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Occupy... the Fed?
In 2011, these dudes from Canada flew down to do a documentary on the Occupy Wall Street movement. They asked to interview me and obliged. The indy movie has launched, and it is actually pretty good. Actually, its better than pretty good. Here's a clip of the chapter on the Fed. I urge all to rent or purchase the movie here - https://www.occupythemovie.com/ - to support the director and producers. This is something that should be on Netflix!
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Here is a grin...and I am still grinning....
Doesn't want to increase the deficit...
Off subject but here is a GRIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gotta love Bernanke saying The Fed oversees and regulates for a healthy banking system ..then appearing later saying how the disaster he hasn't averted as a regulator how he patches it up
Priceless ...well a Trillion or so!
I spoke with the kids who were involved in the occupy movement when they set up their camp in the city I am located. I was not impresed,
When the occupy movement was created it was aimed at going after the FED and the banksters controlling it. I believe the banksters and people like Soros infiltrated the movement with its own people and steered the occupiers off in a direction that was confusing with much less focus on the FED, the banksters along with their political hacks who are in control of it. Are you listening Mitch McConnell?
At least that was my experience when quizzing the kids what the movement was aimed at. I did not see much of anything reported in the mainstream media about Wall St. banksters not going to jail or a focus on the monetary policy of the FED.
If OWS was "aimed at going after the Fed", then please explain why it wasn't called OTF and why the Eccles building wasn't campground zero.
How could you have possibly missed this Bill Black on the street interview during Autumn 2011? It was repeated over and over in the MSM! Ooops, sorry, that was feces on police cars and rapists in the park. My bad. And what jetset LikeyMikey said too.
I don't usually dwell on spelling mistakes because we all make them but this one is quite ironic. So you weren't impressed by the kids huh? Maybe the feeling was mutual?
The Wizard - I can only speak for NYC Occupy but they most certainly were advocating justice including jail time. Watch the video I posted.
Infiltration is SOP for any and all movements/organizations, as collectives create/perpetuate the zeitgeist for people to rally around. Then, once the masses are attached, provocateurs within the group take the message and twist it into "full-retard" mode, nullifying any and all of the true issues, while replacing them with laughable ideas designed to provoke ridicule from the opposition.
Divide and Conquer 101.
I saw occupy first hand in NYC, Berlin, The Hague, Brussels, Frankfurt, Paris, and Rome.
There were many problems with the entire Occupy movement. First thing is that most of the members were stinky, uneducated (non showering) drug addicts that could barely tie their shoes getting paid a weekly check (and fed for free) to be there. I spoke with many and there was a leader or two at each site but the bulk had no friggin clue as to what the real cause was all about.
Occupy will NEVER last no matter how noble or rightess it may be. It CERTAINLY IS NOT grass roots or a decentralized movement at all.
LikeyMikey - I disagree. Perhaps you should watch the movie I posted. The people were intelligent and street viewers observed the members of the movement came from all political stripes.
As for being stinky well try living a tent for a month without a shower and in the dark as generators were not permitted. These people were willing to go through discomforts to rail against injustice and robbery from those in power. I admit, some had more courage than I to do so.
I will watch the movie but my personal experience of real life people I met are definitely going to be hard to dismiss.....
A movie is a movie and real life experience in several countries is hard to discount! MOst of the discomforts were not at all and merely a bunch of street people and drug addicts getting a weekly pay check and food.
Cheers.
Let's make sure I got this right. Walmart accepts EBT, Jack in the box accepts EBT, the liquor stores all accept EBT, my neighborhood sandwich shop accepts EBT.
Who benefits most from EBT? Let's see, corporations, alcohol and tobacco companies, coke and Pepsi corp, and fast food chains.
Who do these corps support? Big government.
Maybe this article should be occupy the federal government because that's who financially supported occupy wall street. It's just to bad the useful idiots of Occupy Wall Street can't make the connection that the government is Wall Street.
If the "occupy movement" is against the "thefts by government agents", eg banks, corporations, etc, then why is there no "occupy movement" against the entitlement programs, thru which politicians steal the earnings of the successful and use the loot to buy the votes of the unsuccessful ?
Is it because the "occupy movement" consists of people who support coercive collectivism and are feeding off entitlement programs ?
There's those who want the stolen money to be returned to them or their favored special interest groups.
And then there's the odd ducks like myself who would be content to see the money returned to those that earned it, seeing how that's where it came from in the first place.
This is a far less popular and populist position.
I suspect most occupiers would be aghast at the idea of no Central Bank and debt free money because then those beloved social programs and corporate welfare funds would have to be collected as taxes before they were spent.
You want to fund generations of layabouts and corn growers for ethanol? Fine here's the cost. Tell your Congressman which way to vote.
This presupposes a Congress that relied on support from the people that elected them rather than lobbyists that actually fund election campaigns.
But, as long as bribery is legal...
Good point. Republicans dig a hole to start wars and to give to their cronies who finance their campaigns, and also on entitlements (Medicare Part D under Bush). Democrats dig a hole to start wars and to give to their cronies who finance their campaigns, and also on entitlements (Obamacare).
There are no bigger entitlement programs than the War on Common Sense (war on terror), TARP, ZIRP and ongoing bankster bailouts... all entitlement programs for Wall Street.
I did my own film that is free to watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/WxMn9Fcx6JU
I start off by interviewing a Wall Street executive. When night came I was the only journalist at OWS. The people were grateful I was there because they told me when none were present the police were a bit abusive.
Fucking Bernanke.
The FED is the banker's bank.
The U.S.S.A. is "Of the Banks, By the Banks, For the Banks".
Thanks Reggie, with you 100% here. "Fox in charge of the hen house", yup, and we're the hens!
was that a bernanke doll or does he truly speak in that inhuman capacity?
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Reggie... an honest intellectual as well as a hard partier.
Honest?...he was a participant in the Google/CIA sponsored take down of RIMM, gleefully rejoicing with every job lost.
What's the title?
It's "Occupy: The Movie" and you can rent/buy it here https://www.occupythemovie.com/. I have no relation to the director/producer but there's so little quality reporting on these matters I feel that they should get some recognition.
Great clip!
Did you provide the translation for them, or did they come up with that themselves? :-)
I loved the semantic writhing of Steve Meyer in that clip;
"The Fed does not create money...instead it deposits electronic funds at the banks"
Right. So the depositing of funds (dollars) at the banks is not creating money?!
DavidC
He's covered.
Because at that point they're merely accounting digits.
It's at the next point when they're withdrawn and spent that they become 'money'. That discussion wasn't part of the conversation.
Any good lawyer could get him out of a perjury charge. :)
No, it doesn't magically become money, it is currency. Does that have anything to do with current, like electricity is part of the current of electrons moving through a matrix of wires? If you convert the electrons to paper currency (presto, shazaam!) it moves through the system like money except it is only pretend money. It is not a store of labor or wealth. It is a negative current as it is only a loan to be paid back.
Oh, OK...let's just call it sophisticated bull shit and leave it at that.
Exactly. Even better, for some people those "deposited dollars" don't cost them anything (ZIRP)...
This is in fact a "let the majority eat cake" monetary experiment.
Better still they keep the interest, prices still go through the roof and there is no lending! It's a win, win!
Thanks for the heads up on this Reggie.
Good to see you around here again.
Agree