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really??? You're saying you've not heard it that way?

[url="http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2011/1006/99-Wall-Street-protesters-boo-CEOs-but-mourn-Steve-Jobs"]http://www.csmonitor...ourn-Steve-Jobs[/url]
[url="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/10/steve_jobs_and_the_divisibilit.html"]http://nymag.com/dai...ivisibilit.html[/url]

That was just two of the first links... look up Occupy Wall Street and Steve Jobs and you'll find a boatload. Again, I'm all for this movement - I hope it is successful and causes things to make a shift. It is just funny that they have "solidarity" and have a connection with a man that was purely profit driven. Just ironic.
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[b] Pay for America's highest-paid CEO tops $131 million[/b]

[b] And, pay attention Occupy Wall Street, he doesn't even work for a bank or financial firm[/b]



If you happen to be a billionaire or corporate Fat Cat, you may have noticed a mob assembled near your headquarters or home recently. You may not know what they’re protesting exactly; you might even joke that perhaps this has something to do with why they are unemployed. But when it comes to their complaint that the rich have been getting richer while things keep getting worse for the poor, downtrodden and unemployed, you gotta admit, they have a point.

While the stagnant economy continues to hurt those at the bottom of the American workforce, there’s plenty of money for the .0001 percent at the top. (The compensation totals, compiled by Forbes’ stats guru Scott DeCarlo, include salary, bonuses, perks and the value of exercised [url="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44893005/ns/business-forbes_com/#"]stock</span>options</span>[/url] through Sept. 6. Sources are CompuStat ExecuComp and SEC filings).

Compensation for the chief executives of America’s biggest corporations is way up in 2011, 28 percent higher than last year on average, according to GovernanceMetrics International. If you were already in the top quartile of high-paid plutocrats, your comp nearly doubled. Cash bonuses are triple what they were before the recession.

[url="http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mef45eghm/john-hammergren#content"]Forbes.com slidesshow: America’s 25 highest-paid ceos[/url]

But the Occupy Wall Street protesters are in the wrong place to picket the titans on this list. Wall Street is conspicuously absent from the top 10. The highest paid “bankster” is Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, who comes in 12th at $42 million, while Larry Fink of BlackRock is 16th at $39.9 million. Goldman Sachs‘ Lloyd Blankfein is way down at $21.7 million.

Many other bank chiefs are also below the S&P 500 CEO average — which for 2010 was $12 million, down 20 percent from 2007 levels. Bank of America‘s Brian Moynihan and Citigroup‘s Vikram Pandit are barely worth agitating against at $2.3 million and $1.3 million, respectively.

ObamaCare could end up helping three of the top-10 improve their lot in years to come. The top spot goes to John Hammergren of McKesson, the largest distributor of both pharmaceuticals and health care I.T. systems. It’s thought to be in a good position to benefit from President Obama’s health care overhaul. With compensation of $131 million this year (most of it from exercising [url="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44893005/ns/business-forbes_com/#"]stock</span>[/url] options), Hammergren won’t have to worry about waiting in line to see a doctor. Same goes for George Paz (fifth place at $51.5 million), who runs prescription drug distributor ExpressScripts as well as Stephen Hemsley (eighth place at $48.8) of UnitedHealth Group.



Polo sold enough shirts and chinos to pay Ralph Lauren $66.7 million — ranking him in second place on our list of top-paid CEOs. Still, the company’s proxy says his perks in 2011 will be $344,000 less than last year, as “the corporation will no longer provide Mr. Lauren with unlimited reimbursement for expenses incurred as a result of his use of private aircraft for personal travel.” They’ve capped that perk at $200,000 a year.

Michael Fascitelli of Vornado Realty is third, with compensation of $64.4 million. Bob Iger of Walt Disney (still enjoying the fruits of his Pixar acquisition) took in $53.3 million, is in fourth place.

Some among the top-10 are real standouts, like Michael Watford of Ultra Petroleum, at $43.7 million. Watford has had a great few years finding and developing oil and gas in places like Pennsylvania and Colorado, but the company he runs (market cap $4.5 billion) is far smaller than those of his pay peers, and Ultra [url="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44893005/ns/business-forbes_com/#"]shares</span>[/url] are down by a third in the past year. Compared to Watford, ExxonMobil’s Rex Tillerson, who didn’t crack the top 25, sounds like a real bargain. The Big Oil chief made just $13.9 million.


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This is getting huge! Check out the comments at the bottom of the link.
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[b] Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread To Europe, Asia[/b]


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ROME (AP) - Tens of thousands nicknamed "the indignant" marched Saturday in European cities as protests against capitalism and austerity measures went global. Violence broke out in Rome, where some protesters smashed shop windows, torched cars and attacked news crews.[/size][/color]
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The "Occupy Wall Street" protests that began in Canada and spread to cities across the U.S. moved Saturday to Asia and Europe, linking up with anti-austerity demonstrations that have raged across the debt-ridden continent for months.[/size][/color]
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Black smoke billowed into the air in downtown Rome as a small group of violent protesters broke away from the main demonstration. They smashed car windows, set vehicles on fire and assaulted two news crews of Sky Italia, the TV reported. Others burned Italian and EU flags.[/size][/color]
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Police were out in force in Rome, which expected up to 100,000 protesters a day after Premier Silvio Berlusconi barely survived a confidence vote. Italy, with a national debt ratio second only to Greece in the 17-nation eurozone, is rapidly becoming a focus of concern in Europe's debt crisis.
"People of Europe: Rise Up!" read one banner in Rome. Some peaceful demonstrators turned against the violent group and tried to stop them, hurling bottles at them, Sky and the ANSA news agency reported. Others fled, scared by the violence.
Around 4,000 people marched through the streets of Berlin, with banners that urged the end of capitalism. Some marchers scuffled with police as they tried to get near the country's parliamentary buildings. In Frankfurt, continental Europe's financial capital, some 5,000 people protested in front of the European Central Bank.[/size][/color]
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange spoke to 500 demonstrators outside St. Paul's cathedral in London.[/size][/color]
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"The banking system in London is the recipient of corrupt money," he said, adding that Wikileaks would launch a campaign against financial institutions in the coming months.[/size][/color]
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Assange is on bail as he fights extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over claims of rape and sexual molestation made by two women.[/size][/color]
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In the Bosnian city of Sarajevo, hundreds walked through the streets carrying pictures of Che Guevara and old communist flags that read "Death to capitalism, freedom to the people."[/size][/color]
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Another 500 people gathered to hear speakers denounce capitalism at a peaceful rally in downtown Stockholm, holding up red flags and banners that read "We are the 99 percent" and "We refuse to pay for capitalism's crisis."[/size][/color]
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The reference was to the world's richest 1 percent, who control billions in assets, while billions around the world live in poverty or are struggling economically.[/size][/color]
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"There are those who say the system is broke. It's not," trade union activist Bilbo Goransson shouted into a megaphone. "That's how it was built. It is there to make rich people richer."[/size][/color]
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In Spain, groups that became known as the Indignant Movement established the first around-the-clock "occupation" protest camps in cities and towns across the country beginning in May and lasting for weeks. Six marches are set to converge Saturday on Madrid's Puerta del Sol plaza just before dusk.[/size][/color]
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Portuguese angry at their government's handling of the economic crisis are protesting in downtown Lisbon later. Portugal is one of three European nations - the others being Greece and Ireland - that have already needed an international bailout.[/size][/color]
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A group of 100 prominent authors, including Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists Jennifer Egan and Michael Cunningham, signed an online petition declaring their support for "Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement around the world."[/size][/color]
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Turnout was light in Asia, where the global economy is booming.[/size][/color]
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In Sydney, around 300 people gathered Saturday, cheering a speaker who shouted, "We're sick of corporate greed! Big banks, big corporate power standing over us and taking away our rights!"[/size][/color]
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Only 200 people protested in Tokyo, marching outside the Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the tsunami-hit Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, chanting anti-nuclear slogans.[/size][/color]
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"No to nuclear power!" marchers chanted as they held up banners.[/size][/color]
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In the Philippines, about 100 people marched on the U.S. Embassy in Manila to express support for the U.S. Occupy Wall Street protests and to denounce what they called "U.S. imperialism."
In Canada, protests were planned in Montreal and Vancouver as well as at the country's main stock exchange in Toronto.[/quote][/size][/color]
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[quote name='Jim Finklestein' timestamp='1318768842' post='1045369']
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Does this work ? Trying to post a youtube video found here

[url="http://youtu.be/YmkGpIh4ZJ4"]http://youtu.be/YmkGpIh4ZJ4[/url]

Edit: Guess I need a lesson :glare:
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Just make sure it doesn't say embed, related or anything like that at the end.

I just went to your link, copied the video title and found the video like that.
Then I copied the link and posted it, the board embeds it automatically.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmkGpIh4ZJ4[/media]

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[quote name='Jim Finklestein' timestamp='1318768842' post='1045369']
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Does this work ? Trying to post a youtube video found here

[url="http://youtu.be/YmkGpIh4ZJ4"]http://youtu.be/YmkGpIh4ZJ4[/url]

Edit: Guess I need a lesson :glare:
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Forums don't like the short links, use the URL in the address bar and just paste that in the thread and the video will appear.

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[quote name='Jim Finklestein' timestamp='1318891324' post='1046914']
Fuck I was just now gonna post that! That dude is badass!
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Seriously ? This guy has not done 50 combat missions during 14 months in Iraq. If anyone besides me has access to Marine Online you can see that this guy is a sham. He supposedly according to uncorroborated sources was with 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, was deployed in 2004 and 2006. In 2004 he was in a provisional rifle platoon, where he saw combat in Operation Al Fahjr, the second battle of Fallujah. However, he was actually a 3051, which is a Warehouse Clerk, wasn't active either, all Reserve. Now we all know that Reserves are deploying. How many warehouse clerks did 50 combat missions ? Probably considers the fight over donuts and coffee in the morning as a combat mission. If that was the case, I believe quite a few of us have done combat missions.

How quickly people beleive what they see in a YouTube video. This guy is an embarrassment to real Marines everywhere.
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[quote name='Numbers' timestamp='1318943047' post='1047184']

Seriously ? This guy has not done 50 combat missions during 14 months in Iraq. If anyone besides me has access to Marine Online you can see that this guy is a sham. He supposedly according to uncorroborated sources was with 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, was deployed in 2004 and 2006. In 2004 he was in a provisional rifle platoon, where he saw combat in Operation Al Fahjr, the second battle of Fallujah. However, he was actually a 3051, which is a Warehouse Clerk, wasn't active either, all Reserve. Now we all know that Reserves are deploying. How many warehouse clerks did 50 combat missions ? Probably considers the fight over donuts and coffee in the morning as a combat mission. If that was the case, I believe quite a few of us have done combat missions.

How quickly people beleive what they see in a YouTube video. This guy is an embarrassment to real Marines everywhere.
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In the back of my head, I was thinking about this, 50 missions sounds like a lot more than 14 months. Then I started wondering if he was an out of work actor doing a little street gig. I am a sad, cynical bastard. :(

I'll close my eyes on this one and just choose to believe.

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