Could Occupy Save the Housing Sector?

Since the collapse of the camps, Occupy has been soul searching. looking for the next level, as some have put it. A part if the movement has their hearts set on reoccupying their camps, while another sees a different vision.

Since the fall of Chapman and Lownsdale squares and Terry Schrunk Plaza in Portland, their GA has expanded their online and community presence. NYCGA has turned their focus to the community and led a National shift, when they stopped the first foreclosure. It should be the federal government that’s actively stopping foreclosures, but it’s not! It’s the occupy movement that finally realized the  solution to bad lending habits!

Other occupy groups have followed with there own internal restructuring. Building their own solutions like office space and public spaces for meetings. Each group has begun to follow the leads of NY’s stand against foreclosures. This is a two pronged solution to the problem that the camps had inadvertently created unknowingly. Occupy now belongs to the whole 99% by submerging into the community.

Think about it. Occupy, in essence, is a simple platform that allows a community of people to engage. Engagement was the core of the general assemblies intention. Society should be chosen by the people living within it! And not the banks or the politicians that work for them.

The other thing this may effect is housing prices. Slowing or stopping the foreclosures has been the goal all along. It’s the salvo for stabilizing the dollar. If housing prices started to climb again, it would likely bring back lending and we’d be off to the races again. Highly unlikely, but that’s the theory the Fed’s betting on when they print mad cash and monetize the debt with it. The come back! It’s coming!

But consider this! The banks and the US created this issue by failing to regulate the banks, that were directly creating the mess. Then, they got together and, right in front of us, agree to solve their issues with “our” flippen money. Then… They turn around and start taking homes our men and women built with their sweat and labor, and the US let’s them! WTF!

Well, at this point, all I can say is apropos. They say that necessity is the mother of invention and I give you the inertial response to reckless policies. Occupy Our Homes was born out of a void left from the camp raids. It is motivated by an imbalance of political will and rhetoric, while exasperated by the shear desire for true change. And, it might just be the correct move to right the economy.

A Call for A Constitutional Convention – Occupy America

 

It’s seems pretty likely at this point that the people resting in the positions of power in the US have chosen to defend the Institution vs. defend the Constitution. They have coordinated an attack against the 1st. Amendment Rights of American’s, by sending in hundreds of Police wearing riot armor to stop the Free Expression of citizens protected under that Constitution. They have Sworn Oaths to Defend and Protect the Constitution.

This is an open call to bring the Constitution into the future of all Americans. It has been treated without regard for the words contained within it. The Patriot Act and House Apportionment Rules.

The only constitutional rule relating to the size of the House says: “The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand.”^[4] Congress regularly increased the size of the House to account for population growth until it fixed the number of voting House members at 435 in 1911.^[1] The number was temporarily increased to 437 in 1959 upon the admission of Alaska and Hawaii (seating one representative from each of those states without changing existing apportionment), and returned to 435 four years later, after the reapportionment consequent to the 1960 census. –  wikipedia

The intentions of the Founders made it clear that the goal of the House was meant to be a amorphous public voice driven by the  shifts in popular trends. Locking in the number at 435 is like taking the voice of the public interest away; making it more susceptible to the influences inherent in Capitalism . This direction has led this country inexorably down a road further and further marked by the distance from the average US citizen.

The Fourth Amendment has been crippled by those who seek to undermine the protections we all share under the Constitution, to practice our right to privacy. This has been outdated by technological advances that couldn’t be foreseen by the founders and needs to be addressed.  These changes to the basic notion that Congress can shape the Constitutional meaning to fit whatever scenario they have invented for the American People, but I tell you this, there is a process for changing the Constitution called an Amendment. It must be approved by 2/3 of the states within a year, and makes the Patriot Act illegal, as does the idea that our phones can be tapped, ever, without a warrant.

This leaves American Citizens only one way to call into question the positions of Authority, that they be governed by the people they represent. That we call for a Constitutional Convention

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government

These words took time to resolve, even as a free sovereign community. We have every right to stand up and be heard as Americans with a legacy of rebellion in our history.

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.”

Fortunately we haven’t reached a time where we have entirely lost faith in the system we have. We have in fact come just in time to save the general agreement we have as Citizens of the US to engage in an Open Dialog that gives the proper respect to the founding ideas this country was forged by. Whether or not it is respected, we are a Democracy of People and choose to support the surrounding environment politically, but if it can no longer be proved to be a representative system, then we are demanded by the founders to perform this “Duty”!

It is the wish of this group that we begin the dialog to talk about the Constitution. How can we keep money out of political processes, and how can we clearly define the things like Apportionment at 30,000-1. We Call for a Constitutional Convention, and demand representation clearly defined as “public”.

We demand a Constitutional Convention!

Occupy and the Wisdom of Gandhi

It’s very natural for the human experience to measure energy in momentum. The senses are build, in effect, to measure change as proof that something exists. I think therefor I am, is a mini of this theory. I am, and not an effect, that convinces me of this truth, but it is rather purely an effect of my being that I choose to express myself through thought.

I have always believed in the adage, “live by the sword, die by the sword”, and I can’t help but see this playing out in the World’s effects of the roots and core of all the existing cultures of the world, that seem to be teetering between existence and extinction economically. And what good has it done to be in the ranks of the “too big to fail” belief, when it comes to economic sustainability. Rome was too big to fail and guess what!

My point continues when I reflect on the polar opposite of this in the observation of India. India’s freedom was born out of suffrage to England and won it’s independence from them through non violent action. The problem with the current state of India is equal to the currnt state of the western cultures, that once owned India’s people in a colonial gridlock. It is vulnerable to the same economic imbalance and fractured loyalties in a community sense. So what is the best way to form a true and natural society?

This problem has literally kept me up at night whenever I have taken the time to consider it. I wish the answer was simple, but I fear it is rather illusive as long as we frame it into the familiar. The same problem exists in every science. It has, so far, been ruled by the human ego. Call it inertia or call it stubborn, but man abhors change. It is built into the fabric of our being to love and commit to the familiar. The patterns of repetition. It is the comfort of the mind to expect the rhythm of consistency. It is our legacy as a specie!

The problem with change is the unfamiliar, or at least the mind has this issue. It likes the familiar and if we are associating with that (mind) as the self then our sense of it concurs. The fact is that we project change out of acclimation. Consciousness often conflicts with the mind when it comes to these places, in the midst of transition. If necessity is the mother of invention, then boredom is the father of revolution!

This has all come out of my feelings for the Oakland occupy group calling for shutting down the west coast ports. I have heard that occupy San Diego has agreed and rumored to be joined by other groups and all I can do is trust that it won’t change anything. Even if the actions are successful I have to wonder what the purpose is. It’s not like the movement needs to gather anymore attention. The entire world is watching everything the occupiers do. But, is it wise to act against the workflow and livelihoods of the people we are trying to win over? The 99%…

Frankly I believe it not a wisely thought out, goal oriented, action that will succeed at bringing any real or lasting social change. It doesn’t express the desire once held by the early movement to bring balance to the economic playing field by creating jobs or ending control of the banks and their political and corporate rule of the direction of America. It may threaten trade and even hurt the economy a little, but what’s so different about that that the banks aren’t already doing. Inflation and fuel costs are already stressing out the public and this kind of action seems a bit pointless. But it is an anarchist movement and I’m inclined to acquiesce, it’s just not very loquacious.

On the other hand, wouldn’t that time, energy and collective force be better put to work building more sustainability into our society. What if we gathered the same kind of force into neighborhood yard gardens or solar and wind power collections. What if we spent that time talking to the people who bank with the problems, or spent it setting up thousands of small autonomous neighborhood occupy groups to discuss the entire culture and change everything forever. This seems like it solves the live by the sword motto and gives an added ingredient to Gandhi’s partial solution, that might be what it needs to bring a long term, if not permanent, solution to the problem of our whole global village… Decentralized leaderless governance!

No, it isn’t the high flying energy of a stand off with police that has really made YouTube an e-ticket lately, and it probably won’t get the UC Davis photo-ops that have made us all laugh with shame, but… It might be a great first step to much bigger actions that just may change the world in ways we haven’t even imagined! Something to think about.

An Open Letter to the Occupy Movement

Hi guys,

Let me just start by saying thank you for your devotion to the human side of community and the right of being a citizen of the constitution! It’s awesome, don’t ever stop!! I wanted to respond to your invitation to offer suggestions about the idea of indoor space for meeting and such. I think it’s a great direction and can really give the movement the legs needed to carry it into the future.

When I consider the idea of Occupy in the future, the one thing I feel needs to be a preamble of growth and sustainability is the same key that makes a GA meeting and the anarchist framework the right choice for organizing a group. Obviously it has grown using this tool (GA) and organization from 60 to millions. The tool is listening! In a circle we listen to each other, and this is important. We don’t make decisions without hearing everyone. We need to do the same thing with the future, by listening to the moment and the community we are surrounded by in order to win the next battle, which is the loyalties of the community of Portland and the Greater Multnomah County. Because, whether they know it or not, they are part of our struggle and will make Occupy, as a movement, even stronger when all the 99% are accounted for.

I believe that Occupy like any organization needs to be self-supporting through their own contributions. This approach has worked for AA and can work just as well for GA. I believe it can be just as empowering for Occupy to do fund raising, and canvassing for basic needs to strengthen the logistical base and share vital information with community about what we’re doing and who we are. It has worked well for the Sierra Club and other organizations that wish to gain community support and funding for wildlife protection projects and legal representation to stop developments that can endanger our back yard. Places that this can be done can double as a way to inform bank customers about their choice of banking. If we canvas banks and talk to their customers, we can be changing things in more way than one!

Having a central Camp in town, just to show that “we are here” has been played out. I believe that we need to keep a presence, but sitting in town isn’t going to win the PR side of the battle and what Occupy needs to make real change is everyone else of the 99%! The Apache successfully challenged the mighty Spanish Armies in the America’s for 200 years with small groups, who remained autonomous to act independently. Leadership was an action and not a person! Occupy could, through canvassing neighborhoods and facilitating smaller neighborhood groups, create a dialog in every neighborhood made up of the people who live in that neighborhood. Actions for smaller groups can focus on self-sustaining measures like “Front Yard CSA’s” or energy projects that help change these (our) neighborhoods permanently. Find a space, like AA does, canvas the neighborhood, and facilitate General Assemblies and allow them to shape it autonomously, to fit the needs of the community! In time we will have won the PR side and the numbers may soon constitute bigger campaigns, like mortgage strikes, general corporate strikes, or consumer strikes.

I know that these measures alone cannot bring down the entire system without a presence, or people will forget what has become so important to so many people. I have friends with families and businesses that support what we are doing, but would never consider taking their children to large marches and risk their families. This does not mean that they are not behind it. In fact one of my friends contacted me in tears because she was worried it might end before any real changes could happen and she is counting on us! A public presence is the biggest, most impactful, action the occupy movement has used to gain its still growing support from. It should continue, and utilize the entire movement’s energy to bring the noise! That’s why I believe it should be considered that a “central” GA take place a few times a week in a very public way. It doesn’t need to stop the lives of the working-class, but it should be a gathering of everyone in the county!

Lastly, I would like to believe that Occupy is helping to bring choices to our government, that allows it to listen to the people, but I fail to see how the system won’t just return back to it’s natural state of impossible. Calling for a Constitutional Convention that gives the the people a say to the details could happen, but what I see is tactics looking to end the movement, and getting them to agree to terms will only give them the same luxury the Senate is reflecting with budget passing and Tea Bagger antics. Politicians can be bought and General Assemblies can’t. I believe that we are the Change! And, if we act like the future of America and the Global Village we are part of, we will never go away and everyone will be free because of it!!!

Peace!
Michael Light
solight111@klickdse.com

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 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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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.

Join the conversation on Facebook