Occupy Wall Street – Looking Within!

Almost entirely vanishing from the limelight, Occupy Wall Street has begun the metamorphosis, into a well organized institution that will be around forever. Every Occupier website has blossomed into a central hub of support for any surrounding efforts to occupy. This isn’t the beginning of the organizing at all. Occupy Wall Street and the rest of the Occupy Movement, have been incredibly organized, but this is different. This isn’t organizing a camp. This is organizing a working social system that remains non linear and leaderless.

This is the time where people are starting to grab onto the reigns of consensus and pulling toward goals and specific shared focuses that will test the Movement’s vindication. Can a group of unaffiliated members possible start an entirely new social system, while remaining fixed to goals that perpetuate the existing one. Supporting Labor Unions seem like a move to the left and from the numbers that have appeared, under that guise, would suggest socialism isn’t a mutual theme everyone’s behind supporting.

Occupy, in it’s raw form (GA), isn’t itself a political system. It is however a very advanced form of communication that can help make better decisions about our society and how to best implement them. It seems to be a natural inertial response to “Austerity”. In the countries that Horizontalism has been most successful, it has literally been born out of the fringe of society that are shaved off the duty roster by austerity measures. This is an important factor when you consider that the majority of the thinkers and artist in most societies exist as close to the fringe as possible. It’s a very interesting counter balance that will lie dormant as long as this thin layer of society isn’t ruptured.

Political transitions are in America have been viewed historically as a swing from left to right and back. The difference being the political Party who wins the election represents the mandate of the people. This is really different.  The one thing that makes this different is a bit of the history behind it. The bailouts, the horrible state and economy, and unemployment aren’t totally unusual. What is unusual about this is the state of the state. There are an equal amount of people that believe in opposite outcomes, and when you consider the wealth base of this passing era, I think half of them are correct. This past era of wealth came from flipping real asset values into debt. Several members of my family owned there homes in 1980, when the deregulations started. Now 2 of 3 owe more on their mortgage than there house is worth. That factor has now expired.

It’s not surprising that Occupy in the US doesn’t have more support from the greater community. It also doesn’t surprise me that the Media and the Mainstream have condemned the movement for being homeless or worse, which somehow seems to offer them the option of considering the group unimportant, or worse, a “Class War”. What’s a shame is a society that betrays any member of that society. It was far less of a luxury as hunter gatherers to neglect members of their own tribe. The health and survival of the tribe demanded total support of the entire tribe, while modern society is somehow removed from this rule, seemingly, when in fact it isn’t. Every society in history that have fallen into economic imbalance have eventually collapsed, whether it was self-inflicted or not.

Occupy, over the last month, has proven it’s legs long, and buckled in for the long winter, not like the dormant bulbs, frozen and waiting for the thaw, but more like the entire genre catalog of caterpillars, that will spend the quiet season metamorphosing into thousands of unique butterflies. This time has been set aside for reflection and growth, that will reinvent itself again this coming Spring, but what is success considered along these lines of interest. Is it changing the face of Capitalism, or giving the Middle Class back their voice. Will we move past central banker control and somehow reestablish a true republic governed by the people. Or is this really the failure of Capitalism. Is it suffering the same fate as Communism did in the Soviet Union when it failed? Will it fall into the abyss of disinterest, falling short of it’s massive hunger for productivity and growth, as is becomes less and less capable of providing the same level of abundance equally across society. Failing to influence the loyalty of the public; temptation of  treasures and greatness, when it cannot even support the fringe, the social class most notorious for fostering change.

Obama Ask Congress for More Executive Powers? When Pigs Fly!

“If you talk to regular Americans, they’ll tell you.”, Obama said this at the podium this morning, to an audience he welcomed as “business people”, to start. The theme, requesting more executive power from congress to “streamline” the executive branch, comes at a time when Congress seems more like a lame duck session, than some of the last lame ducks sessions.

Some of the things I noted during the speech was that this disconnect between the support for business and a relationship with the people just seems infinitely vast. Especially when you describe the “regular” American’s as “they”. And it’s not just a simple careless phrase, it’s a symptom of the real issues facing this country.

The real problem in the US is the disconnect authority has with it’s own members. Obama spent the entire speech addressing the wrong audience. His focus and language was entirely meant for congressional members and NOT the American people, or they, but rather itself technically; USA.

To me Obama and his political will is missing the real point of leading the “people”. He is a populous president, under the guise of his campaign promises, that is completely ignoring his power base. The Republicans have actually suggested that Obama is behind the Occupation, which is just insane. The fact is that the so called “liberal” media has successfully ignored any social interest in the movement. They have tried to demonize it, covering the events that may finally turn into the Seattle WTO convention. That’ll spike ratings!

If Occupy Wall Street has succeeded at anything it has succeeded at exposing the divide between America the television program, and America the reality. It seemed much easier to breeze through the day content to get by until it became obvious that the left was quite right of the center, an amazing lie!

So essentially, knowing congress will deny any hope to improve his campaign position, Obama makes a lame duck request, to help America see the lame duck, and get a sense for the lameness of the duck! But what does that make the populous president, whose promise for changed filled so many with a hope that would eventually turn that hope into anger and resentment. I knew when he was running that he was just another politician, but for the people who really believed in him, he was more than just a little disappointing.

The problem with Washington is it’s full of politicians. People with the power to support Americans, lost to the tide pools of wealth deciding bailouts and buying earmarks and it all hurts Americans, that have placed their trust in the issues and the people, trust in their judgments as fellow human beings living in this miracle of time we share on Earth. The problem is that our president is wasting time with political games intended to get himself re-elected, instead of embracing the America will for change and yielding it. This is someone who could have done that and didn’t! And, it could actually cost him the race.

Occupy Wall Street and the 2012 Presidential Wild Card

When I think about the Iowa Caucus, I can’t help but reminisce on Howard Dean. Not so much that he got slaughtered by the media with a single image, that was taken way out of context and repeated until everyone truly believed that Howard Dean was “angry”. What concerned me was the average age of the state, the number of volunteers Dean had between the age of 18-26, and the fact that he lost that particular bracket to John Kerry. This is a deep concern when you consider that whatever was moving behind the scenes in that event crossed party line support and surfaced in the media, like it was all planned. Dean could have been a serious threat to George Bush’s reelection bid, but we’ll never know will we.

 

This year isn’t really all that different for the Republicans. Last week, for a short few days, Ron Paul was leading the polls in Iowa by a small margin, yet most of the media was reporting that Mitt Romney was leading by the same amount, and that the new threat was Rick Santorum. What amazes me is this deadly accurate prediction, and something else. Reports on the ground in Iowa said this year had far less yard signs than usual, and, ironically, Iowa is claiming a record number of votes this year. And though it may seem like the same old thing, this year is going to be a little bit different. Not because the media will be different, and not because the election will seem more real than usual, but rather there is no telling what the occupiers will do next.

 

Frank Luntz and the Tea Party are so concerned, with this issue, that they worked out talking points to meet with this dangerous class war. In November the PR firm of Clark, Lytle, Geduldig and Cranford sent a memo to the American Bankers Association, titled, “Occupy Wall Street Response“. The concern, that sparked the proposal, was more about the Democratic Party co-opting the movement and converting it into a support vehicle vs. an Occupy wild card scenario. The irony here isn’t so much the idea that their candidate might possibly win, but rather that Occupy was even co-optable. They’ve obviously never tried to get consensus, on a less than interesting topic, in a General Assembly.

 

Personally I like the Wild Card scenario possibilities. In fact why not take it to a crescendo and announce the #OccupyParty, introduce a Horizontal Candidate. And if that’s too extreme for an anarchist movement, what about supporting a candidate who won’t send in the troops or coordinate with the states to suppress Freedom of Speech. Even asking people to vote “undecided” overlooks the realities behind what these caucuses really represent. The fact of the matter is that the caucuses and the elections that follow are so animated by the media and their controllers (the 1%) that believing in elections as the outcome of peoples, well informed, conscious choice, is just slightly naive.

 

Occupy has incredible political advantages in its grass roots. Obama won the last election with a similar infrastructure that had similar energies behind it. The biggest advantage it has is the existing national movement with groups in every city, that could easily put all their energies into campaigning and engaging the greater community. This is a powerful point and I think you’ll begin to see more creative energies and activities, coming out of Occupy, when the culture figures out the secret to building a new society is to build it. Purely resisting what is can’t possibly change anything. In fact, I believe it only succeeds to validate the issues we resist. As the Borg say, “resistance is futile” and if you think about it, their actually right. The fact is that if you plan on destroying something unfashionable to society it has to be replaced with something better. In this instance, better is the horizontal. Better is direct democracy.

 

The Wild Card factor of Occupy Wall Street, coming into play during this election, is almost more powerful than what’s really happening so far in Iowa. It’s a needle in the minds of everyone engaged in the process, on every level. Its potential is being realized in retrospect of the plans and agendas set in play by the 1%, and Occupy would do well to put together a strategic political analysis teams and consider activities that build political infrastructure, while at the same time fulfilling the fears of the Tea Party for them. At this point the act of disruption, which is a great tool for gaining exposure, has already succeeded. Now it’s time for the infrastructure, and the populace synergy behind it, to step up into the Presidential Election of 2012 and consider what’s to be gained by bridging the gap between the 99%.

The OccupyParty Candidate for the 2012 US Presidential Election

I’ve just got to ask.. What kind of political activist group isn’t getting politicians to vie for their endorcement in the upcoming election. Or maybe a better question is, How does an anarchist political system feel about national politics? Is it more valueable to meet (halfway) with conditions in order to overcome them, or is that just a myth?

In Argentina, international corporate politics are consider a hinderence to occupier goals of self-determination. It would be easy to say that the Occupation itself is a class endevor, but really it’s something deeper. It’s struggle lies in its very own structure, but is this really an issue worth solving or just an attempt to hold on to past ideas, no matter how well we know the past for its outcomes, but where will we land?

Occupiers in America right now have an interesting set of options that could, by exercising them, strengthen their political value and complement their own goals by supporting an official that is friendly to the cause. There are a few political options that have surfaced, in all the events, to side with the support of the Occupy Class including; Barry Sanders, Ron Paul and a few others that could be of more help, advancing the occupation, than the current leadership.

But is this selling out the core of anarchy to simply fit in with a aging system for the political comfort of the half hearted or less? Even though it has fantastic strategic implications. Another brilliant tactic to promote a richer structure for the occupation is to call for a Constitutional Convention; demand our goals be included in the v2.0. On the other hand it promotes the structure of the state run political will, or local will, but is that a needful avoidance? Shouldn’t part of the goal be to occupy local politics?

Another, more significant option, is to stregthen the community base and set further reaching future goals to take back local resources. Cities may “obtain” possession of real estate for local projects and or “other” use, etc. The bottom line is that it seems, to me, advantageous to strengthen the ideas of what Occupation can accomplish and organize around developing the infrastructure, and a sustainable business plan, for those goals. Ones that include filling the gaps of a decaying system as the need might arrise, and eventually occupying everything.

All things considered, it might help benefit the Occupiers to support a presidential candidate for 2012. It would only take a few days to make our force a condition of the next presidential race, that would have to be met with by any candidate running. Ignoring Occupy is impossible at this point. It has become an institution and should begin acting like one politically! And, if there was a move to grease our own candidate for a run in 2012, I bet we could pull it off! Wouldn’t that be an interesting revelation for folks…

The Occupy Movement – The Roots are in the Arts

Most people may be briefly familiar with the original blog post, that went up in July to announce the Occupy Movement. Adbusters posted the invitation to #occupywallstreet, but the wheels for this generation had been rolling for over 10 years, waiting to percolate up into the moment when it was ripe.

In Argentina, the movement was called Horizontalidad. It was a public direct response to a catastrophic economic event that can be seen having it’s roots in IMF loan policies being advanced by Argentine president Carlos Menen. One of the first actions taken in this sideways movement was to blockade one of the main highways and demand concessions from the government for having sold out their jobs. They held the position for several days and made all their decisions in a General Assembly, in order to be more efficient.

While the concept of Horizontalism was coming to life in Argentina it was later used in Tunisia, Egypt, Spain and Greece, before landing on the shores of North America. Several members of these actions abroad were brought together over the 10 years at a place off the Bowling Green called 16Beaver Street. !6Beaver has been hosting anarchist panels and meetings, over the years, to discuss occupation as a viable means for change. A few of the original group on August 2nd, who gathered for the first GA Meeting, were directly responsible for some of the core elements that made this movement so very successful. First and foremost, it’s collective agreement to a Horizontal model.

One thing that has been a difficulty for many writers has been to put Horizontalism into context, when I think the real difficulty lies in our construct rather. We want things to ride along a course we can plot, with points of references we’re familiar with and Horizontalism isn’t a goal. It is a method or means for collective decision making. The real power behind it is its simplest factor, which is communication. When people gather around ideas, they can learn from each others perspectives of events much faster than they would if the information were to carry along the normal routes of communication. It promotes exchange and compounds insight with discussion. I doubt we’ve seen the end of it.

The Occupation at Zucotti Park which spawned a global movement under one banner is a direct expression of the shift in human consciousness. It’s a subtle effect, inspired by our current Internet culture, that has taught us to question our social constructs and explore other regions of information; to reignite the question of why we exist together on this planet. Is it to produce and consume the natural resources or is it something else? We yearn on a very deep level to know what everyone else thinks; whether they agree with us or not, or what other options might exist. I have even noticed that when I tell people about what Occupiers do, they express a sense of relief that seems to come from their inner sense of hope.

I doubt if history will tell the story of how a group of artists from NY hi-jacked a movement that changed the world. It’s not that we aren’t fascinated by the culture behind it, really. It’s rather, the very nature of the movement itself. It positions everyone together on one level playing field. In this way everyone is the silent leadership of their own actions. It’s self learning through a round house discussion of the life and experience of occupiers, sharing their experiences and reflecting with each other, learning from those actions, and putting the result into action.

It has become abundantly clear since the subprime fallout that the current Global socioeconomic model is ruled by Method. It has the lens of capitalism by which this model is etched and fixes our perception to see the World through this agreement. Capitalism fails the true test of phenomena, which is nature; to be a self sustaining, symbiotic equilibrium. Yet it has awakened something new in all of us. It is widening our perception to include possibilities that have previously remained just out of focus, through the unique challenges it manifests. It is boring and redundant and the desire to move on to something more substantial is over-whelming!

The New Paradigm is an Autonomous Collective Where Information is King!

An obvious shift is happening to the global culture than can easily be attributed to the introduction of the Internet. If you think about it, there is always some form of communication involved with dramatic and successful cultural shifts. The printing press, oil paints, the telegraph; these different models of communication have had dramatic affects on global perception. Each more powerful, further compressing time and space to be more obtainable. Exponentially increasing the efficiency of mass comprehension.

The Internet is a highly effective window into the history of information; the accumulative wealth of experience condensed into insight. This has a powerful resonant effect to increase the mass awareness, through the specialization of information compiling. Each new generation of information adding more resonant frequency to ideas.

In a simple form it offers, everyone connected with this information, the opportunity to discover variables hidden by acclimation or innocence. If people in Tim Buck Two are successfully accomplishing their goals, we tend to share that information with each other, and invention is necessities child.

We are actually quite ahead of the curve when it comes to new things on the Internet. In fact, a lot of the things we think are new have been brewing for years in different people. The future of our experience hasn’t caught on yet. Its still a new site with a small but dedicated membership. It may have a time in the sun eventually. It just needs a reason.

The very nature of a World Wide Web is a cauldron for innovation and anarchy. It unlocks the vales that hide the real reason behind most things, and offers us more and more ways to take action. We are uniquely entitled to make our own choice about everything, and if we find something interesting we can share it with close circles and grow more aware together.

Occupy Wall Street is the outcome of the imbalance behind the truth and lies of the media, and the capitalism behind it. It is a catalyst of ideas and experience that has proven successful for others. It is a process of learning compressed from infinite individual angles to increase the efficacy in realization, and it just opened it’s eyes!

The core message that makes this one different from other types of protests we’ve seen is the culture it forms. Without a core group setting the pace there can be little longevity in any kind of movement that stirs up the mainstream. It is designed to resist everything accept true change, which it is committed to destroy. The trap is trying to destroy it gives it strength; feeds it intent.

The call behind the cultural shift around us is information. It is opening more eyes and predicating intelligence about it. It’s a chance to talk about what is happening, to share more information directly instead of relying on the media to provide it. It’s a chance for us to call into question the very ideas that form the model of our society, scrutinize them in the light of more truth, make consensus based choices as a society of self determined individuals! Truly experience direct democracy, horizontally!

Occupy Wall Street, After the Campout – What’s Next for the Movement

First let me mention that I don’t agree at all with the idea that American’s can not put up a tent as an expression of free speech. I think that’s a piss poor decision for the courts, considering “flag burning” is okay, but camping is a health and safety issue. Look, I don’t know about you, but I feel like TSA is a huge waste of my time in a free society. I put up with it during the big 911 response, but it’s time to get back to being Americans!

Occupy, in my eyes, is riding along prevailing winds, and has only begun to reveal the energy and brilliance behind it. So, here we are at the eve of having the biggest Occupy camps in the country dismantled by the Man! This is where a dozen news groups and media outlets will do their best to play on the unknown about it, as a scare tactic to weaken the movement. “They don’t know what they want?” or “They need a leader to be considered real”. But here’s the thing…

If you consider the language of the event; camps across the country are gone, and now the morph begins. Having a bunch of big camps was starting to play out a bit “socialist/liberal” for me. Oakland has even called for a support action of Washington Port Workers. Personally I think it needs to grow roots now. Take the time this Winter to seep into the community and plan front-yard CSA’s. Take to the streets to collect funding for space, and help Bank Customers learn about the differences in Banking institutions.

Small groups of Community Assemblies have begun forming in every town in the country. It makes sense that if America is going to change, that we should have a conversation about it. I find it amazing that our media and political systems have escaped the reality that we can do whatever we want. It’s the whole reason the Constitution was written. And, what is being revealed is the difference between the people and the institutions. Shame on the coordinating with local law enforcement. The idea that that all happened so precisely without central coordination is ridiculous. It reveals that there has been a break between the Constitution and the People who will defend it!

It’s time for the culture of America to meet and discuss the fate of our society. If people don’t or won’t see the dangers in the Fed actions to support the World’s economy by printing money and monetizing debt, then don’t worry about it. But if you see what I see, then you see the need for a true dialog with the members of this ship to discuss the current situation and options available to us as Americans! The World is defined by our willingness to engage with it. It can be anything we want.

Why Occupy is Going to Change the World Forever, and not the System

The one thing I have realized on my path for the last 20 years is that nothing is theoretical, but must be substantiated by phenomena in order to be realized as true. Something interesting, in the order of banking families, is the method in which they are gambling on.

The CME does a Daily Delivery Report and all of the future contracts are being stopped by JP Morgan, Bank of Nova Scotia, and Duesche Bank, originally known as Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. Bank of Nova Scotia, known as Scotia Bank acquired Mocatta Bullion, whose offices were located in Rotschild NM office and the Bank of London, a Rothchild Bank.

It’s sort of common knowledge that JP Morgan was an agent of the Rothschild in America and helped form the Federal Reserve System. Now here’s the funny part! The bankers know they have over extended the general economy, and there is a rumor that the plan is to push it as far as it will go, while acquiring Gold. The thinking is that a global currency can be formed based on the gold standard… a Global currency, except for one thing..

The problem with currencies is that once people decide that one is worthless, it is very hard to change their mind. This happened throughout the US history of money. Hundreds of currencies were created based on everything from metals to interest earning and all of them failed due to “trust” in the currencies stability…

Now the issue is much different. Under the Dodd-Frank law, they recently did an audit of the Federal Reserve. It was a serious battle to get the Fed to agree with this and they lobbied hard to try and stop the US from seeing there books. The outcome was that we now know that the Fed has a 16 trillion dollar negative balance on their books, from propping up the banks through this whole mess from 2008 till now. The irony of this is twofold. First they could have bought the entire subprime mortgage glut of forclosed homes, as well as the bad notes (subprime mortgage certificates) for a total sum of 2.5 trillion, and immediately went after the banks, holding them responsible for the mess. Down sized them and made the system solvent again, while saving the taxpayers the hardships now going on.

The other irony is that, if you take the entire history of the US GDP (gross domestic product, or every penny sold in goods and services in the US) it still doesn’t add up to 16 Trillion dollars in one year, that coupled with the 150 Trillion in US Government obligations and 12 Trillion in Private debt, you have a figure that can never be paid, no matter how you chop it up into years. The bottom line is, that the system, no matter how they paint it is headed for a change. The bankers, which gamble on outcomes as a business of risk and then manipulate the game so that they always win, are in for a surprise.

Surprise part one is the psychology of a society that has lost faith in an idea. It moves in reverse of the momentum it took to create it, like a train trying to decelerate. The weight of the system and it’s momentum are real and cannot be ignored. It is the law of inertia, and not just a theory. The other fact they seem to be ignoring is the Social Media driven Occupy Movement. It is a game changer in several ways. It is a shift in consciousness. The idea that we need money is the lie behind the entire debt system. Communities, even Rome, never traded within the community. Our education system only teaches us that and we repeat it like a mantra, which makes it seem real, but it’s not. The reality is that communities have always traded surpluses with other self-sustaining communities, until the modern age, and the reason this is the norm now is to finance war and interest charged by the debt system it needs to finance more systemic control factors as the World continues to intigrate!

Lincoln went to the Bank of London and asked the Rothschild’s for a loan to pay for the war and they said no. They were making a fortune on exporting clothing to all of their “colonies” and needed the cotton to keep flowing at the cheap, slave labor farmed, prices they were getting from the southern states. So Lincoln created the Greenback. It was currency that was guaranteed, by the government to be good, and had nothing behind it but that promise. They used it to pay the troops and it was in circulation until 1971, when Nixon took it out and then ended the gold standard. Now our money is a “Federal Reserve Note”.

The occupy movement is a totally different framework of communication and community belief, that we can come together and work like a family. We can be self-sustaining through our own contributions, and make decisions by consensus. We share everything we have, including information and in this way are entirely transparent. The other thing that makes this phenomena so powerful and grounded in reality is that we have no leaders and anyone can start a new circle anytime they want, anywhere they want. It’s a living organism of people taking each day as it comes and making decisions about it, and acting on those decisions.

There is no way to stop an organism that has no central nervous system, and because we are emotional beings at our core, and sharing everything viraly through the internet, we respond to every infraction by growing, learning, and response to each new challenge. When others see the truth revealed by the system, as it tries to control our movement, their natural empathetic response gives rise to greater numbers. This is why is hasn’t stopped, nor will it quit until the whole world is changed.

When this is over, no one will own anything, and no one will be without anything! Ever again!! Anarchy isn’t chaos. That’s a lie to keep people dependent on leadership. They are afraid that if we start working together that we’ll do away with their ideas about the world and leave them helpless to fend for themselves. Nothing more. Capitalism is fear! Our true nature is “empathetic to our community” and this is Love!

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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 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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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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