MLK, Occupy and End The Fed [article + videos]
By Kim M.
FreeSLO.com
January 15, 2012
The big difference I see between Martin Luther King Jr. (at the beginning of his career as an activist) and Occupy
Wall Street (at the beginning of their collective “career”) is that everyone knew what MLK wanted, but nobody seems to know what Occupy wants.
The people who drive by screaming, “Get a job!” are a testament to this.
The infamous “OccupySLO Pwns Hecklers” video is a testament to this.
Everyone seems to think Occupy wants a handout.
And maybe some do, but the ones I’ve talked to don’t. In fact, most of the ones I’ve talked to at Occupy SLO are more interested in getting America back on Constitutional track and don’t necessarily 100% endorse the 99% mandates handed down by Occupy Wall Street.
Quite frankly, we here in America now find ourselves in a situation so dire and with so many urgent issues that need to be addressed that it’s almost impossible to decide where to begin.
At the end of his life, MLK became more like Occupy is now in that he began to tackle the giant, amorphous issue of “poverty.” Admirable, but how do you tackle an abstract intangible? It’s like the hazy “war on drugs” and the fuzzy “war on terrorism,” where there is no real, defined enemy and no real, defined goal. How is it possible to win a “war” when nobody knows who they are fighting and when there is no tangible “territory” to take?
This is also a good place to stop and deal with the whole “positive” and “negative” nonsense. Apparently, if you point out a problem (“the emperor has no clothes”), then you’re being negative. But if you ignore the problem (“let’s have a concert and party!”), then you’re being positive and everybody knows it’s better to be positive (gack).
I defy anyone to drive a car without the positive and negative cables properly attached to the battery. Or try using any battery-operated device with all the positive ends facing the same direction. Or, hey, let’s think really big and try to stop planet earth from having positive and negative poles. Ridiculous, huh? Positive and negative are flip sides of the same coin. Night/day. Warm/cold. Problem/solution.
So can we finally knock off the “Let’s be positive” cr@p? Recognize the problem. Propose the solution. See how nicely that works? Positive and negative poles working together in harmony.
The real mandate is to identify real, tangible problems and then identify real, reachable goals.
Everyone (in their right mind) wants to end poverty. Unfortunately, few people want to make the effort to peek and see just exactly what creepy crawly things are under the poverty rock. Against the advice of the founders, we currently have a centrally-planned economy. We have hired a private entity (the Federal Reserve) to lend us our own money at interest.
How can you pay interest on a dollar when all you have is a dollar? Worse, how can you pay back the dollar plus interest when the value of the dollar in your hand keeps going down due to the fact that the dollar-issuer (the Federal Reserve) keeps printing more and more dollars that each have to be paid back with interest?
The tragedy is that very few people understand how our economy really works.
I asked one of the young men in the “Pwn” video what money is and he said, “I don’t know; I’m not an economist.” I asked him why we have inflation and he said, “I don’t know; I’m not an economist.” Wow. These are very basic questions and yet the average college grad can’t answer them.
Our economy is broken. Most people can agree on that.
If the car stops running, no doubt it’s broke. If the economy stops running, no doubt it’s broke. But not everyone knows how to fix a car, just as not everyone knows how to fix an economy.
Most of us would take a broken car to an expert to have it fixed, but where do you take a broken economy? And what do you do if you find out that the mechanic is the same person who broke the car in the first place? Likewise, what would you do if you discover that the same entity that we’ve given the economy over to is the self-same entity which broke the economy?
This is precisely the situation we find ourselves in now.
We’ve identified the problem: The car is broken. We’ve identified the cause: The mechanic did it. The solution is obviously to fire the mechanic and hire an honest one. A mechanic who respects humanity and the rule of law.
This is the same direction that Occupy needs to go:
1) Identify the problem.
2) Identify the culprit (i.e. get to the root of the problem).
3) Identify the solution.
Simple as 1-2-3.
1) The economy is broken.
2) The Fed did it.
3) Fire the Fed and get back to Constitutional basics.
“The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the assurance that his income is stable and certain, and when he knows that he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts between husband, wife, and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on a scale of dollars is eliminated.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
And especially when that scale is constructed of fiat, inflated dollars, issued by banksters and backed by nothing.
[Potent News Editor’s note: Canadians should click HERE and HERE to watch a videos that will identify the similar Canadian situation.]
LINKS:
Who Owns The Federal Reserve?
http://www.globalrese…
Federal Reserve Analyst: Fed Banks Are Private
http://tv.globalresea…
The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Eight Families
http://globalresearch…
How the Federal Reserve Creates Money
http://www.mindcontag…
Federal Reserve Admits “We Have No Gold”
http://tv.globalresea…
First Federal Reserve Audit Reveals Trillions in Secret Bailouts
http://www.sott.net/a…
Grim Economic Prospects for 2012: How the Federal Reserve Overshadows the European Banking System
http://www.globalrese…
End the Fed: Occupy Wall Street Protestor Speaks Out
http://tv.globalresea…
End the Fed, not Capitalism
http://www.infowars.c…
Ron Paul: How To END THE FED
http://www.infowars.c…
JFK / Ron Paul / Martin Luther King Jr.
http://www.youtube.co…
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[hat tip: The Intel Hub]
The Gaddafi Mercenaries and the Division of Africa [video]
Global Research TV
January 12, 2012
How Amnesty International spread rumors and fuelled media disinformation during NATO attacks on Libya in 2011.
For more information visit:
http://www.thehumanitarianwar.com
A production by Julien Teil
Written by Julien Teil and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Teil and Nazemroaya were in Tripoli, Libya during Spring 2011, reporting independently from the ground.
Articles by Julien Teil on Global Research:
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=listByAuthor&authorFirst=Julie…
Articles by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya on Global Research:
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=listByAuthor&authorFirst=Mahdi…
“Free Syrian Army” Unleashes Suicide Bombing in Damascus; Madrid 2004 Bomber Belhadj of Al Qaeda Now Commands “FSA” from Iskanderun, Turkey; NATO Airlifting Libyan Terrorists and Weapons for Salvadoran Death Squad Option vs. Syria [video]
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph. D.
PressTV
January 6, 2012
Press TV talks with Webster Griffin Tarpley, author and lecturer in Washington who shares his in-depth insights of the movements by Western and Arab elements behind the scenes to destabilize Syria and terrorize its people. What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview.
Press TV: What is your reaction to our first speaker and to the US’ broader plan to, let’s put it this way, at a minimum create this unrest in the country?
Webster Tarpley: Let me confirm some things that the first speaker said. I was in Syria myself in the second half of November and I visited Homs and I went to the Zahra neighborhood and in particular the Zahra hospital and the main demand that was raised by ordinary people of all religions was that they don’t want the Syrian army taken out of there; they want the Syrian army to come in.
The main demand that I heard was that they want the Syrian army to post itself on the rooftops of houses and prevent terrorist snipers from killing people. And those snipers are killing everybody – they’re killing if you are pro-Assad, anti-Assad, taking your kid to school it doesn’t matter because they kill you and then al-Jazeera and the BBC and France24 arrive and say, uh huh, another victim of the Assad regime.
This is, regarding the US, this is the Salvadorian option. People may remember about six years ago now at the beginning of 2005 there was a discussion inside the Pentagon on how to start a civil war in Iraq and they decided they would use the death squads that they had used in Latin America and Argentina in Central America and so forth; that they could bring that to Iraq, but part of that plan was already Syria because they regarded Syria as a part of it.
Now, the specific timing of what just happened – the head of the so-called Free Syrian Army, this colonel who is undoubtedly a NATO agent of some kind, made an ultimatum on Wednesday. He said I’m giving the Syrian government four days and they have to stop shooting, they basically have to surrender or else I will carry out some spectacular action. Well… here is the spectacular action.
The other thing I would stress is that the head of the observers, the Sudanese general al-Dabi, he wanted to go to Eskandarun, Turkey because that seems to be the main NATO base from where this is all being organized.
There has been a NATO airlift from Libya with about 600 to 1500 Libyan fighters from the Libyan Islamic Fighting group, in other words al-Qaeda, led by the infamous butcher Belhadj with all kinds of weapons stolen from Gaddaffi’s arms depots; you’ve got French and British Special Forces officers; you’ve got the CIA; you’ve got the US Joint Special Operations Command running communications. I’m sure given all this the Israelis cannot be far behind.
That’s going on in Eskandarun and you notice the vast majority of violence is in these peripheral areas, it’s either the Lebanese, the Turkish, the Iraqi or the Jordanian border because it’s all being brought in from outside.
The real commander of these death squads, because that’s what they are – it’s a cross border invasion – there is no civil war in Syria; there is no uprising in Syria per se. There’s a cross border invasion of these death squads and terrorists.
Belhadj – this is the butcher of Baghdad, he was killing Shiites in Baghdad for the US to start that infamous civil war. He’s the butcher of Tripoli now, he was part of the NATO invasion. The former prime minister of Spain, Aznar, has pointed out that Belhadj is one of the prime movers of the Madrid 2004 train bombing – so he’s also the butcher of Madrid.
So, Belhadj and his gang they would now like to become the butchers of Damascus and I can’t see how anybody in Syria wants this – you’re going to get a NATO bombing and then you’re going to be put under a bunch of Libyan al-Qaeda terrorists led by Belhadj. Not a good future for Syria.
Press TV: In terms of support that Assad does have in the country, we’ve heard varying degrees, but it’s more than half at a minimum up to 70 percent support with some undecided and some opposition, which is natural.
Is the violence and unrest in that country and its reaction maybe to the advantage of the revolutions and uprisings in pro-US governments like Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain for example – countries that the West calls the alliance of moderation?
Webster Tarpley: The goal of US and British NATO foreign policy in 2011 was the destabilization of all Arab and all Middle East governments almost without exception – maybe some monarchies not immediately, but the rest of them. Entrenched satraps like Mubarak or Ben Ali were dumped because these people had become powerful enough to say ‘no’ on certain issues. For example the US wanted Egyptian bases, Egyptian troops for Iraq and he had said no, so eventually they decided that they would get rid of him.
The goal of course is the destruction of the national state, which is what we’re seeing – partition, war lords, chaos, terrorists like Belhadj taking over the division we see in Iraq and so forth.
I would just like to point out that the financing of this in particular with the example of Belhadj, if Belhadj is this guy who’s been taken from Libya, put on a NATO plane and flown to Eskandarun leaving behind, as was mentioned, a civil war in Libya with the Misrata brigade fighting the other brigades; and the army wants money; it’s total chaos.
That’s fine from the US and British point of view, but when you look at Syria, what’s coming at them is Belhadj and his right-hand man is called el-Harrathi, he’s is Eskandarun and then there’s a guy in the background called el-Salibi and Salibi’s job is he delivers the money. For example, the wrecking of Libya cost about two billion dollars specifically from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar.
And I think you have to look at Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE as the people who are financing this. The direction is clearly NATO; the people on the ground are jihadists from Afghanistan from Iraq from all over, they’ve been brought in by NATO intelligence and the money is coming in from these reactionary monarchs.
Press TV: You have Saudi Arabia, you have Qatar that you mentioned and the United Arab Emirates that are helping. What is there to say that the US, ‘the Empire’ as our guest in London called them is not going to turn against them?
Webster Tarpley: There is no guarantee and eventually as the wheels turn every satrap becomes unbearable because every satrap becomes capable of saying no. So there is no security. I would warn the al-Thani family of Qatar. They think they’re sitting pretty; they won’t be for very long. If you sew the wind you will reap the whirlwind.
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[H/T: TARPLEY.net]
Free Speech Is On Thin Ice
- Dees Illustration
By Amir Alwani
Potent News
January 13, 2012
Is anybody noticing all the flak journalists are getting for trying to do their jobs lately? Free speech of any kind seems to be under attack. It is fairly common now to see people getting arrested for video-taping police officers. To add insult to injury, SOPA/PIPA threatens free speech and spells RED ALERT to almost everyone willing to look at the facts. Do any of you think you’ll get anywhere by submitting to any of this, sugar coating it, or looking the other way?
Now is the time to make ourselves heard. When someone encroaches on our liberty we have a duty to fight back.
The role of the mainstream media has traditionally been to limit debate and to basically be the mouthpiece of government. Conversely, the role of the responsibly minded media is to take advantage of technology and opportunities to spread important/urgent information – being our eyes and ears when we can’t be there.
In the Arabic language, when you Love someone you call that person “ee-oo-nee” which means my “eyes” (probably because they offer you another perspective which you see as crucial and valuable). Hijacked governments are taking our eyes, leaving us blind, deaf and dumb – politically impotent.
There is a lot to look forward to in the times ahead but we must first deal with history’s immense baggage which is manifesting in all sorts of grotesque ways now, allowing us to see our true colours. I see a lot of beauty in the world but our present situation is also a nightmarish science fiction scenario for many reasons. At this point we are about to marry that scenario’s much uglier cousin. We must speak now or forever hold our peace (pun fully intended). If you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about at this point, you have some catching up to do.
Those who witnessed the recent NDAA arrests shouldn’t be surprised at all. Here’s a brief glance at the political climate that has endured in the past couple years and what one might be faced with when trying to record a video, cover an event, attend a protest, have one’s voice heard in a public meeting, etc:
June 26 / June 27, 2010
November 22, 2010
January 7, 2011
June 8, 2011
June 24, 2011
August 22, 2011
August 31, 2011
December 16, 2011 – Culture has succumbed to the point where even a priest was practically kicked out of a town hall meeting recently, probably because they merely didn’t like the sound of his voice.
January 9, 2012
So it’s bad, right?
Don’t you think it’s a slippery slope if we keep letting this kind of thing slide? Over a year ago, State Sen. Bruce Patterson was proposing legislation that would introduce government-registered reporters. Mac Salvo wrote,
Once a reporter is licensed, the public would have the comfort of knowing that the writings, opinions, and insights being presented have been thoroughly sifted, filtered and edited to ensure the information is truthful and easy to understand.
The same population of gullible idiots that require government intervention when it comes to smoking cigarettes, drinking sodas, and salt intake, also need to be told what news they can consume.
I’ll be honest, I don’t know what the current state of affairs are regarding this legislation, but I agree with Salvo and here are my thoughts on the matter.
What was being proposed, albeit “voluntary”, was nothing more than government filtration of information. Our awareness is already extremely narrow and many human beings sadly go from the cradle to the grave without ever experiencing true happiness/bliss (except maybe as children). We need all the help we can get but we don’t need the style of help offered to us by government. The argument often used seems more or less like, “there’s a lot of stupid people out there and you can’t trust everybody so allow us to make sure the biggest and brightest get the spotlight and a chance. Have you no heart? For the love of GOD, let us help you by limiting your options and thinking for you. Let us be your God.”
Even if that argument was somewhat accurate – that is, even if the internet or the general arena of written work was in fact full of crap and you, for whatever reason, feared that people would take some unsavory (possibly dangerous) characters seriously – then it might be worthwhile to take a quick glance at Charlotte Iserbyt’s work because it might shed light on the why people are so ignorant these days and why there may be so much crap to filter through (if there even is indeed that much crap floating around shrouding the truth in a sea of mediocrity).
However, I personally don’t think it’s difficult for anybody to sift through the crap, whether it be online, in a physical library, or a newspaper. Furthermore, nobody is putting a gun to anybody’s head and saying, “believe Joe Blow’s blog or else”. It’s our responsibility to come to our own conclusions and if we’re never given the opportunity to practice that discernment and be able to say, “I did this research on my own”, then we are robbed of yet another freedom. If absurd laws like this were in place, nobody anywhere would be able to say they did the research on their own. You would have to say, “I did this research on my own, but every article I came across was preselected and hand-picked by my government” and so your government would be acting as a middle man.
More importantly, at the end of the day the whole idea of free speech is meant specifically for unpopular speech (probably because times of great change are usually led by a minority). Think about it. We need a great change right now. You’re not going to get it with the help of CNN.
Sometimes the presence of a middle man doesn’t work out so well. Why have a “middle-man” between you and reality? Why are so many people so desperate for powerful people, “experts”, and people with degrees to rule over them?
There is no real danger and there never was, except for maybe the danger posed by a psychopathic government’s obsession with control. Writing about what you see in your world is not the same as performing medical surgery or driving a vehicle. The world is not going to fall apart if one guy posts a slightly inaccurate blog every now and then by mistake. When you read a piece of news, you should critically think about it for yourself because you matter in the grand scheme of things. Chances are that your opinion of whatever piece of news comes your way is actually much more aligned with reality and conducive to genuine growth and maturity (for you and our species) than your government’s version of the events (at least when you can think clearly anyway).
If that still doesn’t make sense to you, consider the following. What if you even already have a degree (which some consider a scam in and of itself, by the way). What assurance can you honestly say you have that this “committee” Patterson is talking about, this bureaucratic arm of a monstrously corrupt and rampaging hijacked government will be fair when contemplating your qualifications (or that any future administration wouldn’t abuse those powers)? This is a hijacked government which, by the way, is controlled by a banking cartel which is hellbent on robbing people of their ability to eat real food, breath untainted air, and drink untainted water.
I would bet that if you did your homework you would have zero assurance that any “committee” like this would be looking out for your best interest.
A recent article titled “Mainstream Media To Bully Bloggers Out Of ‘Fair Use'” mentions,
The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, along with 28 other news organizations, are launching a company which hopes to further profit on their news reporting, by seeking to make paying customers out of websites or blogs which reproduce their content, either in full or in part.
So even if that Detroit legislator mentioned above didn’t get his way, we can see that the corporate oligarchy’s wheels are in motion and that the fight to suppress free speech is ever present.
When people’s websites get torn down or when reporters get arrested for filming a public event or for filming a police officer abusing his/her authority, the message there is simply. “shut up, slave. We own you.”
Sure, if all your life you’ve had a tendency to conform, you might be shortsighted enough to come up with some sort of rationalization for that kind of assault on your freedom but at the end of the day there is no justification for these pompous acts of domination, and worse, they are intertwined with an entire system of domination that has world depopulation at the heart of its agenda. Seen in this light, World War 3 is also not surprising.
Furthermore, when you look at the fact that many honest small businesses actually had their websites shut down and replaced with Department of Homeland Security logos falsely accusing them of being pedophiles and violating child porn laws that is obviously quite another story. I don’t think that’s a fumble. I find it difficult to believe such a mistake could be made. It is like saying, “Oops, I tripped and fell on the button that falsely accused your website of violating child porn laws”. I mean I can’t say for certain, but I’m pretty sure this is a joke or on purpose.
The solution? Do you even have to ask? What could it be?
Simple: Do not shut up. They can’t shut us all up.
I’m already seeing a huge surge of various names in the alternative news media expanding their operations. We do outnumber those pushing for the global genocidal tyranny.
If you do shut up, the powers that be say, “mission accomplished” and celebrate. Instead, listen to your “gut feeling” and act on it, please. You’d be doing me (and all of us) a huge favor.
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Judge Napolitano: What if they’re lying to you about Ron Paul? – Fox Business (video)
Fox Business
January 6, 2012
Anti-Assad Conspiracy: Bloody crime or paranoid fantasy? (video)
RT
January 11, 2012
Three people have reportedly been killed by security forces across Syria on Wednesday. Bashar Al-Assad has spoken to supporters in Damascus for the second time in the last 24 hours, reiterating his dismissal of calls to step down. He’s blaming the ten-month-long unrest in the country on foreign-funded terrorists, promising to crush them with extreme prejudice. The UN says Damascus has stepped up its crackdown on protesters, but Assad claims no order was ever given to fire on civilians. The President’s pledged commitment to Democratic reform, promising a referendum on a new constitution by March, and free elections soon after. RT talks to independent news editor James Corbett.
Syria: Deadly price of pursuing change
by NewsBot
End the Lie
January 9, 2012
Amid heavy criticism for failing to stop violence in Syria, the Arab League has renewed calls for the regime to end bloodshed and open its borders to more observers. As the carnage continues, many say they are paying too high a price for change.
The observers held a meeting with the governor of Damascus, Hussein Makhlouf, on Sunday and visited a local hospital to meet with relatives of the victims of recent violence.
As the country edges ever closer towards civil war, hundreds of people from both sides are losing their lives every month – opposition, pro-regime, civilians, soldiers and children alike.
On Friday, another suicide bombing in Damascus was yet further evidence of the escalating conflict. The attack hit the central Damascus neighborhood of al-Midan, killing 26 and wounding dozens. And all this has continued to take place with Arab League observers on the ground.
“We went to the League and asked them to help,” a local woman said. “But they did not want to listen to us and did not respond to our complaints.”
Exactly who is responsible for what is happening in the country right now remains far from clear.
In an effort to shed light on the situation, people have continued to risk their lives getting information out of the country. Gene Sharp, a leading expert on non-violent revolution, calls the actions of the Syrian people “quite amazing.”
“Even though so many people have been killed, they are going out on the streets,” said Sharp, a senior Scholar at the Albert Einstein Institution in Boston. “When the population loses its fear, that is a great achievement towards success.”
But the opposition itself is becoming increasingly divided, with more and more Army deserters joining its ranks and calling for a violent overthrow of the government.
“The danger now is that those soldiers who have been moved by these developments and defected from the Syrian army have concluded that they need to use violence to fight the rest of the Syrian army. If they want to succeed, that is not the way to do it,” explains Sharp.
The Arab League has once again renewed calls for the violence from all sides to end, having met to review their findings so far.
All across the country right now people are fighting tooth and nail for the right to determine their own future.
Despite government promises, many people now feel that simply too many lives have been lost, too much blood has been shed, for anything other than real change to be an option.
Source – http://rt.com/news/syria-observer-mission-price-379/
