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Guest Post: 80 Years Later - Same Culprits, Same Rage
Submitted by Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform
80 Years Later - Same Culprits, Same Rage
The young man stands on the edge of his porch
The days were short and the father was gone
There was no one in the town and no one in the field
This dusty barren land had given all it could yield
I’ve been kicked off my land at the age of sixteen
And I have no idea where else my heart could have been
I placed all my trust at the foot of this hill
And now I am sure my heart can never be still
So collect your courage and collect your horse
And pray you never feel this same kind of remorse
Dust Bowl Dance – Mumford & Sons
The song from Mumford & Sons called Dust Bowl Dance is as pertinent to today as it was in describing the Great Depression. I was taken by the lyrics and the rage in the song. The setting for the song is the Dust Bowl of the 1930?s in the US Midwest. Picture the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. As I listened to the song again this morning I was struck by the similarities between the time period described in the song and our present situation.
The lyrics by Marcus Mumford tell the story of a young man who’s lost everything. His family is either dead or forced off their land. My interpretation of the lyrics is that the bank has foreclosed on his farm after their crops failed during the dust bowl. I picture a Mr. Potter like character who held the mortgages on all the farms and houses in a small community. The evil banker didn’t care that families had lived on this land for decades, raising their families along with the crops. These hard working farmers had done nothing wrong. They were victims of circumstances. But bankers didn’t care about ruining lives. The family farmers didn’t participate in the Roaring 20?s, borrow on margin to invest in stocks, or reap ungodly profits. The farmers were victims of land speculators and bad weather. The only son in the song took the law into his own hand and shot the evil banker. He was ready to do his time, because his act was righteous payback.
Eighty years ago the last Fourth Turning was also in its infancy. They generally last 15 to 20 years. The catalyst for the last Fourth Turning was the great stock market crash of 1929. The 1920s “boom” enriched only a fraction of the American people. Earnings for farmers and industrial workers stagnated or fell. Farmers were barely getting by during the roaring 20s. Only the Wall Street crowd was getting rich. The economic growth of the 1920s did not reach most Americans: 60% of American families earned less than the amount necessary to support their basic needs ($2,500 was considered enough to support a family’s basic needs). The agricultural sector was similarly stagnant: farm prices dropped after World War I when Europe again began to feed itself and new grain exports from South American further depressed prices. The lack of purchasing power of rural people and farmers resulted in declines in consumer purchasing in those areas, as well as increased defaults on debt. Rural, urban, and suburban consumers began to increase their personal debts through mortgages, car loans, and installment plans to buy consumer goods, such as radios.
The ever-growing price for stocks was, in part, the result of greater wealth concentration within the investor class. Eventually the Wall Street stock exchange began to take on a dangerous aura of invincibility, leading investors to ignore less optimistic indicators in the economy. Over-investment and speculating (gambling) in stocks further inflated their prices, contributing to the illusion of a robust economy.
The crucial point came in the 1920s when banks began to loan money to stock-buyers since stocks were the hottest commodity in the marketplace. Wall Street banks encouraged Wall Street investors to use the stocks themselves as collateral. When stocks dropped in value, and investors could not repay the banks, the banks were left holding near-worthless collateral. Banks went broke, pulling productive businesses down with them as they called in loans and foreclosed mortgages in a desperate attempt to stay afloat. The Federal Reserve was responsible for regulating the banks. They were responsible for the easy money policies during the 1920s. The biggest financial institutions in the country included: Citibank, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan & Co., Chase National Bank, and Wells Fargo. Sound familiar?
The Great Depression was caused by the Federal Reserve and their owners, the biggest Wall Street banks, aiding and abetting reckless speculation, greed and extreme risk taking with mountains of debt. The rich got richer and the poor got poorer. The income inequality in the U.S. reached an all-time peak in 1928. It stayed at a high level until World War II. The glory years of the American Empire were from 1941 through 1979, when the middle class was growing, and the income distribution in the country was fair and equitable, as our manufacturing based economy raised all boats.
The income inequality in the country reached the same extreme level in 2007, just prior to the Wall Street created financial implosion. It has not improved in the last four years. In the early 1930s there was the feeling of revolution in the air. With unemployment at 25% and people in desperate straits, the government feared communists or fascists gaining power. The New Deal was really a way to keep the citizens occupied so that a revolution would not take hold. There was much anger towards the bankers and aristocracy who caused the Great Depression. The anger is reflected in the Mumford & Sons lyrics:
Your oppression reeks of your greed and disgrace
So one man has and another has not
How can you love what it is you have got
When you took it all from the weak hands of the poor?
Liars and thieves you know not what is in store
Dust Bowl Dance – Mumford & Sons
The 2008 financial crash was caused by loose Federal Reserve monetary policies, lack of Federal Reserve regulation over criminally reckless Wall Street banks, and incredible levels of bad debt rampant throughout our economic system. The true unemployment rate today is 23%. Another parallel between the early 1930s and today can be seen in the chart below. Almost 11,000 banks, or 40% of all the banks in the U.S., went out of business. Predictably, these were all small banks. None of the connected Wall Street banks went out of business. They benefitted, as 40% of their competition disappeared. Too Big to Fail existed 80 years ago. You may also note that savers were punished, as interest paid on savings plunged from 5% to below 1% and the earnings of middle class workers collapsed.
| 1929 | 1933 | |
| Banks in operation | 25,568 | 14,771 |
| Prime interest rate | 5.03% | 0.63% |
| Volume of stocks sold (NYSE) | 1.1 B | 0.65 B |
| Privately earned income | $45.5B | $23.9B |
| Personal and corporate savings | $15.3B | $2.3B |
Historical Statistics of the United States, pp. 235, 263, 1001, and 1007.
During the early years of the current depression more than 400 banks have gone insolvent and another 800 banks are on the FDIC endangered species list. Therefore, approximately 15% of all the banks in the U.S. will no longer compete with the Wall Street banks that caused the financial crisis. Since 2008, the top five biggest banks in the U.S. have dramatically increased their market share and power. They are: Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs. Amazing how the exact same banks that caused the 1929 and the 2008 market crashes came out unscathed and more powerful after each crisis.
The mainstream media tries to convince the American public that the stock market going up means the economy is improving and they are doing better. The chart below shows that the stock market bottomed in 1932 and proceeded to go up almost 500% by 1937. It’s too bad only the bankers and richest people in society could afford to own stocks. While the stock market soared, the average person struggled to survive. Only the privileged stock owners prospered. The common man suffered.
The unemployment rate remained at elevated levels until World War II. The New Deal policies of Franklin Roosevelt did not end the Great Depression. The common man had trouble putting bread on their table during the entire decade of the 1930?s. The storyline about FDR’s Keynesian spending ending the Depression is false.
The 1930s were filled with seething anger. The Liberty League and Father Charles Coughlin, the Rush Limbaugh of his time, used anti-communist and socialist rhetoric to convince millions of Americans that the model used in Nazi Germany was better than FDR’s New Deal policies. This pushed Roosevelt further to the left against big business and toward more socialist programs to insure getting the votes of the poor. These were bleak days in our country’s history. General Smedley Butler revealed a plot to overthrow the Roosevelt administration and replace it with a fascist dictatorship. The country roiled with furious rage.
In 1932, approximately 80 years ago, 43,000 marchers (17,000 veterans) descended upon Washington D.C. The Bonus Expeditionary Force, also known as the “Bonus Army”, marched on Washington to advocate the passage of the “soldier’s bonus” for service during World War I. They set up a camp with tents to bring attention to their cause. After Congress adjourned, bonus marchers remained in the city and became unruly. On July 28, 1932, two bonus marchers were shot by police, causing the entire mob to become hostile and riotous. The government turned the U.S. military upon its citizens. Army cavalry units led by General Douglas MacArthur dispersed the Bonus Army by riding through it and using gas. Fifty five veterans were injured and 135 were arrested. Critics of the marchers described them as communists, troublemakers, and criminals.
Fast forward 80 years and we have protestors setting up camp in a public square, not far from where the same exact banks that caused the Great Depression have created the Greater Depression. The biggest Wall Street banks have gotten bigger. The Federal Reserve, in collusion with the Wall Street banks, has engineered a two year stock market rally, while the average American has seen their wages decline, food and energy prices soar, home prices fall, and banks paying them .1% on their savings. Anger and disillusionment continue to build in this country like a volcano preparing to blow. Some people are angry at Washington politicians. Some are angry at Wall Street. Others aren’t sure who to be angry at. The evil oligarchy of bankers, corporate titans, and bought off Washington politicians that control the agenda and mainstream media, continue to scorn, ridicule and denigrate the middle class of America. Their financial engineering is failing. They’ve gone too far. The debt accumulation is unsustainable. The mood of the country has darkened and talk of revolution and the shadow of impending violence is growing.
The Great Depression was not an event, it was an era. It was an era of discontent, pain, suffering, and ultimately war and death. The people who lived through this era have mostly died off. We have entered a new similar era. The average citizen sees the American Dream of a better life slipping away due to the corruption, greed, and immorality of our political and financial systems. The Federal Reserve’s current chosen mandate is to make the stock market go up, while impoverishing the middle class. The 1% better hope the police and military continue to obey their orders, because the 99% are angry and heavily armed. This Fourth Turning has ten to fifteen years to go. Every previous Fourth Turning has included violence, war and death on an epic scale. Winter has arrived and it will be a long arduous journey until we reach Spring. The choices we make in the next few years will decide the fate of our country. I hope we choose wisely.
“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.”
Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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Well what do you call libya invasion, Iraq wars, Afghanistan, Iran, Uganda, etc.?
WWIII is here and now.
Problem is, a world war is a unlimited, genocidal war. We don't have that yet, and I'm not looking forward to it.
But they did borrow.
If they had not there would not have been a mortgage.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=mortgage
"Death Pledge", more properly. Meaning, one assumes, that the borrower
would make every effort to pay it back.
Many people are unaware that the 30 year fixed mortgage is a relatively recent thing. Prior to World War II at least, they were "calleable" at any time. The notes could be purchased outright from the bank by anyone who had the cash, apparently. So if someone wanted your particular property they could essentially evict you, by purchasing the note and demanding payment in full. This feature was used to good effect by numerous Westerns, where the widow Jenny was going to lose the ranch.
Terms were usually 50% down, (probably in gold?) 7 years, renewable yearly, calleable at any time, etc.
The article talks about the Bonus Army - as I remember my history, they were there for an early payment of their "bonus", that was due to be paid in 1941 or something like that.
The "coup" that was exposed by Gen. Butler is interesting, though I'm cynical enough to wonder if that wasn't something planted by the FDR team. Hm.
Interesting and enlightening.
Though I imagine they were there because they were desperate.
And would have accepted half their dues on the spot.
Didn't work out that way though.
More about the Bonus Army from wikiw
The practice of war-time military bonuses began in 1776, as payment for the difference between what a soldier earned and what he could have earned had he not enlisted.[2] Breaking with tradition, the veterans of the Spanish-American War did not receive a bonus and, after World War One, their not receiving a military service bonus became a political matter when WWI veterans received only a $60 bonus. The American Legion, created in 1919, led a political movement for an additional bonus.[3]
Since WWII the GI Bill repersents the bonus.
Thanks for the "callable" mortgage info.
"As through this life I travel I've seen a lot of funny men. Some will rob you with a six gun, some with a fountain pen"
Woody Guthrie
The longer the inevitable is delayed - the bigger the blow-off is going to be.
The longer they tell folks that "all is well" the greater the rage will be when the curtain drops.
May you live in interesting times...
The problem now is not fearing having fascists in power, but sorting out the mess they have created over the last 30 years. Anyone who thinks they are not being controlled by corporate interests is either part of the top .1% or not paying attention. When corporate interests control the government it is, by definition, fascism.
Remember however that they are not victims of control, they are willing accomplices. Primarily sociopaths seek high office. WE are the victims and if you honestly are willing to support nearly anyone presently in Federal elected office then you are indeed being manipulated like a useful idiot.
Very nice Jimmie, but 80 years ago you did not have 29 of 30 DOW stocks OUTYIELDING the 10 year Treasury, so suck it Trabeck!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI2FolId6CA
The yield on the Dow Jones was 15% in 1932. Suck that!!!
only if u bot the whole index (not possible then) and ignore "transaction costs". Nay "index fundz" in the sainted 'old days'.
- Ned
WAR will save the USA/world economy again this time? No. Remote controlled Drones and NO factories.
and surely.......NO PEOPLE LEFT standing.
SOLUTION: Jubilee forgiveness of all debt. Please, NO implantable money, just FIAT backed by gold...
Your analysis is correct. The risks are not worth the reward for anybody on earth. Even a souless analyst should be recognizing that.
Occupy this, Occupy that.
Why not start earlier, like in the Spring?
Winter is coming alright. Like, real Winter, not metaphorical Winter.
Most People Are Idiots
MPAI
vietnam protests were held for over 4 years.
jobless desparate people aren't going to just sit there.
but election 2012 would be interesting.
Thanks for this 5-star post.
Comparing the Bonus Army to the OWS protestors is ridiculous. The Bonus Army had just grievances. The OWS protestors can more rationally be compared to the zombies on the cable show.
IF
the comparison is "Bonus Army" (with obligations stated by the Wilson Administration as a support assurances if not whole guarantees towards enlistment for the President who was "too proud to fight") is to "#OWS crowd" (with no obligation accepted eveah')
THEN
the folks trying to make the comparison have some work to do.
- Ned
"The OWS protestors can more rationally be compared to the zombies on the cable show."
When you set off to create zombies, how is it a surprise when zombies start wandering the streets?
WoW - Fantastic read!
Hmmm. Are the troops coming home for crowd control. Will they shoot fellow Americans? I wonder if Petraeus has been set up to be the first American dictator?
Are you sure they really are coming home anytime soon? The better bet would be for more and larger wars.
yeah....out of Iraq into IRAN!
No. We do not have the troop strength to invade Iran. Aside from some in-and-out commando stuff, it'll be Air War only. The ZOG is going to try to subdue a nation of 80 million people, a nation that can close the Hormuz Strait and cut off China & Japan's oil supply, with an Air War alone. Either they are insane, or the Fort Knox gold has migrated to Israel. Or both.
Petraeus is a well known bootlicker for the ZOG. He's nothing. If Obama, in a 3-way election, wins in the EC while losing >55% of the popular vote - an increasingly likely scenario at this point - he'll try to control the uproar (with economic collapse + Iran War going on too) thru Martial Law. First Tuesday in November, 2012. Then: 60 days to Fort Sumter.
Good historical overview marred by 4th turning mystical mumbo-jumbo. Too bad it has to be followed by extreme right fascist and racist comments. Ideological thinking at its finest--always a substitute for actual thinking. Now junk away...
Nothing mystical about Strauss & Howe's theory... you deride what you apparently have not taken the time to understand.
William Strauss e-mails to Neil Howe during the first drafts of ...
The Fourth Turning:
.........................................
“Do you think we can find a publisher stupid enough to fall for this bullshit? ”
Howe responds:
“You aren’t serious about trying to get someone to actually believe this shit and publish it?”
Strauss fires back:
“And why not…? ”
Howe counters:
“Because it is shit, that’s why.”
Strauss stands firm:
“That has nothing to do with it. You know it’s shit and I know it’s shit, but there are many editors that won’t know it’s shit and millions of potential readers are foolish enough to buy it if it’s published.”
Howe finally caves:
“Well, it never occurred to me to try to get something this utterly vapid published. We both know that we made the shit up as we went along. But, hey, if you think it will fly, if you think people are this gullible, then count me in.”
Strauss:
“Earth to Howe… They published “Dow 36,000? a few years ago and look how many fools bought it… and Speaker Pelosi’s seminal work on government.
Trust me… we’ll both be up for Pulitzers by the time this thing runs its course.”
Look it's no more vapid or stupid then "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".
This is how it goes down. People believe government only bullies the bad. Then they find out they bully everyone. Then their eyes are open. Then they either collectively decide to ask for more bullying or the people who are the front line of the power the cops get so sick of running themselves ragged and getting pissed on for it decide to stop pushing them around.
Scientific revolution occurs the same way. One theory becomes dominant and is attacked and new information is finally brough in and linked to the theory that begins to undermine confidence in it. It goes back and forth until the holders of the theory can no longer fend off the attacks. If the people holding the dominant theory are interested in truth it's a slow but painless process. If not they bury the new theory in an unmarked grave and it gets repeatidly dug back up.
The Fourth TurningShallow catholic rhetoric... more aptly named The 4th Turd ... faith-based tripe ... "bring back tradition!" it screams... a true believer's rote catechism. The 4th Turd is prescriptive, traditionalist, 'virtue-cratic', mombo-jombo, mixed with puritanism and a dash of make believe. Bring back values like honour and duty, observe decency in personal conduct, discipline, develop tighter societal standards, traditional virtues.
When it's not talking about early historical eras, the book is bemoaning the ever-branching diversity of choices and lifestyles in modern life or criticizing the edginess of pop culture.
All the absurd theory about supposed cycles of the supposed generations, the fabled historical parallels, the dire warning that a new era of crisis is to come, is just an excuse to tell readers to prepare for a crisis era that may or may not be coming by celebrating the importance of authority; cease unconventional behaviour in an era that will demand conformity, and settling down to focus on prescribed values. A hollow diatribe, pushing to get back to trust in public institutions and in the government... more restrictions on personal behaviour.
Advice to set up strict regimes of rules, zero tolerance of conflicting opinions, demands on conduct and development to make sure that children can grow up to be the next 'HERO' generation, as they are corraled as fodder for the eternal crusades... a heavily conservative bent sticking out like a sore thumb, no doubt reflecting some of the attitudes and wishes of the infamous 9/11MORON and outed liar, SmokeyQuinn.
The theory about "generations" and "turnings", the quotes and events of early historical generations are only fished out of the shallow AmeriKlan Sea, and, more importantly, ignore the rest of the world... only to find a few lame examples that will make the generations seem to fit into an imaginaryand delusional, so-called pattern.
Worse yet, the portraits painted of the four recurring generational archetypes in the whannabee theory, the predications are incredibly vague and sound like weakly created parodies.
Of course many theories will run into a FEW problems like this, but The 4th Turd is whipped up to sound just convincing enough to sell an authoritarian ideology.
Though there is some element of truth in The 4th Turd, certainly mankind's recorded experiences have been one of cyclical ebb and flow, one cannot make anywhere near the many pat characterizations and conclusive and farfetched leaps of simple reason and logic.
If intended as a work of propaganda, the book is perfect, for all good propaganda contains enough of an element of probable truth to be plausible.
Most everything in this book is arranged and written with the assumption that the thesis is essentially correct, a mode which is overreaching, suspect, and at best sloppy.
The wholesale grading & categorization of people is facile, diminishing, and overly fatalistic.
The book is an oligarchic collectivist's wet dream. The warning is that we are but mindless automatons, locked in an endless and stupid cycle of mass destruction, following our collectivist predestination, but that we might fail and then woe is to us. A stock false choice if there ever was one.
Either these guys were commissioned to write this stuff, or they have a more than adequate knack for figuring out which way the ill wind is blowing and sucking up to the NWO Elites for fun and profit.
Where in The 4th Turd is the experience of Korea, Viet Nam, the Cold War, all the endless wars, Globalism, consumer society, etc. etc.?
The TRUTH of September 11, 2001, whenever it is dealt with openly and properly in the future, will be the pivot to the next TURNING.
Truth might finally emerge someday in the semi-consciousness of the bureaucratic blogger SmokeyQuinn?
I voted you down David because Jim Quinn has begun learning that demonizing your fellow citizens that fell into moral hazard of bread and circuses is not how you fix your country. I didn't expect you to write any human being off that was capable of personal growth David, no matter how encapsulated Jim Quinn was that he was being willfully used as a tool of class warfare. He didn't stop trying to learn from history as the article demonstrates. Time to let it go man. Our country needs every swinging dick we can get to prevent a lurch in the opposite direction leading to Communism. Fill in the blanks. After Fascism, the criminals install ----------- . I am done with both Fascism and Communism and would actually like to try Capitalism for ONCE.
Whether it is called Fascism, Communism, Theism, or American Capitalism, it is all about Centralized Control to benefit the few at the expense of the many.
Court Jesters, like Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart are funded to provide sleight-of-hand for the central theme department. Fight to the death Pillow-fighting.
Free Market Competitive Capitalism only exists in an Econ 101 textbook.
Stocks started moving higher after Prohibition Repealed.
Drinking must be good for the economy.
So is smoking & going to strip clubs/whore houses. Stimulates the economy too
Well, strip clubs and whore houses do provide a stimulus of sorts.
...Liars and thieves you know not what is in store.
It was worth repeating.
The more the top 1% makes, the more they get bailed out and the bigger their bonuses, the more of that money will trickle down to the middle class.
A rising tide lifts all boats!
Yes, that's right. A rising tide lifts all yachts.
Usually they piss on you and tell you it's raining. The trickle, ain't that great!
It does float boats, if there is enough of it, but usually they own the boats; you can be deckhand, if you don't mind being pissed on.
did tyler cover this, kinda huge..
http://247wallst.com/2011/10/21/eu-wants-to-ban-sovereign-debt-ratings/
On the other hand, the credit rating agencies have lost all credibility. Who benefits from their sovereign credit ratings--that's the question to ask. Any seeming objectivity or analysis is just window dressing to mask the pinky-length relationship they have with their payees. It's not altogether unreasonable for the Europeans to think of banning their ratings. They deserve no less, corrupt bastards that they are.
You think it is possible to ban somebody from publishing an opinion?
Thats why I laughed so hard when I heard that proposal.
How do you think that is possible? Sovereigns dont pay for ratings. The rating agency will always be able to publish any opinion they wish. You and I can too, unless you think banning free speech is possible.
I'm not for banning free speech, but I've come to believe there is some payolla involved in any opinion from a credit rating agency--ie, my object is to discredit the credit rating agencies whose opinions are always suspect. There has been, for example, an ongoing campaign to discredit the European Union and the euro which serves either national or speculative interests. They are arguably yelling fire in a movie theatre, trying to panic people so that the European banks fail and the euro collapses--there is lots of money to be made out of that and lots of hegemony to be gained from that. The risk is that if Europe gets back on its feet, they may eventually have more economic clout than the US. Their mixture of socialism and capitalism is especially threatening for the US.
What's your take on Egan-Jones?
Are you for real? Central Banking is an empire and model all of it's own. The world has already been divided to compete against itself in East/West bi-polar fashion. One bloc at any given time the creditor nation as the reserve currency peg and the individual countries having their own Central Banks supporting the reserve currency. The reserve currency host is also responsible for protecting global trade. This model should just be named Moral Hazard instead of Central Banking.
The system on paper looks and acts like McDonald's corporation with the corporate bondholders as the center and franchisee Central Banks surrounding it, like the planets orbiting the sun and similar effects of gravity, but using debt and liquidity. It is a 4d model in a 3d world designed knowing it was a tool for conquest.
There are components worth keeping in an evolved system to bring operations up to 4d alongside its design specs but it is probable that the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater. And no private system should EVER be granted with powers of taxation for a government. Public and private systems rarely share the same goals and when they do like now, its Fascism. Mankind is at the point to work on the wrinkles and build a more dynamic system instead of a static one.
The good news for both elite and plebe is that doing so increases wider ownership, much higher confidence meaning increased supply chain participation. The 4d model is far higher aggregate revenue but less vigs. But so what? Do you want 40% of $100 or 10% of $500?
This is the hump people like Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan just can't to seem to get over even though they themselves discussed particular flaws in the Central Bank model.
The FED and the Bankers are just trying to take all of the Wealth out of the United States and pay it to themselves.
After they take all of the Money and Wealth they want all of the infrastructure and all of the Real Estate. Especially farms.
That way they totaly control all Us Citizens, thru Taxes and Tolls.
What is the difference from being a Slave on a Plantation and Today? Even if we are not Slaves on a Plantation we are Slaves from Debt for life. So, you have so called freedom but you owe all of the fruits of your labor to the Man. In todays case the FED (The Banks) thru taxation.
Banker Explained "Occupy America" Scam
http://www.henrymakow.com/geneva_versus_peace.html
"Lament of the Frontier Guard" - Ezra Pound (1915)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmV8B36_af8&feature=related
how long must we wait? but wait we shall. until the minds wake up and the eyes see and the ears hear, but until that time the frontier guards weep in despair for a nation that is dying and a people that do not understand it.
OWS: The least ideological demonstration ever. It's just about one thing: economics. It's like a food riot in India: Average Americans not able to afford their lives as their real incomes crater and staple prices creep higher. Younger Americans feeling shut out as job and advancement opportunities dry up.
Real median incomes have declined at an accelerating rate since the start of the crisis, declining faster during the "Recovery". Now down 9.8% since December 2007.
Net worth continues to decline as housng and dollar based paper assets decline.
Prices creep higher squeezing margins and forcing declines in the standard of living.
I agree there are plenty of things for people to be pissed off about.
The question is, are they going to direct their ire where it should?
I don't hate "rich" people, I'm not jealous nor envious or anything like that. Now, the sociopaths that have practically destroyed the economy, that's different. I hope they die in a fire. The problem is, far too many people seem to think that all the wealthy, by definition, came by their wealth by stealing it, inheritance, etc. Don't conflate them.
It is most curious that there has been essentially no prosecution of anyone for the financial chicanery of the last few years or so, none. And yet all these calls for "the rich" to pay their fair share. Rather than stick legitimate, honest, and productive businesses and business men and women with higher taxes, I bet most Americans (and the rest of the world) would like to see some perp walks.
Unless you can eliminate the vipers nest surrounded by the beltway, the chance of success is moot.
Indeed. No prosecutions.
Problem is that the only ones we see thrown under the bus are those that the Elite would have us see.
For their pleasure not ours.
And the Elite have changed the Law to ensure that no one can be prosecuted unless they say so.
So unfortunately everyone gets tarred with the same brush.
Those who have benefitted most by the system have an obligation to defend the system.
The guys who say - "yeah there are hard working good wealthy folks out there..." What have you done to benefit the society that spawned you?
Rugged individualists my ass.
Yeah, but don't you know that if you can't feed your family or yourself and you join a protest, that automatically makes you a communist and a dirty hippy? Listen to our extreme right agitators--they know.
And, exactly what were they calling the Tea Party crowd when they were protesting Federal deficit spending, bailouts for WS, and the usurpation of individual rights with Obamacare.
Remember not all wealthy people are oligarchs and not all oligarchs are bankers.
The oligarchs are easy to spot as well as the politicians who support them (everyone but ron paul and bernie sanders in short).
The "real Americans" are the left and the right who oppose oligopolistic rent extracting activities that are essentially private taxes on the rest of us, harming economic efficiency.
We can come together to oppose our mutual enemy.
Yes indeed.
Perhaps we make a list of the "real Americans" as it is surely shorter? 86 everybody else.
Oppose is too weak.
"Oppose" what? What, yelling "stop it!" when they're pushing you over the couch to sodomize you kind of "oppose?"
No, weakass social bunnies and family people who want some mild form of "justice" aren't going to be the ones to do shit. You're gonna have to call on the real "sickos" to fight the depraved ones you want to remove. There's no knight in shining armor to save civilization, man. You've only got some sick fuck who's going to be very far from any concept of some fairytale hero. Why? Because "normal" sheep-ass psychological make-ups can't do shit. They're system maintainers--not system destroyers, or builders.
All this yapping on blogs and shit, but most of you will back down once the violence starts: most of you think this is going to be some weekend picnic revolution. Shame.
Your advising the plan of Muhamed, Bin Laden or Adolph Hitler which is to take the financeers money by pretending cooperation and killing them with it. A couple of opinions:
1) The US wised up to that game, used Bin-Laden and killed him when convenient. I am not shedding any tears just bringing up a point.
2) Once this plan starts, it is guaranteed to exacebate losses. MAD ended the era where large scale war was so profitable, that checks and balances on its activities were impossible. Risk diffusion is more widely part of our fabric and acceleration of this risk diffusion in recent times has been unwise creating the ability to commit crimes. However, it also means the next world war guarantees massive losses for ALL. It's uncontainable but that isn't stopping the majority asset owners of this world from continued, disasterous risk-taking.
This behavior is summed up as 'Heads I Win, Tails You Lose' socialism. So no, I don't want more Fascist socialism and no, I won't willingly surrender my property now to install communism. Yes, I will defend property owners that earned their money. The tiny .001 percent that bribe my government for corporate favor are easy to spot.
Just look at campaign contributions then cross tabulate the spreadsheet by politician and 'issues'. Then ask yourself when you look at the spreadsheet if the concepts of truth, freedom and justice are being applied or is it the opposite concepts being practiced? You'll know them by their works.
Now I believe violence is assured but that doesn't mean I won't try reason with those radically defending the status quo as we passed the tipping point into 4d and these people want to fight evolution itself. Defending my own property from theft and keeping the family safe is every man's God given right. Some of us just have been mislead to believe their is justification for theft and murder under the symbols of the pyramid, the eagle, the bear or the owl. Mysticism still exists we just have new priests building a paper pyramid. Hell, at least the Egyptians got 3,000 years of tourism and hence advanced trade out of their pyramids! Hell these people's dynasty lasted 250 years and holds no lasting memorial of small portions of greatness along with the follies of empire. I guess giant, permanent glass filled craters are going to have to suffice as the literal symbolism for this last empire in world history. The one made of iron and clay.
All this yapping on blogs and shit
First, get the message out. Get the pot boiling. You, sir, are missing the forest for the trees.
Let's stop pretending that OWS gives a shit about debt accumulation.
OWS might surprise us.
If we end overseas offensive military capability there is a lot of money for socialism.
George Washington and others throughout the 19th up to ww2 always espoused neutrality, except for our southern neighbors, but they belong to us anyway.
Isolationist republicans were never isolationist. Their philosophy was more similar to switzerland. Trade with everyone. Practice liberty and enlightenment virtues, and attempt to influence by example, not through war.
It's a simple equation: On the one hand you have the status quo where the average American, the 99%er, is supporting supposedly private corporations through what amounts to corporate welfare: the banks and Wall Street but also oil companies (still tax-subsidized) and private defense and "security" firms peddling expensive weapons and logistics to the .gov. The fiasco of the F22 and F35 are perfect cases in point: they spent billions and now can't use them, don't even need them. We burn precious natural resources fighting in Afghanistan depsite the fact that Bin Laden was killed. We just invented a new "terrorist network". War always degenerates to a for-profit business once the original purpose and passion is lost.
Net net, the average American is taking a huge hit with diminished living standards and expectations for the future as a result of the sweetheart deals of crony capitalism
I agree. They give no quarter to TPTB, regardless of their wondrous math of what is yet owed to them.
The simple truth is funny that way. 99% of humanity is being screwed.
The burden is on the 1% to justify it.
Rationally and morally.
Socialism is a reaction to a form of capitalism which doesn't do it's job of punishing criminals and losers.
bingo. The are a lot of cowards calling themselves "Patriots" that don't have the guts to engage this movement, and prefer to be spoonfed their understanding by the very forces that they claim to stand against...forces attempting to separate, divide and conquer. Some #OWS are left-leaning, some have more libertatarian participation, and all have a voice along with the opportunity to direct this movement. Otherwise, enjoy your Koch-sponsored pizza man, and let your hatred and prejudice obscure your ability to contribute to the future.
"Critics of the marchers described them as communists, troublemakers, and criminals."
who were the first to label the #occupy'ers as communists again?
oh yeah.....libertarians and repuglicans.
some things NEVER change.
"Red October" replay through OWS, planned by Soros and his minions over a year ago...check out this:
http://www.rense.com/general95/red.htm
So the anti-Soros army is out in force? Who pays for that, btw?
OWS is brought to us by exactly the same scriptwriters that instigated Lenin's Red October! ... and the 1789 Original (the outbreak of the Paris mob was also in October). Same plot, same scriptwriters, different actors.
It's just like watching Rocky I, Rocky II, Rocky III...... The sheep never learn. We need to lynch the scriptwriters this time.
If they are over 200 years old, what makes you think lynching will kill these zombies!?
The protectors at OWS are clueless about derivative bombs, AIG bailouts, or the disastrous decisions by the FED. They can't even articulate why they are there...except they want their college loans "disappeared" because they took out 100k and graduated with a degree in Woman's Studies. Unions have been organizing this "organic movement" for a long time. (Easily proven) We are not going to fix this mess with an even more gigantic nanny state. Good Grief!
*Protesters * ...sorry my autocorrect is driving me crazy!
Most fundamentally, they stand in opposition to the loss of representative government and corporate domination. Their demand: Justice.
It's a gestalt thing.
We all know why they're there.
Yes our gov't is corrupt...fraud goes unpunished....but that is not what the kid lets at OWS are saying. They want housing for all, a 20 minimum wage, they even have said no doctor should make more than 28k. Most of them don't even know what they want.
You're cherry-picking. Respectfully, maybe we all are. Where the fuck is CogDis? Writing again? I feel a doozy in the works.
Cherry picking? I guess...but I could Cherry pick hundreds of doozies from this crowd. Are those supporting this "protest" for a much bigger government? Say like Greece? That has worked out well. Back to the basics people...and can we get some actual indictments for fraud? Please?
The gestalt is justice.
Details vary.
Sure they know what they want. They want to compete fairly. Your being disingenerous extrapolating out what fits your agenda. And really. When did shit ever stop flowing downhill from parents to kids? So what has to be factored in going forward is periods of demographic imbalance and craeting a system that is more dynamic to our species evolution. Not building a static system that purposely preys on human weakness. Sure, it forces our evolution faster but what can't be measured is how many Einsteins were murdered or never born.
While we don't have to have empirical evidence to consider how many Einsteins eventually shine when given a chance to compete. It is time to actually try real capitalism for once in history instead of Fascism. Communism as an ideology is equally destuctive. If the people cant ever own a home or means of production, they'll just start destroying supply chains quietly like in the Soviet Union. Lose-lose there too...
Hmmm...Chomping thru the OWS list of demands..."The current meme...would have you (me?)"...Having a bit-o-difficult-ness sorting thru the onion-skins of satirical buffoonery and mopey WTF bombast with regards to Le Peg Du Jour/OWS agender(z) and such.
Today is Saturday. Fun day. So much fun, that a "talkie" good ol' suspension of the sensical is in order. The reds in Madrid, crimson flags across Nikon-Knights... all dem folks in those udder 1, 2...80 (eee) countries...who are blahtently gathering in clandestine manner, yip, in the collusions 'n baking up all sorts of agendas to uh, what's it...oh yeah...get all hot-Karlish, Marxie (duff) big time gunna eat ur babyz...forget about that for a moment... focus on that "current meme- the one that "???? ??????? ?????????? elites-leetsz?" are eh, controlling your MIIIINDS (PAC).
What is best in life? Would that be...a falcon buddy-friend, the open step, nug-nug? WRONG! What IS best in life herr-Kohnan? Crunch your enemies, something driven before you and danse to the lamentations of the womenz?
Aparently so.
The scum bag hippie things and the couple 1, 2, 5 or so million union (read: secret card carrying agenda got-it-alls) jags and all the other asshats who should....RIH; do not have a list of demands. Any here-say jumbo-mum... to the contrary is what the ???? ??????? ?????????? elite would have you believe..."sheeple".
Excuse me the the magnetron says Belgorific Fries of Liberty are ready....
Ever since the debacle gained enough pop, leaving those elites no choice but to "must comment", the memetic quandary of push has been "...Zounds!!! These fools dunt even have (some) demandz??!!??? Haw haw!".
How would any list of demands be able to break-down the enormity of the SAH? If it isn't glaringly obvious that ney amount of fairy-meandering, policy change, fiscal WHY/government reform...resource/commodity splatz, growth based econo-frankensense (and moire!) would do shit...A list of demands is what shit wants...Yes this is obvious but for the sake of some people and their non-understanding
The meme is "they have no direction/demands". 1- A specific policy will be spun by the belts to egg on divisive issues/discourse among groups causing fraction to the delight of scumbags. Scumbags are counting on this movement thingy to die because of a mis-perceived "agenda" diff. Your sweet ???? ??????? ?????????? elite is working 24/7 at trying to do this, they have poked you up the butt.
2. There once were perceived differences in the "M" (fox is like, totally not like msnbc, and CNN is....) to most regs...It's ez to see that ain't the deal. Same goes for the politico shenanigans 2 winged vulture.
3. It's Saturday.
Have a good evening everyone. This stuff is stressing me out at the moment!
Whatever
I loved the Pete Seeger moment though like everthing I see online, I question it. And yeah lots of ZHer's wont like it because of union connections.
What really bothers me though is that right now Anonymous are my go to guys. I trust what they say much more than anything I read in the MSM. How did it get to this point?
You obviously get it Phleg. I need to syndicate the Pyramid of Thought thoery I wrote and shared with national leaders first. I'll publish it for Zero Hedge for the independent media market next. We're all freaking out about evolution, the fear of the unknown.
The unknown being how to grow as a species in a global village without externalization and exploitation.
If this turns into a revolution, the country may very well splinter along regional lines. Then ethnic cleansing will break out. Better hope for a political solution.
What ethnicity? We're all mutts! Quit with your crazy. Who amongst us greened this guy? Speak up.
The Great Depression was designed and carried by the same folks who have delivered the Greater Depression that got started in 2008.
Another part that seems a bit questionable in the article - $2500 was a nice chunk of change in those days.
If we take it to mean one hundred and twenty five $20 gold pieces at today's prices, that's about $200,000
probably enough to put food on the table, at least.
Nice piece, Jim. You speak well to the yet-smoldering rage that will illuminate our future. So sad that the bad guys went too far . . . sadder still that they've passed their own point of no return. It is what it is.
May the better angels of our nature guide us through the darkness en route to better days.
Leave me the Hell alone to enjoy my rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness within the historic Constitutional framework. It's really that simple.
They will never leave you alone in the Corporate Welfare State: the leaches demand more and more blood from the host until the host dies. Like all parasites.
You are currently being asked to support ostensibly private financial services corporations that failed through your taxes and by taking a hit in your living standard as a result of the Fed's not permitting prices to reset lower (inflating away the debt that was spent on the bailouts).
Your tax money also subsidized Exxon-Mobil which makes a profit selling gas to you. And then you get taxed a second time at the pump. Got you coming and going.
You also need to support the military-industrial and prison-industrial complex : about $200 billion/year. Most of the "war in Afghanistan" is for-profit corporations selling weapons and toys to be blown up so they can build and sell more. Meanwhile the Taliban is growing more opium to finance itself (which US intelligence helped to cultivate during the Soviet occupation in the 1980s and financed through BCCI).
The idea here is to tell you you're a patriot if you fall for their bullshit. Otherwise you're an enemy. They won't shed a tear if you go under because patriots are supposed to feel no pain. And they sure as hell won't bail you out.
Damn, I can't tell if you're a Patriot For Liberty or not.
I know: What are you wearing?
If you're dressed like a fucking Minuteman, I'll know you're a good guy. Props don't lie.
Hey, I can see Lexington from my kitchen window. But that's nuthin--it's 1776 out there!
God Bless America.
:-) Yes I am a patriot. Proud of it. Hate to see the goodin this country overshadowed by the bad. Once in every while problems need to be addressed in a basic and mjaor way. The whole idea was a system of checks and balances. Because otherwise too much power gets concentrated, the founding fathers knew that. A healthy nation needs to respond, adapt and evolve.
I hear that. Sorry, I was being self-indulgent.
Agreed, we will evolve or bleed dearly.
I came into this world naked and I'll leave naked as well. In the meantime I will do whatever it takes to educate those in my circle of influence as to the finer points of Liberty, Justice, and the individuals responsibility to uphold and defend all that is righteous and honorable in this world, while frustrating the desires of those who would illegitimately prosper off the hard work, ingenuity, and creativity of others. I opted out of the corrupt and inept system a few years ago and each passing day marks greater distance between it and I. There are a handful of fiscally sound States which also have relatively non-intrusive government structures. Find one. Admittedly one cannot avoid every pull upon the pocketbook for they have a long reach indeed, however, with a bit of ingenuity and desire you can be free of the excessive burdens which are heaped in abundance upon those who have been willingly educated for a lifetime of servitude.
Very well stated.
The OWS protesters will eventually get tear gassed, tasered, and firehosed.
By Christmas, the protests will be completely over and the protesters will be forgotten, many of them broke, out of money and/or in jail.
Wall Street will continue on as always.
And the sheep will be mobbing the stores soon, as Black Friday is approaching.
Is that because "this time is never different"? :-)
You're forgetting one big thing: people's anger and resolve tends to build higher when insult gets added to injury. They're out on the street because they're already feeling desperate. If they had something great to go home to they would have already. But more and more are joining up all over the country (and globe) because there's less and less of everything to go around. Times are getting more desperate. 44 million living in poverty. Many more feeling increasingly desperate because they can't afford the cost structure they've gotten locked into.
Desperate times, desperate measures. If things get violent, violence escalates. Founding fathers didn't back down under penalty of death and after being shot at and burned down. It strengthened the resolve.
Protestors protest, for that is all the resolve they have.
Haha, lets touch base on the 25th.
The 1932 Bonus Army was shortly followed by the alleged Business Plot in 1933 which was broken up by 2-time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler.
What a sham this country has become. What a pity that people turn to protest rather than education and upward mobility to rise to equality? What a shame we elected trash in DC and noone can simply blame the scumbags in Congress and Obama for the damge he has done and the theft of our future, now so indebted? What a shame that we have given up so easily when all we need to do is elect a competent person to the White House?
It's not like the voters had much of a choice last election. It was either Obummer or crazy eights McCain with his side-kick Sarah "look at me" Palin.
You're right--where's the candidate who runs on a debt jubilee to defeat "the theft of our future, now so indebted" that you bemoan?
when all we need to do is elect a competent person to the White House?
That's like saying all you need is love. It's not a real solution. Problems run deep. We need to re-think and re-structure the whole corporate welfare thing that started 40 years ago.
"Throughout the last century the attachment of businessmen to free enterprise has weakened dramatically as they discovered they could demand--and receive--short-range advantages from the state. . . . I watched with incredulity as businessmen ran to the government in every crisis, whining for handouts or protection from the very competition that has made this system so productive."-William E Simon, 63rd Secretary of the Treasury, 1974-1977
Supercapitalism was a concept that developed in Italian Facism. Italy's Fascist leader, Benito Mussolini claimed that at the stage of supercapitalism, "a capitalist enterprise, when difficulties arise, throws itself like a dead weight into the state's arms. It is then that state intervention begins and becomes more necessary. It is then that those who once ignored the state now seek it out anxiously
elect a competent person to the White House?
Who?
Same day different seat same shit. From the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion...The middle class may have "a blind hatred towards all conditions which it considers above it self, for it has no understanding of the meaning of class and condition. This hatred will be still further magnified by the effects of an economic crisis, which will stop dealings on the exchanges and bring industry to a standstill. We shall create by all the secret subterranean methods open to us & with the aid of gold, which is all in our hands, a universal economic crisis whereby we shall throw upon the streets whole mobs of workers simultaneously in all the countries of Europe. These mobs will rush delightedly to shed the blood of those whom, in the simplicity of their ignorance, they have envied from their cradles, & whose property they will be able to loot. "
The 6 6 6 Plan is the only Solution to Restoring Sanity:
6 Year Presidential Term (One term)
6 Year Congresssional Term (One Term)
6 Year Senate Term (One Term)
Think about it. Stop the madness immediately in Washington if you want to stop it on Wall Street. Stop the idiot media election cycle, the destructive influence and the greed inside the Beltway immediately in order to save the country.
EMAIL THIS TO A DOZEN PEOPLE NOW !!!!! TELL THEM TO EMAIL TO A DOZEN !!!! DO IT !!!
Ok Madhouse. 666 copies of Iron Maiden sent.
The 6 6 6 Plan is the only Solution to Restoring Sanity:
6 Year Presidential Term (One term)
6 Year Congresssional Term (One Term)
6 Year Senate Term (One Term)
Think about it. Stop the madness immediately in Washington if you want to stop it on Wall Street. Stop the idiot media election cycle, the destructive influence and the greed inside the Beltway immediately in order to save the country.
EMAIL THIS TO A DOZEN PEOPLE NOW !!!!! TELL THEM TO EMAIL TO A DOZEN !!!! DO IT !!!
so you want a 666 plan huh? guess what. you are going to get one. oh it won't be what you like. i promise you on that ............just stay tuned and watch and see..............
"Buy stocks in companies that make police batons and pepper gas… prisons and window glass… drones and bandages."
says Bill Bonner at The Daily Reckoning.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RGR&ql=0
NY police need to learn from their Australian counterparts how to clear these Occupy scum off the street. No pussyfooting down there. Check out these clips of the dirty filthy hippy slackers being cleaned off the streets of Sydney and Melbourne by local cops - including macing some libtard bitch right in the face!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBvCWJc1iD8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrRZBVqioeU&NR=1
When the hell are US police going to start clamping down in the same way on the pinko/punko socialist rabble who think they can camp out in our public places and challenge our way of life?
FREEDOM!!!!
Demurrage currency in many forms would kill the vampire squid dead.
SP500 weekly chart shows megaphone wedge and looks bullish.
Market consensus became clearer on Friday so back to the original bullish analysis and SP500 weekly chart reverts to bullish/neutral.
More info:
http://stockmarket618.wordpress.com
Most still dont know that the Federal Reserve is owned by the big banks..JPM and the usual crew of suspects. To me it seems that with this one peice of information becoming more well known it could be the catalyst for change that is so badly needed to be the initial step in setting up a new monetary system.
OK. Actually alot of us do know that, and the major banks major stockholders are other corps. Ditto, ad nauseam. I wonder if anyone wants to ferret out the actual owners?
The right created the Tea Party and the left created the OWS crowd and those in control are laughing their asses off watching the charades. Regardless of what fence your on until we can put aside our differences and come to the table with some rational thought, those in control will remain in control. They want us here debating each side and call each other names and basically not get a thing done. TPTB know this is just another game for them to play becuase they pit one human against another. While we fight amongst ourselves they continue to pilfer your pocketbooks in the name of saving you.
TPTB set this up as people are starting to wake up and we cannot have that. PSYOPS is working wonders. TPTB were getting worried we might actually sit down and sort out the problems and that is bothering them. We cannot have the sheeple actually do something about what is going on even though the sheeple know what is going on. Imagine what could actually be accomplished if the sheeple buying into the left or right paradigm actually sat down and put their differences aside. Until that happens nothing is going to change.
You better get sone PM's, land, and learn a dam trade skill where you can actually produce something people can use. Bartering is coming to a place near you.
Has the bank failures graph been corrected for consolidation? How about a graph
of per capita assets lost in bank failure. The current crisis would be in truer perspective.
Has anyone noticed that assets held by the TOP 10% Income Share really began to take
off when marginal tax rates fell below 70%?
The very survival of the rich depends on taking a more responsible attitude toward taxation.
If someone creates enough good jobs, they deserve a 0% tax rate. On the other hand
the preditor class deserves no tax breaks.
The pendulum is swinging away from the idiocy of capitalism toward the idiocy of socialism.
80 years of New Deal ? It's funny how Monedas' 2011 lines take on a life of their own ? Serving humanity with his visionary humor !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlfZSkhN3Rw
little bit of humor
The Depression was a cake walk compared to way 90% of the World's population lives today ! The Dust Bowl was the most humane relocation of agricultural workers in Human History ! Monedas 2011 Comedy Jihad Perspective
Can there be a political solution to a math based problem?
The Eastern Africans are a better looking and more elegant (Gazelles) than our Western African slave base (Gorillas) ! There would be less racism today if we had only outsourced the slave trade from the East African Muslim slave traders ! We got what Brazil and the West Indies passed over ! We sucked hind tit ! We tried to redress this error by electing Obammy over Jesse Jackson ! Monedas 2011 Comedy Jihad Laments
Poor bastards! They were drafted to fight in a war that would have been long over had not the Zionists schemed a deal to drag America into the conflict in return for support of the takeover of Palestine for the jews. Balfour Declaration anyone?
Greed is good, especially in OWS :)
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/they_want_lice_of_the_occu_pie_9xKCxcI4aectFYkafMb8UJ
Yes, and then there is this gem.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcFBPFf5lic&feature=player_embedded#!
Hmmmmm.....
http://www.breitbart.tv/occupydenver-protester-gives-creepy-intense-def-poetry-rant/
Darn those tricky questions........
http://www.breitbart.tv/occupyoakland-media-mayhem-continues-dog-bites-man-edition/
Time for a strategy session, courtesy of the NYT:
http://www.breitbart.tv/new-video-reveals-new-york-times-reporter-natasha-lennard-is-occupywallstreet-activist-supporter/
Double Hmmmm....
http://online.wsj.com/video/occupy-tehran/6F2F9C71-4311-43D4-BE47-072A4A45E8F4.html