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Adbusters Admits OWS Flopped; Now Promoting 'Flash Encampments'
NewsBusters ^ | June 10, 2012 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 06/10/2012 4:21:06 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

The Occupy Wall Street movement was first proposed by the leftwing Canadian magazine, Adbusters. However, now even they are forced to admit the obvious about the failure of their creation which you can read their sad OWS obituary:

Burned out, out of money, out of ideas… seduced by salaries, comfy offices, book deals, old lefty cash and minor celebrity status, some of the most prominent early heroes of our leaderless uprising are losing the edge that catalyzed last year’s one thousand encampments. Bit by bit, Occupy’s first generation is succumbing to an insidious institutionalization and ossification that could be fatal to our young spiritual insurrection unless we leap over it right now. Putting our movement back on track will take nothing short of a revolution within Occupy.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: adbusters; flashencampments; occupywallstreet; ows
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To: Army Air Corps
Those drum circles were always a big hit with the neighbors...especially in the early, early AM hours. If they're tight on funds they could take requests:

Specific beats: $2

Thirty minutes of silence: $50.

21 posted on 06/10/2012 5:16:48 PM PDT by JPG (Don't just talk about it, make it happen.)
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To: PGalt
Brothers and sisters, I want to see a sea of hands out there!

I want everybody to kick up some noise!

I want to hear some revolution out there, brothers, I want to hear a little revolution!

Brothers and sisters, the time has come for each and every one of you to decide whether you are going to be the problem or you are going to be the solution! You must choose, brothers, you must choose!

It takes five seconds, five seconds of decision, five seconds to realize your purpose here on the planet. It takes five seconds to realize that it's time to move! It's time to get down with it!

Brothers, it's time to testify and I want to know are you ready to testify? Are you ready?


22 posted on 06/10/2012 5:20:51 PM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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To: ctdonath2

I can guide them. Guide them to Mexico or Canada where they can give up their U.S. citizenship. That will teach the 1% a thing or two.


23 posted on 06/10/2012 5:21:43 PM PDT by Dan Zachary
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To: jmcenanly; Calvin Locke
Could be, but the race-cheating Fauxcohantas Elizabeth Warren has proudly proclaimed to have provided the "intellectual basis" for the movement.

Forgive me, but what "intellectual basis"?

24 posted on 06/10/2012 5:25:45 PM PDT by okie01
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To: I see my hands
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25 posted on 06/10/2012 5:27:06 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: JPG

Now, THAT is a business plan.


26 posted on 06/10/2012 5:27:23 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: PJ-Comix

OWS are the twelve-year olds who first thought a tree house was a cool thing but now the appeal of it has worn off.


27 posted on 06/10/2012 5:27:28 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: jmcenanly
Claiming to be the intellectual driving force behind #OWS would be like claiming to be the person behind the logistics at Woodstock.

Exactly. Why would a wannabe senator, let alone an "elitist" law "professor", and I'll assume an officer of the court, proudly claim to have *anything* to do with such law breaking anarchists?

28 posted on 06/10/2012 5:33:45 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: PJ-Comix

The OWS failed because sooner or later, everyone is offended by the smell of people who never take a bath.


29 posted on 06/10/2012 5:38:25 PM PDT by Wizdum (My job is to get you to shoot soda out your nose)
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To: cripplecreek

“We need guidance.”

LOL.


30 posted on 06/10/2012 5:52:32 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil)
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To: PJ-Comix

Finally getting what they deserve.

If they try a comeback I hope the cities are not a lenient.


31 posted on 06/10/2012 5:52:59 PM PDT by upchuck (Need is not an acceptable lifestyle choice; dependent is not a career. ~ Dr. Tim Nerenz)
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To: PJ-Comix

Personally, I think they just got bored.
Their 15 minutes of fame has worn off and the tarnish of the struggling economy is back at the fore.

Old news.


32 posted on 06/10/2012 5:54:57 PM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: okie01
My bad, she actually said "foundation" not "basis" (last October)

HuffPo (surprisingly skeptical about Warren) quoted her:

Warren also said that she supported the Occupy Wall Street
protests. "I created much of the intellectual foundation for what
they do," she added, referring to her academic research on
consumer debt.

33 posted on 06/10/2012 6:14:56 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: PJ-Comix

OWs failed because even most Dems and only semi-nuts libs could see that their whole premise, 1% control all the wealth, was patently absurd. When many Americans not in the “1%” have two or three cars, five + hd tv sets, freezers, boats, riding mowers, etc. and live in multi-room large homes with three car garages, it didn’t bode well for the OWsies to declare that the 1% had all the dough. Pictures of the dopes defecating on cop cars didn’t help much either. A lot of the OWsies looked like they had fleas and communicable diseases. Not a pretty picture.


34 posted on 06/10/2012 6:17:09 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: driftless2

Occu-poopers - Good riddance.


35 posted on 06/10/2012 6:29:57 PM PDT by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com)
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To: Dan Zachary

No, send them to the tropical socialist workers’ paradise south of Key West. Or maybe to Norkland, where they can appreciate the cuisine of bark.


36 posted on 06/10/2012 6:42:33 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is the operational wing of CPUSA.)
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To: Fred Hayek

There’s an idea. We can guide them to a socialist paradise where they will be appreciated. LOL


37 posted on 06/10/2012 6:48:17 PM PDT by Dan Zachary
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To: PJ-Comix

One picture is worth a million words for the American left.

38 posted on 06/10/2012 6:54:11 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: PJ-Comix

The term ‘Flash Encampment’ seems oxymoronic.


39 posted on 06/10/2012 7:08:59 PM PDT by matt1234 (Bring back the HUAC.)
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To: PJ-Comix

So, to summarize, the commie leaders stole all the cash and assets and then abandoned the ignorant peasants .... mmmm, sounds familiar .... wonder where I’ve heard that before?


40 posted on 06/10/2012 7:24:08 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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