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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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