The streets 23 November 2011
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, Egypt, Occupy Wall Street, Pan Arab Revolt - 2011, Viva La Revolucion!, WAR!.trackback
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Egypt protests: Tahrir Square violence enters fifth day –
Egyptian police have fired teargas at protesters during a fifth consecutive day of unrest in Cairo. At least 35 people have been killed since 21 November in the crackdown by security forces on demonstrators, who are demanding that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces transfers power to a civilian government.
Protesters attempt to get rid of a teargas canister – Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP
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Marisacat 
That ‘Sunny Day!’ surrounding that picture, reminds me of Cali, Florida, or parts of Texas …where the powers that be, make great use of attributes they had no intent, or part in, providing. Why would anyone want to protest, look what a lovely place you live in? as if they fucking created the sun.
In distantly related news, who’s shocked?
Walmart Black Thursday, Late Evening
Who knows, maybe even austerity hillary and the first consort, mickey, used their prior wal-mart connections to suggest that there be as few consumer camp outs as possible pre that $$$$Holy$$$$$ Friday. Wouldn’t want to conflate those CAMPERS with the righteous cause of blowing off their money on some cheap ass, deliberately “obsolesced” as of last year, must feel like one of the Jones, utter crap…(they, apparently, are gleefully provided with porto potties, anti bacterial wipes, and riot police/longtime, pre “occupation,” resident TB & rattus, be gone!!!!! ™ spray), …. with those leprous campers for social justice and dignity among the human species. In these times, wouldn’t want to conflate it with those endless stories all of us over fifty were inundated with, of infinitely long purchasing lines, in evil, non capitalist countries (who, but a few, sensed that the upper echelon Communists ™ and Capitalists, ™ …were one and the same.)
In the meantime, loved the following, though maybe they should bump up the title, .. to include, Late Night Thurday, November 24th:
#OCCUPYXMAS Kicks Off with Buy Nothing Day, Nov 25/26
oh what a concept, give thanks to those who have stood by you, instead of buying trash, … to look like you are better than those very people who stood in your corner.
Yeah, with the constant refrain in that thread about how if we don’t shop shop shop on Thursday some poor slob working a seasonal job will be kicked to the curb.
Well, as a seasonal worker myself: fuck that bullshit. I don’t have one thin dime to spend on presents this year. Just like I had none last year, and frankly I’d rather see people sit on their money or give it to charity than to a fucking chain store.
Like if you wait one or two more days to buy another fucking Chinese gadget, billions of hapless employees will be swallowed up by a sudden fissure opening up in the Earth. Uh, no. I’m not some store’s fucking hostage, no matter how much the overinflated egos of supposed “job creators” say so.
Besides, if you care so much about increasing profits to help me keep my job [snerk], why don’t you wait until the sales are over to buy? Wouldn’t paying that extra 20% make my job 20% more secure?
Please.
Maybe I should carry a sign downtown on Friday:
You can ruin my job prospects by not shopping
They were ruined before you got here.
:p
I’ll bet some of the Occupy Xmas signs are going to be hilarious, hopefully there’ll be an archive made.
Having worked three years solid as a retail clerk, I was forever prevented from developing a desire to shop the day after Thanksgiving, or any other Blowout Sale!!!!!! Days. It near ruined my faith in humanity, along with cultivating a near hatred for most hired Security!!! ;0p
Several news segments today and yesterday pretty much debunked even the idea of huge price cuts being real on the Friday after Tgiving.
Cheap TVs yes… but if you want a better brand TV, mid December s cheaper. And they said the same of toys. And a few other items considered usual holiday/big promotional purchases.
I fear the nutty 8 pm, 10pm and of course midnight openings are here to stay tho.
the country dropped what little brains it had in the gutter.
I’d imagine the retail chains will be begging people to buy, come mid December, good luck to them.
well I said the joke was on shoppers years ago, when household items, which at one time people just bought when needed, becme Xmas gifts. Like a washer dryer. A gift?
Too bizaare. I thought it indicated a real shift in how much money people actually had. Buying household items became events.
Truly. The thing that kills me the most is $500 dollar fucking phones, which obsolesce in less than a year; where the old ones, lasted for 20 years and more, and were provided by the phone company.
even better is late February, after the Super Bowl sales for tvs, selling off any stock left.
Black Friday is a huge PR scam.
I cannot imagine participating…. it was a long long time ago when, if you went downtown on the day after T’giving, it was for brunch lunch and a walk around of shop windows and the decorations… Too much of which goes up as soon as possible after Hollowe’en for decades now..
A thousand years ago.
I concede that I’d be thrilled to own one of those inflatable turkeys. The thought of tossing it on a platter, surrounding it with plastic produce, and snapping a photo while the cats snore away next to it is pretty awesome.
Of course, we can’t afford a camera at the moment, so the whole plan kinda’ breaks down.
But as metaphor for the perpetual “recovery” bullshit it’s hard to beat.
Ffabulous idea… 😉
Cops stun-gun a disabled 61yo man while he was riding his bike. He died.
Popular Mom-and-pop water purification business shuttered by DEA’s meth-hunting “knotheads”
I saw a news segment on them… Plucky old people. I’d probably be buying a shot gun trying nto to shoot off my big toe and opposable thmubs… and head for DEA…
His partner said DEA should track everyone who uses water then, as meth factories use that as well.
Bingo.
The county is fucking nutz.
A Nationwide Loan Strike: Lawrence Weschler’s Proposal for the Next Step of the Occupy Movement
Actress Loses Day Job Over Satirical #OWS Performance
Nancy Pelosi Shamelessly Tries To Cash In On Occupy Wall Street
The beautiful murals of Los Angeles are being destroyed
“The law left many murals technically illegal,” wrote the Times in an Oct. 29 editorial, “no matter how talented the artist or how willing the owner of the wall or how inoffensive the subject matter.”
God, what is there t say?
I am unsure Los Angeles, a very strange place, should try to regulate anything at all. Honestly.
That piece made me want to weep, especially looking at that beautiful mural, and imagining it being destroyed. A murder, basically.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that fucker Jobs put some force behind that move (pre-resurrection of course.)
Why would Jobs care? Technology advertising in Cali is sacrosanct, it invades news programs, presented as vital information that we need to know. It reached saturation levels a long time ago.
Frankly I think a lot of people tune it out.
The LA City Council is perfectly capable of destructive action without someone like Jobs being involved.
I was thinking about that enormous Apple/Gandhi ™ billboard that was on Highway 101, in Sly Con Valley, and betting there were Apple/Gandhi ™ billboards in Los Angeles too.
😆 I thought it was ugly as sin…. but certainly they can buy billboards. Billboards R US…. little is more true than that.
Well yes, it was a blotch on the horizon, but, ..where’s your reverence for the devout? They’ll be no iphone v4!!!! for you, in your stocking!!!!
Yes yes yes… who would have thought it. Rampant whacko religionism cropping up inside religionism.
Talk about amusement. Apparenlty they are arming themselves with shotguns and … pepper spray. And, so reports say, phoning the cops. Phones?
Snicker snax.
religion is a mental illness
And they look nutty as hell.
But then I have never been amenable to all the Amish ”cute” stories. No desire to break up their nuttiness, but I think it is mostly an enforced labor religion. And some of those communities ARE so intensely intermarried, they ARE nutz.
Egypt police detain, beat, sexually assault US-based journalist Mona Eltahawy; other journalists also targeted
wow she is strong.
BUT the issue of American involvement (I am glad she holds a US passport and they pushed to get her out)…. we push and pull at the same time.
Factions aiming for the same general goals, just slight differences in tactics …
well and.. of course WE want to keep the mil in power…. Tantawi is known to us. I would imagine it works for us. Angry Arab when he is not flipped out over Aliaa, has posted pics of street grafitti in Cairo, against US agents. Seems appropriate….
Not that we care, we seem perfectly happy at whatever is in charge (or, more so it seems, barely in charge) in Libya. Islamists, shreds of this or that strain of AQ or whatever (who knows what really exists) a destroyed infrastructure, loss of electricity, water… a replay of Iraq, it would seem, in a shorter span of time.
I see now there is a flap on for some sort of ”humanitarian accommodation” in … Yemen, I think. As if we care. And we seem happy to let rumors fly of IRan involvement in Bahrain.
Whatever keeps our little chickadees happy.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I know I’m thankful for Marisa’s blog and all the cool people here.
oh thank you ts… have a Happy day…
Kiss the babies!
😉
Happy Thanksgiving, to you and yours ts! ;0)
Occupy Wall Street Thanksgiving
SO cheering…
Mark Ames: How UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi Brought Oppression Back To Greece’s Universities
A transnational – all on her own. Supporting fascism where ever she goes.
oh my, who would’ve suspected?…SNERK,….shackle the bitch, …and where’s Pike when ya need him:
Would love to know who those 22 special folk (per wiki, at least as I post.) she has “mentored” are, and what their current ‘gigs’ are:
(some bolding mine. Oh, and can’t imagine why she had that, photo, once, beaming wit’ da giggly glee, removed from that wiki page.)
well to his credit Leland Yee opposed her at the outset, in 2009… but I don’t see him anywhere around. 🙄
I am sure the Est Dems are indicating that support for the campus Occupies has to be considered and tempered.
Or soemthing like that.
Dump the bitch, even if they will find someone just like her as replacement…
You know she has a less than lovely set of names… Pisti Basile … I wonder when she grabbed onto “Linda”… I suppose to smooth her way once she brought her fascistic self to America (where of course she fit right in).
she likely thought she was in Heaven ™
(very, very sorry, there should have been a paragraph break before We also published a powerful and necessary …)
(thank you, …honey. ;0) )
Happy Thanksgiving all … [to those who really matter], …love you always!
;0)
Oh Dear. A moment of silence. I jst heard that the cat float, a Garfield, popped this morning….
I guess he snagged on soemthing… and … POUF!
oh no! Garfield imploded while being inflated.
😆 … 🙄
Oh my God! Garfield has been shot?!
A Stalwart must have got him! Either that, or, you know,
~Corzine~ that disappointed office seeker.
Fuckin creepy resemblance, too,
when ya get right down to it.
ANYWAYS, I pert’ near cough-chortled the ‘taters, cream corn, and gravy right right out of my snacks-for-later beard when I read this one –
No shit, there, Weil, no shit…
Fuckin Goober at the Bloober, there…. LOL…
Obviously Garfield knew something he should not know.
A long-passe’, corporate-owned over-merchandised fat cat exploded?
May it be a harbinger of things to come. 😀
I think he ate too much bad Food Mart lasagne at a Shopping Center. (snicker)
There was a gorgeous-looking veggie lasagna at the potluck yesterday, but I didn’t get to it in time.
You snooze you lose. Anyway the vegetarians should get first crack, I figure.
Howdy all. Happy Tofurkey Day (belatedly) ! Just a quick post as I’m at the inlaws in the land of the Pantagraph:
The lead article yesterday (T-day) was about how the various occupations were costing MILLIONS…. 😆
Whoops! Messed up the blockquote 😳
oh god. I read the whole thing. That is a scary read. ESP that someone bought a rotisserie chicken at Wal-Mart… as the Turkey-in-the-oven at home failed.
So…. maybe just be relieved they did not get the pepper spray version (San Fernando Valley)… the armed robbery at 2 AM in the parking lot (over in the East Bay)… or some fist fight in Kissimmee FL.
I’m terrified the whole time I find myself in the mid-west…nevermind the article, the intended audience is beyond the pale. And the racial tensions seem worse than anyplace I’ve been beside Texas.
Tree-top flying is a scary business but the folks here defintely need the kindness that only Cali can produce…
Which sort o racial tension? White against anything non white? Or more multifarious?
I usually sum up California as ‘nobody much likes anybody else’ (partly because some slice of everybody is here and ther is no core), but there are dregs of, shreds of some idea of making things work.
Mature black men don’t meet my eye; the younger “urban” ones pretend I’m not there. Southwest asians (Paki? Indian?) with money act as if they’re above it all. The Mexicans are super humble and try not to be noticed. Asians are rare as hen’s teeth. Meanwhile the Whites seem to hate everyone, and especially each other (open class warfare). Or at least that’s my impression of it.
yeah, I see that Cali is mostly fucked too, but it is one place I can be with my dreadlocked family and not be out-of-place and circles of friends are often multi-racial… it ain’t much but it’s something
Yes I would agree with that… a lot of what is counterculture or ”foreign” elsewhere is assimilated into the general pop. here… and that is starting to be for decades nw..
I don’t know how it is elsewhere, but one thing I have remarked on in Cali since about 18 years ago when friends bought a nicer older home in the East Bay, but on the edge of new development… racial groups intensely segregate in parts of the suburbs. Cul-e-sac of sub-continent Indians, but Pakistanis are a ways a way, in another cul-de-sac. Koreans over there, but Japanese a few blocks away… and so on. Filipinos over there, clusters of Middle Easterners with their own segregation…
I heard NPR whining about that, too.
Yes, you are not permitted to make any trouble for anyone else, not matter how much trouble the powers that be make for you.
Don’t tie up traffic, don’t make the shoppers feel bad, don’t cost our precious precious cops a moment of time. Don’t inconvenience the pirates and thugs with your pitiful whines for a crumb of respect and stability. Don’t don’t don’t don’t.
To which my reply, after the humiliating obstacle course of the last three years (both Gummint and private enterprise) having decided in unison that I’m sentenced to downward mobility, endless humiliation and rip-offs and abuse and likely an early death that could have been readily prevented is…
I DON’T CARE. 👿
Hopefully SOMEONE at Penn State understands it is beyond unseemly to “work out a deal” with th Paternos.
Read more: Link to BI
What is it about shunning evil that is too fucking hard to figure out?
OK! Dow closed down 25 at 11,231. or close to that.
SO: Dow 11,000 this year? Yes? Could it go LOWER? This year….
snicker.
(I think so)
Nu
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