Here’s some photos I took of the march on Saturday. The last one is of a physical confrontation that happened as it was going through Chinatown:

http://judgejuryexhibitioner.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/occupy-wall-street-police-brutality-march/

The argument that the financial cost of repressing free speech means that the speech must end is absolutely contrary to the founding principles of our country.

Congratulations Dick! You’re our Rotating Villain of the week!

I saw someone with a “Herman Cain/Uncle Ruckus 2012″ sign in the Occupy Wall St. Labor Solidarity March:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkfuLHkh2lU

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Ruckus

Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.

I believe there is the potential for a powerful young-progressive-labor alliance in the simple message: The future doesn’t need to get suckier for the middle class.

Seems to me there is a powerful potential here to turn a youth-progressive-labor alliance into a labor-progressive-labor alliance.

And, uh, Katrina? Oh yeah, ancient history I guess…

I’m glad we are in good company; the Nazi’s used slave labor for their missile manufacturing too:

http://www.dora.uah.edu/

(Looks like I’m not the first to Godwin this thread.)

Private unions wouldn’t be able to go out because of Taft-Hartley

That’s like saying “the black activists can’t sit at the lunch counter because of Jim Crow.” They could do it, even if they were breaking the (unjust) law.

Perhaps Gadhafi’s rule by fear will end. Perhaps the international community will impose a no-fly zone. But it’s just as likely that his vicious assault on his own people will eventually win out.

I actually think this last result is highly unlikely. If reports are accurate about sections of the military defecting and high-ranking Libyan foreign diplomats standing with the protesters against the regime, it is only a matter of time (and unfortunately, of blood) before he is out of power. When you lose the military, you lose the state, as evidenced throughout history, most recently in Egypt. He will not be able to sustain this kind of repression and expect the armed forces to carry out massacre after massacre without defying his orders. If he uses mercenaries to do it, the defected military will take action against them.

The hubris in thinking at this point the U.S. will get to dictate who is or is not acceptable for the Egyptian government is almost pathetic. The Egyptian people know full well that the U.S. supported Mubarak and it is he they want out. Any meddling by the U.S. will be identified and rejected strongly by the Egyptian people, who after today’s events are fully in power now. The U.S. must understand that unless it plans on using military force (which is clearly not going to happen and would be disastrous on every level if it did) it will have no influence at all in Egypt in the near future. The best thing to do is to support self-determination for the Egyptian people unconditionally; in the long term this will lead to a peaceful relationship between Egypt and the U.S.

To get technical for a second, there is no way this virus could lead to a nuclear explosion. It is very difficult to initiate a nuclear explosion, it requires a sophisticated triggering mechanism and the right nuclear materials, i.e. a bomb. At worst, Stuxnet could lead to a meltdown (ala Chernobyl) which is an entirely different thing, more like a slow release of radiation. Still very bad for any nearby people, but hardly comparable to an actual nuclear detonation.

I’m not necessarily against regulating magazine size, but he could just as easily showed up with 4 glocks with standard size magazines and just quickly swapped guns as they ran out of ammo. He could have started chucking pipe bombs around too.

The radiation used by the scanners is x-ray radiation (electromagnetic waves of high frequency/energy) and do not cause materials to become radioactive from exposure. They do cause DNA damage though which is where the cancer risk comes from. Neutron radiation, which is different, is what causes materials at nuclear plants to become radioactive themselves.

So we have a child soldier on trial for the “war crime” of attacking a uniformed soldier of an invading army. We bring out the soldier’s widow and children to perform in the theater of guilt. All the while, the torturers and liars who waged aggressive war go unpunished. This is the psychological madness of an imperial nation.