Wall Street to the White House?
If they start to occupy Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Intel, Cisco Systems, and other telecommunications companies as well as ABC, CBS, CNN, etc. in addition to The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the likes, things will decisively change.
However, 10 years later, the unemployment rate of the US might drop to 4% in a boom as the second China. Who knows, since only God knows.
Occupy Wall Street Time Line
Who predicted that the three-year-long 9% unemployment in the American society would lead to formation of Occupy Wall Street, say, when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt in September 2008?
June 9
Canadian anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters registers the domain name OccupyWallStreet.org.
July 13
Adbusters calls for a Sept. 17 protest, where "20,000 people flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades, and occupy Wall Street for a few months," demanding "democracy not corporatocracy."
Aug. 23
"Hactivist" collective Anonymous releases a video pledging its support for the protest and encouraging its members to participate.
Sept. 9
Supporters of Occupy Wall Street start posting their photos and stories to a new "We Are the 99 Percent" Tumblr page, bemoaning that the beleaguered majority gets "nothing while the other 1 percent is getting everything."
Sept. 17
The protest begins, with about 1,000 people gathering in downtown Manhattan and walking up and down Wall Street. The protesters settle into Zuccotti Park, two blocks north of Wall Street.
Sept. 19
Roseanne Barr becomes the first celebrity to endorse Occupy Wall Street.
Sept. 20
Police start arresting mask-wearing protesters, using an arcane law dating back to 1845 that bans masked gatherings unless part of "a masquerade party or like entertainment."
Sept. 24
About 80 people are arrested during a permit-less march uptown, and video of the event — especially the use of pepper spray on a group of women — earns Occupy Wall Street its first major media coverage. An OWS-inspired protest starts in Chicago.
Sept. 26
Filmmaker Michael Moore addresses the crowd at Zuccotti Park. Noam Chomsky sends his regards.
Sept. 27
Actress Susan Sarandon and Princeton academic Cornel West show up at the protests.
Sept. 28
Transport Workers Union Local 100 becomes the first big union to support Occupy Wall Street via a member vote.
Sept. 30
An internet hoax that Radiohead will play for the protesters draws a crowd downtown.
Oct. 1
Some 700 protesters are arrested in a march across the Brooklyn Bridge. Some protesters say the police purposefully lured and trapped them on the multi-tiered bridge's road level; the police say they warned protesters to stay on the walkway level. The mass arrests push the protests to the front page of newspapers and the top of TV news broadcasts. OWS-inspired protests start in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.
Oct. 3
Protesters dressed as "corporate zombies," in full zombie regalia and clutching fake cash, parade down Wall Street. The protests have spreadnationwide, including Boston, Memphis, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Hawaii, and Portland, Maine.
Oct. 5
At least 39 organizations, including New York City's largest labor unions and MoveOn.org, join Occupy Wall Street for a march through New York's financial district. Organizers say 10,000 to 20,000 people marched; the media puts the number somewhere below 15,000. In the evening, "mayhem breaks out" when crowds overrun police barriers and officers "swat protesters with batons and spray them with mace." Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain weighs in on Occupy Wall Street: "Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks, if you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself!"
Oct. 6
About 4,000 protesters march in Portland, Ore. More demonstrations unfold in Houston, Austin, Tampa, and San Francisco. Asked about Occupy Wall Street, President Obama says: "I think it expresses the frustrations the American people feel, that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country... and yet you're still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on the abusive practices that got us into this in the first place."
Oct. 7
Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticizes the protesters in a radio interview, saying they are "taking the jobs away from people working in this city" and that the protests are "not good for tourism."
Oct. 8
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., shuts down after a crowd shows up to voice opposition to U.S. drone strikes abroad. The demonstrators are joined by members of the Occupy Wall Street offshoot Occupy D.C., and among them is conservative magazine editor Patrick Howley, who later admits to joining the protest to "mock and undermine" it. Meanwhile, the New York protesters,outgrowing Zuccotti Park, spill over into Washington Square Park.
Oct. 10
Mayor Bloomberg softens his earlier criticisms, and says protesters can stay in New York as long as they want — so long as they obey the law.
This article — originally published on Oct. 7 — was last updated on Oct. 11.http://theweek.com/article/index/220100/occupy-wall-street-a-protest-timeline
Will "Occupy Wall Street" Help or Hurt Obama in 2012?
Based on commonsense, any movement against rich men, very rich men, and super-rich men helps the Democrats, though some types of Christians would stick to the Republicans.
According to a survey on a US site, those who think Obama has gained account for 70% but those who think Obama lose 30%.
(http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2011/10/07/will-occupy-wall-street-help-or-hurt-obama-in-2012)
Yet, in my opinion, the Democrats had better set up a new presidential candidate other than Mr. Barack Obama.
But it is unclear whether this sudden burst of energy on the American left will help Obama and other Democrats. The protests are gaining steam around a set of economic grievances and a wariness of both parties’ reliance on corporate campaign money — and Democratic officials are wondering how, or whether, they can tap into a movement that seems fed up with all brands of partisan politics.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/occupy-wall-street-protests-reveal-liberal-tensions/2011/10/13/gIQAiFvEiL_story.html
(to be continued...)
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Big floods in Thailand has a grave influence on hundreds of Japanese makers operating in the central nation of ASEAN.
Thailand is another nation that was not colonized by Western powers before WWII. The Imperial military of Japan did not occupy Thailand during WWII when it advanced to South East Asia, driving out Western colonialists.
Thailand's being a Buddhist nation is well understood in Japan, though Japan keeps good relationships with the Christian-dominant Philippines and Islamic Indonesia and Malaysia.
And, there are many Japanese humanitarian aid groups working in Thailand and the Mekong Delta region.
(http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/area/j_mekong_k/pdfs/koryu_dantai_0909.pdf#search='タイで活躍する援助グループ')
But, the most interesting thing about Thailand is the so-called tiger temple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Temple
If it is not appropriate for a Buddhist temple to keep and feed tigers to show them to tourists, it might be a good chance now to transfer tigers to zoos.
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Mar 10:17 And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
Mar 10:18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.