The Social Media Influence Currency can be Measured in the Events of the Occupy Movement.

If I was to measure the influence behind specific events and their currency through social media, the score would look something like this. I would give a score of about 90, on a scale of 1-100, to Anthony Bologna for macing the hippy girls. The reason I give it a 90, is that it brought more attention to the occupy movement at an early crux point and alerted people like Jon Stewart and Keith Olbermann to chime in with follow up stories, and probably gave the movement it’s first celebrity. “Tony Baloney”..

Next I’d say was the 50 I’d give to the Boston Police for the 100 arrests that were so called Anarchists, that the protesters called the cops because these so called anarchists were going to start trouble and weren’t part of the protest. The fact is that the entire movement is anarchist in nature, according to a Bloomberg Business article, quoting David Graeber , who helped to facilitate the entire General Assembly modality, that is leaderless and considers everyone equal. The reason the score is lower than Tony B’s is that it added some interest, but not as much and no one got famous that day.

The next big score would have to go to the Mayor of Oakland, who was in DC while the Oakland Police were cleaning up the park by removing the protesters she had agreed to warn ahead of time, but didn’t. Her excuse was that she was out of town, more like out of the loop and that’s not very mayoral! This one gets a 99 for it’s cinematic brilliance, which managed to rival my favorite scene in Apocalypse Now; the glow, the explosions. It was almost worthy of an Oscar. The real icing on the cake, that really put it over the top of Tony’s score, was definitely the footage of the crowd carrying Scott Olsen, a 24 year old Iraq Vet and ex marine, after being shot in the head with an ordinance from the Oakland police. That score will be tough to beat, but something tells me there more coming. Especially after the Denver skirmish yesterday when police there used pepper spray to disband the crowd if protesters. Can you say “Constitutional”?

Look I figure not everybody is going to que in on the fact that the crowd is armed with smarphones and that everything is being spammed on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. I’m sure my grandma hasn’t, but the civil authorities who pride themselves on knowing the enemy so well. Come on man, think about it. If the influence of radical and illegal police actions only at best manage to whip up a viral frenzy, don’t you think they’d climb out of their illusions of authority and try something different, like supporting the protests. I know these guys have jobs and should be grateful, but I’m sure they are probably helping someone in the family who lost their job; and if things keep progressing, it’s highly probable that the city might be making more cut backs and their jobs are going to seem pretty tenuous at some point.

Oh well… I suppose that it really doesn’t matter, well most of it. I know my heart goes out to Scott Olsen for taking one for the team. It sucks that he’s even hurt at all! Wouldn’t it be amazing if the cities involved (most all of them) did crazy stuff like roll in those portable toilets they always seem to have by the hundreds at the county fair, donate a few generators, or (and I know thus might sound a bit communist) possibly help with feeding the homeless instead if complaining that they’re a fucking threat to the community. Some of these guys built your homes, your roads and your schools, you ungrateful idiots.

So I guess it comes down to this fact, and this is a fact… There is no way you can win this battle when everything you do is like money in the bank for the social media influence. Every viral video that shows off the truth about the massive imbalance of representation pays the occupy movement more and more social media influence currency each time you fail the test of loyalty to the tax payers who make your jobs possible. At some point there will be only one of two choices, that this will all come down to, either get with the people and do your part in our community or don’t! Either way, the people win!

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Socialmedia Influence – Currency of the Future is now available on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.de

Michael Light started Endoflex in 2006 to report the beginnings of the Subprime Mortgage Industry Fallout and has continued with the recent Occupy – United for Global Change.

Occupy Wall Street has changed the way we see the media, and it’s relationship to the powerful influencers of the World, and may even be the spark that ignites the shift from monetary policy influence to Socialmedia Influence. Michael Light reveals this shift in his book with a succinctly humorous history of influence and the shifts that have preceded what may be the next Global paradigm shift.

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The Mainstream Media PR vs. Socialmedia Influence

The last few days of national media coverage has made it pretty clear we’ve entered the next phase of posturing for the influence currency of the Nations attention. Oakland being the obvious one where a 24 year old Iraq veteran, who served two tours, was shot in the head with a flash projectile.

The media decided to go with, “no one knows who launched the projectile that hit him”, while several witnesses said the police were firing tears gas and flash bombs at the crowd around eye level. It reminds me of the type of backlash that came from authorities during the civil rights movement.

The latest spin from the mainstream media has been from mayors who say that laws must be respected, as hundreds of people across the country have been arrested for “suspicion of illegal lodging”, as well as reporting that the protesters have been testing the patience of residence in the area, with noise, unsanitary conditions and drunken fighting. They have also complain that the camps are becoming a refuge for the homeless.. It’s a pretty pathetic response to a constitutionally bound exercise of the people rights to free speech, free assembly, and the right to petition the government for a redress grievances.

Ironically the parks authorities are claiming belong to the people are the ones they are trying to control. The fact is that “parks” are listed as one of several places considered to be public forums for legal protests, according to the supreme court. Also it should be noted that the first amendment is consider above all other laws in this country. If the homeless want to gather and protest it’s their right and doesn’t fall under social moray judgements of who can and can’t participate in protests. Obviously if there was more jobs and more affordable housing there would be less homeless. The real issue they help to point out by being their is the massive imbalance in the economic conditions the banks created with unregulated and horribly risky lending practices, not to mention betting against their own investors. It’s a shame really, that this even needs to be mentioned and that our whole culture still resists the idea of community.

I would like to praise Keith Olbermann for his diligence in reporting the truth, as well as The Last Word on MSNBC. Otherwise the news is still only available through the social media sites, which has remained highly effective at getting word out.

Now we are about to see how far the system is willing to separate themselves from the people they serve with a recent introduction of a bill in the house that is the first cannon fired in the war. This bill wants to hold sights like YouTube and Facebook legally responsible for the content of their sites. That way they can just make up charges like inciting mayhem and shut the site down. It doesn’t matter if the law is unconstitutional as long as they have a way to tie them up in court while the cops do whatever they want. The key is they silence the social media influence behind people seeing reports in their daily status. Out of sight out if mind.

Ironically this won’t work at all. The fact is that if legal measures shut down the big sites like Facebook there will be ten other to take it’s place. The problem is this law attacks the very thing they seem to be trying to protect and that’s the successful businesses and corporations out there. Facebook if estimated to be worth $80+ billion dollars. Its one of the job providers in the US and you want to destroy that in order to protect the banks? I think it’s time to check the signatures on your paychecks kids. You’re supposed to be working for the people who sign them, not the ones who print them!

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Socialmedia Influence – Currency of the Future is now available on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.de

25% of royalties go to support the Occupywallstreet Movement.

Michael Light started Endoflex in 2006 to report the beginnings of the Subprime Mortgage Industry Fallout and has continued with the recent Occupy – United for Global Change.

Occupy Wall Street has changed the way we see the media, and it’s relationship to the powerful influencers of the World, and may even be the spark that ignites the shift from monetary policy influence to Socialmedia Influence. Michael Light reveals this shift in his book with a succinctly humorous history of influence and the shifts that have preceded what may be the next Global paradigm shift.

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Occupy Earth and Occupy Yer Self Cause the Good Ole Days is a Gone!

You know the old saying, if Americans can’t afford a house, we’ll just start selling them to someone else, and if they don’t live here we’ll give them visas. And the other saying we’re all familiar with, if you came here just for the education, wait, we’ll give you a visa so you can stay and work too! Oh, and my favorite, if you let us build a military defense system in your eastern European country we’ll kick down a bunch of summer work visas so when we visit our own national parks we can be taken care of by your students instead if ours!

I know some of you might be a bit confused and might not remember many of these old cliches. I admit it’s been some time since we sold out our own for a new fold. Let me think, that would have been before most of you were born, but maybe some of you remember. I think it was around the turn of the century. You know, when we used to lock the polish immigrants in the factory until their 15 hour shifts were over.

If I remember correctly there was a fire in one of those which really messed it up for the rest of us, or we’d probably still be gathering new folks from other countries still, but only when the folks we have start to ban together and ask for things like food and water while their working. That really cuts into their productivity if you ask me.

Look I hate to be the dick here, but don’t we have something like 12% real unemployment. I know it’s a bit inconvenient to keep counting the ones that no longer count, but really! Now you want to give foreigners visas so they can buy the homes you just kicked our unemployed asses out of. Better yet, why don’t you up the ante on the next generation and offer them visas if they’ll vote for your party in the future. Seems like the next best thing to telling the truth and actually having to support your constituency base. Oh wait, that’s not us I forgot. That’s for the 1% and we’re just here to get fucked as often as it fits your political bullshit.

And don’t worry about the fact that there are way more of us than you, cause we’re way to dumb to see through all your powerful talking points and misdirections. In fact we’re so dam close to hill billies that you might as well kill us fir be’n so codependent. Probably the only way you’ll really get any real rest at night.

Now that I seem to have your attention, let me tell you what’s going to happen next so that you won’t be totally caught off-guard when the lights go out! A day will come, and it’s coming soon, that you will open the news paper and find out that confidence in the fiat currencies, you’ve bled the world around you by, won’t be worth toilet paper. I know what you’re thinking, that you already knew and hedged your billions in metals, which frankly will help, but not you. In fact the few coins that people do have will be passed around a few times and the raw truth will suddenly dawn on the others, like a vision, that we don’t need to trade anything. That it was all just an idea that was held in place by the fear of the unknown.

Shame too, that you spent everything you had trying to save a failing idea, while we built an entirely new way of experiencing right In front of you, but you couldn’t figure it out. You tried. We watched you and to you it all seemed like a game without rules or an outcome, nothing you could stop or control, so you considered it an unimportant shadow.

You know what the true irony of it all is? That you will be forced to need. Not by any of us, but by your own actions. You’ll really wish there was an Armageddon that would spare you from living in a world without gold plated fixtures and Latvian maids, but mostly you’ll have to live with yourself among us. In plain clothing we made without your investment. And they won’t cost you a dime and we’ll love you for asking and yes of course will always be our true flag of unity!

Here’s a clue, and it won’t be enough for you to realize it in time, but more of something to reflect on when you finally build up the courage to come out side. It’s the same thing that set Harry Potter apart from himself. The thing that pooh could never speak. It’s the sound of a bee on a warm afternoon and a field of flowers without toil. And you can not monetize it, no matter how hard you try. So when it all comes crashing down around you just remember. I and a few friends did this and never fired a shot! Not really. Actually, you did this to yourself… And what a fucking ride that was!

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Socialmedia Influence – Currency of the Future is now available on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.de

25% of royalties go to support the Occupywallstreet Movement.

Michael Light started Endoflex in 2006 to report the beginnings of the Subprime Mortgage Industry Fallout and has continued with the recent Occupy – United for Global Change.

Occupy Wall Street has changed the way we see the media, and it’s relationship to the powerful influencers of the World, and may even be the spark that ignites the shift from monetary policy influence to Socialmedia Influence. Michael Light reveals this shift in his book with a succinctly humorous history of influence and the shifts that have preceded what may be the next Global paradigm shift.

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Fair Trade vs. Capitalism – Truth vs. Theory

One of the things I don’t hear anyone talking about or writing about, other than Michael Lewis, is the real reason why the economy is in its current state. The major component of this defect is the notion that anything can be restored while this missing link is ignored.

Right now the heads of economics are wrangling with the heads of policy and everyone just wants to come out of it on the other side. The biggest problem with that cliche right now are the false premises being exercised which are only helping exasperate the issues plaguing the current system. The first and most spouted misnomer is the idea that the solution is relying on better times ahead, when the banks start loaning and housing prices stop falling, which will lead to higher employment and an increase in consumer spending. Presto!

It is explicative to Ben Bernanke’s actions of printing money. The idea that the economic system is like a machine that needs fuel is only one of the dynamics of its engineering. Yes, fuel makes the car go, but there are literally millions of moving part and just paying attention to the obvious one obviously isn’t solving the issue.

One thing I think worth mentioning is Keynesian economic theory which states that a certain amount of influence (interference) can benefit the system. It has become vogue for economists to bet this theory at every corner without considering that that its a supply side theory. For instance, when the banks went into collapse, it would have been pertinent to let them. This is a supply side deficit and points out it’s error; the banks having been deregulated stopped doing correct risk assessment and took it in the ass for it.

Some people might think that means regulation is good, but it doesn’t matter. There wasn’t any in this case and it collapsed. It’s not the fault of regulation it was the banks lending and risk modality. Giving them all the peoples money to save them wasn’t fair for the people. If we’re going to bail them out then yes regulation is in order, but the banks lobbied for the freedom to assess their own risks and lost sight of facts along the way. So, fuck’em! All the help is doing now is dragging everyone else down with them! It’s not like their going to start loaning money now that they can see the realities of the issues that aren’t really being solved.

The argument used to get everyone to buy this solution in the first place was the threat of losing the banking industry which would put us in a total collapse and it would take years to recover form it. This solution doesn’t really benefit the rest of the system. It’s a real catch 22.

Now if we consider the real issues behind the problem then the proper diagnosis can be made. The first issue is the derivatives industry surrounding mortgages. Breaking up mortgages into bite size pieces changed there value to no longer reflect the truth they represented. As a condition of this mistake, it caused the housing markets to be oversold, thus inflating housing prices and by osmosis flipped all the asset wealth in the US into the debit column. In other words is created liquidity appear that wasn’t real.

The other thing it did was peg the value of the dollar to the value of property indirectly. This way, as long as housing prices continued to move up it goes unnoticed. Since this has been the case for the previous 71 years no one could have guessed it would be all that likely to occur again.

In 2006 when it started, the FED could have stepped in and forced an immediate consolidation of all the mortgage securities. It could have been a federal buy back and would have cost everyone holding these security whatever percentage would have been fair to write-down and would have completely restored confidence. Confidence was the leading cause of the banks ending lending in 08 when the shit hit the fan. The LIBOR rose 200 basis points in one day and nothing has been back to business since.

Instead the decision was made to pour trillions of dollars into the problem every year since and guess what… The problem isn’t solved. I remember hearing everyone giving Bernanke all this praise for his credentials as a Harvard Genius who had studied the Great Crash and knew what he was doing. Obama left the guy in his position because he believed that his familiarity with what was happening was essential to the position and that just tells me that neither of these guys are smart enough to understand economics as dynamical as the current US economy, let alone globally.

So, now there are millions of people in the streets to protest the mess we now in and to them it us simple greed that caused all the problems. It’s very likely that the president really does little in regard to true economic policy, I mean he doesn’t even understand it right! If he did he would have seen Ben as an issue needing to be resolved rather than rewarded. In essence is greed, but really it’s just plain old ignorance when it comes down to it. Occupywallstreet isn’t going to get the system to humility. If anything the media is now just using them to press their own agenda which happens to be aligned with the Fed’s ridicules assumptions about how to get thing back to where they were and dude… I don’t mean to be disrespectful by saying this, but you really need to rethink the entire system at this point. Fighting to keep it is insane!

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Socialmedia Influence – Currency of the Future is now available on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.de

25% of royalties go to support the Occupywallstreet Movement.

Michael Light started Endoflex in 2006 to report the beginnings of the Subprime Mortgage Industry Fallout and has continued with the recent Occupy – United for Global Change.

Occupy Wall Street has changed the way we see the media, and it’s relationship to the powerful influencers of the World, and may even be the spark that ignites the shift from monetary policy influence to Socialmedia Influence. Michael Light reveals this shift in his book with a succinctly humorous history of influence and the shifts that have preceded what may be the next Global paradigm shift.

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It NOT the Global Village I was Expecting!

Today the whole World can be witness to one of the greatest shifts in our collective consciousness. We have done the impossible by taking action to build a global village. This village isn’t the kind of village you’re probably thinking. You won’t be fetching water or tilling a field in this village.

I’ll tell you about the village in a moment, but first let me tell you about an event happening right now. The expression is being seen as thousands and thousands of people gathered in the streets of most cities around the world. And although their cause is just, it isn’t their most incredible accomplishment which is truly unimaginably creative. That little gem belongs to the phenomenal accomplishment of building network of Facebook pages with names like occupy Hamburg, and Vancouver… Wall Street.

Now coming back to the village again, these pages have literally become the heart of a plethora village, with built in tools to connect us through a movement which finally gives us the chance to deeply express our desire to be a healthy and balanced community.

There is a lot of general uncertainty out there about what is really happening. The media has been pretty quiet unless they feel it can help the current system. For awhile the democrats thought they might be able to Co’op the event, but I think it a bit too big for them now that it’s global.

I’m curious what they’ll say about it. It seems a bit to large to ignore at this point, but if the paradigm shift is to meet with resistance it would be there at the crux between the forces behind and the people  effects and the media is the way!

So the event has been a really incredible social study that’s managed to yield a brilliant solution for the coming economic challenges that just seem to be piling up; slowly teetering over. This obscure network may just be the net to catch our fall. It may give us an entirely different society for sure. How apropos is it that the whole things going to happen on fucking Facebook… Ten bucks says this was their business plan. Shouldn’t have picked on The nerds!
Facebook/OccupyEarthUnited

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Socialmedia Influence – Currency of the Future is now available on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.de

25% of royalties go to support the Occupywallstreet Movement.

Michael Light started Endoflex in 2006 to report the beginnings of the Subprime Mortgage Industry Fallout and has continued with the recent Occupy – United for Global Change.

Occupy Wall Street has changed the way we see the media, and it’s relationship to the powerful influencers of the World, and may even be the spark that ignites the shift from monetary policy influence to Socialmedia Influence. Michael Light reveals this shift in his book with a succinctly humorous history of influence and the shifts that have preceded what may be the next Global paradigm shift.

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What the Occupy Movement Isn’t, Won’t Stop What it IS!

In the rush of air that quickly formed the most organized shift in the history of the World, it seems that most people have completely overlooked what it really is that has been created. I expected the Corporate Banker’s Political Media Team to be to blind to see it, but hadn’t realized the subtlety would be overlooked by the most seemingly active participants. Even I have been surprised by it’s direction, but truly relieved to see that it worked so well despite its over exuberant cause driven anxiety, but that’s what we’ve been trained to experience…

Many believe that the people gathering on the streets around the Globe are going to do something to change the World when in fact they have already done the impossible. These amazing groups of people will someday be recognized as the architects of our next generations system of global continuity; the global village.

Still not getting it? Let me be more specific. The change isn’t what we accomplish really, but how we went about it. Right now there are several hundred individual Facebook Pages named after every location on Earth. Each of these pages are, in essence the foundation of a future system of governance. It is a way for communities to be self determined and will eventually include everyone, all 100% and not just 1% claiming to be the 99.

The goal in this movement is to bring down the existing power structure and restore the power of individuals to make there own determinant choices about how they, as a community, want to live on this planet, and that’s exactly what they did. They built the infrastructure to catch the fall if a dying system.

This is why the mainstream media and the politicians that pride themselves on being in control can’t stop it. It’s not an outcome and that’s what they are used to controlling. The corporate bankers fund them both and expect them to accomplish their intentions for controlling the mob, using this formula of telling people how to live, through psychological media tools like popular ideas and their populous endorsements of repetitious talking points. It builds consensus!

Over the last few years I have been watching the existing power moguls swallowing up all the gold and silver futures contracts, while their main instrument, the Federal Reserve, intentionally devalues the all mighty dollar.

I’m sure they are not complete idiots about the fate of fiat currencies and it would seem that their plan was to take the system, they spent the last 200 years exploiting, back to the gold standard once the Worlds Fiat economy collapsed under the weight of it’s own need for growth. They call it inflation, but it’s really just a systemic flaw that had to be engineered to overcome the constant loss of the interests on loans made over years and years.

Here the one flaw that is the monkey wrench in their Global control mission. No one else has enough gold or silver to play in the new world order, so now what. Well for awhile it will seem like they are sitting pretty large, with their big ole stacks of cash, and the prices for these metals will rage. And the question isn’t when. It is in fact occurring now.

The boom we just passed through over the last 30 years to get to the subprime mortgage fallout was a pretty simple trick called flipping assets into debt. If fact the total pool of liquidity that emerged from tempting ma and pa kettle to sell that old house, as the market values increased, was all part of the plan. It allowed the banks to loan a bunch of money to everybody who wanted it.

Shit, they were so pleased with things that at one point they didn’t even care if you had any credit, cause this ride was never going to end.. That is, as long as housing prices didn’t collapse. Now everyone is in a panic about how to solve this little problem of consolidation. And they decided to sell everyone out, as usual, and start hoarding metals thinking they could still finance there own life styles on the back of the 99% who still haven’t figured out their getting slaughtered real soon, but there is one thing they or you and I never saw coming… socialmedia! And now everyone is starting to pay attention to each other instead of the talking points!

Sure, some people are going to take a bit longer to realize that Capitalism isn’t the only method of living a healthy life, but when the monies gone it’s really going to be up to everyone to decided what were going to do next, and thanks to a largely idealistic group of people who knew something needed to happen, we now have a way to plan it out and execute it.
Facebook/OccupyEarthUnited

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Socialmedia Influence – Currency of the Future is now available on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.de

25% of royalties go to support the Occupywallstreet Movement.

Michael Light started Endoflex in 2006 to report the beginnings of the Subprime Mortgage Industry Fallout and has continued with the recent Occupy – United for Global Change.

Occupy Wall Street has changed the way we see the media, and it’s relationship to the powerful influencers of the World, and may even be the spark that ignites the shift from monetary policy influence to Socialmedia Influence. Michael Light reveals this shift in his book with a succinctly humorous history of influence and the shifts that have preceded what may be the next Global paradigm shift.

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Occupy Earth United for Global Change – Oct. 15th. 2011

On October 15th the entire World will stand in the place they live and Unite the World in a movement that began as Occupy Wall Street, sponsored by the Canadian magazine Adbusters. It is being called United for Global Change. #Occupywallstreet as it is referred to on Twitter, began as a grass roots move to call attention to the extreme imbalances that have been growing in the World’s Economic system. It has all but been completely ignored by the mainstream media and when the news is covered it has been laced with shades of PR “talking points” reflecting several different interests.

It would appear from the slants being conveyed in the media that Democrats believe they can Co’op the movement and turn it into possible legislature to help push plans through Congress that will give them more clout to tax the rich to pay for job bills. While the right wing has called the event in Wall Street a “Class War” and “Dangerous”, and Glenn Beck has gone so far as to suggest that these protestors have intentions to drag people out into the streets and “kill” them. It just amazes me that so much slander around a movement that has the sole intention to call for a more “Participatory Democracy”, according to organizers in Boston.

Several failings in the attempts to discredit the movement have begun to shift people over to new sources of information for the news surrounding the events taking place, now in every major city in the US and on Oct. 15th in every major city around the World. No news has come out of China as to whether they will attempt to join Western forces in their move toward Solidarity against what is being referred to as the “Corporate Banking Political Media Group”. I’ve always just called it Capitalism, which seems to be up against the same possible fate that fell upon Communism in the 90′s. Central leadership always seems to fall victim to monetary control and looses sight of it’s main constituency, which is people!

Some news people have spoken out against the mainstream media’s blatant disregard and close to slander of the events, especially Keith Olbermann who has become a huge proponent of Twitter as the one place that anyone can find almost all the news being reported. The entire event and every local event is being organized on Facebook with page named after each event, OccupyLondon for instance is the “occupy” event taking place to protest the London Stock Exchange. Events can be search using either Facebook or Twitter and specific news being posted is listed according to each event. For the London Exchange it would post with the hashmarked version of the Facebook page, #occupyLondon. It is also possible to follow each groups Twitter account @occupyLSX, and so forth.

It amazes me still to see how long the media is holding out on acknowledging this isn’t a bunch of pot smoking hippies, but as has happened in NY and now in Boston, it is being helped by the Labor Unions and people of every age group and occupation! The divided has become so critical in this writers mind that it will be difficult if not impossible for them to ever regain the public trust enough to ever be considered a valid or credible news source.  So, rather than expecting to hear about the events in your area, cause there will probably be little to none, get a Twitter account or look up your specific area on Facebook to get all the news relevant to your location! And don’t believe the mainstream media when they quote the now famous “talking point” that this is an unorganized group of kids without a clear message. The message is quite clear! Occupy – United for Global Change has organized an entire World Event on Oct. 15th 2011 to show solidarity for Economic Justice, and they have done it using Social Media!

Facebook/OccupyEarthUnited

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Socialmedia Influence – Currency of the Future is now available on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.de

25% of royalties go to support the Occupywallstreet Movement.

Michael Light started Endoflex in 2006 to report the beginnings of the Subprime Mortgage Industry Fallout and has continued with the recent Occupy – United for Global Change.

Occupy Wall Street has changed the way we see the media, and it’s relationship to the powerful influencers of the World, and may even be the spark that ignites the shift from monetary policy influence to Socialmedia Influence. Michael Light reveals this shift in his book with a succinctly humorous history of influence and the shifts that have preceded what may be the next Global paradigm shift.

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OccupyWallStreet is Evolution in the Making – Worldwide on Oct. 15th 2011

A friend recently attended at meeting the took place at Missoula’s Montana University held to explain occupywallstreet. It was hosted by a Republican and Democratic politician and led her to believe that the Democratic Party believes they are going to Co’op the Occupy Movement.

I think it is important to keep in mind that the movement may have been sourced by the need to change an entire system of abuse from both parties and shouldn’t be considered a political gesture on the part of the citizens attending to give credit to one party or the other. In fact George Washington warned Americans early on not to let a party system develop in order to “preserve” the democracy they had fought for.

One of the emplacements log echoed into the minds of Americans through the mainstream media has been the idea that anything other than the system we are supporting, mainly Capitalism, would result in socialism, communism, or worse anarchy. These things have been made to appear as the enemy of Capitalism and this paranoia has gotten so thick that even a peaceful demonstration is being called out as a Class War. It’s pathetic!

Frankly I don’t see the Occupy Movement as anything remotely resembling any of there social fears the media is attempting to project. I see it more as a shift in “Influence”. For the last 200 years, money has been the greatest source of influence on the planet and now that reign is being threatened by social media!

If you think about it, not even the rich would likely do the things they are doing, right now, if not for the rewards involved. Some people think we should just remove the money from politics to settle the matter, but they’ve been saying that since democracy started in Greece.

The fact of the matter is that what is really shifting right now is the mode of communication and information. Social media removes all the filters and allows people to organize beyond the influence of currency, and this change will have lasting effects.

So what it comes down to is not a threat to a way of life, but rather how it is influenced. It is a way for the Imbalances that have been fostered by currency influence to be restored. It is a way for the natural state of humanity, namely empathy, to be regained. This, our ancestors, knew when we were tribes living together for the sake of the tribe. That as a whole working “together” we are more capable than as individuals struggling alone.

I don’t think there is anyone to blame for what we have become, as a planet. It seems natural that we would experience thing in order to understand them;  lest we be condemned to repeat these unlearned. I think we are evolving as a Global Community and part of that is struggling to comprehend our World, and through this we grow and learn and act accordingly.

Some people have been asking me if I think the movement will lose steam. I think they are getting thus idea from the Democratic “talking points” being repeated over and over by the mainstream media. And what I believe is that you can not stop the evolution of the planet, no matter how hard one tries. In fact it only seems to be helping speed things up!!

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Mainstream Media “Talking Points” That Need to be Addressed! – Occupywallstreet

An Aritle released today by the Associated Press, by Christian Salazar paints the occupywallstreet movement, which expands to a global movement on Oct. 15th, as a movement that has still NOT reached the level of “credible”.

Several “talking point” were revealed in this article that show how the mainstream media have decided to slant the issues being addressed. One of the most important factors of this PR driven slander is the very lack of attention it gives to one of the movements core ideals; that being the financial communities relationship with the World’s political systems and their combined control of the media. Not entirely surprising!

What the article does provide is plenty of “credibility” to several of their talking points, coming from past heavyweights from the social equality movement of the 60′s, namely Andrew Young, Reverend Al Sharpton, and Reverend Jesse Jackson, in order to build to build the case that the movement needs a leader in order to make real change.

I find it frustrating that these types of articles and news stories continue to compare it to the Tea Baggers, which are not even in the same league as the Occupy movements Worldwide, but seem to be more evident, on their own, a huge part of the existing paradigm. They have referred to our Constitutional Rights to free speech, freedom of assembly, and the freedom to petition the government as a Class War! How dare the media measure that as comparable.

Another “talking point” that seriously needs addressing is their total failure to acknowledge that the Occupy Movement needs some kind of leader, when clearly central leaderships have led to the current economic collapse, that has been that has been one of the core motivations behind these numbers. And frankly, Mr. Salazar, I believe it is NOT National unorganized criticisms out there… It is fucking GLOBAL!

The last of the talking points I’d like to address is the “demands of the protesters crystallizing around taxing the rich”, is ludicrous. And US Rep. Jim Clayburn of South Carolina, describing it as “the most heart warming thing since President Obama’s Election”, I consider to be one of the most condescending statements to the intelligence I’ve ever heard. Maybe these idiots just can’t fathom that we are smart enough to see through this trite, or maybe they have been so blinded by their own PR Tools that they really believe everyone is actually an idiot that wants to be spoon fed their direction in life with little sound bites.

So lets give thanks where it’s due. I hate leaving a sour note to topics. Thanks everyone who participated in this AP article, for showing your true colors. We could not have seen through your attempts to defame the hard work of millions of brilliant facilitators, coordinators, and supporters Globally, who are protesting you, specifically and everything you represent! In fact, without you, trying to define our participation in Capitalism to seem humanitarian and fare, we’d probably still be enjoying the abundance of a balanced economic system instead of gearing up for Winter on the Streets of our discontent!

OccupyEarth – United for Change Oct. 15th 2011

What started a small group of dedicated revolutionaries in Wall Street has gone viral over the last three weeks and become a Global call for real change. Beginning on October 15th, every major city tied into the western geopolitical system will stand United as one voice.

Ironically, but not entirely unexpected, the World’s mainstream media have taken sides with the system being threaten by this movement and chosen to ignore it. Even after being chided by Keith Olbermann didn’t bring them around to see that if they are to be respected as news agencies, they need to report the news rather than ignoring the people they have only attempted to downplay as unimportant children with no goals.

Facebook has become one the places where the news is being reported and more and more people have begun flocking there for insights to what is happening on the streets. Facebook pages named “occupy” have sprung up by the hundreds, for every city and town hosting actions. One of the pages, #occupyEarth has stepped up and through “likes” collected all the others into a single news feed, to help get the word out. They have also dedicated the page “notes” application, to begin warehousing the declarations made by the councils of each individual “occupy” collective.

When asked in New York’s Wall Street location about leadership, there response it that The movement is leaderless. OccupyEarth, in support of this has chosen only to act as a clearing house for news and information, and will post every declaration, preserving the autonomy of every group action.

With the myriad “occupy” Facebook pages supporting each local activity, occupyEarth does not see itself as a leader, but rather a servant to the movement, gathering only the information being provided by the many pages on Facebook, to help simplify a record of the wide scope of changes taking place. The reason for this is transparency and openness.

If the effects around the World, on Oct. 15th, are anything like the one taking place in Occupywallstreet, the movement is likely to reflect a worldwide middle east spring and could very well change the Global paradigm of capitalism, that seems to have run it’s course. The World, in my opinion, has never been so exciting.