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Tellemurius

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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #1320 on: November 02, 2011, 11:52:39 am »

My boss is convinced that occupy wall-street has a major financial backing.

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Occupy Denver scrounged up $485,000 in donations for the winter season.

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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #1321 on: November 02, 2011, 11:56:19 am »

Is that in money? Or the combined money + tents and shit?

If the former, okay that's a lot. If the latter, not so much.
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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #1322 on: November 02, 2011, 12:00:14 pm »

Is that in money? Or the combined money + tents and shit?

If the former, okay that's a lot. If the latter, not so much.
Money, item donations don't count around here in cash value :D

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« Reply #1323 on: November 02, 2011, 03:38:20 pm »

Wow.  Last I had heard, the main Occupy Wall St website had gathered about $500k in donations.

I'm guessing there are some major celebrities chipping in.
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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #1324 on: November 02, 2011, 04:32:54 pm »

Obviously the whole thing is iust another front for the 0,1%. They're probably gathered up somewhere and are laughing their asses of right now.

...You're one microscopic cog in their catastrophic plans, designed and directed by their red, right hands.
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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #1325 on: November 02, 2011, 06:38:33 pm »

Wow.  Last I had heard, the main Occupy Wall St website had gathered about $500k in donations.

I'm guessing there are some major celebrities chipping in.

Something tells me that OWS doesn't have rigorous accounting practices.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear stories about mass embezzlement and money laundering.  Organized crime will be all over this.
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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #1326 on: November 02, 2011, 07:36:05 pm »

Obviously the whole thing is iust another front for the 0,1%. They're probably gathered up somewhere and are laughing their asses of right now.

...You're one microscopic cog in their catastrophic plans, designed and directed by their red, right hands.

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On topic, how is money actually handled by the OWS group (the actual WS ones)? Is it all just deposited into a shared bank account, or do they keep it in cash under a tent, or what?

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« Reply #1327 on: November 02, 2011, 07:45:42 pm »

Saw these people weekend before last in person, first time I went to New York. It was pretty cool, a bunch of them were in costumes (probably since it was near Halloween), there was some live music (by a guy playing on buckets with a sign asking to donate money for real drums) too. It was an interesting experience.
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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #1328 on: November 02, 2011, 08:09:46 pm »

Obviously the whole thing is iust another front for the 0,1%. They're probably gathered up somewhere and are laughing their asses of right now.

...You're one microscopic cog in their catastrophic plans, designed and directed by their red, right hands.

This. He says there has to be a bank or something paying them to go and gather in protest.
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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #1329 on: November 02, 2011, 08:10:33 pm »

I'd imagine they'd keep it in a credit union or a local bank, if anywhere.
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« Reply #1330 on: November 02, 2011, 08:37:45 pm »

I'd imagine they'd keep it in a credit union or a local bank, if anywhere.

So who exactly has authorizations to write checks or make withdrawals?  Can anyone just go to a local bank and withdraw money under the OWS account?
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Re: Occupying Wallstreet
« Reply #1332 on: November 02, 2011, 08:54:07 pm »

"Goddamn, I love working on American soil."

I wonder how well that describes what the cops in question were thinking, and what it says about me that the only objection I have to using references to the Comedian here is that that was a comic book and can't possibly map to reality in a meaningful way (being a product of a severely alternate history, itself heavily influenced by the biases of the single person who wrote it).

I'm probably projecting. Eh.
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« Reply #1334 on: November 02, 2011, 10:09:27 pm »

Haven't been checking in on Occupy news for a while.  Been too busy and exhausted.  Decided to hit the news stream for a few minutes and this image is the first thing that caught my eye.

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