The Covert Agenda Behind the Occupy Wall Street Protests
October 26, 2011 by Statesman Sentinel · 32 Comments
By Robert F. Beaudine
STATESMAN SENTINEL
October 26, 2011
The “occupying” protests here in America have been characterized as spontaneous and leaderless. Protesters, politicians, and the mass media have compared it to the so-called spontaneous uprisings of the Arab Spring. In reality, neither has been spontaneous nor leaderless. The Arab Spring was planned years ago and then executed by the forces of oppression that the people thought they were attempting to overthrow.
In an AFP article last April, Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State, admitted that the US trained 5000 activists last February from Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and Lebanon. The goal was to provide the technology to circumvent government obstruction and help activists create a ripple effect by training their colleagues in the arts of government destabilization. Posner said our Federal government budgeted $50 million to develop new technologies to protect activists from arrest by authoritarian governments.
This assistance did not create the Arab Spring, but it helped perpetuate it. The campaign to destabilize the Middle East began much earlier, as geopolitical analyst Tony Cartalucci has repeatedly demonstrated.
Last May, Cartalucci wrote an article America’s Arab Deception. He stated, “The Arab Spring was entirely engineered, prepared for, activists trained, funded, and equipped by the United States, years in advance, based on successes and experience garnered from decades of extraterritorial meddling. In particular, a coalition between the US State Department, NGO’s, corporations, and organizations entirely contrived for the sole purpose of fomenting unrest in foreign nations, began as early as 2008 preparing for what is now unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa.”
Much of this can be corroborated in Ron Nixon’s April 14th New York Times article, “US Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings.” Nixon spinned past Cartalucci’s logical assessment when he wrote, “No one doubts that the Arab uprisings are home grown, rather than resulting from ‘foreign influence,’ as alleged by some Middle Eastern leaders.”
Good writers always avoid categorical statements, but Nixon’s statement is also illogical. He claimed there were no doubters, which he refuted when he mentioned the allegations of Middle Eastern leaders. And no one doubts the New York Times is intolerant of logic.
To reinforce his position, Nixon quoted Stephen McInerney, executive director of the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), “We didn’t fund them to start protests, but we did help support their development of skills and networking. That training did play a role in what ultimately happened, but it was their revolution. We didn’t start it.”
On April 15th, Cartalucci wrote in LandDestroyer, “Also conceding involvement is the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), chaired by various Council on Foreign Relations and Brookings Institute alumni. POMED claims that they helped protestors develop skills and to network. Such training has taken place annually under Movements.org starting in 2008 where Egypt’s April 6 movement among many others, learned techniques to subvert their government. Movements.org of course is sponsored by a conglomerate of corporations and government agencies including the US State Department, Google, MTV, the Edelman public relations firm, Facebook, CBS News, MSNBC, and others. Despite the claim that such meddling is ‘promoting democracy,’ looking at the sponsors and war mongering interests involved in this operation, it appears to be more about promoting global military and economic hegemony.”
Despite his extreme message, Cartalucci’s analysis is supported by facts.
Big Brother’s Clenched Fist Leads the Clueless
In America, our protests appear leaderless, ill-defined, and uncoordinated. To mask the central planning, the protests began small in a few cities before the national rollout proceeded, a common tactic of most marketing schemes. These protests are not leaderless. And their well-defined agenda can be derived from those manipulating the leaderless mobs behind the scenes.
Last July, Adbusters Media Foundation announced they were organizing a street protest to occupy Wall Street. Founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz, this Canadian firm describes itself as “a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators, and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age.” They are anti- Capitalism, anti-consumerism, pro-environment, and pro-violence.
Adbusters is financed through its magazine subscriptions, but it also received grants the last ten years totaling $185,000 from the Tides Foundation, which is partly financed by the mastermind of financial destabilization, George Soros. Soros announced his sympathy for the protestors and has committed his organizational and financial resources.
Soros’ MoveOn.org has organized liberal protest movements in the past and urged its members to join the “occupying” protests. MoveOn.org has also promoted an Internet-based demonstration in conjunction with Rebuild the Dream, another radical group financed by Soros and led by Van Jones. Van Jones was President Obama’s former Green Jobs Czar, who resigned when his past extremism was exposed.
In an e-mail to its supporters, MoveOn predicted, “Together, we’ll add hundreds of thousands of voices of solidarity from the American Dream Movement for the protests across the country and show just how widespread outrage at the Wall Street banks really is.”
Van Jones is a central planner using his front group Rebuild the Dream among others. In a speech to the Soros funded Center for American Progress, he compared our protests to the Arab Spring. “They had the Arab spring, which was a people-powered, non-violent opportunity to change the conversation in those countries. We should have an American Autumn, people-powered, non-violent.”
David DeGraw of AmpedStatus is another central player who spent the last three years trying to organize protests in America against the international bankers. As his website was attacked and knocked offline, the loosely led hacker group, Anonymous, approached him covertly and helped salvage his work and website. DeGraw organized a protest to begin against Wall Street on Flag Day, June 14th. Anonymous also announced “Operation Empire State Rebellion” to begin June 14th. When that fizzled, DeGraw teamed with Adbusters to coordinate the September attack.
DeGraw has a comprehensive world view. His claim that the global rebellions are decentralized and leaderless is a liberal lie. He expects these revolts to eventually destroy the power of the global elite, but this Utopian posture is a common ploy.
In August, Anonymous announced they were joining the September protests. Anonymous destabilizes government agencies, corporations, and affiliated associations by hacking into their computer networks. They revile the central bankers and have demanded Bernanke’s resignation. They’ve also encouraged the Wall Street protesters and declared victory in a video message with a “checkmate.”
Anonymous was also involved in the Arab Spring. During the height of the protests, they waged cyber-attacks on Egyptian government websites. In August, they did the same to Syria’s Ministry of Defense.
Julian Assange of WikiLeaks has been discredited by astute observers as a pawn of the globalists he seemingly exposes. On October 15th, Assange addressed an adoring crowd of protesters in London. As he champions greater transparency through leaked documents, regimes have crumbled. Last May, Amnesty International praised WikiLeaks and the newspapers that published their released confidential files as a catalyst behind the Arab Spring.
Tony Cartalluci has described the central planning of Movements.org behind the Arab Spring. These consultants of revolution have recently developed a series of educational resources for the protesters. On October 7th, Rachel Silver posted on their website, “In response to the widespread protests and demonstrations happening across the USA we’ve compiled a series of guides that will help organizers to sustain their movement nationally and locally and make the most of online and digital tools.” These how-to guides for activists and organizers were allegedly developed “in response” to the protests, not prior, but sometimes the truth is inconvenient.
For years, both ACORN and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have organized campaigns against Capitalism. On a video last March, Steve Lerner of SEIU spoke of a scheme to destroy the stock market, destabilize our nation, and redistribute its wealth. About the same time, ACORN’s founder Wade Rathke also called for massive “Day of Rage” protests that would target bankers. Both men are allied and close to President Obama.
ACORN filed for bankruptcy after it was exposed for a variety of criminal activities, but over the years, it has spawned front groups across our nation, most notably the Working Families Party, which helped organize “Occupy Wall Street.” WFP’s Nelini Stamp has been a regular at the site since day one.
Anthropologist David Graeber leads the global justice movement and promotes direct democracy to replace representative democracy. He’s provided the intellectual groundwork that justifies these protests, their embrace of direct democracy, and consensus building through group manipulation.
Garret LoPorto adds a valuable skill to the central planning. LoPorto learned his craft as a media consultant for Skull and Bones member, John Kerry, when Kerry ran for President. He helped organize “Occupy Boston.”
The radical street organizer Lisa Fithian has been involved since the beginning of the protests. For decades she has fought alongside anti-war advocates, anti-globalists, labor unions, and anarchists. She’s been a regular at “Occupy Chicago” Her specialty is the creation of a crisis, because as she explained, “Crisis is that edge where change is possible.”
Legendary Socialist professor, Frances Fox Piven, is another central planner who has fought Capitalism all her life. Last January in an interview with Amy Goodman, she said, “I think it’s also crazy to call me a commie, a socialist, a revolutionary or whatever.” As an academic, she’s been taught that the truth is relative. In 2003, Piven was elected Honorary Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Countless labor unions and leftwing community groups have swelled the ranks. Other leftwing organizations supporting the protests include the Socialist Party USA, Planned Parenthood, Democracy For America, Campaign for America’s Future, People for the American Way, Public Campaign, Code Pink, Common Cause, Action United, Organize Now, and on and on.
In a development similar to the 1950’s, when Congressional investigations exposed the interlocking network of hundreds of Communist front groups with the nonprofit foundations, which was quickly covered up, many of these organizations are interlocked, working together, and financed by the powerful nonprofit foundations.
The protests appear to be the culmination of much prior work nationally and globally, perhaps decades of work. The leaders comprise a Who’s Who of anti-American radicals. There is nothing spontaneous or leaderless about these protests.
Days of Rage
The protests are parroted as nonviolent, but every now and then, undercurrents arise that gush with revolution and its necessary violence. This is more consistent with its initial theme as “Days of Rage,” which is reminiscent of the violent Days of Rage riots orchestrated by the Weather Underground in Chicago in 1969.
Frances Fox Piven doesn’t seem averse to the rhetoric of nonviolence, because she sees its true intent, as a marketing ploy. In a recent speech at Messiah College, she indicated her only problem with violence is the negative publicity that would result. She also said, “Riots are what poor people do when they get together.”
In a January article in The Nation, Mobilizing the Jobless, Piven wrote “Local protests have to accumulate and spread — and become more disruptive — to create serious pressures on national politicians. An effective movement of the unemployed will have to look something like the strikes and riots that have spread across Greece in response to the austerity measures forced on the Greek government by the European Union, or like the student protests that recently spread with lightning speed across England in response to the prospect of greatly increased school fees.”
Due to public outrage at her position, The Nation defended her in a February editorial. They also added, “Recognizing the leverage that oppressed groups have – and working with them to use it – is her special genius.” This special genius is the hallmark of all good revolutionaries, who then exploit the powerless for their own aims.
On October 2nd after Piven addressed the OWS crowd, she concluded, “This is going to be the fight of our lives.”
In his book Culture Jam, Kalle Lasn predicted, “We will wreck this world.” He’s also said, “Rage drives revolutions.”
Van Jones no longer wants reforms or incremental changes. “We’re not going to put a new battery in a broken system. We want a new system.”
In interviews, Lisa Fithian promotes peaceful protests, but she’s also stated, “I have no issue with property destruction.” She helped instigate the violent Seattle riots in 1999 when the WTO was in town.
For years, these anti-American activists have sown seeds among our youth awaiting the harvest. They are the catalysts, and they expect an inferno.
Manipulating the Masses
By design, the protesters have been unclear about their central demands and agenda. On Oct 5th, Garret LoPorto was interviewed by radio host Michael Graham. He said, “It’s a process of reclaiming democracy. We all know there’s something wrong with the system. How are we going to fix it? How can we make it better?” He offered no solutions – specific goals will come later.
On Aug 12th, Adbusters posted an update prior to the protests that explains their approach. “Strategically speaking, there is a very real danger that if we naively put our cards on the table and rally around the ‘overthrow of capitalism’ or some equally outworn utopian slogan, then our Tahrir moment will quickly fizzle into another inconsequential ultra-lefty spectacle soon forgotten.”
Adbusters prefers stealth at the beginning. A consensus can be engineered at any time using the Delphi technique, which relies on mass psychology to manipulate the group toward a predetermined consensus. It uses Hegel’s dialectic to reconcile opposing forces and create a new synthesis. The successful “change agent” or facilitator must be an astute observer of human behavior and trained in psychology. This process has been mastered by the Progressives, who used it across our nation to transform our schools into rubbish.
The Delphi technique is a sophisticated process, but on its simplest level, the facilitator uses peer pressure and other group dynamics to isolate or marginalize dissenting voices, while rallying those sympathetic to the “correct” position. The group is not only led to the preconceived consensus, but they are also led to believe they arrived at it independently. This process has been fine-tuned over the decades “awaiting the time when it would be implemented extensively in the interests of transforming America.” (This quote was posted anonymously last July.)
To prevent any political or moneyed interest from hijacking the movement, the protesters convene a General Assembly every day in every city, so that everyone has a voice – although, not everyone is granted that right as Congressman John Lewis found out. The group engages in direct democracy which leads to a consensus on a variety of topics from when and where to march to trash pick-up. Hand signals either arouse the group’s favor or incite disapproval. Consensus is engineered daily, while the crowd is indoctrinated in direct democracy.
Perhaps more sinister, as Dr. Webster Tarpley reported weeks ago, the general assembly may be a simple diversion. Tarpley said eyewitnesses have identified about twenty mysterious individuals who seem to comprise a secret steering committee that supersedes the General Assembly. They’re much older than the average protester and appear to have a military orientation. Recently, thousands of leaked e-mails have confirmed the existence of two secret committees, a Demands Committee and a Constitution Committee. These leaders prefer to remain behind the scenes. When their work is done, they will present it to the General Assembly for approval.
For decades, psychology has been mined for better methods to manipulate the masses. Today, the methods are more sophisticated, more brazen, and more effective. The protest organizers are manufacturing dissent within society, while creating consensus within the movement.
Garret LoPorto is a depth psychologist who understands how to manipulate unconscious urges. To promote his marketing firm TotalConvert, LoPorto wrote, “If you want people to believe in your brand, (and share that belief with others), your brand must be evolved into a cult brand. If you want buzz; if you want viral marketing; if you want sky-high conversion rates and you want customers to not just be customers, but total converts, then you’ve come to the right consulting firm.”
Creating a cult brand is his specialty. To accomplish this, he uses psychographics marketing, which divides people into groups based on their psychological profile. Psychographics relies on surveys, interviews, and focus groups, but now marketers also mine the social networks for psychological data. Using the Internet and its social networks, psychographics enables viral marketing.
LoPorto is a rarity. He’s also creating a cult following called the Wayseers. The Wayseers Manifesto is a slick video production that reveals LoPorto’s understanding of human behavior. Many viewers were reduced to tears, as if their eyes were suddenly opened and they found their long lost home. It is powerful propaganda that uses trance music, which shifts consciousness from a beta state to an alpha state. This renders the viewer more susceptible to its message. It begins:
“Attention: All you rule-breakers, you misfits and troublemakers – all you free spirits and pioneers – all you visionaries and non-conformists … Everything that the establishment has told you is wrong with you – is actually what’s right with you. You see things others don’t. You are hardwired to change the world. Unlike nine out of ten people – your mind is irrepressible – and this threatens authority. You were born to be a revolutionary. You can’t stand rules because in your heart you know there’s a better way. You have strengths dangerous to the establishment – and it wants them eliminated, So your whole life you’ve been told your strengths were weaknesses – Now I’m telling you otherwise.”
The video is ten minutes of New Age mystical Gnosticism that promotes revolutionary thinking and action. It ends:
“Wayseers reveal this divine truth by devoting themselves to the birth of some creative or disruptive act expressed through art or philosophy, innovations to shake up industry, revolutions for democracy, coups that topple hypocrisy, movements of solidarity, changes that leave a legacy, rebellions against policy, spirit infused technology, moments of clarity, things that challenge barbarity, watersheds of sincerity, momentous drives for charity.” (LoPorto isn’t your ordinary “high priest” – he’s also a poet.) “This is your calling, Wayseer. You’ve found your tribe. Welcome home.”
LoPorto reassures the disenfranchised viewer that they are special, needed, and welcome. They don’t need to follow rules that have been rigged against them. They must destroy the rule-makers and revolt against the established order. The video is a recruiting device to build a network of mindless revolutionaries who will blindly follow their self-proclaimed enlightened leader.
Soros is the most dangerous of the central planners because of his wealth, organizational skills, and diabolical ambition, but LoPorto is dangerous because of his creative genius.
New Agers Have the Answers
Pure Energy Systems News announced a new documentary that will be released on 11/11/11: “An upcoming documentary named, ‘Thrive – What on Earth will it take?’ will seek to explain the sources of human suffering, expose the elite power structures (such as big oil) that have contributed to it, and provide an answer including free energy, explaining what it will take to improve the human condition on this planet.”
Supposedly, an ancient code embedded by extraterrestrials in ancient ruins, crop circles, and art has been suppressed by the global elite. Unlocking its secret is the key to free energy which will save our distressed planet from imminent destruction. The documentary has been plugged by prominent New Agers who hope the Thrive Movement goes viral.
The PESN article also posed an ominous question: “Could this documentary be a trigger that sparks a revolution?”
Triggers
There are many triggers that might spark the fuse. A manufactured crisis is the standard approach. An epic economic meltdown cannot be avoided for long and would trigger widescale rioting.
Another trigger is foreshadowed by an Anonymous slogan. They issued a conditional demand that was featured in LoPorto’s Manifesto, has its own facebook page, and was displayed on posters during the Arab Spring. “If your government shuts down the Internet, shut down your government.” This crisis also seems inevitable.
The clamor for a Constitutional Convention is growing which could also cause chaos because it would certainly be co-opted by a predetermined consensus that would overthrow our Constitutional liberties. This crisis must be avoided.
Villains
The protesters are supplied with enough villains to keep the blame game running like an endless marathon: greedy bankers, crony capitalists, corrupt politicians, and selfish rich people.
President Obama is sympathetic. He cannot run for re-election on his record, so he’s been blaming everyone and everything else from the prior administration to his opponents, natural disasters, the Arab Spring, etc. But he’s recently focused on a common villain that the protesters revile – the bankers and other rich people, especially those of the Wall Street variety. His slogan “the rich must pay their fair share” gets shriller as he stokes class warfare.
Charles Krauthammer warned in a recent column, “Popular resentment, easily stoked, is less easily controlled.”
Our President’s sympathy for the Wall Street protesters is disingenuous but consistent with his administration’s widespread deception and complicit lack of transparency. Wall Street enriched Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign and helped him get elected. Objective observers include mainstream journalists on the list of villains because only the alternative media mentions this.
This was illustrated a few weeks ago as Van Jones mixed with the Wall Street protesters. Luke Rudowski of We Are Change questioned him on camera about Wall Street’s generosity during Obama’s 2008 campaign. Van Jones promptly fled the area.
If Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination, the villains of Wall Street could derail his Presidential bid. Wall Street has reversed its support of Democratic candidates and is backing Romney with a steady flow of campaign dollars. More likely, this is another phony opposition campaign to taint his campaign. The globalists who own Wall Street would love to see President Obama re-elected.
The International Agenda
On October 15th, the protest movement held events in over 900 cities in 82 countries. In America, hundreds of organizations are engaged in the destruction of old fashioned American liberty based on our Constitution. Across the globe, there are thousands of groups rallying for regime changes in the form of democratic socialism.
Common themes include a false spontaneity in the face of manufactured dissent. The clenched fist is the universal symbol, a staple of socialist and communist groups worldwide. The protests are youth-led, who bring high energy, have no negative political baggage, and are more pliable than their elders. They are also more indoctrinated, as the techniques of propaganda have evolved in step with technology. Their primary needs are organizational skills, positive media exposure, and money, needs easily exploited.
The US State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) both have mandates to promote democracy internationally. Direct involvement in the internal affairs of other countries can compromise their support, so they contract with non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), International Republican Institute, National Democractic Institute, Asia Foundation, Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), the Democracy Council, and previously mentioned POMED, among many others.
Sometimes financing is misdirected through front groups. WikiLeaks released diplomatic cables from Damascus that showed one channel to finance Syrian opposition groups. Our State Department granted $6.3 million to the Democracy Council who then financed MEPI who financed Syrian exiles.
In Egypt and Tunisia, as the US government publicly supported the puppet regime, it also privately financed the opposition. Dictators can become inconvenient for a variety of reasons including massive public unrest, which sometimes is manufactured for other reasons. To control the outcome, the US must co-opt the dissent. This explains our President’s behavior during the Egyptian revolt. Initially, out of instinct, he supported our old ally Mubarak, but he finally caught on.
The Egyptian uprising provides a case study of how revolutions are US-engineered. The conventional mainstream media myth portrayed the revolutionaries as spontaneous freedom fighters. To retain their prestige, mainstream journalists do not investigate or expose the lies in the State Department handouts they parrot, but the alternative media does. Tony Cartalucci exposed the myriad groups that were involved long before the moment became ripe.
Cartalucci also showed how Movements.org, a subsidiary of the Alliance for Youth Movements, sponsored by Google and staffed by former executives, helped the young Egyptians develop the technological skills for communication and social networking. But the real revolution required bodies in the streets not digitalized avatars or Facebook friends. In 2009, Egyptian activist Mohamed Adel went to Belgrade, Serbia for guidance, home of the Center for Applied NonViolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), which was spawned by OPTOR, the resistance group that ousted Slobodan Milosevic.
CANVAS provided the necessary training. According to Tina Rosenberg’s February article in Foreign Policy Revolution U, “They have worked with democracy advocates from more than 50 countries. They have advised groups of young people on how to take on some of the worst governments in the world – and in Georgia, Ukraine, Syria-occupied Lebanon, the Maldives, and now Egypt, those young people won.”
Perhaps winning is a relative term like the truth. Eight months after her article appeared, it doesn’t look like the Egyptian people have won anything except a sorry economy.
Another media myth has portrayed young Serbian Ivan Marovic as the heroic visionary who helped topple Milosevic using a brilliant grass roots strategy. He was instrumental, but NATO bombs also helped. Not reported was that Marovic’s vision and strategy came from an American, Harvard professor Gene Sharp. Hundreds of copies of his handbook From Dictatorship to Democracy were translated into the Serbian language and distributed by the Albert Einstein Institute, which specializes in methods of non-violent resistance.
An award winning documentary, How to start a Revolution, was recently released last month and reveals Sharp’s global influence.
In addition to Sharp’s assistance, the OPTOR revolutionaries also received CIA training and were partly financed by the US government through Freedom House and NED. Despite OPTOR’s lies to the contrary, this financing was confirmed after the Serbian coup, and many members quit.
On September 22nd, Marovic addressed the sympathetic OWS crowd in New York.
OPTOR and CANVAS adopted the clenched fist symbol over a decade ago, so it was not surprising to see it prominently displayed in the streets of Cairo during their uprising. It’s become the official logo of OWS and all the global protests and revolutions. Perhaps this universal symbol will unite us all in one-world government after the destabilization campaigns accomplish their global destruction through economic ruin and the resulting riots.
A Populist Revolution
The protests are portrayed as a populist movement by the 99% have-nots against the elite. In an Oct 7th article, the Activist Post wrote, “The elite are specialists at divide-and-conquer techniques, but that becomes exceedingly difficult when the melting pot of America truly spills over.”
The elite are also experts at false-flag operations and phony opposition campaigns that appear to undermine their interests, while it consolidates their power. History illustrates the success of this tactic. In 1913, a phony opposition campaign enabled the approval of the Federal Reserve Act.
The Activist Post called for its readers to “participate in what looks like the genuine start of the Second American Revolution.” A revolution against the controlling elite that thrusts off the tyranny of their central banking, the indoctrination in their schools, the lies of their media, and the brainwashing of their entertainment, would be a welcome development. But a revolution that appears to free the oppressed masses from the ultra-rich, while it is manipulated behind the scenes by the globalist elite will only lead to more enslavement.
The Doom of Liberty
Kalle Lasn of Adbusters is correct when he says that mega-corporations promote mass-consumerism through the brainwashing of television commercials. He was correct when he called television viewing “a major mental health problem.” Public opinion is now mass manufactured, and behaviors are created to keep the public distracted from the real issues in life. Television, movies, and computer games are not only addictive forms of vicarious living, rather than real living, but the audio-visual images are also powerful propaganda.
The protesters are correct when they condemn our mega-corporations, because they practice a crony Capitalism that inhibits free enterprise through government regulations, lobbyists who rig the rules, trade associations, campaign donations, and the swinging door between business and government. Crony Capitalism must be abolished.
The protestors are correct about the ills of Wall Street. Wall Street enriches itself, but only as a facilitator for big business and the Federal Reserve, which are the real culprits behind our economic woes and injustices.
Our young college graduates are justifiably angry when they can’t find a job or are forced to take a low paying job that will not pay down the enormous debt they incurred to get a worthless degree. But their anger is misdirected at the corporations that don’t want or need them. They should blame the real villains – the universities who swindled them with outrageous tuitions that had to be borrowed. In the past thirty years, college tuition has risen over 400%, while the quality of education has declined inversely.
Anger is becoming epidemic, but we will see the relationship between the protesters and our President get cozier. We will see demands clarified and leaders emboldened. We will probably see the harsh winter disperse the crowds to warmer climes. But networks are being established, and protesters are being indoctrinated.
The socialist cancer has invaded our vital organs: our government, our public and higher education, our mass media, our arts and sciences. Our language has changed, and our dialogue has been misdirected. The cancer might go away for a moment, but it will return more virulent, and it will eventually get violent.
As a nation, we waste our leisure time in pursuits of excitement, idleness, or pleasure. In the old days, leisure time was a valuable gift. Leisure and liberty were both hard earned by our great forebears, which many have taken for granted. We are living on borrowed time, a debt that must be repaid.
A time of reckoning is now upon us. It is time to turn off the insidious TV, the dehumanizing music, a time to tune out the deceptive media. It is time to replace our trivial pursuits with fasting, fervent prayer, and the study of the Scriptures. It is time to turn to our Lord with full purpose of heart. If we follow His lead, our concerns will be eased, our burdens will be lighter, and our spirituality will be strengthened.
Robert Beaudine is the author of the novel Based Upon a Lie, which you can purchase as an ebook. Visit his website, facebook page or email him at: robert@baseduponalie.com.
Copyright 2011 – Robert F. Beaudine. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.
Excellent breakdown of the situation and excellent solutio to the problem. We must pray that the Lord will intervene to stop this darkness in it's tracks. We have to seek the Lord's assistance in combating this decpetion. Pray that He will open the eyes of the deceived protestors to the ploys and plots of those who use them as pawns in destroying the good to usher in evil and enslavement for the masses.
Great article as usual Robert. It is true if America does not turn back to the Lord we will continue our decline as a nation and go the way of the other nations that have gone the way of destruction.
In my believe system, the devil (the corporation) has been here for more then 100 years, he has lured us into his twisted believe system. We are fighting the devil now.
What sick being would charge for health care? For me to take care of my brothers and sisters, I need to be healthy.
What sick being would push consumerism in to my eyes and ears every 5 minutes of my waking day. For me to convert my brothers and sisters, i need to be able to speak, and they need to be able to hear with out distraction.
Did you know ALL religious books call for debt forgiveness every 7 years. If we were honoring that system, we would not have the debt loads we have today.
In the Muslim religion, it is a sin to charge interest. (Visa, Master Card and Amex must LOVE that.)
If you don’t believe this to be true. Read your book of religion. (Bible, Koran, Torah, etc)
Corporations, have the “Rights” of a human being. However If we met people who acted in the same manner they would be put in jail or an asylum.
Lastly, remember this. The bible speaks of the devil as a handsome and charismatic being who will lure you into his belief system.
Have we not been lured into consumerism. Have we not been lured into paying for things that were once free?
Pause, reflect, pray meditate.
This means that you agree with OWS , so achieving a type of social democratie is not so bad!!
This is the strategy of Marxist Antonio Gramsci in action, cultural subversion, linked to Gyorgy Lukacs tatics of destabilization. Americans are ashamed to be labeled Macarthists so they can’t pinpoint the Marxist takeover they are suffering now.
Here in Brazil, it is over, they took control.
Read about the School of Frankfurt. People like Bill Ayers and George Soros know exactly the plan.
Marcos, you are correct. I wrote a comprehensive article on cultural Marxism last March, but most Americans remain clueless. And I am not ashamed of McCarthy, just his excesses. Congressional investigations were exposing the widespread Communist subversion throughout out government and culture, but it was covered up, and McCarthy took the fall. Sorry to hear – Brazil was booming but BRIC is screwed like the rest of us … if we don’t awaken in time.
Wow…. Fabulous article Bobby….Right on as usual.
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Is this all to get us ready for implementation of Martial Law and no Presidential election??? Hmmmm? I'm just sayin'….
Wow, that's one awesome conspiracy… but am I correct in thinking (or should I not think?) that the way to avoid all this indoctrination is to be indocrtinated into one of the most undemocratic cults ever conceived? That is infact fact one of the three prongs of power; Vatican City – control of spirituality, (the others being The City of London which controls world finance & Washington DC which controls the military) that is running the world & seeking a One World Government or NWO if you please?
Great story though… sort of like another story I know, just can't take it too seriously.
Make no mistake, the Tides Foundation is primarily a 'feel good' social organization populated by some easily manipulated and IMHO, ignorant albeit fitthy rich neo-liberal Democrats. Clintonite folks like Anne Bartley, Pennel Rock, etc. Mostly they are the children of the uber-elite upper class, with Masters degrees from Harvard & Yale, but few actual job skills and no understanding of the educational premise behind what Chaolette Iserbyt and JT Gatto call "Dumbing them down."
All the really educated 'occupiers' are following Max & Stacy Keiser's reports on Terrorist Banker Occupation.
Time to get off the streets and into the courts.
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http://www.zerohedge.com/print/365866
While you're reporting on the players in OWS is reasonably accurate, you're conclusion denies todays' reality. Burying your head in the sand, by ignoring media and fasting won't fix what's wrong with America. People are angry on left and right, and the political parties no longer represent the desires of most of the taxpaying populace. The only way to to fix anything is to engage as a citizen of the Republic and be heard, not hide out and pray for divine intervention. While both OWS and the Tea Party are too extreme for me, I think people here have a lot to be angry about, as did people in the Middle East. The Arab Spring overthrew horrible fascist dictators who were relics of the last century's realpolitik–> those people had lots to be angry about (no jobs, religious repression, huge economic inequality) and I am glad the US supported those political and cultural changes with a minimum of $$$ investment and no risk to the lives of US armed forces. If you love America, remember one of our guiding principles is separation of church and state, so that all of our religious freedoms are protected– you have to get involved in the state part if you want to make a difference. Corporations and politicians together have gamed our version of capitalism in their favor, leaving most of us without real access to the American Dream, which is why people are angry and which is why you see a lot of "socialist" flag waving in the OWS camp. To demonize these people as elitists or liberals is also tired old rhetoric from the last century and will get us nowhere as a country except more fragmented as a populace, which plays right into the hands of the status quo. I realize this is a "preaching to the choir" kind of article and website, but wake up people, your paranoiac conspiracy finger pointing is part of America's problem, not the solution.
John, you are very much right on. I loved Robert’s essay, but the last paragraph was a serious cop-out. The OWS people protest but provide no real proposals or agenda that address the issues of a corrupted market system in alliance with government as criminal enterprise using a police/surveillance state as its mafia-like enforcement arm, and neither does Robert. How many of any of you know what a CDS and derivative instrument is? You’d think that at those OWS assemblies they’d educate the kids about the economic instruments behind the Wall Strret/Washington D.C. con job; but instead, they work the same old tired horse of political correctness around racism and sexism. Prayer alone is asking for a deux ex machina. There’s an old saying: God helps those who help themselves. Educate yourself about the economic instruments behind the abuse of the citizenry by Wall Street/D.C. 99% of people don’t know diddly squat about it. You combine that with the methods of Gramsci and you have the national and world-wide nightmare that we are in.
John, what is your solution? Our public schools are not only pathetic, they destroy individuality and indoctrinate into socialism. Our central bank manipulates our economy at will and helped perpetuate the greatest financial swindle in world history. Our corporations use their wealth/power to enlist gov't on their behalf so they retain their dominant position. Our federal and most state and city governments are in bed with industry and together they enrich themselves, while our media covers up the corruption and feeds us daily lies. Our entertainment and art dehumanizes us, yet we willingly embrace it, which only furthers the brainwashing. The family structure, the building block of a civilized people, has been destroyed. We are living in the land of the brain dead, as all our traditions and institutions have been methodically changed on us while we played and fussed.
Robert,
I agree with every word you state in this response, but disagree in part with the folllowing one. I’m a retired teacher of over twenty years, most of it in the public schools of the San Francisco Bay area. I left in total disgust. I’m an old fashion conservative who believes in self-sufficiency, self-reliance, self-responsibility and freedom under God. In my Pascha confession (I’m Eastern Orthodox) back in 2005 I told my pastor that I felt that public school education had become such that to continue teaching in the system was sinful and that I would leave after fufilling my contract for the school year. I honored that promise. Your essay on public school education is pretty decent. I’d recommend John Gatto’s work, The Underground History of American Pub;ic School Education. So understand we are on the same page.
Years ago I noted that the sermons of martyred Father Popieluszko (Polish Solidarity chaplain) were very appropriate for use in America today. All you had to do was substitute Godless consumer capitalism for Godless communism in his sermons. Soon after i started telling people this (my phone has been monitored for years) I noted that for some reason his sermons were removed from the internet. My cousin was part of the weekly 10,000 strong candlelight processions to his church for liturgy and his stirring sermons. Something like that in the U.S. as counterpoint to the secular OWS protests would be a start. We did not bring down communism in Poland by prayer alone.
The Beast is powerful and the only way the corrupt system will be brought down is by noncooperation and nonparticipation. Stop voting. I quit ten years ago when I saw how corrupted and manipulated computerized “voting” had become. Vote only if “none of the above” is a choice on the ballot. This is how communism was brought down in Russia in 1991. In the financial sector bring back the Glass-Steagall Act. It worked for two generations in protecting us. Why do you think they did away with it just as they ramped up the use of derivative instruments. Oddly enough the two Jewish guys who invented the derivative instrument in the early 90s were imprisoned for fraud. The federal judge said there was no way three cents could control a dollar of assets and be legal. And then lo and behold,by 98 we have the LTCM crisis. I foretold back then that in the 21st century derivative instruments would be outlawed because of the financial destruction they would cause. Outlaw these financial instuments from hell. I could say more but this is getting on the longish side. Prayer and works Robert. Prayer and works.
I guess you think a change of politicians will solve our problems?! Ludicrous thinking. No John, things are well past a political solution, with all these problems compounded by an imminent economic catastrophe. There is only 1 solution – a spiritual solution. I have studied these issues long and hard and that's the only answer left. I will never stick my head in the sand, or give up on liberty. I can only hope you will repent and join me.
Thank you for this excellent article. It helps me to understand what I have been trying so hard to understand. I know there is something wrong about the OWS efforts, but I also know that many of their grievances are very right.
I know it is good to care about the widening income gap and growing "99 percent" in poverty, but this poverty concern of the OWS gang is the same-old, same-old Marxist Leninist stuff. It is totalitarianism and always ends up like the Soviet Union ended up. A bunch of crooked oligarchs running everything and running away with everything.
Our USA money and banking system is wrong but so far I am not seeing any real solutions to this basic problem. Also those OWS people could care less about our wide open borders, and enforcing our borders to me is essential to sovereignty and the rule of law.
Great article up to the religion part which leads us back to the fight for separation of Church and State. So you are against George Soros, Socialism, but you are for the ill-advised glomming together of Church (a Christian Church) and State. The Scriptures were forged in Britain and all Abrahamic religions share the same origin – male writers who want to control the planet via religion, which is just another form of fascism.
We should look to the light that is imbued in all of us by our Creator rather than deny it and ask Him for Light. We have the answers within us, a Creator would look at us with annoyance and think we are imbeciles if we could not arrive at our own solutions and constantly ask for puppeteering.
imagine that… a “victim” of the most ridiculous conspiracy ever, christianity, complaining about other conspiracies… you should ask your santa claus idiot god to deliver you a brain for christmas…
i am not really interested in the whys and hows of OWS's beginnings as the movement has taken on a life of its own. what IS important is that there are people spreading the word about the federal reserve and the blatant, rampant corruption in our fascist government. those in the finance working group (i know them personally) try their absolute best to avoid any donations that have a political or corporate agenda string attached to them.
bottom line: OWS is doing more good than harm, regardless of its origins.
We need to occupy the occupy movement. End The Fed. End the corruption. End the manipulation of Capitol by the Jews. You think the Jews don't run the big banks? Your living in denial. There is only one candidate with the right platform – that's Ron Paul. Can he be trusted? Some don't trust him. Others don't like him because they have been brainwashed by the NeoCons. There isn't anyone else but Ron Paul. Obama won't really do anything and neither will the next Republican Neocon designated loser. With Ron Paul we have a chance – otherwise it will be 4 more years of the Obama dictatorship.
This was a great article. Let's just hope the obvious criminality of the institutions which influence both the government and the people do not provoke the abandonment of respect for authority in the general population.
Thanks for the tip. OWS Seattle features a peoples' microphone on the stage. I downloaded 2.5 hours of coverage of this mike and will critique it with your info in mind. If a true open forum is provided, of which I have already viewed some, I will be able to judge the level of control over true public participation. If speakers do not emphasize relentless harassment of congressmen to get Eric Holder, Jr. off his ass and busy carrying out Wall Street prosecutions, it is safe to say that this article's info is spot on and indeed we have another problem to sweep aside. This is not 'right' versus 'left'. This is simply stopping a recolonizing of the U.S. by corporate and European royal interests.
"Anger is becoming epidemic, but we will see the relationship between the protesters and our President get cozier. " In an otherwise impressively cited and composed post I have to say excuse me. Obama was overwhelmingly elected into office with his promise to change the status quo. So I would say that a bunch of feed up, pissed off people spoke in 2008 and some of those same people are speaking now. Since nothing has changed, due to Republican obstructionism in my opinion, why is OWS so surprising? Those are the exact things he campaigned on, those are his people. Absolutely Obama will use OWS to his advantage and he should. Not much different than Republicans using the Tea Party to their advantage. Incidentally, I notice not a single line of the post mentioned the Tea Party. A political force that occupies our government that was founded, funded and maintained by Crony Capitalists.
Why don't we just start calling the "Occupiers" encampments "Bolshevik Parks" ?
It would certainly appear that someone drank the Kool-Aid.
You better quit fearing the word communist buddy, because let me let you in on a bit of a secret…THE COMMUNISTS ARE THE ONE'S WHO HAVE BAILED US OUT AND LENT US MONEY for about 2 decades. If not for them, YOU WOULDN'T BE RUNNING YOUR MOUTH NOW because our country would be GONE. It amazes me the "Gung Ho American" like yourself who isn't even aware of what keeps his system running, yet he lets the jabber from his mouth flow as if he were "wholly" educated on the issues. Your country was infected LONG AGO, and now you're insulting the people who are AT LEAST trying to make a viable change so that YOUR CHILDREN get to eat in the future. Yes, they're misguided. But, misguided while in action is better than uneducated, uninformed, and insulting while in INACTION. -Until you contribute to something without having SELF-INTERESTS involved so that you can produce for the greater whole, you should really refrain from speaking. -The only reason why you go to work is to feed yourself or your family. The only reason why you want these protests to stop, is because YOU LIKE YOUR COMFORTS. But, let me tell you something…if these protests FAIL, that's when you'll realize that your comforts have technically BEEN SOLD to the next highest bidder. -You have no idea the depth of this thing, as you probably haven't studied a solitary aspect. Good day to you…
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"This is not 'right' versus 'left'. This is simply stopping a recolonizing of the U.S. by corporate and European royal interests."
You forgot the biggest…CHINA!!!!
wow…I…wow. You….are you blaming a Canadian company for occupywallstreet. Please PLEASE tell me I read this wrong.
Yes, you read it wrong.
Pretty good stuff. I don't agree with everything, but, its rare that this ever happens. Excellently presented.
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