Occupy Wall Street, NYC

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I spent a day at OWS with The Kominas. It was amazingly diverse, emotional, and in some ways very organised despite being anarchic.

People were there for different reasons and with different goals. Some want to voice specific issues or campaign for policies, for others OWS is itself the goal - as an alternative way of organising society and its needs cooperatively.

Geraldo Rivera and Fox News were there to report "objectively" on the movement, but it didn't quite work out for him....

Joe Rogan's Cannabis Hemp Rant!

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The Biggest Fraud ... Retirement Doesn't Exist?

by Staff Report

Many of us won't be able to retire until our 80s ... You'll probably have to work much longer than you anticipated ... We all think it's a panacea. If you don't have enough money saved for retirement, you've got a few ways to close the gap between what you have and what you need in your nest egg: Save more, invest more aggressively, and/or work longer. Well, it turns out that working longer is indeed an option, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute latest study. The only problem is that the latest research shows that you'll have to work much longer than you anticipated. In fact, many Americans will have to keep on working well into their 70s and 80s to afford retirement, according to the study, titled "The Impact of Deferring Retirement Age on Retirement Income Adequacy." – MarketWatch

Dominant Social Theme: OK, we've had some setbacks. But planning for retirement still makes sense.

Free-Market Analysis: This article, posted to MarketWatch, is a good example of how a dominant social theme – retirement – is being repositioned because it hasn't proven out in reality. The new retirement, we learn, is work related. You'll retire, but you'll still work. From our point of view, this doesn't sound like much of a retirement. But, hey, if you believed you could invest your way to retirement, maybe the elites can gain your support for this latest retirement wrinkle.

And yes, probably numerous people will accept the "new reality" of retirement without questioning the validity of the larger system. Too bad. Questioning how the world works (when it obviously isn't working the way you thought it would) is a GOOD idea. In our humble view people need to be more skeptical of the underlying assumptions around which they structure their lives.

The retirement meme, for instance, was just that – a promotion – that was never supposed to work and could not work in a central bank environment. But it sounded good. And there were and are many reasons to promote it. The powers-that-be have structured society and Western economies in a certain way. But they need a "buy-in" to make their manipulations work.

One group that has bought in is the professional investment class. Retirement is a huge industry in the US, perhaps the nation's biggest. These days, an army of financial planners and brokers, along with mutual funds companies and private investment enterprises, have a big stake in continuing the promotion. But of course, the retirement meme has the backing of even more powerful figures.

Western economies are controlled via central banking by only a few shadowy families and their enablers and associates. The system itself is designed to self-destruct, causing endless recessions, depressions and ongoing centralization of industry and labor. It is a bad system, but one necessary to helping the powers-that-be consolidate world government. Thus, the power elite has done what it can to create buy-in.

The best way to create involvement by the masses is to make this system, bad as it is, an integral part of their existence, hopes and dreams. The stock market especially has been part of this promotion. People have been fooled into thinking that they can "invest" their money and receive appropriate retirement income in a rational way.

This is simply not true. The business cycle itself precludes the possibility that people – most anyway – will have the savvy, willpower and appropriate time (or luck) to walk away with the necessary profits from their invested earnings. Most, or at least many, will not. Here's some more from the article:

So what can be done to make sure you have enough income in retirement? Well, the sad truth is that not working is no longer an option and working past age 65 is fast becoming a fact of life, at least for those in the lowest three income quartiles. One bright spot, according to John Nelson, co-author of 'What Color is Your Parachute? For Retirement' is that working works: "For those in the lower half of the income spectrum, delaying retirement from 65 to 69 has a profound effect," he said. "It increases retirement income adequacy by 25% to 50%! That's a powerful incentive."

The new normal Now the reality about EBRI's findings is that many Americans — who are able to continue working and whose skills are still in demand — are already working past age 65. In 2009, 17.2% of Americans age 65 and older were in the labor force, according to recent AARP Public Policy Institute report, "Family Income Sources for Older People, 2009." And about 14.2 million older persons (36.7% of the older population) had family incomes from earnings in 2009 ...

"Those older Americans who are looking for a job, those who have already retired and those who are working but need additional income or want to start something that they can continue into their retirement years are all reading (the work-from-home) pages," Koff said. Making it work To be sure, many Americans haven't figured out how to make working later a real option, instead of just a fantasy. And for them, Nelson has this advice: "You need to pay attention to your career and your health."

As Baby Boomers are discovering now, it was all something of a dream. In fact, here at DB we refer to the 20th century these days as a "dreamtime." It was a century when what we call "directed history" was in its heyday. The elites entirely controlled the media and could relate whatever stories they chose.

Of course, as we've pointed out, they used fear-based dominant social themes to push Western middle classes into giving up wealth and power to a variety of international agencies set up to facilitate the emergence of global governance. The fantasy of stock market wealth was just that – a fantasy – for most people.

Yet no dominant social theme was much more successful than the investment meme. In the 20th century and even today the Anglosphere elites continue to push the idea of "investing." The buy-in of the middle class means a psychological endorsement of the world as it is, including central banking and fiat money.

There are other ways to deal with "retirement," of course. These have to do with creating a modest lifestyle that emphasizes self-sufficiency rather than consumerism. One also needs to try to find some level of self-sufficiency when it comes to employment. Large, white-collar "factories" are inevitably going to fire thousands, even tens of thousands, during economic downturns.

Of course, all this is more easily said than done. However, the reality is not what it seems and people best face it. The current Greater Recession, which is really a depression, is not really recoverable, or not in the near term. We would argue that it is the outcome of deliberate policies designed, quite possibly, to create first a new "great war" and then some sort of world government.

it is all becoming increasingly evident in the 21st century: the manipulations, the control, the larger elite agenda. Many white-collar jobs are make-work and a modern, "investment-enabled" retirement tends to work only in the "up" part of the business cycle when fiat money is in demand. This extended down-cycle is going to be an extended and brutal one because of all the past re-stimulations of the world's economy. Think of a heart patient who has been resuscitated one-time too many.

The power elite is racing against time in our view. The Internet Reformation has revealed to a great many what is really going on ... and yet, still, the vision of a leisurely retirement continues to be sold to the masses. One would hope that people won't continue to fall for this particular dominant social theme, as attractive as it is, as the 21st century unfolds.

Conclusion: In fact, one would like to believe that as people begin to realize the intense effort underway to press them to conform to the farcical "dreamtime" of Western retirement, they will re-think some of the other memes that they may have accepted unquestioningly in the past. Then something good would come out of the "bonfire of dreams" currently taking place.

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Meet the 0.01 Percent: War Profiteers

by Robert Greenwald

There’s the top 1% of wealthy Americans (bankers, oil tycoons, hedge fund managers) and there’s the top 0.01% of wealthy Americans: the military contractor CEOs.

If you’ve been following the War Costs campaign, you already know that these corporations are bad bosses, bad job creators and bad stewards of taxpayer dollars. What you may not know is that the huge amount of money these companies’ CEOs make off of war and your tax dollars places them squarely at the top of the gang of corrupt superrich choking our democracy. These CEOs want you to believe the massive war budget is about security — it’s not. The lobbying they’re doing to keep the war budget intact at the expense of the social safety net is purely about their greed.

In many areas, including yearly CEO salary and in dollars spent corrupting Congress, these companies are far greater offenders than even the big banks like JP Morgan Chase or Bank of America.

Egregious Military Contractor CEO pay

The top 0.01% of earners make at least $9.14 million per year, a rarefied strata of income that includes defense company CEOs and Wall Street bank chieftains alike. But a deeper dive demonstrates how defense companies outpace the big banks’ knack for enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else.

Military Contractor CEO Pay in 2010

• Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush: $22.84 million.

• Lockheed Martin CEO Robert Stevens: $21.89 million.

• Boeing CEO James McNerney: $19.4 million.

Just to put that in context, consider how these annual payoffs compare to the people we’re used to thinking of as poster children for the top 1 percent:

Financial Sector CEO Pay in 2010

• JP Morgan Chase CEO James Dimon: $20.81 million.

• Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf: $18.97 million.

• Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan: $1.94 million.

Considering how they stack up to financial sector heads, war industry CEOs aren’t just members of the 1%; they’re the super-elite among them, the one-hundredth of a percent.

Lobbying Domination

Disgusted by the overwhelming corporate influence in Congress? Look no further than the big military contractor companies, whose flagship companies spend enough on lobbying to dwarf even financial sector titans.

War Industry Lobbying Expenditures for 2010

• Lockheed Martin: $12.7 million.
• Northrop Grumman: $15.7 million.
• Boeing: $17.89 million.

Again, just to provide some context, here are the same lobbying totals for some of the most recognized names in the financial sector.

Financial Sector Lobbying in 2010

• JP Morgan Chase:$7.41 million.

• Wells Fargo: $5.43 million.

• Bank of America: $3.98 million.

The war industry gets away with blowing our money on job-killing spending because it can bend Congress to its whim. In the process, the industry is like a vacuum sucking up brain power and engineering resources that could and would establish and grow entirely new wholesome industries. It’s no surprise that Americans confront a 9.1% unemployment rate and an under-employment rate flirting with 20 percent this year.

Want to know where all the money went that could be putting people back to work or keeping U.S. manufacturing industries competitive? The war industry CEOs dumped lobbying cash on Congress and diverted all that wealth to their private bank accounts.

Striking a blow for democracy

The war contractors’ iron grip on the wealth and politics of our country has caught the attention of our friends at Occupy Wall Street, who are targeting war profiteers in its draft list of demands with a call to bring home “all military personnel at all non-essential bases” and to end the “Military Industrial Complex’s goal of perpetual war for profit.”

We’re allies of the Occupy movement, which swells from the 99%’s disgust and dysfunction with our system. A democracy for and of the people that favors the 0.01% at the expense of the 99.99% of us is no democracy at all.

We here at Brave New Foundation and the War Costs campaign have been inspired by the incredible work of the Occupy movement, so we created our latest video to help push this critical piece of their message: war for profit has to end. We’re asking viewers to share our video with their local Occupy groups and organize a guerrilla screening at an Occupy protest in your city.

The Occupy protests have a lot to teach us, and the leaderless movement is at minimum an indictment of our political system. They’ve stopped whispering, and we’ve all started shouting.

Occupy your city and show this video to your community.

The World's Deadliest Table And Why It Must Be Destroyed

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Scott Oliver, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

Is the world's deadliest table made of glass? Of wood, metal, plastic, bamboo or some high-tech composite material?

Does it have three legs, four, six or more? Or, is it one of those massive tables that seats dozens of people?

Is the table in the kitchen? The dining room? In a secure office conference room somewhere? Or, do they all meet at the same table in a MacDonalds restaurant every once in a while?

Where is this bloody table anyway?

1. US Senator Kerry knows where it is: Asked whether using force was a possibility in Iran, the Democratic lawmaker told reporters: "I don't think anything should be taken off the table at this point in time."
2. Obama refers to the table frequently: In terms of a response to the alleged Iranian plot, "we don't take any options off the table," which is a government euphemism for considerations of military attack.
3. Obama also stated that: "Yes. I think that a nuclear armed Iran is not just a threat to us, it's a threat to Israel. And it is a game changer in the region. It's unacceptable. And that's why I've said that I won't take any options off the table, including military, to prevent them from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
4. "The continued presence of all options on the table". In his interview with CBS news, American President Barack Obama refused to rule out the possibility of a military strike against Iran.
5. When Mr. Bush was asked if his administration was planning for the possibility of a nuclear strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, he said that: "All options are on the table."
6. Dick Cheney too, the brave U.S. politician who received five deferments to avoid serving his country during the Vietnam war... "But I've also made the point, and the president has made the point, that all options are on the table," he said, appearing to leave open the possibility of military action.
7. Cheney on Iran, March 7, 2006: "For our part, the United States is keeping all options on the table in addressing the irresponsible conduct of the regime," Cheney said in a speech to his owners at the pro-Israel lobby group, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee.
8. In an article encouraging Obama to prosecute Donald Rumsfeld for War Crimes it was declared that: "The evidence against Rumsfeld has been on the table for years now."
9. Bush was also referring to the table in March 13, 2002: "And so one of the -- what the Vice President is doing is he's reminding people about this danger, and that we need to work in concert to confront this danger. Again, all options are on the table, and -- but one thing I will not allow is a nation such as Iraq to threaten our very future by developing weapons of mass destruction."
10. The man picked by President Bush to run the Pentagon Robert Gates also made it clear that "all options are on the table". When asked if he believed the US was winning, he replied flatly: "No, sir."
11. When pressed on whether the Syrian situation is a diplomatic challenge or a military one, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said that "all options are obviously on the table."
12. In a reference to the White House's battle to depose Libya's leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Lobbyist, R. Bruce Josten said, "To quote what they say every day on Libya, all options are on the table."
13. Bush said: "He [Saddam] told the world that he would show us that he would not develop weapons of mass destruction and yet over the past decade he has refused to do so. And the Prime Minister and I both agree that he needs to prove that he isn't developing weapons of mass destruction. I explained to the Prime Minister that the policy of my government is the removal of Saddam and that all options are on the table."
14. Hillary Clinton, in Foreign Affairs: "Iran must conform to its nonproliferation obligations and must not be permitted to build or acquire nuclear weapons. If Iran does not comply with its own commitments and the will of the international community, all options must remain on the table."
15. During a press conference in Baghdad, Gen. John Abizaid said "all options are on the table..,"
16. In an article about the Israelis secret service involvement in the Iran plot, Michigan Representative Mike Rogers said that: "I don't think you should take it off the table."
17. U.S. Senator John McCain who is now promoting military intervention in Syria says: "The United States should be willing to put all aspects of our policy on the table..."

Based on the public statements from some of the world's most respected mass murderers, I think we can all agree that the evidence against this table is overwhelming and it's clear that this is one extremely deadly table...

Since it's primarily U.S. politicians that are referring to this table - no European politicians that I know of are putting anything on or, are taking anything off the table - it would appear that the table must be physically located somewhere within the borders of the U.S.

And high powered politicians in the U.S. continue put things on and off this table like there was no tomorrow.

Well there is a tomorrow and I'd like to propose that we destroy (or perhaps recycle?) this table before the U.S. invades Syria to "protect civilians " or for "humanitarian" reasons.

This table is a willing accomplice in numerous deadly and often genocidal conflicts and with your help and support, we can put an end to this insane warmongering once and for all.

Now, can someone please confirm exactly where we can find the world's deadliest table?

Scott Oliver is founder of WeLoveCostaRica.com and author of How To Buy Costa Rica Real Estate Without Losing Your Camisa, Costa Rica Real Estate Scams & How To Avoid Them, and Costa Rica's Guide To Making Money Offshore.

Make Fun, Not War

Have you been showing up to your local Occupation in solidarity a few times a week, but would like to do something more to fight corporate crime directly that doesn’t involve sleeping on the streets in the rain? The Yes Lab has created just this opportunity, reminding us that creativity and good spirited humor are truly revolutionary.

The Yes Lab is the brainchild of The Yes Men--clever pranksters who organize direct actions that are both powerful and hilarious. The Yes Lab’s tactic of “Laughtivist” action employs humor to open minds, spread ideas and change the world. The Yes Lab’s actions give a necessary edge back to nonviolent action by using spectacle to cause a ripple of change in our social fabric.

The Yes Lab’s actions range from impersonations, hoaxes and jokes, to general pokes and teases— from gentle to jarring. The latest action “Become Best Friends Forever (BFFs) with a banker” invites anyone to try to get closer to an individual of the 1% who has left the rest of us with their mess and their debts. Visit www.occupytheboardroom.org to find a database The Yes Lab has compiled of the 1%, who you can then try to contact. Choose your new BFF from a list of executives from Bank of America, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and more. The idea is to expose, in an entertaining manner, something about your new BFF’s inhumane, damaging practices in a mocking but effective way.

Become a pen pal with a CEO, sending your thoughts to them directly. Else, more imaginative ways to interact with your new BFF include paying them a visit while wearing ridiculous costumes, giving them an award, counseling them, or surprise meeting them at a luncheon. The Yes Lab reminds us not to harass or threaten these corporate oligarchs, but to be funny, peaceful and nonviolent—like all good BFFs are. The funniest pranks will be rewarded with a prize, and surely a good time.

Hello Cheap Energy, Hello Brave New World

Mark Gibbs
Forbes
17.10.2011

Over on Network World where I’ve had a gig as a columnist for about 18 years, in my Backspin column I wrote about a power generation system this week called E-Cat which is to be tested on October 28th.

If you’ve missed the recent brouhaha over the E-Cat (which stands for Energy Catalyzer), you’re missing out on a three ring circus over a technology that will either change everything or change nothing because what is promised is, in theory, power too cheap to be worth metering.

The E-Cat is a simple device albeit with functioning that defies all known explanations.

In summary, the E-Cat is a cold fusion (CF) device (the inventor, Andrea Rossi, prefers to term the technology “Low Energy Nuclear Reaction” which appears to be the same thing as CF but a less contentious phrasing). I’ll refer you to my Network World column for a more long-winded explanation of the background and theories about the device.

Read more: Hello Cheap Energy, Hello Brave New World

Test of Rossi’s 1 MW E-Cat fusion system apparently successful

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October 28, 2011

Guest post by Ric Werme

Today is the customer test of Andrea Rossi’s 1 MW fusion reactor in his facility in Bologna, Italy. While Rossi initially expected to provide streaming video of the test, the customer nixed that because they didn’t want their people on a public video. (The customer has still not been identified.) Rossi also promised hourly updates during the test, but that didn’t happen, nor did I expect it too. In any major customer attending test, you just don’t take time off for that – the customer is far more important today than is the rest of the world!

I did promise in Tips & Notes to create this post this evening to provide a discussion forum, and a few details have made it out to warrant this post.

Bottom line – the customer will buy the reactor. The only thing that looks like a data point is that it was producing 470kW with zero heating power in (self-sustain mode). Given that one metric for a successful test was to produce at least 6X the input power, it certainly passes that test!

Read more: Test of Rossi’s 1 MW E-Cat fusion system apparently successful

So Long Elenin

Chris Kaplan

The comet Elenin, long associated with doomsday prophecies concerning its eventual impact on the Earth has had its last curtain call, or the gravitational influence it would have when passing the planet--causing earthquakes and tidal forces, had its last curtain call.

As Elenin's trajectory neared our star system, it's mass was broken up by the overwhelming force of the Sun, and on Saturday astronomers were able to see its dusted remains as the comet broke up and the trajectory of its disintegration trailed off into space.

Though Elenin turned out not to be the celestial body that ended life as we know it on Earth, it does heighten the fears of a threat from above, while also showing the amazing defense system in place within our galaxy with larger celestial bodies like the Sun and Jupiter who's gravitational mass acts as a cosmic goalie, helping to rid meteor, comet, and asteroid threats.

There have long been associations with the comet being the mythical rogue planet Nibiru, or Marduk, according to the theories of Panspermia and scientists and scholars like Francis Crick and Zecharia Sitchin. So long, and goodbye Elenin, and thank you for breaking up so we can return our concentration back on Earth where we already have our hands full with our own cataclysmic behavior.

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It's Official: Col Muammar Gaddafi Is In Zimbabwe

It official; Col Muammar Gaddafi is now a guest of Zimbabwean despot Robert Mugabe in Harare, but activists of the Movement for Democratic Change, the MDC Veterans Activists Association (VAA) have called on Zimbabweans to storm the house in the Gunhill suburb of Harare to effect a mass citizens' arrest.

In a statement today the VAA said Gaddafi staged a nocturnal entry into Zimbabwe aboard a Zimbabwe Air force jet that landed at Suri-Suri Airbase in Chegutu at 01:07am on Wednesday morning.

“He was quickly whisked to a sprawling mansion in Harare’s Gunhill suburb under the cover of darkness with members of MDC VAA in a secret pursuit.

“We kept a hawk’s eye on the house since Wednesday until this morning (Friday) and we don’t doubt even for a second that the fallen despot is now a ‘unique guest’ to Robert Mugabe.

"The house is encircled by uniformed army personnel of the Zimbabwe National Army and is swarming with plain clothes policemen and dreaded CIO operatives.”

They said all indications were confirming what they saw, including heavily armed female blonde body guards of Libyan origin patrolling around the house where the former despot is holed up.

Gaddafi and his female bodyguards

They also have clear video footages to back our claims. The suspicious female imposters in military attire are patrolling the vicinity with fingers on the trigger.

There has been a hive of activities since the arrival of Gaddafi in the Gunhill house as luxurious government vehicles speed in and out of ‘brother leader’s new compound’.

All roads passing near the house were blocked since Wednesday morning, literally slapping the neighbor with a curfew.

MDC VAA National Chairman Solomon Sox Chikohwero said they were giving Gaddafi a week to leave Zimbabwe from today (Friday).

“This country is not a haven for dictators. We have two so far, who we cannot afford even for one day, and the third one is obviously an additional encumber to our burden.

“If he fails to do so we shall be storming t hat house in our thousands and effect a mass citizen arrest and hand him over to the ICC (International Criminal Court) in Hague.

“No sane Zimbabwe security personnel will arrest or shoot us in defense of a dejected and rejected dictator,” he said.







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Public Spectacle of Gaddafi's Death Signal for Expanded War?

by Staff Report

Hillary Clinton

Killing Gaddafi not such a good idea after all ... The greatest punishment for the Libyan dictator would have been incarceration and humiliation ... The late Libyan leader may have been rotten through, not to mention bordering on mad, but his barbaric execution doesn't bode well for Libya's future. The whole point of a revolution is change; hopefully change for the better. – Gulf News

Dominant Social Theme: The butcher of Libya is dead. "We came, we saw, he died," said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Free-Market Analysis: Perhaps the most disturbing element of the death of Muammar Gaddafi was its public spectacle. So many shaky videos of the 60-year-old straggly-haired Gaddafi being punched, shoved, bloodied and even "sodomized" have emerged that we long ago gave up keeping track.

Why is the deliberate public spectacle of Gaddafi's death and Hillary's triumphant reaction to it (see today's video) more important than the deliberate destabilization of Libya itself and the deaths of thousands of innocents? Because it seems to us – as elite meme watchers – that the Anglosphere power elite is setting us up for increased violence the world over, maybe a radical, terrible expansion. We covered this in several articles yesterday: "Obama's Re-Election Model Is FDR" and "NATO Preps for World War?"

We have generally noticed the coarsening of the public dialogue over the past decades. People are routinely referred to now as "perverts" and the use of this pejorative dehumanizes the individual and makes it much easier for the state to impose whatever damages it chooses. This supports such travesties of justice as when adults were accused of molesting toddlers in Massachusetts and incarcerated on trumped-up charges. There are many other instances. Labels dehumanize and make injustice tolerable and even celebrated.

As regards this sort of rhetoric, the biggest change we have noticed, currently anyway, is in the way that the Anglosphere treats its enemies. There was once, in the 20th century, a good deal of vituperation aimed at the USSR and its top men, with justification. But in the past decade or so the same sort of rhetoric has been aimed at Islam and at small-time Middle Eastern dictators.

While no doubt leaders like Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi were terrible to certain people in their country, the remedies have seemingly proven far more destructive than anything done by these two. Iraq was shattered by a nearly decade-long war. Libya's main cities have been shattered in a much shorter time period, mostly by a tremendous rain of NATO bombs.

This article, excerpted above, is one of the few we have read that provides a more balanced view of what just happened in Libya. There is no doubt that Gaddafi could be a merciless foe who meted out inhumane punishments to those who opposed him. But he also provided Libya with what was ultimately a high living standard for the Middle East and Africa, and as dictators go he was not nearly so bad as other rulers that the US and NATO has backed with enthusiasm. Here's some more from the article:

Summary executions, torture and beatings were the way Gaddafi and his brood handled their foes, which is why the Libyan people have rightly rejected the weird man and his cruel, egotistical, bigspending clan ... Gaddafi's capture was supposed to signify a new day, a new dawn; an era of democracy and the rule of law. The National Transitional Council (NTC) wants Libya to take its rightful place within the international community sans the stench of the rogue state the country once was.

Frankly, it was sickening to watch the footage of Gaddafi, bloodied and dazed, being hauled off the bonnet of a vehicle before being dragged through the streets, clearly very much alive if not very well. As the video proves, he was then bundled into an ambulance en route to Misrata and was seen to be fully conscious. From there on the picture becomes murky. Initial reports from the NTC indicated that he was caught in the crossfire when a bullet entered his head, inside an ambulance! Forensic experts say he was executed at close range.

It's worrying that one of the NTC's senior members, Mohammad Sayeh, said, "Even if he was killed intentionally, I think he deserves this." He should be setting an example. It's one thing for fighters to take revenge in the atmosphere of war and quite another for a political figure to bless such barbarity ... By resorting to the same low methods as your enemy you risk becoming the very enemy you're battling.

These are good points, we think, though we disagree with the idea that Gaddafi should have been tried by an international court. The only reason he wasn't probably was because he knew a good deal too much about Western leaders and the way the world really works. Gaddafi is dead now and that knowledge died with him.

The Libyan "war" was evidently waged for several reasons, and probably had to do with oil and with ensuring that Gaddafi did not begin to use gold rather than dollars as the main currency for Libyan oil. Additionally Gaddafi was trying to set up an African Union that would use its own currency and oppose the West on numerous economic and socio-political issues.

The biggest reason from our point of view may be that the West is secretly working to set up an Islamic crescent of countries in the Middle East and Africa that may provide a pretext for war. Most of the countries that the West is destabilizing will end up with Islamic rulership to some degree, or so it seems. Libya is no exception.

It seems to us that there may be war on the horizon – big war – and Western citizens are now to be desensitized to it, and to the enemies of the West generally. This has happened with such Western enemies as the USSR – the "Red Menace" and the German "Huns," the Japanese "Nips" and the Vietnamese "Gooks. "

Gaddafi death videos are still circulating on the Internet, each one more gruesome and graphic than the last. These videos circulate throughout the world – and especially throughout the Anglosphere at a time when YouTube denies viewers the sight of a breast or female nipple because it might cause offense. Such images are stashed behind a firewall.

Conclusion: But when it comes to videos of Gaddafi being killed or assaulted with blood dripping down his face, we have a full menu of gory items to choose from. We can watch all we want. The images circulate unimpeded. The US Secretary of State laughs and releases her celebratory clip for all the world to see. What does this portend?

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An Occupation for the 99 Per Cent

We are the 99 per cent. That slogan has captured the imagination of hundreds of thousands of people as the Occupy Wall Street movement has spread worldwide.

As the instigators and beneficiaries of global financial crisis go about their business, protest camps are establishing themselves as testimony to a rising tide of calls for a different way of life, where people matter more than finance and equality more than individual wealth.

We have all seen striking pictures of ordinary people protesting, many of whom have never taken to the streets before. We have seen too that when push comes to shove (often literally) the forces of law and order are readier to protect the laws and orders of the Masters of the Universe than the people who have been most hurt by their actions.

Yet 99 per cent of people are clearly not demonstrating, protesting and occupying.It might be truer to observe that the 99 per cent are just trying to get by, going about their daily business in the hope that things will get better.

The power of the protest camps is not that 99 per cent of people are there, or even that 99 per cent of people support them (which is questionable). It is the power of witness: like the child who said the emperor had no clothes, they point out what most people are reluctant to say. There's a long history to draw on here, from the civil rights movements of the 1960s to the million-strong protest against the Iraq war.

While such occupations are a testament to the strength of feeling, they often do little more than express a desire for change - for a world in which people take more power over their own lives and have more say in the running of the world around them.

There's another kind of occupation that can help bring about this change. It involves taking over land and assets and re-using them for the benefit of local people.

In Coin Street on London's South Bank, local people who were at risk of being displaced to make way for commercial development created their own housing co-op and now manage much of the land in one of the capital's prime areas, with affordable homes and childcare for people who would otherwise have been forced out of the city centre.

In Liverpool, the Eldonian Village is another testimony to local people's refusal to accept that the authorities knew best. Here people whose neighbourhood would have been destroyed by a slum clearance scheme made it clear they wanted to stay put, and are now running their own homes and creating work for local people.

On the Isle of Gigha in the west of Scotland, a community that had been neglected for decades by their private landlord have bought the island for themselves, repaired their homes and are generating their own renewable energy.

In Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, local people have taken over the former town hall, unwanted by the council but valued by local residents.They are creating much-needed community meeting spaces and room for start-up businesses.

There is a rapidly growing movement of community asset ownership, with local people taking over property and running it in their own interests. Their actions often start with immediate issues: the need to create a community garden, the disappearance of the last bank in the high street, the closure of the local library. Where the private market has ignored their needs and the state has failed to be an effective steward of local assets, people are starting to move in and take over.

It isn't easy, it takes time and energy and money, and there are many pitfalls along the way, as recent publications by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation have shown. But when it works, it shows how land and economic activity can be managed for the benefit of the 99 per cent, not just the wealthy and well-connected. It may not get the attention of a protest in Wall Street or outside St Paul's Cathedral, but this is a movement to watch.

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Murdoch Lies Fill The News Again

Hi Tap,

I found an interesting article by Dick Eastman on Gaddafi. The front page of the Sun is yet another example of Murdoch's lies and (illegal) warmongering.

Visitors to the Tap will know that propaganda is the stock in trade of the British mass media. They know that Gaddafi had nothing to do with Lockerbie, or the killing of Yvonne Fletcher, or the East Berlin disco bombing. These were all NATO/Mossad black ops, as you can find out from the detailed documentaries and books that have appeared, but which are forgotten by the BBC. And when Gaddafi gave money to the IRA, he was paying for protection by shouldering MI6's expenses. Lord James has already stated publicly that he managed the finances of the IRA for years. In fact, as you will see from the following, Gaddafi was a lot better than Cameron or Blair. He wasn't a warmonger for a start. Unlike Cameron and Blair, he didn't send his army and air force on humanitarian missions that caused bloodbaths and destroyed infrastructure. It turns out he wasn't even a liar, until he accepted the blame for Lockerbie, which he had nothing to do with.

Unlike Cameron and Blair, he wasn't a coward either. When the mighty NATO war machine hit Libya, Gaddafi didn't try to escape, he led the fighting from Tripoli, where his three grandchildren were killed, and after that from his home town. After US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's public announcement that she wanted Gaddafi 'dead or alive', he was of course executed, using the 'double tap', a bullet in the torso and another in the head - a standard NATO extra-judicial execution technique. So all the official 'concerns' about the execution of Gaddafi are bogus. It doesn't matter who pulled the trigger, he was executed to avoid embarrassing revelations at his trial in the Hague.

Gaddafi also did a lot for his country - unlike Britain's useless politicians who for decades have taken their orders from behind the scenes and get us into endless debt, while always finding reasons for not doing what the public wants. I was surprised to see what a good 'tyrant' Gaddafi was. As you will see from the following, he would have won a British general election hands down.

The Amazing Things Moammar Gaddafi Did For Libya
By Dick Eastman

1. There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens.

2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.

3. A home is considered a human right in Libya ­ Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home. Gaddafi’s father has died while he, his wife and his mother are still living in a tent.

4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so as to help start up the family.

5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans were literate. Today the figure is 83%.

6. Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farm house, equipment, seeds and livestock to kick-start their farms ­ all for free.

7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government funds them to go abroad for it ­ not only free but they get US$2,300/mth accommodation and car allowance.

8. In Libya, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidizes 50% of the price.

9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 per liter.

10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion ­ now frozen globally.

11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state pays the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.

12. A portion of Libyan oil sales is credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.

13. A mother who gives birth to a child receive US$5,000

14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15

15. 25% of Libyans have a university degree

16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.

Which other dictator has done so much good for his people?

All that is of course finished. The Libyans are now facing grinding poverty and the introduction of a Rothschild system of taxation along with cultural engineering levered by Harmanesque programmes provided by brainwashed western 'experts'. Of course, that will come after the years of costly and bloody ethnic war that are now beginning. That will provide further opportunities to squeeze out Libya's wealth.

Clearly Gaddafi was setting a very bad example to the international community. He was in the process of pulling the whole of Africa out of the clutches of the bankers.
Gaddafi refused to do the bidding of the Rothschild-centered global banking cartel in 5 areas:

· A Gaddafi-Centered African Union With A Common Currency (The Rothschilds love to create money out of nothing and lend it to governments)
· A Gaddafi-Run Central Bank Of Libya (The Rothschilds love central banks)
· A Gaddafi-Holding Of 150 Tons Of Gold (The Rothschilds love gold)
· A Gaddafi-Run Libyan Oil Industry (The Rothschilds love oil)
· A Gaddafi-Run ‘Blue-Gold’ Water Reserves (The Rothschilds love water)

Best Regards,

Gordon Logan.

Life-Size Lego Set Can Create Entire Economies & Civilizations

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Its an open hardware, open source, life-size Lego set that can create entire economies, whether in rural Missouri, where the project was founded, or in the developing world. Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters building the Global Village Construction Set - a modular, DIY, low-cost, open source, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different industrial machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.

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OCCUPY GLASGOW.

Occupy Glasgow had its first assembly and almost 500 people came together to discuss their gripes and grievances, hopes and dreams, It soon became apparent that the way society is run today got all the gripes and grievances but none of the hopes nor dreams. It is now so blatantly obvious that the system works for the corporate world, and their growth depends on the exploitation of the ordinary people. Though still not the largest occupation, but growing all the time, and it has a cross section of all the citizens of Glasgow and beyond. All enthusiastic and informed and willing to take what Glasgow's winter can throw at them to make their voices heard.

They still need support in numbers and materials, pay them a visit, you'll be surprised at the number of ways you can assist in this occupation without actually camping down, though the more of them the better. Visit their web site www.occupyglasgow.org, visit the groups involved, discuss what you see as the way this society should be shaped, your voice counts, this is a place to let it be heard. This is a golden opportunity to contribute to creating a better world for all our children and our grandchildren.

four institutional manager corporations control the world

According to a new article in PRAVDA, the eight largest U.S. financial companies (JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, U.S. Bancorp, Bank of New York Mellon and Morgan Stanley) are 100% controlled by ten shareholders and four companies are always present in all decisions: 1) BlackRock, 2) State Street, 3) Vanguard and 4) Fidelity.

These 'big four' institutional manager corporations have controlling influence in, wait for it, wait for it ...

Alcoa Inc.
Altria Group Inc.
American International Group Inc.
AT&T Inc.
Boeing Co.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coca-Cola Co.
DuPont & Co.
Exxon Mobil Corp.
General Electric Co.
General Motors Corporation.
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Home Depot Inc.
Honeywell International Inc.
Intel Corp.
International Business Machines Corp.
Johnson & Johnson.
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
McDonald's Corp.
Merck & Co. Inc.
Microsoft Corp.
3M Co.
Pfizer Inc.
Procter & Gamble Co.
United Technologies Corp.
Verizon Communications Inc.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Time Warner.
Walt Disney.
Viacom.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
CBS Corporation.
NBC Universal.

Free Market Competition, eh?

Politics - A Paedophile's Paradise

This was this morning's email from Gordon Logan writing in Beijing.

Hi Tap,

I googled 'northern ireland' Whitelaw paedophile' and found some relevant hits. It's quite well known.

Willie Whitelaw

He may well have been involved in the Northern Ireland children's home scandal. He certainly didn't look normal on TV. Heath was another one. Gross sexual abnormality is a big plus on the CV of British politicians. They're used to push major controversial decisions. Excellent traitors. Very pliable. It used to be referred to as 'lack of moral fibre'.

Winston Churchill

Churchill was another one according to T. Stokes, who worked for MI5. He used to spend a lot of money in Morocco.

Local Government Officials

If you do a search for paedophilia on this site, there's a lot of it in local government.
http://eotp.org

Also here
http://www.no2abuse.com/index.php/blogs/comments/mps-is-any-child-safe-check-this-list-out/

And here.
http://www.whale.to/b/pedophilism_h.html

Edward Heath

You have no doubt heard of the Haut de la Garenne scandal on the Channel Islands. They found the bones of a child that had been 'snuffed'. Heath used to go there on Morning Cloud. Jimmy Saville used to deliver boys at Broadstairs.

Tony Blair

The ones at the top were protected by Blair when Operation Ore hit Westminster. Google 'operation ore' 'cover up' Blair. Blair's governments were packed with perverts, like himself.

Paedophilia to become legal

Paedophiles are the next group of 'persecuted victims' that will become untouchable. Sociologists will refer to criticism of paedophiles as ignorant 'moral panic' and the public will be silenced with new diversity legislation, which all three parties will miraculously support, because they are all managed from behind the scenes. After that, with the poverty that is resulting from the Rothschilds' bailouts, parents will be expected to sell their children into prostitution, as in Thailand, so that progressive politicians like Peter Mandelson can get their hands on them.

Best regards,

Gordon

TAP - horrible topic, but one which explains why our top politicians have mostly been traitors, bar a very few.

Rank & File Sparks and Occupy LSX unite to shut down Balfour Beatty site

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The two most important movements in Britain, rank and file electricians and Occupy the London Stock Exchange, unite in solidarity – first shutting down the Balfour Beatty site at Blackfriars bridge in protest at national agreements being ripped up and a 35% pay cut being imposed, then continuing the occupation outside St. Pauls against an undemocratic and unjust system. More info: http://occupylsx.org, email siteworkers@virginmedia.com.

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THE ASSASSIN - Derren Brown sponsored by Sirhan Sirhan's defense team?

carefully select the most gullible (or accommodatingly suggestible) person from a studio audience of a hundred or so people and train THAT PERSON to be a bullseye assassin and kill Stephen Fry, on command.

"Couldn't happen," so say the US government.

Erm, just watched DERREN BROWN: THE EXPERIMENTS, 1 and unless everything this mind-manipulator does is TV-fakery, Sirhan Sirhan should be skipping his fifteenth parole hearing and slipping on his slippers as he drinks Budweiser and watches American Gladiator with his fellow free Americans from the comfort of his family home, come Sunday.

Now, imagine a country-wide search through 200,000,000 Americans for 'the most gullible or suggestible person' and the resources of a Military Industrial Complex to train their Manchurian Candidate?

Derren Brown's a faker, right? He didn't just ACHIEVE that experiment, did he? Seriously.

Do Visionary Shamans Dream of VALIS?

Simon G. Powell

This article is excerpted from The Psilocybin Solution: The Role of Sacred Mushrooms in the Quest for Meaning, recently released by Inner Traditions.

For most people, Philip K. Dick (hereafter known as PKD) is best known through films like Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly, which were all based on his writings. Classic movies like The Matrix and Vanilla Sky also owe a great debt to PKD's work. What is not so well known is that PKD was a bit of a latter-day mystic, a man who spent the last decade or so of his life struggling to come to terms with a series of visionary experiences (not related to psychedelics) that befell him in the early 1970s. In these experiences, PKD felt as if some vast cosmic intelligence was communicating with him, as if a deity was slipping him secret information. Such was the impact of these theophanies that he chose to incorporate their thematic content into a number of novels as well as an eight-thousand-page exegesis. To the consternation of his peers, PKD began to be not a little obsessed with ideas of "divine invasion" and the like, his last books testifying to his escalating interest in theology and theistic philosophy (interestingly, his last novel, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, partly concerns the search for a sacred mushroom).

Since his death it has been speculated that PKD suffered from what is known as temporal lobe epilepsy -- a brain disorder that can lead to hallucinatory experiences -- and that this explains his mystical encounters. However, leaving aside the contentiousness of this claim, it does not deal with the burning issue of immediate mystical experience. To label an experience in order to explain it away is to avoid the very real nature of the mystical experience, however it should arise. In fact, as Huxley noted in The Doors of Perception, we should not be surprised if there is always unusual neuronal activity concurrent with a mystical experience, for, as we have seen, modified neuronal firing patterns are related to expanded forms of consciousness. Altered forms of awareness demand altered brain processes, and such a change in brain state can be achieved in many different ways, whether through psilocybin mushrooms, endogenous DMT, yoga, meditation, fasting, or spontaneous epileptic disturbances. Mystical experience is therefore not to be conveniently disposed of with a diagnostic label.

Even before his visionary experiences, PKD had long fought to discover the true nature of reality. It was his pet fascination. In a talk he delivered in the late 1970s, he admitted that for all the years he had thought about the question "what is reality?" he had gotten no further than concluding that reality was that which remained even if you stopped believing in it. Admittedly a thin definition, it is nonetheless indicative that the true nature of reality is not so easily pinned down.

PKD juggled with countless explanations for his mystical experiences. Some involved a Judeo-Christian God, others involved the Logos outlined in some of the Gnostic gospels (these are the "alternative" gospels dug up at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945), while others even opted for an advanced extraterrestrial intelligence. Whatever the case, PKD was certain that he had been "contacted" by some form of advanced transcendental intelligence-cum-Other.

One of his more enduring theories concerned VALIS, which is an acronym for "vast active living intelligence system," a notion that accords well with our intelligent Other. In the semiautobiographical novel of the same name, VALIS is a hidden entity of immense power and sentience that is in the process of infiltrating our reality by establishing communication with certain individuals. These disclosures are experienced as theophany. For our purposes, the key point is that VALIS is essentially outside of our dimension, but able to penetrate our world. The question arises as to the feasibility that a superior intelligence exists in another dimension with the capacity to move across into ours. This is one of our fanciful options concerning the Other.

To more fully understand what PKD was suggesting, consider the plot of his acclaimed novel Ubik. In this story, the main characters are seriously blown up in an explosion at the start of the story and then placed in a kind of collective suspended animation machine that keeps a portion of their brain processes functioning. In this way the characters enjoy what PKD calls a "half-life." What is more, the collective nature of their half-lives ensures that they experience a simulated reality, a reality so real that the half-lifers fail to realize that they are no longer in the real world. In other words, they don't realize that they are actually wired up in the half-life unit of the Beloved Brethren Moratorium. Indeed, they falsely believe that they survived the explosion with just a few scratches (you can now see why The Matrix is a decidedly Philipdickish movie).

Our interest grows when we see what happens when someone outside of their simulated reality system attempts to communicate with them (using the standard electrode headphones of course). At one stage in the tale, the protagonist, Joe Chip, who is unaware that he now exists inside a simulated reality, is contacted by someone from the "outside." This communication is experienced by Chip as an eerie sequence of synchronistic events in his simulated world. For instance, he begins finding significant messages everywhere -- scrawled upon washroom mirrors and turning up on matchbook labels and in bits of consumer junk. Personal messages even begin interrupting TV shows (this idea was borrowed to good effect in the Emmy-award winning BBC sci-fi drama series Life on Mars). In short, the communicator has invaded Chip's world in such a way that the communication gets distributed across different media, turning up in the most unlikely of places rather than manifesting as a big booming voice coming out of the sky.

I think it is this cunning idea, which PKD used on many fictional occasions, that captures his views on the nature of VALIS. VALIS was an "outside" intelligence able to penetrate our world, revealing itself through mystical experience and through the unlikely juxtaposition of meaningfully related events. Can we possibly utilize this notion and map it onto our idea of the Other?

If we were to do this, then it would be tantamount to suggesting that the "programmer" of the Universal Computation is able to "jump into" the program, reaching in as it were to influence the state transition of the computation. Or perhaps this transcendental influence can only be felt in the psyche, in which case all theophanies would represent the manifestation of the Other as it penetrates our reality.

But what does it mean to be outside the system, outside the Universal Computation process? Can there really be an outside? It is possible to imagine that in the future we will be able to create a kind of simulated universe or an elaborate virtual-reality world that we can enter for years, if not a lifetime. And yet despite the fact that there will indeed be an outside to a simulated reality, we cannot say with certainty that there is also an outside to our present reality. If we do entertain the notion of a dimension outside of our world, we run up against the old infinite regress pit of despair, for surely the "outsides" could be continued indefinitely. In other words, if the intelligent Other exists outside our (simulated) reality, then what lies outside the Other's dimension?

It is these dilemmas, which would appear to be insurmountable, that lead me to think that the solution to the Other cannot be found by appealing to a supernatural "outside the system" option. Indeed, we have already seen that the Other appears to represent a creative process conveyed by the mind whereby information organizes itself and takes on lifelike properties. The Other, therefore, is surely more likely to be found firmly entwined within the Universe along with ourselves (even if only as a mysterious potential expressed under certain circumstances). If we once more restrict ourselves to this one Universe, then at least our theoretical model will be somewhat constrained and more amenable to a single holistic explanation. This does not deny the existence of PKD's VALIS; rather, it locates VALIS within our reality. Somewhere.

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Occupy Wall Street Demands Global UN Tax and Worldwide G20 Protest

by Staff Report

Occupy's busting out on a new path ... So Adbusters is asking people all around the world to march on Oct. 29. "We want to send a clear message that we the people want to slow down this global casino." And Adbusters does have one specific demand, a 1 percent tax on financial-sector transactions (perhaps stocks, bonds, foreign-currency trades and derivatives). Some form of that idea, known as the "Robin Hood" tax, has been around for a while and might actually fly. – Jerry Large/Seattle Times

Dominant Social Theme: We want justice for the world and the UN will give it to us.

Free-Market Analysis: Kalle Lasn, founder of Adbusters magazine, based in Vancouver, B.C. – the magazine that issued the call for the initial Occupy Wall Street protests – has called on people to protest the upcoming G20 while demanding a one-percent tax on financial transactions.

The revenue raised would be enormous and the lingering question is where this incredible revenue stream would be directed. The answer is obvious to those who follow what we call "directed history." The intention is likely to fund the UN as part of a final push to rationalize and perfect the initial stages of true world government.

As we have written before, the movement toward world government is happening very quickly now. The ramifications are enormous and people who write off these protests as spontaneous and short-lived are not grasping what is taking place, in our humble opinion.

The financial sales tax has been around for a very long time but has found its most recent voice in a column by Jerry Large of the Seattle Times. He recently gained an exclusive interview with Kalle Lasn, who sounds as if he hopes that a large protest on Oct 29th will mark the beginning of a push for such a tax.

What's going on is pure one-worldism, an OWS ideology that is gradually revealing itself in dribs and drabs. It is one reason that that the OWS leaders have made no specific demands. They have hoped to create a momentum, apparently, before revealing what they are truly after. The movement seems to be part of a larger wave of directed history that has been in play for at least a century and is now reaching a dénouement.

The one-percent tax has been a staple of United Nations demands for more than a decade. Google UN and "one-percent tax" and plenty of information will appear – over three million citations, in fact.

Way back in 1996, a post appearing on "Americasfuture.net," entitled "U.N. Tax Threatens U.S. Sovereignty," explained that United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali wanted a tax of this sort to make the UN "independent."

Boutros-Ghali wants to finance the nearly bankrupt United Nations by imposing a global tax on foreign exchange transactions. A mere half-of-one-percent tax on these transactions would generate an astounding $1.5 trillion ... The important thing is to establish an independent revenue source.

Lasn doesn't make mention of the UN angle, though it is perfectly possible when demands for this movement are finally fleshed out that we shall discover this tax is to be administered by the UN. For us the entire gamut of protests now occurring are part of a power elite strategy to advance world government.

There is ample evidence that the movement's impetus came in part from US State Dept. facilities created to finance and organize "youth movements" around the world and has had significant input from American Intel and military agencies. This makes sense within the context of Occupy Wall Street's unstated Leftist agenda.

False flag movements generated by the powers-that-be are invariably statist, because that is how they maintain and expand control. Government is a big part of the command-and-control equation, especially if you're trying to build a "new world order." Those involved intimately in Occupy Wall Street would seem to have a leftist agenda, as we've document in numerous articles now. But they also may be willing participants in a false flag venture.

David McGraw, one of the non-leader leaders of the movement, has no journalistic profile going back farther than two years from what we can tell, which is odd to say the least. Mat Taibbi poses as a muck-raker but the solutions he has recently and publicly contributed are extremely statist and tax-oriented. Leftist Adbuster's magazine is at least to some extent funded by the Soros one-world crowd. Here's some more from the article:

Adbusters magazine, based in Vancouver, B.C., issued the first call for people to occupy Wall Street. In its July issue the magazine asked for 20,000 people to show up on Sept. 17. A month in, I asked Adbusters founder Kalle Lasn how he thought the action was going. "As far as the birth of movements goes, I can't imagine a better beginning," he said. It's been wild and messy, he said, but he believes that's to the good. It has people talking, trying to figure out what those folks want.

What Lasn wants is clearer. For two decades, the international magazine has been attacking consumer capitalism as the center of many of the world's ills. He'd like an economic system friendlier to humans and to the environment ... The demonstrators are saying they want a different kind of future. Lasn says they are learning from each other different ways to eat, to get around, to collaborate, different ways to get information ... People feel in the pits of their stomachs that things are not right economically or politically. He praised the Tea Party for recognizing that and trying to do something about it, even though he doesn't agree with its diagnosis ...

Now in the Occupy movement, he said, "the political left has showed some chutzpah." But ultimately, he said, the solutions won't be found by clinging rigidly to the left or right. "We want to have more variety and more debate and to get rid of the corruption at the heart of our system." In two weeks, leaders of the G-20 (the world's largest economies) will meet in France, and Adbusters wants to send them a message. At the least, it may get people thinking a different path is possible.

Lasn's language is revealing. He wants to "get rid of the corruption at the heart of the system." In fact, there is no corruption at the heart of the system. It is the system ITSELF that is corrupt. But it's Lasn's job as an apparent employee of the world's great banking families to position the dialogue in a way that is most advantageous to the expansion of global governance.

No doubt there will be protests on October 29th. The controlled mainstream media will make sure they occur. The Anglosphere power elite has now deliberately set in motion a series of protests designed to leverage and focus the Western middle class's current rage over the failing worldwide economy by providing behind-the-scenes command and control.

Next may come demands for more globalist solutions to ensure that "transparency" is implemented in government along with so-called "direct democracy" – as we have analyzed them in the recent past. Even the way forward is beginning to become clear. McGraw, Taibbi and Julian Assange of WikiLeaks fame are all involved in this movement as young leaders, and all seem to us, possibly anyway, part of a kind of directed history as well.

They are the stars of the show and the masses of young protesters following them are the manipulated "extras" that provide credibility for the larger movement in an unknowing way. And this is why we have floated the idea that libertarians ought to "get out and get out now." Start another movement that uses the Occupy Wall Street notoriety without providing it further viability. That's what Alex Jones did with his newly-created anti-Fed movement. It likely can be done.

Conclusion: What is surprising is the boldness with which the great banking families and their enablers and associates are moving. Perhaps they are panicked by what we call the Internet Reformation and its truth telling, which has fully exposed their strategies and existence as never before. Perhaps, swaddled by unimaginable wealth and power, they just don't care.

Libya - We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!

‘High-class terrorists running US, UK and France’

“We are seeing how Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State expressed it very clearly: ‘We came, we saw, he died,’ and then started laughing. This is a message to the world of how this new world order model actually works,” (Argentinian economist Adrian Salbuchi) stated.

“When they decide to change the regime, they do so with the utmost violence, and it is a whole model. First they target a country by calling it a rogue state; then they support local terrorists and call them freedom fighters; then they bring death and destruction upon civilians and they call it UN sanctions. Then they spread lies and call it the International Community’s opinion expressed by the Western media. Then they invade and control the country and call it liberation and finally they steal appetizing oil and call it foreign investment and reconstruction,” Salbuchi explained, having lived through the late-2001 Argentinian bank run and financial collapse.




Proof positive that all congressional business is run like a cheap Hollywood movie.

"We came, we saw, we kicked its ass," is what Dr Peter Venkman uttered in Ghostbusters, once Zool was sent back to whichever parallel plane that spawned it.

Am I right in thinking ALL THESE WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, all these sovereign invasions by foreign NATO forces, were cynical attempts to HIDE THE EVIDENCE OF CORPORATE COLLUSION in activities such as 9-11, 7-7, Lockerbie, Cuba, the IRA and Arms Sales To Tyrants For Oil or Mineral Assets and you know, Lord of War-like shenanigins the world over?

Are the violent decades following September 11th 2001 going to be known as THE CLEAN-UP YEARS?

Posted by Mike Philbin