along with the articles sadistic ‘URL’ ….(talk about Ratticus Norwegicii calling squirrels: WORTHLESS DESPICABLE RODENTS.))
I have no doubt Obama, has been updated/obeyed, along with the BiPartisan, Golden Shower Cali Ghoul Politicians, most every step of the way, including the insane bail requirements. I’ll bet they can’t wait to fly those drones over the desolate urban skies of the $US$ of AmeriKa.
If it walks like a duck,
talks like a duck,
runs like a duck,
ya know….
Elizabeth Warren Moderates Position On Occupy Wall Street
DEMOCRAT. Duck.
(quack quack)
well considering her ivy league background I think that despite being born in the common folk feed lot when we come to eat the rich her liver will foie gras and the ass and backstrap as tender as Kobe beef when we make rump roasts… 😈
I’m off her bus, in case you couldn’t tell 😆
I uderstand she used to be a R as well.
I like ducks.
Ducks are pretty.
And often have interesting things to say.
But you know, they’re ducks.
I’m more of a Canadian Geese man, myself.
They fly in, have no problem WHATSOEVER about crapping on the lawn, and when Shnerdensen acrss the street comes out all het up bathrobe and slippers and morning paper like and goes:
“HEY! What the Fuck Are You DOING??!??
Crappping on the Lawn Like THAT!!??
They just turn , smile, with many flippin the wing,,
and simply continue all Canadian Goose-Pooping away. 😆 😉
If the net worth of your home is a negative number, then what exactly do you own? You have the right to occupy the shelter, and you own the debt. So how is this any different from a lease? There is no equity, and no equity being built: there is a monthly payment in return for the right to occupy the dwelling.
can’t have a aristocracy without keeping the serfs on your property…
😆 Heckuva Job, CORZINE… 😆
After yesterday…yesterday..
losing 47% in a DAaaaY
– 70% for the year-
….WELP, his MF pattycake
(Yeh that’s the name of his Goldman clone firm,
MF HoldingsmothaFUCKA!) 😆
ANYWAYS
Lost another 25% TADAY — TADA — BEFORE LUNCH.
Down 83%! – 83! – 83% for the Year! 😆
Soooo……Let the begging begin.
MF Global Tries to Assure Customers
* October 26, 2011, 12:23 PM ET
LUNCH!™ 😆
In the WSJ article, LOL –
You can HEAR the blaring sirens in the background on doomed-ship-Corine all AROOGA! AROOGA! AROOGA! AROOGA!
I never could stand him…. he could not look a news camera in the eye. I mean, jeezuz.
Oh but he’s great with investors. LOL.
I still say his 2009 loss was quite the bellwether.
Like clockworjk, when election time came around, the various mook-carrying-cars would pull into neighborhood, up to Dem afil homes, with a couple of party hacks looking to GOTV. And people would just drop the lawn rakes , dash to curb, just to fucking harangue them to death, just goin on and on about how much they LOATHE Corzine, the DP, and how they couldn’t give a fuck if MUSSOLINI was elected. …
I mean fer fucks sake–
We even have to import our Uncle Warrens now.. 😆
A fuckin genius, there. LOL.
From an Oakland Occupier:
16 Things Libya Will Never See Again
😳 put that comment in the wrong place.
Meant to say here that I’m consistently impressed with the clear thinking comming out of a lot of the OWS folks…
I think so too…
wonderfully well put
Wall Street Fecal-dropping Mary Shapiro, Chair of the SEC…
just effectively immunized the entire Hedge Fund complex from Criminal and civil litigation…
PILLAGE AWAY!
Hey man, don’t blame us.
Fist fights IN the Italian Parliament now
Oh 😯 AND 😯
Burlescque-o is said to be AXED AS CONDITION …
IF ANY € COIN is to escape KrautFrau’s purse…
This is gettin good.
Well, speaking from the heart now,
we’ve had our differences, Angela and me,
but were werkin things out…. 😆
I hope there are fist fights in the EU parliament. let them get into it…
It seems that the fight originated from an opposition MP, who has declared he “won’t budge an inch” on his opposition to imposing austerity policies on government workers, received a sarcastic comment from an MP in the ruling coalition about how his wife retired from service at 39.
I’m in agreement – they should fight it out physically. Forget the filibuster, drop a cage down from the rafters and start the no holds barred contest. They could charge admission and bring down the deficit.
And I would certainly not question a D’s commitment to the people if they cold-cocked an R after a floor vote…or vice versa.
My money’s on the French, they’ve got something to prove since the Wars and algeria and all that . Germans are too confident their banks can work better than their tanks did. Its the French that’ll show’em. MEbbe small, big fist and all that. Besides if I was to cast a some big budget period piece epic on Napoleon Sarkozy WOULD be the lead despite his lack of professional acting experience…
VIDEO from last night
Marine Vet Shot, Wounded by Police in downtown Oakland
early on, in the upper right hand cornerbacross the street,
you can see people rushing to his aid immediately after he was shot
The violence is only going to make the media have to pay attention…but I still hate those fuckers.
Isn’t it funny as Little Lord ‘bama dangles cheap ass fast food style “carrots” (aka mortage bait and swithc, student loan aid) the Dem Mayors across the nation call out the shock troops…
In nooze, either some of BHHM’s tea has made it into my coffee or somethin’ weird with the code; Mcat banner is now mustard yellow and no longer pink (at least in my screen right now.
now its pink again…weird
That happens to me if my internet connection gets really slow.
apparenlty he is in critical condition…
And look what happened close up when he was shot..
href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QqNOPZLw03Q
Here’s a still I found at RI Discussion board
(correct link)
just disgusts me the way that fucking cowards melts back into the police line as he underhands the flashbang into the middle of a bunch of people trying to help their comrade.
I know everyone says that the cops are “part of the 99%”, but in my experience the greater majority are sociopathic monsters who get off on hurting people. Fuck the police.
GG
My guess si WP is having problems… an alternative look for this templte is pumpkin orange, sort of,…. and it cna slip to that, even I do nothing…
Cool…flashbacks are fun unless you’re in the middle of a job interview or crossing a busy street
I’d welcome a flashback in the middle of a job interview. Finally, some free entertainment as compensation for all the shit I’ve had to eat over the last three years.
😆
I am watching local live shots (ABC affiliate) of gathering happening in Oakland… I see LOTS of older people, well over 50. Holding signs, so there is no mistaking why they are there…. (Separation of Corporation and State – is a good one!)
Read the breathless reports yesterday about how the ne’er-do-wells in Oakland were throwing rocks and explosives at the helpless, innocent police. Of course, Yoohoo and MSNBS had no actual footage of any flying rocks or explosives.
It’s like the “news” orgs don’t even try anymore. It’s just filler between diet advice and urgent info about some pop warbler’s newborn’s nosejob or something
Read more: Bus Insider
ALSO the closing of 5 schools in Oakland was finally announced between yesterday and today… all very contentious now for months, all 5 in neighborhoods of color. News is reporting the “parents are marching” to the School Board meeting tonight. From the cross streets (Broadway and something), I think it is downtown.
How to make a Gasmask /
HOWTO Protection at Protests
New York GA just voted to send 20 Grand and tents to OAKLAND
they’ll need cash for those charged with “assualt on a police officer”…
Spartan Oligarchy against the helots.
Call now for a General Strike now in Oakland,
and Autonomous Defense Action Against the Police.
Occupy Denver gets ready for tonight’s cold and snow.
CDC Advisory Committee: All males starting at age 11 should receive the HPV vaccine
The story … ABC or CBS covered it, of the man, non smoker, married for decades, wtih Stage 4 throat cancer showing HPV really freaked people out.
But I read that a low percentage of females have received even a first shot of the cycle of three… and an even lower %, 40% in fact have gotten all three. Apparently it is expensive, 400.00 for the medicine alone.
Pharmaceutical moneygrab…
neue
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