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January 16th: “Occupy the Federal Reserve”
As David DeGraw notes, January 16th is "Occupy the Federal Reserve" day:
The “Occupy the Dream”
coalition has called for a National Day of Action on Martin Luther King
Day – Monday, January 16, 2012 – when they will “Occupy the Federal
Reserve,” in multiple cities nationwide, focusing attention on the gross
injustice visited upon the 99% by the financial elite.
Indeed, occupying the Fed has been a large part of the Occupy movement from day one.
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@ Hugh
It doesn't sound like you know much about the Velvet Revolution.
Democracy is horse shit. Who needs government from the center of the bell curve. We want our representative government back.
This is the first post I have agreed with you 100% Morty.
Whatever people want to think of OWS, it's existence is bringing awareness to the Left about things like the Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy. Awareness is the beginning of any positive change. Many a discussions at the dinner table or water cooler, start with a single spark from a news item. That, is all that I mean by awareness.
People who have been drinking the MSM sheeple Kool-aid on the Right, think of all members of OWS as 'useful idiots that want to sponge off the government' just like the Kool-aid drinking sheeple on the Left think that the everyone who belongs to the Tea Party is a 'useful idiot, racist, working for the GOP'.
However, in real life, not all protestors are the same. That's a fact. And 'protests' are just places where large number of people gather, usually from all walks of life, to express their grievances. In large groups like these, you will get all kinds of people, including party apparatchiks and un-savourable elements from all sides. The establishment will, obviously, try organize, use, and discredit these protests to further their agendas.
Does that mean that we should oppose all demonstrations because there will be party apparatchiks, losers and weird-os there?
If you believe the MSM, that things are improving in America, then maybe these protests will fade away and become irrelevant. However, if you believe the "news" we're fed on TV is every bit as managed as the economy, and we are still on the long slide to 3rd world country status, then these protests will grow....organically.
Look at what's happening around us. Where are the improvements? Wealth disparity, debt, inflation, war, climate change, government...they are all the same as last year, 4 years ago, or worse. Unemployment is still rising. People who quit looking for work are not counted anymore. And the conservatives around the world are pushing for more austerity. And our rule of law? We have TWO rules of law.
The Federal Reserve has failed on its public mandates, and failed miserably. But while we protest on Jan 16, we need to remember we object to their successful private mandates. Which are to fund the government's massive deficit spending (for a profit of course), to make sure bankers are bailed out at taxpayers expense, and to keep the printing presses full of ink and paper.
Going back to the WW1-WW2 era, I think we saw the formation of the National Security State. MI6 brought in the Americans and trained them in Intel and Espionage. These Americans were naturally from the wealthy families whose sons were grads of Yale, Harvard, etc. I think it was more benign perhaps 100 years ago, but after WW2, when the OSS morphed into the CIA, these families realized the profitability of using Intel to further their monetary empires.
This explains the union of the City of London+Wall St. financiers. Aristocratic Americans now moved easily between Money and Intel. G H W Bush is a great example. Son of Prescott, (Senator-banker), Skull&Bones, CIA Director and President.
Nor do I think all of these dudes are pure-profit motivated. I think many wrongly assume what's good for them is in the best interest of the US. Of course, they are forgetting we are supposed to be a Representative Republic.
But now, in the opening of the 21st century, their aims have drifted towards the corruption of America. Each "party" has the same Statist attitude.
The mold has to be broken. With all his faults, Paul is the best hope for breaking this mold, but Americans have to rid themselves of the phony 2-party system continuum.
Paul is only a start, not a goal. Americans must build a new party for the People, not the Elites.
We must hang together or we assuredly will hang separately, IMO.
well said
the Fed doesn't have a public mandate it has a charter, which is as vague as the President's policies and above Constitutional review (also) you know it may just be that the rules governing the money supply have never been written and now is the time.
but if you want to pull in the Fed pull in the Executive office, which has been gathering power since the Cold War started. the Presidents mandate to govern and interpret the Constitution goes way beyond the checks and balances the FF envisioned. if you abolished the Fed right now the Treasury would assume the duties without missing a beat. just like getting rid of the CIA would only change the name on the door.
but if you change the balance of power then you at least have the change to bring the feds duties into the light of day, and advise and consent of the peoples house
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=hcQ08Y3989U&feature=endscreen
Manly P. Hall »The 21st Cen. A New Beginning Pt.1.flv
Two things I'd like to see--(1) Occupy publically becoming more focused on the Wall Street angle (they try, but the media always finds the freakers to interview) and (2) Occupy folks spending more time reading ZH, getting their education, so they can point directly to the problem when the cameras are on.
They have done something substantial thus far--more and more on the left are taking a good look at Ron Paul because the core OWS narrative points to many of the same positions on monetary policy, fiscal policy, civil liberties, and reducing global military (though the left and right are doing their best to keep people packaged up in the traditional narrative of 'libtard' vs 'republiscum' and people are taking the bait.) Where they seem to differ with Paul is the on the role of federal gov't--but that's the result of 50+ years of statism. You'd be fearful too of cutting gov't down if you thought it was the only thing between you and the gutter, environmental degragation, etc.
I don't expect OWS to solve anything--social movements don't do details, baby. They simply try to point things in a new direction when the leadership is lacking.
How about Occupy the United States Treasury and/or the IRS on April 15???
We need to start occupying politicians' asses with size 13 Tony Lamas.
Occupy the Fed? In case you believe this will ever be allowed, let's review some of the net tightening that went on this year:
On Wall Street Protests are physically suppressed. Homeland Security seeks contractors for continuity of government efforts and support of civil unrest suppression. The bid solicitation is mistakenly posted on the web and disappears immediately. The Congress passes a law allowing indefinite detention of Americans without trial, and considers a law allowing the government to shut down web sites with very little evidence under a copyright protection pretense. The precedent is set to kill Americans determined to be terrorists without trial. Rumors surface that the Northern Command, formed to operate on U.S. soil in violation of posse commitatus, is mustering and engaging in drills in Alaska. In a world of instant access to news, the USG tests an emergency announcement system which allow it to cut all forms of communication, including cell phones and the web. With no explanaton why he is needed in the next two years, the head of the FBI has his TEN YEAR term extended by two more years. Homeland Security continues the process of militarizing our state and local police. Rumors of National Guard questioneers about the willingness to fire on civilians pass without notice. JPM given entension of position limits to May, as if someone knows it won't matter in May.
Calling attention to the Fed is important, but it may be that the only thing they are going to occupy is a FEMA camp.
Homeland Security seeks contractors for continuity of government efforts and support of civil unrest suppression. The bid solicitation is mistakenly posted on the web and disappears immediately.
Do you have a link or something on that, Smiddy?
Ron Paul won't allow you to occupy the fed... because it won't exist. I've seen several Fed buildings - they'd make nice downtown condos and lofts.
WELL, that's a stupid non-serous day to occupy the FED!! THEY WILL BE CLOSED!!!
Indeed, occupying the Fed has been a large part of the Occupy movement from day one.
No it hasn't. But they are on the right track if this is indeed the plan. How about in addition calling for Geithner and Bernanke to leave their positions immediately and not leaving until they resign? We'll know their serious then won't we but do they have the courage? I'm more than a bit skeptical.
If the Dollar is a fraudulent ponzi scheme, then stop participating. Otherwise you are guilty of aiding the criminals.
Stop using paper currency. Start using gold, silver, copper, brass, and lead.
When no one uses the Fed's imaginary money, the fed will become history.
Skeptical is the right stance. I don't doubt that G.W. means well in his promotion of OWS. The trouble as I see it is that OWS plays directly into the Globalist agenda. The main focus of OWS seems to be a demand that TPTB further restrict free market activity, in effect tighten the noose. If you look at the demographics of those most dependent on the Federal beast I would submit that those folks are hardly models of what would comprise a healthy society. If OWS began with a healthy intent (big if), then all indications are that it has been compromised by the Globalist left.
Occupy a shower. Get a haircut.
There's no virtue in being a prick.
http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/fsa/8b31000/8b31700/8b31764r.jpg
Consider this. Photo by Dorothea Lange, California migrant camp, 1937. That's EIGHT YEARS after the financial crisis started...that time.
i hope when you and your family lose your jobs, your home gets repossessed, and you watch your only neighbors left with jobs are government bureaucrats trying to control every aspect of your life, that you are shown equally shallow concern.
Well, I am encouraged, as I assume that those who dissed the post have not been sitting on their fat asses in front of a moinitor all week but rather have been out working for change we can believe in.
You go, guys and gals.
It is not the Federal Reserve, alone. It is not the IRS, alone. But a system built on fiat money and a tax on income that includes the rising prices of assets like land and precious metals due to deliberate expansion of the money supply is the grandest scheme of theft in human history. If there is any 'occupy', it should be to force those who continue this system to occupy a jail cell, for they have placed the rest of us in debt servitude to them.
As to the Fed being one of the goals of OWS? ROFL. When someone demands that government must keep funding free stuff in the name of 'social justice', the Fed is more than happy to keep expanding the money supply to provide the funding that Congress votes for. But in the end, since none of this really expands the amount of wealth, it only ends up inflating the currency to produce the mirage of prosperity, at least for a short time until reality reasserts itself.
So they sit in the lobby for a few hours, get booted, and do endless interviews proclaiming victory. Pretty much a rehash of the Columbia takeover.
the purpose of protest is to spread a message, especially when the established media fails to do so.
"the purpose of protest is to spread a message, especially when the established media fails to do so."
What's the message?????? They've been at it for 3 months and still no message.
Sorry you can't be bothered to pay attention or do your own research:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fV0YjQQzYk
I can't wait till the 16th!
I'm going to bring a jew confetti cannon that spits out rainbows, skittles, and of course confetti. If I have time I'll mount it out the butt of a paper mache unicorn. But no promises on that one.
Fuck you negative down voters! Artistic license. Most protesters bring signs. I'll bring my creations. I've always wanted to see a BurningMan hybrid at a Occupy gathering.
When people are anti-semetic or racist, or blame a single people for the ills of the world, it weakens any argument that they may have.
People who feel that all of the Jewish people of the planet are somehow working together to control the world, should remember, what happened to the Jews during WW II. They also should remember, that it was shortly after many of the wealthier German Jews refused to turn their gold into the central banks to fund Hitler's wars that they were made into the scapegoats of Hitler's totalitarian regime. Anyone who knows their history, also knows that the Nazis were heavily funded by JP Morgan, General Electric, Ford, Dupont and the Warburg bank. The Board of Directors of the Warburg bank included Max Warburg, whose brother Paul Warburg was a founder of the Federal Reserve.
So please, how can people really think that all 'Jews' could possibly ever be put into the same category? This is such a myopic and ridiculous view of the world. It's like saying that all white people are responsible for the decisions that Hitler, Hank Paulson or Dick Cheney have made.
Or that evil is only present inside the souls of people belonging to certain races, colours, or religions. If that was true, life would be so easy, and ethnic cleansing, a good idea.
Usually, these kinds of comments don't merit a response, but today, I just felt like responding.
I'll give you an up arrow....and admire your enthusiasm.
When you're there at the Fed's building....don't forget to tell the uninformed younglings that their "Hope and Change" hero, 'Hubba Bubba' signed SB 1132 into law last year....soze 'dem kidlets can scream the FED is a private bank all they want....but that private bank has garnered itself a FED-erally funded police force....and they will be packin' if they so choose....as they are now allowed to carry all the same weaponry and gear as regular federal law enforcement officers....including carrying "concealed" while off duty.
Plenty of video cameras and plenty of angles would be a good idea. There's lots of info to suggest that the police forces of this world operate under new mandates and new directives to derail the dissident movements....by instituting "Agent Provocateurs" into the equation....and into the ranks of the protesters to instigate clever disruptions.
Have fun....and keep your wits about ya....I'd hope you'd return to give us your personal account of the events as they unfolded
Great! Today Press Tv reports that the FBI has taken Mullah Omar off the terrorist list ..........which means he is now safer from assassination by the US government than any member of the Occupy movuement.
I have a dream
oh yes, since 2004, I have had an End the Fed sticker on my back bumper
also, Murray Rothbard
The Founding of the Federal Reserve | Murray N. Rothbard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta7q1amDAN4
Occupy appears to be taking on some very interesting coalition tactics here now that they have been forced out of location occupancy.
In the first post Zucchinni Park "Day of Action", they mobilized up a significant number of Union activists, this time they are coopting the Black community and the message of equal opportunity delivered by MLK.
This is very smart sythetic action if they can keep all the disparate parties more or less on the same page and generate street numbers. As is true over in Russia, a Critical Mass is achieved even in totalitarian states when street nnumbers mass past the 100K mark.
If OWS can pull those kind of numbers fromthe Unions and from the Black Activist Faith community, along with the disaffected and disenfranchized 20-somethings and desperate retirees and legions of Unemployued, they will change the dynamic substantially. Its all about the Numbers.
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TPTB have already proven they don't give a fuck how many people get the booty end of the stick, as long as it's not them. What do they care if a bunch of them happen to show up for another photo op? Totalarian states just as often arise from thousands in the street as fall to them. In fact, name a change for the better brought about by street marches.
It's synthetic alright, just like Esperanto.
From CIApedia:
"The Velvet Revolution (Czech: sametová revoluce) or Gentle Revolution (Slovak: nežná revolúcia) was a non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that took place from November 17 to December 29, 1989. Dominated by student and other popular demonstrations against the one-party government of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, it saw to the collapse of the party's control of the country, and the subsequent conversion from Czech Stalinism to capitalism."
And don't forget the rock 'n' roll:
http://reason.com/archives/2011/12/18/keep-on-rockin-in-the-free-world
(seriously an amazing article)
Wow. Great read and very inspiring. Thanks.
I would be more confident of results if they were to occupy in groups of 1mm with pitchforks, torches, and rope. 1000 people showing up in the lobby of a fed district bank is just gauging how much of the bill of rights has made it to the shredder blades on a given day.
The occupy movement brought a vague focus to the problem, but their methodology is suited to long range change and I just don't see that time is available for a long range solution to the problems which are pounding the door today. Sorry, maybe it's just a bad hair day. I was more enthusiastic when they started.
I hear you. But I think about this quiet time as the water receding from the shore, with the tsunami about to come in. 2012 is going to be a very interesting year. Epic.
OWS has made great strides in educating the public about the role of Wall Street and the Fed. Now more and more people know about "The Creature from Jekyll Island," and have at last identified the source of their chains of bondage. I think the methodology is not so much a methodology as a distributed leadership model, meaning it has no "leaders" who can be "disappeared" to those nice camps everyone knows about. Lacking the ability to "cut off the head" of the movement, and given that the number of protesters this coming year will dwarf any previous year by a large margin, I think the effect will be exactly like trying to stop a tsunami with a rifle.
I'm waiting for "Occupy Fort Knox".
I plan on coming back with heavy pockets.
According to Jim Willie, there is nothing in Fort Knox but nerve gas.
Well DUH!
What'dya think I thought was in there --- GOLD, for Christ's sake?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
sorry, i couldn't resis..
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
holy shit that was funny...
Yes, ha ha ha!
This is better, but it will get fun when it becomes Occupy the Congress.
Wrong. The political system is a shadow puppet show put on by the banks.
No real change will happen in the US until the Fed is dead and replaced with competing currencies.
The fed and ECB are giving the banks huge artificial profits (or smaller losses)