OCCuPY THiS!

ONE YEAR LATER...

As most of you are aware, today marks the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.

Many people call it a "movement" and there are arguments about precisely what kind of movement it is if it is one. I personally spend zero time worrying about this.

For me OWS was an event and that event was about raising the public's awareness of one thing, the intersection of rampant control fraud and political corruption between the TBTF banks and Washington DC; the many ways this phenomena has decimated the lives of so many ordinary Americans.

In this respect they succeeded. Few would argue otherwise.

Unfortunately, the efforts fell on deaf and corrupt ears in our hollow halls of democracy.

Now, instead of making wisecracks about the people who are on the street today attempting, as hard as it is in Blumfukistan, to raise a civil ruckus, I would ask you all to consider the following.

When OWS was conceived and first kicked off last year, there was no MF Global fiasco, Jon Corzine was still CEO, no one knew who the London Whale was, Jamie Dimon was still exhaulted by the MSM as Wall Street's Mr Clean, Bob Diamond was still CEO of Barclays, no one in Washington knew what LIBOR was. There was no sham Fraudclosure settlement, no sham Securitization task force. There were, however, a handful of ongoing criminal investigations of Wall Street Banks...all subsequently terminated.

Last week we learned of the latest Mother of all Keynesian Bailouts. Try as they will to convince us that QE3 is designed to help the little guy, we of Zero Hedge all know otherwise don't we?

What is obvious is that since last September, our corporatist kleptofraudtocracy has only gotten exponentially worse.

The final insult was not the silence on these matters at the GOP convention (after all, we all know that Mitt the Twit is a Wall Street Ponzi pimp).

The final insult was the expectation of the Obamocrats that we would all accept their Big Lie. The biggest lie of all, that they and their Wall Street Bitch in Chief have cracked down on Banksterism.

There is not one shred of evidence that supports this Big Lie. A Big Lie that would make Herr Goebbels very very proud.

So today, instead of making wiseass remarks about unemployed, dirty long hair hippy anarchists armed with iPhones, iCollectivists and liberal arts students stepping off the curbs or chalking up the sidewalks, I would ask all of you to do something else...

Remind as many as you can of the outrageous fucking fraud that continues to be perpetrated by the thieves in pinstripes and hand made brogues and their harem of DC Bitches.

WB7

National Zoo's Giant Panda Gives Birth to Cub

I looked long and hard for a good news happening to start this Monday morning with.
With the world so filled with violence and death right now, I just wanted to share a little love and a smile.
Miracles can happen,
Never lose the faith.

Mei Xiang gave birth to a panda cub at 10:46 p.m. Sunday

It's a boy? It's a girl?

Well, it's a panda cub! We weren't sure if we'd ever see this day again, but the National Zoo's female giant panda, Mei Xiang, gave birth to a panda cub Sunday night -- her second, following five pseudopregnancies in a row. Not to mention a whole lot of dashed hopes.

Yep, happy days are here again. The new cub was born at 10:46 p.m. Sunday. The zoo announced the news about four hours later.

"National Zoo staff can hear the cub but have not yet seen it as Mei has built a substantial nest in her den," the zoo said in a release.

OK, but we need baby pics, and we need them now!

“I’m cautiously optimistic as we haven’t seen the cub yet, but we know that Mei is a good mother," said Dennis Kelly, director

A Mountain of a Problem Rises in Nation's Capital .

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704182004575055601529152426.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_3

You gotta wonder if God is showing Congress what a real snow job is lol, or maybe he wants to talk to Obama about global warming, in any case what ever it is, it's a real attention getter, that's for sure.
God's either really got a sick sense of humor or payback is a bitch lol



All plows can do here is push snow from one spot to another, displacing it into shoulder-high escarpments, walling off parked cars, confounding pedestrians and blocking drivers' lines of sight.

William Howland has his own plan. In Lot 25, a vacant yard bordered by the Anacostia River, a derelict hospital and a congressional cemetery, Mr. Howland, the head of the D.C. Department of Public Works, is building a snow mountain. Around 15 dump trucks an hour arrive and unload their cargo, a gray-white mass of snow, sand, grit and ice. Earth-movers pile it into an enormous bank that snakes its way around the yard. This is just the start of his 200-truck, round-the-clock operation.

"We'll pile it as high as we can," Mr. Howland said. "Pretty soon will be able to ski down it."

For Washington, the winter of 2010, which blanketed the capital with about 45 inches before Tuesday, seems likely to break the record 54.5 inches set a decade after record-keeping began in 1888. "I don't know any staff member that's been around that remembers snowfalls of this magnitude," Mr. Howland said.

The bigger Washington's bureaucracy becomes, the worse the consequences of shutting down. Some 230,000 federal employees have been off work since the once-in-a-century blizzard dumped about 30 inches of snow on the capital last weekend