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!

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 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.

Occupy the Ports – Is this a Union, Now?

At first I thought the occupy movement was acting on inertia when it called to shut down the west coast ports. I don’t like the idea of going from one whim to the next and figured that’s what it was. Of course this makes me the ass for assuming I understood what this was about.

Well I finally got the illusive insight to the master deployment of valuable troops to the ports for closure. It is a support party for the dock workers union if Washington. So occupy is a socialistic movement. What does closing the ports supposed to be saying, exactly. I know some unions came out to support occupy, but does that mean we’re letting the democrats co-opt the movement. I think it lacks imagination, and if you want me to march on economic imbalances you’ve got to be serious about it. I never signed up for a red star and a uniform.

And I understand about the whole support factor that comes along with autonomy, but it’s just a lot to swallow. I mean it didn’t turn out so well for Russia. They’re still trying to peel of the Kremlin and look how sticky that is. China isn’t much better, and I bet if we did a “stress test” on democratic vs. Communistic capitalism, you’d find out horrible things about how societies vary.

For all I know this entire action may have been planted by intelligence agencies to sway the public about the dangers of this anti-Capitalist movement that threatens the very fibre of our good and just society. Once occupy closes the ports they become an economic threat significant enough to address.

One thing that must be considered is the value of the 99%. this cannot become clear to those who act as the 1%. the banks crashed on the economy and now the occupy movement sees only destruction. How does this tribe value the greater community, when it stands apart of the crowd and claims everyone. An action with the magnitude to change the entire economic field should be at least weighed by the community it effects. It’s a bit like a 45 year old man cutting down a 3 thousand year old redwood. Our actions can affect anything and not everyone wants to see the future from a doorway or a campsite.

There are solutions to create the dialog this society is so hungry for. It begins in every neighborhood with a few friends from the street and grows into an entire society able to define their environment to their liking, and you know what happens when you do that. Whatever we want to!

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 Influence of Social Media is Currency.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

25% of royalties go to support the Occupywallstreet Movement.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

25% of royalties go to support the Occupywallstreet Movement.

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

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

Join the conversation on Facebook

Occupy wall street should be seen and not heard?

I find it incredibly ironic the Fox News refers to the rest of the mainstream news media as the “liberal media”. At this point, if that were the case, we would see a steady stream of news coming from every channel covering the, now global, Occupy Wall Street movement. If they do cover it, like they recent NY Times article I read, they reflect on it as a pointless gathering of unfocused groups that are married only by their anger.

I think history looks back on this they may discover a few things that might have been overlooked, they may have even saved our system had they only decided to listen to what is now over a million voices worldwide. At this point it seems like the last person to hold office that had more balls than party loyalties was FDR.

It one thing for Obama to completely ignore the base he used through social media to get himself elected, but to now use them as a way to propel his completely inert policies through the Jeremy mine field of Tea Bagger resistance is pretty fucked up!

I have to admit that so much confusion has been created through the mainstream channels, depicting the movement as “unfocused anarchists who hate America” that it going to be close to impossible to go back to anything like the way things were. It pointed out to most people that, not only are all the politicians in bed with Wall Street, but so is the media. Fox only fooled a few people like my grandmother, but for the entire system of economics, politics, and the media to completely ignore a main stream middle class call for balance and economic justice and be completely ignored? I’d have to say they get what they deserve.

I had a ton of hope in the beginning that the movement would rally into a dialog with everyone and consider the changes we need to survive as a Nation and wake up to a true Global Village; everyone helping everyone as we often do in tough times, but this is crazy.

The other day I read a quote from a Hawaiian profit. She said that the World would fall into confusion from misunderstanding and it would result in fighting and lead to wars, and the world would look to Hawaii for peace because we, living as Hawaiians, are imbued with Aloha, which means literally “to share breathe”.

My heart felt her words when I read this and it brought tears to my eyes to feel the suffering the people would face because a few people, who call themselves our leadership simply failed to listen.

My prayers go out to everyone, even those who have lost the ability to hear, that they might for one moment consider the lives of the people they have been entrusted by to lead. FDR, would done this and used that momentum like he did to change this country into a place we could be proud of as Americans!

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

25% of royalties go to support the Occupywallstreet Movement.

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

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

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The British Government Censors OccupyWallSteet Movement with Help from YouTube!!

The battle ground in the war over occupywallstreet will not be fought in the streets. It will be fought in cyber space over social media loyalty. Today I received a report that, in England, YouTube had been asked by the British authorities to censor videos containing civil disobedience. Probably the same authorities who asked RIM to shut down their Blackberry chat and text services, which they refused to do, during the England riots recently.

Anyone paying attention could easily equate the huge drop in MySpace members to there chat services being shut down for weeks after an LA School District student walkout. Ironically, it may have directly played a part in the sudden explosion in Facebook membership the same year. I call it the Murdoch Rule.

Unfortunately YouTube has complied with the request and anytime someone there tries to watch a video related to the occupy movement they get an unhappy notice that their government has stepped in to protect the financial companies they work for. I guess that shows us whose the boss, right.

Well YouTube or is it Google, the new Microsoft if you ask me, you obviously haven’t read my book or you would’ve known all about the Murdoch Rule. Too bad to. I really liked YouTube, but frankly I am going to side with the people on this one and start using Bing and shop around for a new video site too. There free, remember!

I never really cared for Google much when it came to searching for something that isn’t rigged or paid to make the first page and when I do use it I start on page 10 to look for something halfway real. So I guess you could say I won’t really miss you much. I also read something recently that said more and more people were posting their videos to Facebook and it has been the greatest tool ever for occupywallstreet. I have never seen such an amazing array of community support until I found out there was an occupy page for just about every town west of communism! Cheers Facebook for not selling out the one time we’ve come together as a planet!

YouTube you can blow me and your Google benefactor, because I still believe that social media is just that and government media in on 96 channels of shit to choose from, delivered by cable we pay for so you can force feed us advertising from JP Morgan and BP Oil… You know, the old team. Well, once word spreads that you took sides with the Man, on something this Global, I can only imagine how’ll you’ll adjust your business plan from here on out. Good luck with that!

I do find it curious that the RIM chat services went down globally from a problem with a server in England over the weekend of the 15th. Isn’t that interesting. Coincidence? So, I really don’t think your going to see any fighting in the streets during this global occupation, that is unless the rioters are wearing Police Issue Boots, like the ones they arrested in Rome!

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