Everyone is Cashing in on Occupy’s Social Media Influence Currency for Their Own Means.

Austerity measures at the state levels are beginning to heat up in the mainstream media. A recent article in Bloomberg online sets the stage for an obvious upcoming political debate, as sides are being drawn over where the cuts in the flailing Illinois budget will come from.

As we progressively distance ourselves from the collapse of the real estate bubble, one day at a time, national, state, and local governments are beginning to face the realities of a shrinking pool of tax income. State after state are trimming fat and looking for new ways to try and keep the doors open as their legislators grapple for the shrinking dollars available to keep their pet projects fed, and earmarks covered, that got them elected.

It is not surprising to see them finding clever ways to utilize the currency of influence that has been gained by the social media success of the occupywallstreet movement; getting opinions from a 22 year old photographer to strengthen their claims for needing to reduce the retirement fund for state employees. As backwards as it seems, all the political factions seem to know a lot more about using the cash of social media influence, accumulated by OWS, as a currency than the movements members. According to a recent poll 37% of Americans support the occupy movement, which gives them a ton of influence currency! The mainstream media, on the other hand, has been spending it for pushing agendas and sponsoring PR campaigns to convince a confused public into believing ideas about that might not be true at all.

In fact, more of their influence has been spent by the Obama administration in a bid to pass a jobs plan through congress than has been spent by the movement itself. It has become a small treasure for just about everyone on capital hill, as they position themselves for the next election. Some have called the group a class war and others a mob, from the opposition, which has really backfired when it comes to the idea if patriotism and how this might reflect in their views of the constitutional right to free speech. Some Tea Baggers have even blamed Obama for cosponsoring it or blame him for causing it through failed policies. It’s an interesting take on it, but I think most Americans can see who isn’t allowing any policies with filibusters. In essence the Right seems to be holding the people of America and the government hostage in order to blame Obama for everything they can. It’s pretty weak and Americans really aren’t that stupid, if you ask me.

If the occupy movement, which some people have claimed needs to jump to the next level, could find a way to invest this treasure of new found influence wealth they might be able to spend it on real change. 37% of America is already behind them and consider the movement a good investment. One of the biggest [Occupy] campaign investors is news like the videos that are flying around the internet from on the ground in Oakland. It seems to be a blatant ignorance about the power of social media and what is really motivating America right now. Every time one of these viral videos gets picked up and spread, it just deepens the conflict and engages more and more of the public sentiment. Now all the Occupy movement needs to do is start spending it on the right investments and compound the interest, but then again, maybe the cops will just keep donating!

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

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 Influence of Social Media is Currency.

Most of us think of money when we hear the word currency. It’s quite natural in the way we use and reflect on it our everyday lives as the currency modality we are conditioned, through behavior, to agree with. Essentially it is an agreement that we use money as our currency. In the past we have had different agreements and right now it is money. You cannot walk into the bank, at least not my bank, and make a mortgage payment with trade beads or silver ingots.

One of the realities of money is that billions of people all around the world are doing things, they might not do otherwise, to get money. We consider it, maybe only on a subconscious level, to be an exchange for our time that we use money to purchase the things we want. Some folks might actually know this in a conscious way, that the things we do for a living is purely for the sake of getting money. I think that most of us can agree that if we didn’t need money we might not likely do the things we are doing in order to get it, which takes money out of its pure form and transforms it into influence.

For instance if a company wants to have a top notch CEO it is going to be a top dollar agreement to obtain that CEO. On the other side of that coin is the Walmart employee who just needs to get by and therefor is willing to sacrifice their family time for their service to that company. It is essentially a tool to influence people to do things they probably wouldn’t do otherwise.

Some of you might be familiar with a website called Klout. They consider themselves to be a “measure of influence”. How it works is by signing in, with the various social media sites, they can measure your social media influence online. In other words, how many people take action because of the things you do or say.

Like if I post a blog and share it on Twitter and people like it enough to “like” it, or repose it, I am essentially influencing them somehow. It might be the content was really great and they wanted to share it with their friends or I could be really popular and they want to be part of that somehow, so they take action to get involved. In social media it is called engaging. Almost everything we do is to try and get people engaged in some way, or engaging with each other about us.

Klout has taken this entire use of social media influence to a whole new level with something they call perks. Companies, through Klout, can offer Klout members something for free if they meet certain criteria. For instance Subway is offering people who are influential in Gaming a free $5 sub, and all the Klout member has to do is share something about it with their sphere of influence. In essence it is like buying advertising for a specific consumer target; people who play video games.

Under this guise they are buying a personal mention from an individual to a certain number of people based on the users Klout score. The irony here is that it’s just an agreement between people and is probably a better deal for Subway. What’s it cost them to give away one footlong sub. Now, the influence of that user has become a form of currency.

Some bloggers are considered quite excellent at recommending good books by reviewing the ones they either like or think are worth writing about. If they’re really good at picking winners it is like they will become known for it. To be reviewed by one of these influencers can be very lucrative for an author. There are plenty of examples like this that are beginning to form a pattern in social media that is definitely not going unnoticed. Some companies are using the Klout API to check peoples scores that make reservations online.

The goal with social media is engaging people and influencing them to take action; push the button of commitment, and one of the most influential things in the world has always been the personal reference. If people like something they tell their friends and their friends come down and want to try it. It’s been the one thing that all advertising either tries to emulate emotionally through mass media, or influence with branding, while social media does this naturally. And, in this way social media influence is the currency.

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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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The Post United for Global Change Calm – Before the Storm

There’s a drastic calm in the air that seems to be hanging between worlds, like an intense waiting for something to happen. The homeless have occupied many of the occupy sites for the peace of a hot meal and a place to camp without the threat of being moved on.

It’s a false sense of rest and they aren’t the only ones feeling it. It won’t be a beat cop that rousts them from the little oasis they found in the worst economic times ever. It will likey be trained combatants equipped to disperse riots. Cops train with a baton and shielded with body armor. The crowd on both sides can feel the tension mounting as more and more people, who still trust the media to feed them spoon-fed news, ask themselves the questions that the lack of activist dialog has yet to fill; and the good grows.

What do they want? When will it end? Who is their leader? The much smaller portion of the 99% are feeling it too. Why aren’t they listening? What should we do next? How long can we stand here with winters impending challenges?

The air has become thick with it. People who are completely disconnected are without rhyme or reason for why they feel the giant lull of tension as it mounts in every area of the globe. Even the markets are confused and not sure which way to bet the mad volatility that makes little sense to them. Asking questions like, Why is gold down if the dollar is worthless? What happens if the Euro collapses on Greek debt, or Slovakia’s eminent default? Why is oil at 85, won’t that ruin any chance for growth. How could Goldman Sachs be poising money?

It just seems to surreal to be true sometimes, when everything makes no sense and seems to be waiting for something to blossom from this mess.

All we can do now is wait in peace. To act on these feeling will be something far less than we are all capable of. We must press through these feelings to witness the conditioning that manifested this way. It will set us free to be the patience behind the next chapter of our global village. It’s likely we will be rewarded, but not in tangible ways at first.

It will feel more like loss than gain to the ego that has been seeped in the conditions of the past. The path that brought us to this point was engineered for this moment. It carved into our minds the fear of loosing everything if we choose another way. We must first free our minds of this before we can change course, because without the freedom to think outside master builders modality we are simply destined to repeat the same lesson over and over, like machines. There is only one way to build a healthy lasting society and that is together!

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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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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!

#occupywallstreet – A Manifesto for Change

#occupywallstreet has become the flag of response to a global economy that has spent it’s influence trying to control everything including people, the worlds resources and its policies. It has become the inertial reaction to monetary influence that has used everything to facilitate a massive structural imbalance around the globe. It is the result of politic ideology that only reflects the needs of a few to harbor the control over the masses who labor for their simple fear of maintaining a status quo and sends a clear message to that cult that we can not be contained beyond our own willingness to participate.

Wall street is not an issue that needs to be resolved, but a lesson to any kind of central leadership or socioeconomic political structure that will always be susceptible to unilateral financial objectives. We are a diverse world that has become monotized into believing in one way, while we harbor diverse needs and value as communities.

Communities are the regions which we call home and not the striping of power from the indigenous people in some far away place to fuel our own lifestyles. We have been trained to capitalize on each other while we yearn to ourselves be free to explore our lives directly.

#occupywallstreet is the voice of frustration with everything that fails our true sense of empathy. It is a spark towards evolution and not another revolution that repeats the same trust in one opinion. One that compels us to conform to duty or a cause that binds the soul into another state of submission.

#occupywallstreet is the realization that we are all connected as people who can communicate with each other. We don’t need the media to translate our intentions or political will to determine our safety nets or boundaries. It is the first dialog of our true desire to be free to think for ourselves and we are having it with our neighbors, our friends; our community.

We can think for ourselves to solve the issues in our own community and we don’t need some corporate solution in order to endure. We are capable and determined in the face of our greatest challenges and don’t need a watered down paradigm of laws to think for us.

Let this dialog continue to grow and claim the balance of our best efforts as people who are naturally empathetic. Let us determine in our own regions what we can share with others and not be forced to give up our own choice for any one cause that eliminates our own self sustaining intentions. These are OUR communities and they belong to each person living in them.

These communities are fully capable of sharing something with other communities and should be the benefactors of their own works. We built these homes and now a few people have claimed the right to possess them to be empty the shells of our legacy while their craftsman fight to stay off the streets.

#occupywallstreet is a statement that we have more respect for the labor behind the society we built with our hands than the monetizing of our sweat and calluses. Right now the worlds banks are loaning communities the funding to strip them of their natural resources that we worked our lives to save. They are loaning us the time it takes to fill out paperwork to beg for relief while we sit on our hands waiting for a leader who recognizes our position, and we are tired of believing change will ever come.

A few of us have taken to the streets to stop doing what is asked of us to avoid default. A few of us will start the dialog that will end any form of central, political or economic solution that only seems to yield another round of the same thing in a different guise.

It will be a local dialog and it will have local repercussions. It will have a regional dialog and it will have regional repercussion. It will be a national dialog that gives support to the regions it shares and a global dialog to support the autonomy of every national choice to be itself under its own culture and in control of it’s own resources. We will always need each other to guarantee the autonomy of our choices through vigilance and support for that autonomy, and we don’t need a flag to prove it.

#occupywallstreet is a huge message that reads the banks don’t own anything if we say they don’t, that politicians have no vote if we say they don’t.

And if it turns to a fight it won’t be coming from us, because we would rather die than live like this, and you can have this world and all the fearful slaves, with their bankers and politicians and corporations and their armies. And we will have world peace in that intention to truly be free!

We no longer want your world of unethical behavior that sets us apart and destroys our natural sense of community. We are dying everyday it goes on when we don’t even have time to rest, just to pay the interest rates and fuel cost of backward technologies that are only kept in place by the weak with their armies of idiots willing to do a job for money that never buys them happiness or convenience or freedom.

Freedom isn’t free is a lie! It capitalism that spreads this cancerous rhetoric to keep the wheels of destruction rolling. It is a lie to call us free while the banks hold the world hostage, enslaved to work for system that is inhumane and unsustainable.

It is a lie to march our young men and women into oil country claiming freedom that is being financed by slaves. It is slavery we believed was necessary in order to eat genetically modified foods created and sustained by a system that promotes monetizing obesity and supports 100% lies about the health of our bodies and forces us to buy insurance against an entire lifestyle.

#occupywallstreet is the same message that Gandhi offered. We refuse to participate with your system any longer. It is beyond fixing and we have had enough! We will sit here until the dialog is complete and everyone is engaged. This is the end of monetizing our lives. We don’t need you anymore!

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Timing is Everything

Once again we have come to a crossroads in American history where the future will be shaped by politics rather than rational decision making and as usual the Achilles heal will be the past rationale that the US economy is so resilient that whatever decision is made will either be the right one or we’ll have the time to adjust it and everything will work itself out.

I am of course speaking of the US Budget Deficit, which is growing at an astronomical rate for several reasons. On May 15th the US deficit will reach an unrealistic 14.8 Trillion Dollars, this does not include SSI nor Medicare, whose trusts were breached during the Reagan administration in the 80′s. Nor will it include the reality of the Federal Reserves unbelievable holdings of $2 Trillion in still toxic subprime mortgage securities. It will mainly be centered around the bankers and corporations lobbying for their share of a quickly depleting dollar.

The idea that the US economy could never suffer a irreparable hit is the long standing idea that we are America and has no other basis in fact, but lets just weigh that against some truth. The US trade deficit is way to high, and this is a massive liquidity leak, so to speak. The Fed Chief is fudging number that don’t agree with the worlds foremost investors, which has a huge effect on investor confidence, and he seems to be measuring inflation against numbers on paper and not the commodities they purchase. Keynesian philosophy only really works when you have a supply side surplus and excluding food and energy from core inflation is part of that philosophy giving us a false sense of inflation, which can be rated as high as 10% when you take this and other factors into consideration.

In 1971 when the US went off the gold standard gold was $35 an ounce and if we were to rate the US dollars buying power we can see, looking at golds current $1500 an ounce price, that the dollars purchasing power has faded horribly.

We are still seeing adjustments in housing, which for a time, became a meter for the dollars purchasing power, and prices could very well fall back to pre-1980′s levels exposing the system that built the inflated sense of wealth of converting assets into debt. And now the fact of inertia gets to come front and center stage for the final act to answer the question, “can a debt based society beat the odds the past has proven time and time again?”.

The strongest facts, which will likely be overlooked in this scenario of political posturing, will likely be the need to restore the fading confidence in the dollar and a truly responsible fiscal plan to get us back to a long term solvent state. In the Book, “This Time is Different”, the authors point out several indications that have been consistent in the collapse of past fiat currency based economies, and the most prevalent to me seems to be the confidence factor that makes their treasuries a solid investment, and when investors are only interested in 4 and 6 month treasuries, you can practically count the days on their confidence.

Congress Averting another Catastophe: But this time a Revolution

Man, talk about a close call. The public uproar on the whole AIG bonus Scandal was quite a fervent scene to observe. Congress was so worried about it that they basically lynched anyone who was supposed to get any kind of bonus, that had anything to do with any financial agency that took Fed or Treasury funds.

The problem is that it reminds me of the day the Treasury announced the take-over of Freddie and Fannie. I really think it was the first wave of panic that started the horrible conditions we see today. The second shock was letting Lehman Bros. fail… but the biggest shock so far was when Congress’ Lame duck Republican leaning vote against the original TARP Funds. That was the shot heard round the World.

Within a few hours of the outcome, the LIBOR jumped more than 200 basis points and essentially shut down all loaning. This was the real Credit Crisis. Everything previously experienced was just a warm up. After that everything became a shock to everyone…

So, here we are. 2 years after the fall of the Real Estate Bubble and things were starting to look as though there might be a shift in the momentum, of what many are hoping would be the bottom of this deflationary period, and Congress sounds the Alarm!

I wonder how many people will show up for work tomorrow. At least the ones that are being held responcible for cleaning up the mess at AIG might not be interested in working for free… The one thing that’s certain is that we will find out whether or not Liddy was telling the truth, in his testimony to Congress. He said that without the people who are receiving the bonuses, it would leave about $1.6 Trillion of risk unmanaged, and that that would lead to the collapse of AIG. And… according to Ben Bernanke, a collapse of AIG would lead to a World Financial Systemic Collapse.

hmm… It should be an interesting week ahead.

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