{"id":16253,"date":"2011-10-19T13:25:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T19:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16253"},"modified":"2011-10-19T13:25:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T19:25:48","slug":"notes-from-the-peanut-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16253","title":{"rendered":"notes from the peanut gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should the priority of OccupyWallSt be demanding a piece of the rotten pie?  Restoring the &#8220;American Dream&#8221;?  If it must get out in front of an issue why not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcare-now.org\/healthcare-now-supports-occupy-wall-st-movement\/\">Healthcare-NOW!<\/a>?  If restoration is the order of the day I nominate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iww.org\/\">IWW<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/workersoccupy.tumblr.com\/post\/11655828582\/friday-october-21st-cwa-and-occupy-wall-street-march\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Workers United to #OccupyWallStreet, Friday, October 21st: CWA and Occupy Wall Street March Against Verizon Corporate Greed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Verizon workers are part of the 99%! Together with Occupy Wall Street, we will march from 140 West Street past Zuccotti Park to shine a spotlight on corporate greed at Verizon and Verizon Wireless.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama is upset about this?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/obama-plans-to-turn-anti-wall-street-anger-on-mitt-romney-republicans\/2011\/10\/14\/gIQAZfiwkL_story.html\">Obama plans to turn anti-Wall Street anger on Mitt Romney, Republicans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In recent days, Obama has ramped up his rhetoric. He took the unusual step of targeting an individual company when he attacked Bank of America for its new $5 monthly debit-card fee, calling it \u201cexactly the sort of stuff that folks are frustrated by.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But not this?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/print\/2011-10-18\/bofa-said-to-split-regulators-over-moving-merrill-derivatives-to-bank-unit.html\">BofA Said to Split Regulators Over Moving Merrill Derivatives to Bank Unit<\/a><br \/>\nBy Bob Ivry, Hugh Son and Christine Harper &#8211; Oct 18, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bank of America Corp. (BAC), hit by a credit downgrade last month, has moved derivatives from its Merrill Lynch unit to a subsidiary flush with insured deposits, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should the priority of OccupyWallSt be demanding a piece of the rotten pie? Restoring the &#8220;American Dream&#8221;? If it must get out in front of an issue why not Healthcare-NOW!? If restoration is the order of the day I nominate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16253\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4e9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16253"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16262,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16253\/revisions\/16262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}