Engineering by Steve, Protesting by Sharon (and Steve).

Now we have something to bring with us to Occupy Boston.

There is a list of events at Occupy Boston Arts & Culture Event Archive.

One event that I found was from the Free School University at Occupy Boston, Austerity Games and the Global Impacts of Wall Street.

Below are the descriptions of the three parts of the video. You’ll have to view them on Facebook.

Some comments in praise of Fed policy and Ben Bernanke occur at about 7:15 into the third segment of the video.

Part 1 of 3: Mark Blyth (professor of international political economy at Brown University and fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies) and Kevin P. Gallagher (associate professor of international relations at Boston University and research associate at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University) discuss how Wall Street interests have hijacked the debates of crisis and debt in the US and across the globe and in so doing have duped publics into thinking that austerity is the route to recovery and growth. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Part 2 of 3:

Part 3 of 3:

I have another sign to use when we protest.

October 9, 2011

I was told the above sign was ambiguous. How about this?

My critic tells me it’s still a little ambiguous. How about this?

Or maybe this?

Confronting the Malefactors is an opinion piece from Paul Krugman.

With unions and a growing number of Democrats now expressing at least qualified support for the protesters, Occupy Wall Street is starting to look like an important event that might even eventually be seen as a turning point.

What can we say about the protests? First things first: The protesters’ indictment of Wall Street as a destructive force, economically and politically, is completely right.

I wonder if Paul Krugman saying this is enough to refute the people who have been saying that the protesters are idiotic.

The article IMF advisor says we face a Worldwide Banking Meltdown in Raw Story perhaps is the explanation for the violent swings in my bank stocks. I have been too busy with Occupy Boston related stuff to stay on top of the news.

Here is a teaser,

“This would be a crisis that would be in my view more serious than the crisis in 2008…. What we don’t know the state of credit default swaps held by banks against sovereign debt and against European banks, nor do we know the state of CDS held by British banks, nor are we certain of how certain the exposure of British banks is to the Ireland sovereign debt problems.”

And here is the video,

Here is a sign I will carry the next time we participate in Occupy Boston.

Direct link to the album of pictures of Our Visit to Occupy Boston.

The article Perry swings and misses on Buffett’s business acumen makes some interesting points.

When asked about the “Buffett rule,” which says Americans making more than $1 million a year should pay, at minimum, the same tax percentage that the middle class does, Perry said Buffett doesn’t know “what’s going on out there in the real world.”

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During the decade that Perry has enjoyed a lifestyle made possible by Texas voters and taxpayers, the Berkshire Hathaway CEO has pumped a considerable portion of his company’s resources into Fort Worth.

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In early 2010, Buffett acquired Fort Worth-based BNSF Railway.

That would be the BNSF that announced in February it would spend $3.5 billion this year to upgrade railroad tracks and buy equipment as the company reinvests to keep pace with a growing volume of freight shipments.

The BNSF that is slated to spend $450 million on 227 new locomotives and $350 million on new rail cars that will be built by GE Locomotive, which is moving to Alliance Airport — with the help of Texas Enterprise Fund money — in large part because of Buffett’s BNSF.

To paraphrase something I heard, “Perry is another George W. Bush, but without the business acumen.”

(For those who don’t get the joke, George W had no business acumen.)

If the lame stream media won’t cover it, the left wing film makers will do it for them.

Read how to .

This is the kind of action that the politicians on our side need in order to show they have the support of the people to stop the moneyed interests from taking over our democracy.

Back in May, I posted Harry Belafonte Discusses President Obama in which he explains far more eloquently than I have why it is that these protests are necessary.

This is the kind of action that the politicians on our side need in order to show they have the support of the people to stop the moneyed interests from taking over our democracy.

Back in May, I posted Harry Belafonte Discusses President Obama in which he explains far more eloquently than I have why it is that these protests are necessary.