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To: TobagoJack who wrote (79268)	9/8/2011 10:03:01 AM
From: THE ANT	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218306

I would label Wall street the anti-capitalists and the protesters capitalist.Or both anti-capitalist?Or the one anti-capitalist and the other anti-anti capitalist?Things are getting confusing.Let the games begin

To: TobagoJack who wrote (79268)	9/10/2011 2:13:49 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218306

finally it comes I only hope it will have true results and more will join into the protest the true remedy to WS is a modern day Vlad Dracul the III (Tzepesh) with real powers and ready for action

To: TobagoJack who wrote (79268)	9/10/2011 2:57:25 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 218306

Later that year, in 1459, Mehmed sent envoys to Vlad to urge him to pay a delayed Jizya (tax on non-Muslims) of 10,000 ducats and 500 recruits into the Ottoman forces. Vlad refused. In order to provoke and instigate war with the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, Vlad had the Turkish envoys killed on the pretext that they had refused to raise their "hats" to him, by nailing their turbans to their heads. Meanwhile, the Sultan received intelligence reports that revealed Vlad's domination of the Danube. [11] He sent the Bey of Nicopolis and Hamza Pasha, to make peace and/or eliminate Vlad III. [11] Vlad ?epe? planned to set an ambush. Hamza Pasha, the Bey of Nicopolis brought with him 10,000 cavalry and when passing through a narrow pass north of Giurgiu, Vlad launched a surprise-attack. The Wallachians had the Turks surrounded and defeated. The Turks' plans were thwarted and almost all of them caught and impaled, with Hamza Pasha impaled on the highest stake to show his rank. [11] In the winter of 1462, Vlad crossed the Danube and devastated the entire Bulgarian land in the area between Serbia and the Black Sea. Disguising himself as a Turkish Sipahi, he infiltrated and destroyed Ottoman camps. In a letter to Corvinus dated 2 February he wrote: I have killed peasants men and women, old and young, who lived at Oblucitza and Novoselo, where the Danube flows into the sea, up to Rahova, which is located near Chilia, from the lower Danube up to such places as Samovit and Ghighen. We killed 23,884 Bulgars without counting those whom we burned in homes or the Turks whose heads were cut by our soldiers...Thus, your highness, you must know that I have broken the peace with him ( Sultan Mehmet II). [10] [12] In response to this, Sultan Mehmed II raised an army of around 60,000 troops and 30,000 irregulars [13] and in 1462 headed towards Wallachia. Commanding only 40,000 men, Vlad was unable to stop the Ottomans from entering Wallachia and occupying the capital Târgovi?te. He was constantly organizing small attacks and ambushes on the Turks, such as The Night Attack when 15,000 Turks were killed. [1] Vlad III defeated Ottoman Sipahi commanders such as Iosuf Bey, Ömer Bey Turahanoglu and Evrenos Bey. This infuriated Mehmed II, who then crossed the Danube. Vlad the Impaler's attack was celebrated by the Saxon cities of Transylvania, the Italian states and the Pope. A Venetian envoy, upon hearing about the news at the court of Corvinus on 4 March, expressed great joy and said that the whole of Christianity should celebrate Vlad ?epe?'s successful campaign. The Genoese from Caffa also thanked Vlad, for his campaign had saved them from an attack of some 300 ships that the sultan planned to send against them. [12] en.wikipedia.org

To: TobagoJack who wrote (79268)	9/11/2011 10:32:37 PM
From: THE ANT	Respond to of 218306

Very interesting finance.yahoo.com

To: TobagoJack who wrote (79268)	9/18/2011 7:21:13 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218306

>>and so it starts as all prairie fires do, with a single spark<< And so it fizzles... Wall Street Blocked Off by Police Again as Ranks of Demonstrators Dwindle bloomberg.com Wall Street was cordoned off a second consecutive day as organizers of a demonstration targeting financial firms failed to lure the 20,000 protesters they had sought to occupy the area “for a few months.” About 300 to 400 people remained near Chase Manhattan Plaza today, down from 1,000 yesterday, for a protest dubbed “#OccupyWallStreet.”

To: TobagoJack who wrote (79268)	10/6/2011 8:51:08 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 218306

>>and so it starts as all prairie fires do, with a single spark<< It just rolled in here, but so far there's plenty of difference between "left" and "right"... Occupy Wall Street: The movement comes to Alaska alaskadispatch.com Count Anchorage as the newest chapter of Occupy Wall Street, a protest movement that began last month in New York City and has grown across the country. A Wednesday demonstration in the town square of Alaska's largest city drew more than 100 protesters and spectators, standing alongside Fifth Avenue with signs in hand as passing rush hour motorists honked either support or disapproval -- it was impossible to tell which was which.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (79268)	10/15/2011 6:34:34 AM
From: Snowshoe	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218306

>>and so it starts as all prairie fires do, with a single spark<< The Occupation Heard ‘Round the World ibtimes.com How About 'Occupy Hong Kong?' asiasentinel.com Hong Kong does share one important similarity with the legions of aggrieved average Americans: standards of living for the majority have been static for years despite apparent constant gains in the overall economy. The income gap has also widened steadily and is now worse in Hong Kong than in any developed economy – and in the Latin American league of inequality.