Obama dissed Poland - makes Daily Telegraph dredge up Drudge Ha!

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Wednesday May 30, 2012 · 7:49 PM PDT

2012/05/30 · 19:49

Well. It looks like Obama said during the Medal of Freedom ceremony mentioning a Polish war hero that there were "Polish death camps". Yes, there were in Majdanek and Bygodosch and -Dachau-(error not in Poland, in Germany) and Auschwitz. They happened to be on Polish territory when Poles were or were not cooperating with the Nazis to set them up and supply them. They weren't set up in Germany or in France or in Austria or in other counties where there were Nazi sympathizers. They were set up in Poland.

Rather awful to have to mention it, really. Poland had little choice in the matter. They could have resisted, some 3 million Poles were slated for extermination because they happened to be Jewish. There was also the 15,000 Whites officers and intelligentia of Poland's captured army, as opposed to Reds who were not trusted by Stalin and when he captured them as part of the 1940 Axis/USSR non aggression pact simply massacred them. (More past the squiggly thingy)

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Thursday December 01, 2011 · 1:00 PM PST

2011/12/01 · 13:00

The hits keep right on coming, they just don't stop. Remember the outrage over the spying scandal, the idea our government needed a "court order" to follow terrorists or lawbreakers? Remember how the scrutiny got more pervasive, that all the FBI needed was a national security Letter and it could go after people? Well, it seems thay churned 139,000 of them but technology comes to the rescue. What happened is the mobile phone system that is so convenient has been turned around into a tremendous snooping/ resource tool for all sorts of people.

we first discovered this back several years ago when the National Security people demanded restrictions and dissolution of the Bill of rights in order to get at personal data of all sorts from practically everybody. Remember the pathetic exercise of the Senators
getting pretzel tongue to avoid telling us there were really nasty new features coming?

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Tuesday November 29, 2011 · 9:06 AM PST

2011/11/29 · 09:06

I write this as the standoff continues. Thanks to Charlesincharge's excellent reportage, I found out there are at least five factions simultaneously Occupying and participating in their own flavorings of the reassertion of the rights of the 99% that is on the grounds outside LA city hall.

We are at a crossroads with "Occupy" as many people have weighed in in the past days and weeks. Although the movement grows in a horizontal fashion, meaning its impact and reach on the popular imagination keeps penetrating and growing, its political maturation is very much at a pause and reflect. That is partly the fierce resistance being mounted on it from a coordinated effort by the alphabet soup of agencies so well documented now on this site and others: DHS, PERF, NSA, the TAC (continued below)

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Thursday November 24, 2011 · 9:01 PM PST

2011/11/24 · 21:01

There are diaries in the last two days by Vyan, AoT on the significance
of the encampments. It isn't a uniform situation, many cities are trying to deal with the camps as they do with homeless, the large increase and social dislocation with foreclosures, layoffs of thousands all troubles caused by the fallout of the failures of the 1% to rule properly.
The facts on the ground are the effort to "put people back to work" are token, limited and basically political stunts so far, a small fraction of what's needed. The existence of the Occupy is an attempt to take initiative to fight the economic crisis by people at the ground level and not beg for charity from the rulers.
The existence of a public gathering space, Occupy's persistent effort that is very encouraging to the community giving people a place to go, (more under Mr Squiggly)

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Tuesday October 11, 2011 · 5:01 AM PDT

2011/10/11 · 05:01

The attack on the Boston encampment, the attempt to restrict its growth as more and more Bostonians, a city of more than 3 million people, is not a simple "housekeeping" event. The Mayor and his police force augmented by state police made an attempt to strike back on behalf of the 1% by concentrating on the expansion into a second park space and destroying tents and equipment, and beating persons peacefully assembled there.
Why did this happen? This is a test cahttp://www.boston.com/... for a model to deal with the #Occupy Wall Street Movement, a peaceful assemblage to redress grievances, to summon the best and the most eloquent of our people who have been shut out of governance and plunged into a deep crisis with no end in sight. (more below)
Hundreds of cities, a thousand Occupy events, with more added daily!

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Friday October 07, 2011 · 6:34 AM PDT

2011/10/07 · 06:34

Joining the Occupy Wall Street group here on DK is a declaration or commitment to learn about, investigate, participate and support that movement as it develops. Of what use is it to declare that the 1% must yield their position and be brought down to earth to pay their dues and stop fleecing America and robbing us of America's potential to be a wonderful and just country? It is the most important thing to do on the political landscape right now.

To make it better, for enduring some hardship and inconvenience now in return for something worthwhile to come. I am not even that concerned with some imagined special benefit except seeing less stress and some relief for all those around me who are just as stressed out and as troubled or even more troubled than I am. It is for myself and for the people I care about, and it isn't restricted to people I know (more under the squiggle).

BeeDeeS for Occupy Wall Street

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Wednesday October 05, 2011 · 9:35 PM PDT

2011/10/05 · 21:35

Why has the #Occupy Wall Street movement captured the popular imagination and spread like a Texas wildfire across the country? Easy. It is an idea whose time has come.

At a point where an election for a governor of not insignificant state had varely a 25% participation rate, and that governor was reelected barely in a drama that featured a 2:! advantage for the Democrats in registrations and identifications, we could say the electorate is unhappy and not impressed. The last general election was a barely 40% turnout affair in the midst of dreadful economic times. Other data supporting the discontent: One third of all combat veterans over the last several years have questioned or even stated the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been a waste and the effort could have better handled another way. (More below the squiggy)

It appears the public is not enamored of the candidates, and more importantly is questioning the legitimacy of the system.

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Monday October 03, 2011 · 9:25 AM PDT

2011/10/03 · 09:25

watching over the expanding #Occupy Wall Street movement in Week 3 (it is a full on movement across America now, not just a fringe of anticapitalism activists from Canada ":AddBusters") or desperate Americans in their millions, it is clear that the tactics are showing the great fear this might actually force a big change in how this economy works. And of course, for whom it works.

The initial flashpoint was not the marchers, (there were 3,000 United Way marchers in the NYC streets with no attention at all from the police) and the marathon 20,000 and 100,000 's of spectators with no police interest in them of any kind.

No, the interest of Mayor Bloomberg and the Wall Streeters was in the SIGNS in the first days. The ones demanding change in how WS is run. ( more under squiggle)

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Monday September 26, 2011 · 12:47 PM PDT

2011/09/26 · 12:47

I read arodb's diary regarding the NYTimes editorial defending the principle of supporting a new industry in energy that promises a much better and sounder economy. The diarist suggested I amplify my comments and post it on its own.

Interestingly, Democrats are averse to confronting the most serious structural problems we have while the Republicans are seizing on the Solyandra bankruptcy as a Democratic administration failure and even better, from their patrons' point of view a swipe at governance and investments that only a good government can make. A controversy, entirely manufactured for taking down rivals, be it fossil fuel's competition or the political opponents is the basis of the so called scandal.

At the time both parties to varying degrees are pushing austerity, refusing to confront the real 800 lb gorilla in the room, (more under the squiggle)

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Saturday September 24, 2011 · 6:53 AM PDT

2011/09/24 · 06:53

I don't get the anguish (in some other diaries) over the blackout bye and large of the anticapitalist, anti financial swindle protests currently taking place around the Wall Street area of Manhattan.

What do we expect will happen when a confrontation of some sort is made between upset people and some of the most powerful people on the planet?

there won't be a sensational, made for cable/tv /FOX event, that is for sure.

There won't be sympathy generated for the protestors, not after years of tagging the anarchists who show up at the G8, G20, IMF, World bank confabs. No, those in charge are smart enough to try to stay out of the spotlight, be discreet and keep the robberies rolling on throughout the day and night and not be the focus themselves. (more below)

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Will this WSProtest eventually fizzle and go away?

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Will this WSProtest eventually fizzle and go away?

Yes, in a couple of weeks

3 votes

Yes, in a couple of months

0 votes

Yes, but it might linger until next year

1 vote

Yes, but not until the next election 2012

0 votes

Yes, it is fading right now.

1 vote

No, it will stay until something big happens

3 votes

Have no idea how long IT WILL BE

2 votes

iT ISN'T A PROTEST, IT'S A HAPPENING!

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Pizza and Pie.

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There isn't any political purpose to it, so it doesn't matter how long it lasts.

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