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“GOP Panic Sets In”

October 14, 2011 By Tom Degan

“If you read the newspapers today, I, for one, am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities across the country. And believe it or not, some in this town have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans.” – Eric Cantor

Damn! I nearly spit out my coffee when I read that one. At that exact same moment, the pot that I had brewed the coffee in called the kettle “black”. Aren’t these the most interesting of times? They are, you know. They really are!

Here is a question that I am hard-pressed to avoid: Is there a bigger worm slithering though the halls of Congress than Eric Cantor? If there is I sure as hell would like to know about it. It has always amused me to watch him on the tube trying to defend the morally indefensible. He always has this weird look of cherubic contentment on his clueless face. It really is something to behold. To the credit of Mitch “The Plutocracy’s Bitch” McConnell, he at least has the decency to look somewhat ill at ease when having to vomit forth their nonsensical talking points. Cantor, on the other hand, is right at home with their delightfully twisted agenda. Too weird!

Consider Eric Cantor’s burden, if you will. The little freak wants us to swallow his definition of the people down on Wall Street who now hold up a mirror to the plutocracy’s face. Eric defines them as a “mob”. He actually made a very good point – although I am certain that it was accidental on his part. This IS the pitting of “Americans against Americans. It’s the ninety nine percent against the one percent. Cantor and his people are calling this “class warfare”. Guess what. It is class warfare! And they’ve been waging it against us since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution​.

For the first century, it was a covert war. On January 20, 1981 (Guess what happened on that day? Hint: “Ronnie”) it became completely and unabashedly overt. On 17 September 2011, the sleeping giant of the American Left was awakened from a long and troubled slumber. Cantor and his gang shouldn’t even dream about putting an end to what is now happening. This revolution is unstoppable. The line it is drawn; the curse it is cast. The good folks whom at this very hour are occupying Wall Street are bearing witness for all the world to behold, what 30 years of deregulation – and the resulting economic plunder – have done to the working people of this once-great nation. The American people have had it up to here and they’re taking long-overdue action. The old world is rapidly fading. Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend a hand.

Memo to Cantor: You’re absolutely correct, Eric. We are a mob. AND WE’RE PISSED, BUSTER.

You can almost feel the panic reverberating from both sides of the aisle in Congress this week. They’re trying to convince themselves that this is a passing fluke, that we’re not yet at the point of no return. If these corrupt nitwits know a damned thing about history (and sometimes I wonder if these knuckleheads know anything) they must realize that – if this isn’t the end of the right wing’s 30-year-long orgy – it is most definitely the beginning of the end.

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Published on Thursday, October 13, 2011 by Agence France-Presse

“'Indignant' Protests to Sweep Across World”

by Elodie Cuzin

MADRID — "Indignant" protesters, angered by a biting economic crisis they blame on politicians and bankers, vow to take to the streets worldwide Saturday in a protest spanning 71 nations.

It is the first global show of power by the protest, born May 15 when a rally in Madrid's central square of Puerta del Sol sparked a movement that spread nationwide, then to other countries.

As governments cut deep into welfare spending to try to trim huge sovereign debts, protests have grown and this weekend's demonstrations are being organized in Madrid, New York and around the world.

"United in one voice, we will let politicians, and the financial elites they serve, know it is up to us, the people, to decide our future," organizers said in a statement on http://15october.net/.

"We are not goods in the hands of politicians and bankers who do not represent us."

The organizers, relying heavily on Facebook and Twitter, say street protests will be held October 15 in 719 cities across 71 countries in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia and Africa.

The protests first took hold in Spain, with a jobless rate of 20.89 percent, rising to 46.1 percent for 16-24 year olds, where activists built ramshackle camps in city squares including Puerta del Sol.

Then they spread to Europe, finding strong backing in crisis-hit countries like Greece, and then worldwide -- last month reaching the center of global capitalism in Wall Street.

In Madrid, Saturday's protest will end in Puerta del Sol, still the spiritual center of the overwhelmingly peaceful protests even though the protest camp was dismantled in June.

Three marches will converge on the city's emblematic square of Cibeles at 6pm (1600 GMT) before proceeding to Puerta del Sol for assemblies lasting through the night.

The Occupy Wall Street protest, which started September 17 with a camp of several hundred people in a small square in the New York financial district, has also struck a powerful chord among US media and politicians.

Organizers called a rally in Times Square for 5 pm (2100 GMT), saying they would be at the center of the international protests.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, predicted Wednesday the Wall Street demonstrations, which bring thousands of people together for marches, would one day spell the downfall of the West.

"This movement will soar to completely mark the downfall of the West and the capitalist regime," he said.

Anger over unemployment and opposition to the financial elite are common themes in the otherwise disparate movement.

But while Spain's protesters have specific demands such as attacking unemployment by cutting working hours and imposing compulsory retirement at 65, others are focused on protesting existing conditions.

The outlook for the "indignants" is not clear.

French economist Thomas Coutrot, co-head of the ATTAC movement seeking alternatives to market-ruled policies, said the indignant movement had a healthy "allergy" to being represented by any person or group.

"But it is true that it is not easy to build a movement without a representative," he added.

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Pervert’s Guide to Cinema’s Fiennes and Žižek Reteam for Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

Sophie Fiennes has wrapped shooting The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, her new feature documentary collaboration with philosopher Slavoj Žižek, who has been called both “the closest thing philosophy has to a superstar” and “the undisputed spritz master of cinema studies.” The pair worked together on The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006), which Variety called “a virtuoso marriage of image and thought.”

Ideology explores some heady stuff, using psychoanalysis and cinema to explore the mechanisms that shape what we believe and how we behave.

Fiennes’ latest, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, played at Cannes 2010.

A UK-Ireland co-production of P Guide Productions and Blinder Films, Ideology was financed by the BFI Film Fund, Film4, Channel 4 and the Irish Film Board and new UK equity company Rooks Nest Entertainment, with its development funds coming from the UK Film Council funded the development. Fiennes produced with James Wilson, Martin Rosebaum and Katie Holly.