Desaix Anderson is here.
Last time I looked it was hard to find. This time it was top of Google’s search list.
http://oldsite.nautilus.org/fora/security/0325A_Anderson.html

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Oct 9 2011 6:00 utc | 3

Pictures from various OWS protests – growing nicely …

Posted by: b | Oct 9 2011 9:18 utc | 5

Thanks Juannie – I am laughing here – “to enhance the institutes analysis …” – that guy will surely enhance nothing

Posted by: b | Oct 9 2011 15:59 utc | 7

@DoS: Do you mean the picture of the meditation group? It’s now #32, so perhaps more photos have been added to the collection. The “hippie” garb doesn’t surprise me–looks like a yoga community, or a group of everyday people in my southeast Portland neighborhood. I can’t speak for NYC, but out here on the left coast, colorful international clothing has never gone out of style.
I spent a bit of time at the start-up of the Occupy Portland march. Fascinating and diverse group of folks-young adults, parents with kids, older folks who remember the protests of the 60s, union members, teachers, and fortunately, a group of mild-mannered bicycle cops who were chatting with the marchers. I don’t know where this will all lead, but the omnibus nature of the protest has me intrigued.
Lizard, thanks for the link to the Missoula blog on the other thread.

Posted by: catlady | Oct 9 2011 21:32 utc | 9

@ catlady, sorry, I meant 32. I had no idea people still dressed like that.
that photo does a lot of harm in my opinion. as much as we might like to think that the hippies and all the protests of the 60s made a difference, most people look upon them as a bunch of never do well dopers.
I too wish that this is the beginning of something. it gives me hope and I haven’t had much of that for a long time.

Posted by: dan of steele | Oct 9 2011 22:40 utc | 11

The NYTimes which seems to be “vigorously downplaying” OWS, offers this report on the Anthrax attacks, perhaps as a “consolation”. Needless to say, the FBI dismisses the latest research as irrelevant to its case against Bruce Ivins, but in view of its earlier performance in this case, any FBI official statement has to be taken with a grain of salt (at maybe a kilo).

Posted by: Hannah K. O’Luthon | Oct 10 2011 5:12 utc | 13

A little tinfoil with the morning joe…
Talking about ‘hippies’ and protest and the Sixties (8, 9, 11 above) one should recall the ‘hippies’ were actually detrimental to the aims of the antiwar movement during that time. Remember the hippy mantra, “tune in, turn on and drop out”? Just another marketing slogan and with its inception the ‘anti war movement’ was marginalized and many mainstream people who were against the war suddenly found themselves being compared to a bunch of acid heads. Pretty good way to keep the Quakers at home was to fill the streets with a bunch of drugged-up idiots who couldn’t form a coherent sentence for the TV cameras… pretty much kept everyone ‘normal’ away.
It worked great for Vietnam, and I’m sure a similar way to marginalize the OWS protest will happen soon (talk about a weak tag… OWS doesn’t do much for me, sounds more like a janitorial supply company)
For those of you who may have lived thru the ’60’s, I will be the first to admit, I wasn’t there. Too young (born in ’69) but the history of that time has fascinated me and I’ve spent much of my reading time during the past twenty years learning more and more about Vietnam and the peace, love, hippy thing. The latter seemed to spring ‘organically’ from that troubled time, but did it?
I believe the hippies were nothing more than the PTB’s way of co-opting and ruining what had previously been a much more inclusive anti war movement, and hell, did the long hairs do any good? Did protest end the war? Or did the PTB just grow tired of that conflict and decide to do something else? I’m voting for the latter considering the war didn’t end until 1975 after a good long run of what? Something like 24/25 years (if you include France’s south east asia experiment)… sigh, has anything changed politically in America since then? The same freaks are still lurking around Washington (Kissinger, GW bush, rummy, even that evil freak cheney, who came to the scene in ’69 and worked with rummy back then… talk about creepy)
As a poster noted on another thread, the OWS movement is already treading water by issuing ‘demands’ and by doing so are beginning to splinter the group. It would be enough for them to simply state that they are there until Wall Street is in jail for all the illegal and ruinous actions of the humans using corporate fronts to destroy civilization. Isn’t that ultimately what the goal of Wall Street is – to destroy anything human and replace it with herd animal consumers?
I rant… I should just be posting that I appreciate everything b is doing to keep this site current and that I would also like to thank all the people posting who are keeping me informed… I end with the latest transmission from Half Past Human’s Cliff High, whose webbots are telling him some feces are going to be flying soon…
A hearty THANKS to all ya, and Peace!

Posted by: DaveS | Oct 10 2011 12:33 utc | 15

Oops, let me see if I can fix my bad formatting and retrieve my links.

Posted by: catlady | Oct 10 2011 15:15 utc | 17

The ‘hippies’ were actually detrimental to the aims of the antiwar movement during that time – DaveS
That is a great reminder, though many footnotes or arguments could be appended.
68 in France was nominally anti-imperialist, but that was about it. What is generally ignored is that 68 was in part sparked by fast rising unemployment, and the ‘state-general unemployment pay-out body’ (ANPE is the acronym) was created in 67 in part to stifle any revolt.
Salaries were going down, ppl were thrown out of work, after the period of post-war reconstruction boom. Urbanisation up, rural life down, and that is why the ‘workers’ (factory, union, Gvmt, independents) joined the students. Who by now had their own culture, music, magazines, etc. Attractive!
Calls for greater social and personal (sexual, etc.) liberty and a general anti-authoritarian or anti-Gaullist stance, as well as demands for more vacations, better pay, from the worker end, and so on, washed out war and imperialism or blithely ignored it. (For France, Africa. Domination continues to this day.)
The echoes to OWS are loud – but this is a different era.

Posted by: Noirette | Oct 10 2011 15:42 utc | 19

DaveS: Yup, it was your generalization that got me writing this morning. I was a Nebraskan kid in the 60s, with Republican parents; it wasn’t until I got to grad school that I started to understand what “counter-culture” might mean. I am grateful that I live in Oregon and not Nebraska.
I think the Wikipedia article is pretty clear about the many cultural streams that came together in the movements of the 60s. Perhaps our thinking isn’t quite congruent on which of those many streams of folks should be labelled “hippie” and which shouldn’t. Sombunall hippies were druggy, lazy, and self-absorbed and sombunall hippies were creative, thoughtful, and dedicated to “being the change they wished to see in the world.” Sombunall hippies burned out; sombunall became Wall St. banksters; sombunall became the citizens who stay active to create healthy communities for their kids and grandkids. Sombunall young Occupiers today are wild-eyed dreamers with no practical solutions to suggest. Sombunall are out-of-work union members with a lot to say. Sombunall Occupiers are dedicated, peaceful, and working hard at creating a new paradigm. A Venn diagram of all these sombunalls would show some interesting intersections.
Far out. Groovy. Peace. Namaste y’all.

Posted by: catlady | Oct 10 2011 17:36 utc | 21

Just saw that item ThePaper and came here to post about it but you beat me to it. Your comment mirrors my first reaction exactly. I may be just too jaded these days and I never have proof but past history always triggers false flags flying around in my mind. I even see the officials at Huff Post DC draped in red white and blue. Arrgh!

Posted by: juannie | Oct 11 2011 23:33 utc | 23

FireDogLake
I will never support anything, and I mean ANYTHING, that is affiliated with that bastion of rabid Group Think. It is as anathema to me as is Glenn Beck.

Posted by: Morocco Bama | Oct 13 2011 12:04 utc | 25

Anyone notes? Obama just started another war:
Obama sending combat troops to central Africa to aid fight against rebels

President Obama has deployed combat troops to central Africa to aid in the fight against the Lord’s Resistance Army. In a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, Obama says 12 troops with “appropriate combat equipment” were deployed on October 12 and approximately 100 in total will be deployed including a second combat team and headquarters, communications and logistics personnel. The forces will provide information and advise and assist “select partner nation forces,” Obama explains. The troops will not fight except in self-defense. The full letter is after the jump.
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Posted by: b | Oct 14 2011 18:12 utc | 27

Thomas Friedman and Tom Ricks in a conversation about Afghanistan.
Hilarious.

Posted by: b | Oct 15 2011 18:44 utc | 29

monolycus
you are right so i will personally be calling for posthumous nobel prizes to be given to lucky luciano, meyer lansky, to the entire genovese, & colombo clans, some form of peacekeeping prizes for carmine galante, fat tony salerno & john gotti – that seems to be fair

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Oct 15 2011 22:22 utc | 31