Monday, October 31, 2011

Could wounding of Olsen be Occupy movement's 'Kent State moment'?

How the Wounding of a Vet Who Dared to Dissent Has Stirred More Dissent
by John Nichols, The Nation

“We Are All Scott Olsen!” was the message of vigils held across the United States Thursday night, held in answer to a call from Iraq Veterans Against the War and Occupy Oakland for “occupations across America and around the world to hold solidarity vigils” recognizing Olsen, the former Marine and Iraq War veteran who activists say “sustained a skull fracture after being shot in the head on October 25 with a police projectile while peacefully participating in an Occupy Oakland protest.

In cities across the United States and around the world, "We Are Scott Olsen" vigils, rallies and marches were held. Thousands attended a candlelight vigil in Oakland. In Las Vegas, an image of Olsen was projected at the site of the Occupy encampment. In New York, Occupy Wall Street activist took to the streets chanting "New York is Oakland, Oakland is New York." As far away as London, images of Olsen were displayed at gatherings. The buzz about the wounding of the 24-year-old veteran seemed to be everywhere, and was perhaps best summed up by a message from an activist who had protested at Wisconsin's state Capitol with Olsen in February. It read: "He could be any one of us."

The Washington-insider website Politico speculated about whether the wounding of Olsen would be the Occupy movement's "Kent State moment," a reference to the 1970 killing of four students at an anti-war demonstration in Ohio. No one was killed in Oakland, and Olsen is now expected to recover, although he remains hospilized and is unable to speak. But the images of the young former Marine, standing peacefully in the frontlines of the protest in Oakland -- next to a Navy vet holding a "Veterans for Peace" flag -- and the images from just moments later of Olsen lying on the ground wounded as medics rush to his aid have both shocked and energized activists, in much the same way that violent responses to civil rights and anti-war demonstrations in the 1960s did -- and in much the way that official violence against anti-WTO activists in Seattle in 1999 shifted sentiment in favor of the protests.

[ ... ]

Iraq Veterans Against the War featured a statement on its website Wednesday night that read: “It’s ironic that days after Obama’s announcement of the end of the Iraq War, Scott faced a veritable war zone in the streets of Oakland last night. He and other protesters were surrounded by explosions and smoke (tear gas) going off around him as people nearby carried him injured while yelling for a medic. This disturbing video of the incident shows how veterans are now fighting a war at home.”

In fact, it’s not so ironic. Returning veterans who have sought to exercise their rights at home have, at many points in American history, been the victims of violence—especially when they have made demands of Wall Street. When a “Bonus Army” consisting of thousands of World War I veterans camped near the Capitol in Washington, DC, in the summer of 1932—demanding payment of bonuses they had been promised for their service, and that they needed to survive in those Depression Days—they were attacked first by the police and then by the US Army,

Two veterans were killed. One of them, Eric Carlson, was from Oakland, California.

The revulsion at the attacks on the veterans in 1932 would eventually lead to a decision by the Congress of $2 billion to pay immediate bonuses to the World War I veterans.

Retired Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, a two-time recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, joined the Bonus Army at its encampment and supported its demands. Bulter is today remembered for his epic denunciation of the military-industrial complex:

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class thug for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

But after the attack on the Bonus Army, he issued an even blunter declaration, announcing in 1933 that: “I believe in…taking Wall St. by the throat and shaking it up.”


Olga Zinoviev: STOP FEEDING WALL STREET!

Olga Zinoviev's Appeal to the Citizens of Russia and the World

STOP FEEDING WALL STREET!


Dear fellow citizens, all decent, thinking people of Russia!


I, Olga Zinoviev, wife and curator of the Russian thinker Alexander Zinoviev's intellectual heritage, appeal to you.


More than 20 years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union -- the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th Century -- as Alexander Zinoviev aptly described this event.


For 20 years our country, in his prophetic words, has been a colonial democracy. Russia's life blood is being sucked from her drop by drop by those who aimed their fire at communism but hit Russia.


During this period more than 3 trillion dollars of capital have been taken out of Russia. This is a shocking amount. With this money it would have been possible to repair the damage suffered by our huge country during the Great Patriotic War, the war with fascism, 5 times over.


During this year alone (as yet unfinished) more than 50 billion dollars have already been taken out of Russia.


The Russian Stabilisation Fund is held in inflated United States bonds, and the fund itself is neither

transparent nor under the control of the people.

All the money is credited to the account of the richest country in the world. Instead of being used for the construction in Russia of new roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, an appropriate level of funding for science and education, and everything else which counts as investing in ones own people.


Every rouble which is invested in Wall Street, every rouble of colonial tribute is an act of treachery towards ones own people.


STOP FEEDING WALL STREET!

Today Russia, a poor country in which more than 20 million people go hungry, who live below the poverty line, is one of the 10 countries to have invested the most in the USA. Our country, lacerated by the unimaginable extent of the monetary outflow is cynically being carved up and sold off, as
happens in the trade of human organs or even human beings.

The whole country is working for world-wide speculators and financial deals with Wall Street. Money
earned by the incredible labour of the entire people is going into the most dishonourable financial soap-bubble in human history.

The Russian people have not been robbed in this way since the times of the Tartar Yoke. Now Russia is suffering under the much more cruel yoke of the world financial pyramid, the `Moloch' of the 21st Century.


I appeal to all the citizens of Russia -- speak out; later you will not be able to forgive yourself for your indifferent silence.


STOP FEEDING WALL STREET!

We are being fobbed off with a surrogate agenda, we are being required to address secondary problems, they are trying to reorient our awareness with distracting requests and invented slogans which sound appalling in the remote villages deep in the heart of ill-treated Russia. It is the people who are paying the excessive colonial tribute, which has been imposed on our country, enslaved by global capitalism. We are told that the actions of "Occupy Wall Street" are not relevant to Russia, that the movement is of no interest to our citizens.

This is a lie. It is simply that, as usual, we are not told the whole truth. Wall Street -- the insatiable American Golden Horde -- represents a greater danger for Russia than it does for the ordinary American citizen.


STOP FEEDING WALL STREET!

This is our answer in solidarity to all those who are dissatisfied with the global dictatorship of financial capital.

I appeal to all the citizen of the creditor countries of Wall Street and the USA, to the donor countries such as China, Europe, Japan, Venezuela, to all the countries in OPEC, to Australia, Brazil, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Canada and all those who invest in Wall Street at the expense of their own people.


Today there are acts of protest all over the world against the financial blackmail imposed by Wall Street. The world understands the cause of its illness.


STOP FEEDING WALL STREET!

Enough of meekly allowing our children and grandchildren to be robbed! Do not be silent! Our children and grandchildren will not forgive us.

In the words of that man for all seasons, Alexander Zinoviev, - a prophet who returned to his mother country after the bombing of Serbia by NATO forces, prepared to share the lot of his own people to the very end:


Be alive, be mobile, be active! Act -- using all of the intellectual resources at your disposal.


Be true to yourself, to our country, our Motherland. We are not indifferent to what is happening to Russia.


The most powerful force in the world is Truth.


STOP FEEDING WALL STREET!


Olga Zinoviev,

Comes Rectoris Universitatis, Universität Augsburg,
Russian-Bavarian Alexander Zinoviev Research Center,
Editor-in-Chief, Magazine «ZINOVIEV»


Moscow, Russia,

October 29, 2011



How the Wounding of a Vet Who Dared to Dissent Has Stirred More Dissent

by John Nichols, The Nation

“We Are All Scott Olsen!” was the message of vigils held across the United States Thursday night, held in answer to a call from Iraq Veterans Against the War and Occupy Oakland for “occupations across America and around the world to hold solidarity vigils” recognizing Olsen, the former Marine and Iraq War veteran who activists say “sustained a skull fracture after being shot in the head on October 25 with a police projectile while peacefully participating in an Occupy Oakland protest.

In cities across the United States and around the world, "We Are Scott Olsen" vigils, rallies and marches were held. Thousands attended a candlelight vigil in Oakland. In Las Vegas, an image of Olsen was projected at the site of the Occupy encampment. In New York, Occupy Wall Street activist took to the streets chanting "New York is Oakland, Oakland is New York." As far away as London, images of Olsen were displayed at gatherings. The buzz about the wounding of the 24-year-old veteran seemed to be everywhere, and was perhaps best summed up by a message from an activist who had protested at Wisconsin's state Capitol with Olsen in February. It read: "He could be any one of us."

The Washington-insider website Politico speculated about whether the wounding of Olsen would be the Occupy movement's "Kent State moment," a reference to the 1970 killing of four students at an anti-war demonstration in Ohio. No one was killed in Oakland, and Olsen is now expected to recover, although he remains hospilized and is unable to speak. But the images of the young former Marine, standing peacefully in the frontlines of the protest in Oakland -- next to a Navy vet holding a "Veterans for Peace" flag -- and the images from just moments later of Olsen lying on the ground wounded as medics rush to his aid have both shocked and energized activists, in much the same way that violent responses to civil rights and anti-war demonstrations in the 1960s did -- and in much the way that official violence against anti-WTO activists in Seattle in 1999 shifted sentiment in favor of the protests.

[ ... ]

Iraq Veterans Against the War featured a statement on its website Wednesday night that read: “It’s ironic that days after Obama’s announcement of the end of the Iraq War, Scott faced a veritable war zone in the streets of Oakland last night. He and other protesters were surrounded by explosions and smoke (tear gas) going off around him as people nearby carried him injured while yelling for a medic. This disturbing video of the incident shows how veterans are now fighting a war at home.”

In fact, it’s not so ironic. Returning veterans who have sought to exercise their rights at home have, at many points in American history, been the victims of violence—especially when they have made demands of Wall Street. When a “Bonus Army” consisting of thousands of World War I veterans camped near the Capitol in Washington, DC, in the summer of 1932—demanding payment of bonuses they had been promised for their service, and that they needed to survive in those Depression Days—they were attacked first by the police and then by the US Army,

Two veterans were killed. One of them, Eric Carlson, was from Oakland, California.

The revulsion at the attacks on the veterans in 1932 would eventually lead to a decision by the Congress of $2 billion to pay immediate bonuses to the World War I veterans.

Retired Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, a two-time recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, joined the Bonus Army at its encampment and supported its demands. Bulter is today remembered for his epic denunciation of the military-industrial complex:

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class thug for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

But after the attack on the Bonus Army, he issued an even blunter declaration, announcing in 1933 that: “I believe in…taking Wall St. by the throat and shaking it up.”


Civil disobedience gathers steam in Athens
An anti-tax rebellion is brewing in Greece, where the embattled government continues to bring in new spending cuts and tax rises. Now, even elected local officials are joining the fray in a seemingly random but increasingly prevalent wave of civil disobedience.


The Decade Wall Street Went Insane - The Zeroes part 1


At the turn of the millennium, Randall Lane, former head of Forbes' Washington bureau, knew what this decade would be about. He started Trader Monthly -- a slick glossy magazine that was to become the GQ of Wall Street. It portrayed a glamorous world of yachts and private jets, fine wines and lavish mansions. Meanwhile, trading floors were functioning like giant casinos, and the banking community was gambling with the average Joe's savings.
Lane and his company got caught up in the madness. They had front row seats to the vast wealth of Wall Street -- and they dreamed that some crumbs would fall their way.
In "The Zeroes," we get a ringside seat alongside Lane to some of the biggest parties of the decade, including a Wall Street "Charity" boxing night held at Manhattan's lavish Hammerstein Ballroom. This 5-part web series pits the fantasy of unlimited growth against the wheeling-and-dealing of Wall Street's glitzy surface.
A morality tale uniquely fitted for our times, "The Zeroes" cuts to the heart of what drove America to believe in dreams too good to be true,

Dalai Lama says China policy in Tibet cause of self-immolation deaths

Tibet’s exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, pointed to what he called China’s “ruthless policy” as prompting the recent deaths of Tibetan monks who set themselves on fire in protest.

Occupy Belo Monte: indigenous stage "permanent" protest against Amazon dam in Brazil

Hundreds of people are participating in a protest against the controversial Belo Monte dam in Altamira, Brazil, reports Amazon Watch.

Occupy the Nor-easter - Wall Street October 29, 2011


I went down to OWS to see how folks were fairing during the nor-easter. The weather was bleak, but spirits were high. I don't think these folks are going any where any time soon. Support your local #occupation this winter.
http://Goodrules.us


Massive rally swamps Tel Aviv


http://rt.com/news/massive-rally-tel-aviv-079/

Prisons, Wars, and the Lust for Profit

In the 21st century the United States of America has rushed head long in to turning the incarceration of human beings into a thriving profit-driven and increasingly privatized business. This nation, in fact, has the the largest documented rate of imprisonment in the world.

Angela Davis at Occupy Philadelphia



The Triumph of America's Supranational Emergency State

On October 26, 2001, the Bush administration and U.S. Congress passed the Patriot (Traitor) Act and used the false flag 9/11 attacks to sell it to the American people.

What the Costumes Reveal

Let me describe a few of the photos. In one, two Baum employees are dressed like homeless people. One is holding a bottle of liquor. The other has a sign around her neck that reads: “3rd party squatter. I lost my home and I was never served.” My source said that “I was never served” is meant to mock “the typical excuse” of the homeowner trying to evade a foreclosure proceeding.

5 Economic Collapses More Ridiculous Than This One


Apocalypse Redux? U.S. Natural Gas Find off Vietnam Could Raise Tensions with China

First, the good news…
U.S. oil company ExxonMobil is reporting a “potentially significant” gas discovery off the coast of Vietnam, stating in a press release, "We can confirm ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Vietnam Limited drilled its second exploration well offshore Danang in August 2011 and encountered hydrocarbons."

Photography of Police dismantling Occupy Oakland


Occupy Dame Street: Day Twenty-One

Occupy Dame Street: Day Twenty-One from Dave Donnellan on Vimeo.

The General Assembly of the Occupy movement worldwide is a key part of its structure. It is open to all members of the public to participate. And whilst this is an admirable attempt at inclusion and open democracy it is not without its problems.
At this assembly on the 28 Oct a proposal was made to enter into an alliance with the Enough is Enough campaign which is working against the austerity measures of the Irish Government. The government measures have hit grassroots groups particularly hard. Concerns were expressed though by members of Occupy Dame Street that Enough is Enough was a 'front' for the Socialist Workers Party an active political party in the Dublin region. These claims were rejected by the Enough is Enough campaign. The video shows some of the exchanges during the meeting.

Documenting a movement: iReport photographers capture Occupy

iReporter Sarah Beth Boynton has shot a whole portfolio of Occupy Salt Lake City images. She's not part of the Occupy movement, but she thought its story deserved to be told.

Occupy Wall Street - Songs Of Protest (29-Oct-11)(POLITICS IN ACTION series)



How to Photograph a Protest (Like Occupy Wall Street)

In many ways, it's certainly easier to photograph protests and demonstrations. They're colorful, exciting, and offer countless photographic opportunities -- and these days especially everyone expects to be photographed so even the newbie documentary or street photographer with a hesitation over photographing random strangers need not be too inhibited. But then again, there are good protest photographs and plenty of bad ones.

Brainwashed Two: What Is Anarchy


My take on Anarchy, as limited as that is. It serves as a once-over. Had this one rolling around for a long time, and I'm glad to FINALLY get it out there under the "Brainwashed" series.
One note about this: I really neglected to properly give the impression of how huge this movement is. It's monumental. It makes the rebellion of the 60s look quaint. A media blackout has the non-participants fooled into thinking there's nothing for them to do. THAT's why this appears in the "Brainwashed" series.
And it does it without a leader, OR needing everybody to be "on the same page".
Think about that.
Music: "TGI Doomsday" by Blackstrap

Anonymous – CIA Fear Pump / True Democracy Party Calls For “END THE FED DAY” : “FREEDOM FROM THE FED DAY” When They Move, We Move!


Monopolise Resistance? - how Globalise Resistance would hijack revolt...

"The protesters are winning. They are winning on the streets. Before too long they will be winning the argument. Globalisation is fast becoming a cause without credible champions." Financial Times, 17th August 2001

Top 10 Bizarre Belief Systems


Gladio (5 of 16)


1992 BBC documentary by Alan Francovich.
"Disinformation Directed Against U.S.", File Number ZF010858W - written by the US Army
3/10/1970
"There may be times when HC (Host Country) governments show passivity or indecision in face of Communist or Communist-inspired subversion, and react with inadequate vigor to intelligence estimates transmitted by U.S. agencies. Such situations are particularly likely to arise when the insurgency seeks to achieve tactical advantage by temporarily refraining from violence, thus lulling HC authorities into a state of false security. In such cases, U.S. Army intelligence must have the means of launching special operations which will convince HC governments and public opinion of the reality of the insurgent danger and of the necessity of counteraction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu6VqFeWr9A&#t=4m07s
To this end, U.S. Army intelligence should seek to penetrate the insurgency by means of agents on special assignment, with the task of forming special action groups among the more radical elements of the insurgency. When the kind of situation envisaged above arises, these groups, acting under U.S. Army intelligence control, should be used to launch violent or non-violent actions according to the nature of the case. Such actions could include those described in FM 30-31 as characterizing Phases II and III of insurgency.
In cases where the infiltration of such agents into insurgent leadership has not been effectively implemented, it may help towards the achievement of the above ends to utilize ultra-leftist organizations."
http://cryptome.org/inscom-foia02.htm

Revealed: The secret report that shows how the Nazis planned a Fourth Reich ...in the EU

The paper is aged and fragile, the typewritten letters slowly fading. But US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128 is as chilling now as the day it was written in November 1944.

US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128

Enclosure No. 1 to despatch No. 19,489 of Nov. 27, 1944, from
the Embassy at London, England.
S E C R E T
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
Office of Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2
7 November 1944
INTELLIGENCE REPORT NO. EW-Pa 128

SUBJECT: Plans of German industrialists to engage in undergroundactivity after Germany’s defeat; flow of capital to neutral countries.

SOURCE: Agent of French Deuxieme Bureau, recommendedby Commandant Zindel. This agent is regarded asreliable and has worked for the French on Germanproblems since 1916. He was in close contact withthe Germans, particularly industrialists, duringthe occupation of France and he visited Germanyas late as August, 1944

Koudelka brings Prague Spring to Russia

Moscow is set to host the first ever-Russian personal display by legendary Magnum photographer Josef Koudelka, the creator of the world famous Prague Spring series.

Occupy camps an eye-sore? Let’s compare photos…

There are many comments from several “concerned” officials – and citizens – that the Occupy camps are “eyesores” and express concerns over sanitary issues. Many city officials are using these excuses to shut down and remove camps set up within various cities around the world.
Let us take a look and compare these “eyesores” and “unsanitary” camps to other areas around the world which draw in, or have drawn in, grotesque amounts of profit…

Occupy The World ('Put On' Occupy Wall Street Remix)


A remix of Young Jeezy's Put On for Occupy Wall Street
by Ryan Sartor & DP THoT

Stars Say Great Time to Occupy Yourself

Great Time to Occupy Yourself
This call to Occupy Yourself comes with an auspicious Jupiter-Pluto trine in earth signs. Not sure who created the video about Occupy Yourself, but I like its message of stepping back from the "system," and into yourself. Most of us can agree that culture and society as we know it is overwhelming, and in some cases, destructive to mind, body and spirit. This is about staking your claim to time with yourself, and finding reserves of wisdom and strength there.

In Less Than A Minute Alan Grayson Explains Occupy Wall Street To The 1 Percent



How to frame yourself: A framing memo for Occupy Wall Street

George Lakoff, professor of linguistics

I was asked weeks ago by some in the Occupy Wall Street movement to make suggestions for how to frame the movement. I have hesitated so far, because I think the movement should be framing itself. It’s a general principle: Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends. I have so far hesitated to offer suggestions. But the movement appears to maturing and entering a critical time when small framing errors could have large negative consequences. So I thought it might be helpful to accept the invitation and start a discussion of how the movement might think about framing itself.


About framing: It’s normal. Everybody engages in it all the time. Frames are just structures of thought that we use every day. All words in all languages are defined in terms of frame-circuits in the brain. But, ultimately, framing is about ideas, about how we see the world, which determines how we act.


In politics, frames are part of competing moral systems that are used in political discourse and in charting political action. In short, framing is a moral enterprise: it says what the character of a movement is. All politics is moral. Political figures and movements always make policy recommendations claiming they are the right things to do. No political figure ever says, do what I say because it’s wrong! Or because it doesn’t matter! Some moral principles or other lie behind every political policy agenda.


Two moral framing systems in politics


Conservatives have figured out their moral basis and you see it on Wall Street: It includes: The primacy of self-interest. Individual responsibility, but not social responsibility. Hierarchical authority based on wealth or other forms of power. A moral hierarchy of who is “deserving,” defined by success. And the highest principle is the primacy of this moral system itself, which goes beyond Wall Street and the economy to other arenas: family life, social life, religion, foreign policy, and especially government. Conservative “democracy” is seen as a system of governance and elections that fits this model.


Though OWS concerns go well beyond financial issues, your target is right: the application of these principles in Wall Street is central, since that is where the money comes from for elections, for media, and for right-wing policy-making institutions of all sorts on all issues. ...


Emily Henochowicz, U.S. Art Student, Shot in the Face With a Tear-Gas Gun by IDF Soldier at Protest

This is a picture of a U.S. citizen being carried to a hospital by a Palestinian and being cared for by another Palestinian after being shot in the face with a tear-gas canister by an IDF soldier. IDF soldiers have often shot demonstrators directly with the tear-gas canisters in the past.

OccupyOakland protests - Navyman stands in tear gas-filled Police Firestorm


An AMAZING scene of One Man who swore an OATH to his country to fight to protect stands alone with his flag, and his Oath Booklet in front of Police attacking Protesters at long range, one Girl sits calmly meditating to try to calm the hate and agression of these same Police, tell me, give me just ONE NAME of a police officer Injured in Oakland ? I have only seen defenceless young people injured so far in oakland as of this writing on 28th October 2011 one Veteran is in Hospital with a Fractured skull, a young Girl has been hit is the face and Neck with Rubber Bullets, THE POLICE ARE OUT OF LINE!!!

St Pauls Canon resigns over attitude to occupation

Rev Dr Giles Fraser a Canon at St Pauls resigned today over plans to forcibly remove Occupy London Stock Exchange protesters from outside cathedra.He was seen as a sypathetic ear within the St Paul's establishment and has decided he "could not support the possibility of violence in the name of the church".

Protesters surround Denver Police who retaliate with pepper spray


29 October 2011 - Occupy Denver

Occupy Denver: Biggest riot squad presence to date, pepper bullets, multiple arrests (PHOTOS)


The war in Athens, Greece

Society trying to keep the bankers out. Seems like austerity is winning, is it?

Rioting Across America - The Great Depression


America in the 1930's.

A 51st State for Armed Robotic DronesWeaponized UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles)

Weaponized UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), also known as drones, have their own caucus in Congress, and the Pentagon's plan is to give them their own state as well.

Time's Up! Energy Bike Powers Occupy Wall Street


Time's Up! New York City's Direct Action Environmental group has been working with Occupy Wall Street since its inception. Recently, they have focused on replacing all the gas generators in Liberty Park with Pedal Power Generators. We currently have one up and running, but need your help to build 11 more and power the whole park!
We've received funding for 5 bikes but need at least 6 more, and any donations above that will be used to build more energy bikes which will be sent to other occupations.
Go to http://times-up.org/
and push the donate button

Occupy Protesters Not Fighting Fair!


Bill Maher, Ron Christie, Michael Ware and Cornel West discuss the ongoing Occupy protests.

Exposed: Media fabricated 'empty tents' story at "Occupy LXS"

Following all the media hype (Telegraph, The Times, Daily Mail, Daily Express) about 'empty tents' at OccupyLSX we decided to check out whether their thermal imaging evidence was true.
We got hold of *exactly* the same thermal imaging camera and showed that - surprise, surprise - you can't tell when people are in their tents.

Why I Support the Occupy Museums Protesters, and Why You Should Too


Mission Control

On the screen, a protester from Occupy Orlando was requesting in-kind donations. “We have plenty of deodorant,” he said, “but we could use soap.” A second protester, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, entered the frame to announce breaking news: “We’re global! Seventeen hundred viewers right now!” The crowd outside the Orlando chamber of commerce cheered.
The video feed had been picked up by globalrevolution.tv, the switchboard for live coverage of the populist protests that began with Occupy Wall Street. The channel, hosted by Livestream.com, attracts between a thousand and twenty thousand viewers at any moment. “The revolution will not be televised,” the masked protester told the crowd. “It’ll be . . . on the Internet.”
[ ... ]
Last Tuesday night, a pensive young man in a T-shirt that read “I AM A REVOLTING CITIZEN” was at the controls, monitoring feeds from around the country. After Orlando, he cut to a video, from earlier in the week, of Naomi Klein, the critic of corporate globalization, addressing a rally in San Francisco: “Occupation is not a place—it is a state of mind.” ...

Enacting the Impossible (On Consensus Decision Making)

The direct democratic process adopted by Occupy Wall Street has deep roots in American radical history. It was widely employed in the civil rights movement and by the Students for a Democratic Society. But its current form has developed from within movements like feminism and even spiritual traditions (both Quaker and Native American) as much as from within anarchism itself. The reason direct, consensus-based democracy has been so firmly embraced by and identified with anarchism is because it embodies what is perhaps anarchism’s most fundamental principle: that in the same way human beings treated like children will tend to act like children, the way to encourage human beings to act like mature and responsible adults is to treat them as if they already are.

Garry Peterson - From predation to panarchy


Professor Garry Peterson from McGill University and Stockholm Resilience Centre presents his seminar on C.S. Holling, the father of resilience theory, and his contributions to ecology.

How Will The Global Revolution End?

A global ‘revolution’ is on and is spreading. What started as an attempt to occupy Wall Street offices, the headquarters of American capitalism, by a few hundred people a few months ago has spread throughout America and now gone global. According to The Economist the movement had two weeks ago had mushroomed in over 900 cities in around 80 countries.

Message of the Week: Occupy movement is doing the church's job

The Bible’s consistent message is that God cares deeply for everyone, including the poor and powerless. And when the poor and powerless are mistreated, God gets quite irate. Speaking for God, the prophet Amos denounces those “who oppress the poor, who crush the needy” (Amos 4:1). He lambasts those who “trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land ... buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals” (Amos 6:4, 6).

"Occupy Wall Street Protest Is Telling The World We Cannot Be Controlled By Fear Anymore" Sean Penn


Spanish Indignados a Force in Global Movement

On Oct. 15, these indignant Spaniards spurred a coordinated global protest that spanned 90 countries and 1,000 cities. In Spain, several hundred thousand people participated, supporting the view that the Indignados have become an inspiration and coordinating force for actions beyond Spain's borders.
Spanish public broadcaster RTVE estimated that between 6.5 million and 8 million Spaniards have participated in protests during 2011, and according to polls, 80 percent of the Spaniards support the Indignados' cause, EU Observer reported.

Without comment:


Revelations on revolution

As we come up to the 200th anniversary of the peak of luddite activity in our area we can hopefully look forward to more accurate and better-informed appraisals than that afforded by Mr Appleyard in last week’s edition.
[...]
Finally, whilst there was extreme suffering amongst the population for a variety of reasons, the Croppers were the elite of the Artisan class, with many more concerned with preserving their own status than with bettering conditions for everyone. The year of 1812 was a fascinating one but let us please not settle for myth and biased sentimental ‘socialist’ twaddle.

BURN A BANK A DAY - [INTRO PART] - by JUGGERSHOCK!


If you thought this was awesome, wait till you hear the rest!!!
Hello Juggerthugs! This is the intro of our upcoming song "BURN A BANK A DAY" to express our solidarity with world citizens against the global financial mafia and modern day exploitation!
This song is being under recording, and we are still waiting for one of you guys and chicks to become our OFFICIAL SINGER!
http://www.juggershock.com

Dai Li's Manuscript Published


"History does not depend on memories and legends, but real material," said Lu Fangshang, Taiwan's National History curator. Taiwan's military intelligence, working in conjunction with the Academia Historica, published Dai Li's Historical Materials, which is based on a manuscript written by Dai Li, the founder of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics of the Military Council of the KMT government.
[ ... ]
Wu believes that Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau hopes to make known its intelligence history during the upcoming100th anniversary of the 1911 Revolution. Wu said they have no intention of speaking on Dai Li's behalf.
But as a military intelligence bureau, which Dai Li created in 1938, it has been incredibly invaluable in securing military intelligence data behind enemy lines, Sino-U.S. intelligence cooperation, and details on how the war was won.

Riot Dog is 'a symbol of freedom'

It's official.

From The Fire Hydrant - Drawn to mayhem: It’s Sausage the riot dog:

A stray dog in Athens is becoming a celebrity due to his tendency to show up at riots — braving tear gas and fire bombs to join in the mayhem.


Sausage — though even his name is in dispute — is a ginger-colored mutt, who, like other strays in the city, is registered but owned by no one and allowed to roam the streets at will.


(Unlike places such as Fayetteville, North Carolina.)

Whenever there’s a demonstration, Sausage shows up — always siding with the protesters, observers say.

[...]


“The municipality takes especial care of him because he’s so lovable.,” Antonopoulos said of Sausage. ”And he’s also a symbol — a symbol of freedom.” ...



Tear gas Woof! Sausage the dog just loves a riot


Stuff co nz

Loukanikos even has fans in Turkey, proving he speaks a language all humans comprehend:


Riot Dog- Greece / support From Turkey



Meet Sausage, the riot dog in Greece , always in the thick of street protests latest oct 2011


Loukanikos, 28 Oct. 2011


Not entirely unrelated, Britain's most arrested musician plays at #OccupyLSX

No One's Slave, No One's Master - Occupy London - Theo Simon (Seize the Day)


Seize the Day perform Theo Simon's 'No One's Slave, No One's Master' at the Occupy London protest outside St. Paul's Cathedral. Banger.

On Modern Servitude

A powerful thought provoking film by Jean Franois Brient. Colombia, May 2009.
"The central objective of this film is to reveal man's condition as a modern slave within the context of the totalitarian mercantile system and to show the forms of mystification which mask his servile condition. Its aim is to attack head on the dominant world organization."
Website: http://www.delaservitudemoderne.org


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