Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance

by Lemony Snicket
4. People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.

Occupy Together - Jefferson Airplane Revolution/Volunteers


Some ideas on governance in the 21st Century
Fox News keeps spewing out that the 99% of the polity who has decided to seize the reins of government "don't have a policy paper" or a "list of demands" like they are just some insignificant flies buzzing around them, but they'll be pretty quick to dispense with the labels, when they do the math on the 99%'s mood. But since they want "platforms" so they can co-opt and pervert the democratic spirit of the day, here's some to start the feed of ideas... I am one of the 99%.

LETS LINK 15.O GLOBAL REVOLUTION TO 11.11.11 GLOBAL WIKISTRIKE FOR LIFE: OCCUPY THE WORLD
PFor a social structure free from classes, states, borders, work, money, war and based on the commons we share… Join the world wide WikiStrike and open source global demo on 11.11.11!
We are reclaiming life !

Robert Thurman Speaks at Occupy Wall Street

"We need a cool revolution." Buddhist Scholar, and long time personal friend of the Dalai Lama, Robert Thurman, addressed the crowd at Occupy Wall Street on October 12. Shot by acclaimed filmmaker Velcrow Ripper, for his upcoming feature doc, "EVOLVE LOVE: Love in a Time of Crisis." http://www.evolvelovelive.com

Roubini predicts eurozone collapse; world markets will follow
Noted American economist Nouriel Roubini says the eurozone is in the midst of crumbling, and with the rest of the world’s future at stake with a potential collapse, they might want to listen up — Roubini has been right before.

N. Roubini: ' The fox that raided the chicken coop now claims it wants to guard it again'
Renown[ed] American economist Nouriel Roubini tweeted on Friday: "The Greek fox (New Democracy party) that raided the chicken coop now claims it wants to guard it again.Their credibility is dirtier than mud."

Bob Dylan - I'ts allright ma, (I'm only bleeding)

Bob Dylan's "I'ts allright ma, I'm only bleeding".
This is from his concert at Philharmonic Hall, 1964.

How to Abolish Money

From Jorgen Schäfer’s Homepage:
“We should just abolish money and return to barter.” Such and similar phrases are sometimes heard in anarchist debate. It usually shows a basic misunderstanding of the nature of money. This essay tries to explain what it would really take to abolish money, and what would not be enough. Once this is understood, and some possible ways to have moneyless economies are known, it should be easier for everyone to decide on whether they really want to abolish money.

everything FREE! An introduction to The Free World Charter.


Zimbabwe Health Care, Paid With Peanuts
People lined up on the veranda of the American mission hospital here from miles around to barter for doctor visits and medicines, clutching scrawny chickens, squirming goats and buckets of maize. But mostly, they arrived with sacks of peanuts on their heads.

L.E.T.S Timebank to beat the local economy blues
I can’t help feeling its very timely to have Avalon Fairshares back in action.

Smothering the Flames of Revolution in Tibet
On October 1, China’s National Day, Tibetans' flames of protest erupted in the Sichuan, fanning a tired message of independence and religious freedom. Two teenage Tibetan monks set themselves on fire during a protest, demanding the return of the Dalai Lama and for Tibetan autonomy.

The people finally realized that we are serfs in a feudalistic system
My job as an economic hit man during the 1970s was to enslave nations that had resources our corporations coveted by burdening them with debts they could never repay. We then demanded that they sell those resources cheap, without social or environmental regulations, to our corporations.

Hugh Laurie: "Antidisestablishmentarianism"


Peru’s Congress approves 10-year GMO ban
Peru’s Congress announced Friday it overwhelmingly approved a 10-year moratorium on imports of genetically modified organisms in order to safeguard the country’s biodiversity.

ayaklan / occupy istanbul kasım 5 / nov. 5th 2011
Photo gallery

GENERAL STRIKE, children's brigade, decolonize oakland

Danny Glover, Roger Waters: Powerful Messages To Occupy

Sermons With Suds part 1

The Very Esteemed Universal Philosopher of Absolute Reality Reverend Frodis "Suds" Pshaw preaches the gospel of the Church of the SubGenius and J.R. "Bob" Dobbs. www.subgenius.com

POLL WINNER JR 'Bob' Dobbs
The word spread amongst the Church of the Subgenius that their man, JR "Bob" Dobbs, was trailing Sarah Palin and Jerry Garcia... not to mention the Prophet Muhammad! They quickly organized a plea for BOB TOASTERS!

How To Spot A Jap (1942)
1942 US ARMY/NAVY EDUCATIONAL COMIC STRIP

Leaderless revolution {OCCUPY}


Anarchy Comics
Some underground comic freaks from the 1970s/80s printed Anarchy Comics Vol. 3, seen in these photos. It's from 1981 and it is intelligent, politically charged art dipped in pop trash art sewage. My favorite image is the back cover of, depicting the US and USSR as giant mosquitoes, sucking the planet dry. It's by Pepe Moreno. Paul Mavrides' work appears and he thanks "Bob" from his satire religion The Church of the Subgenius. Front cover by Peter Pontiak, color by Guy Colwell. Edited by Jay Kinney.

The most awesome rage comic ever?
I just got tweeted about this extraordinary rage comic by an 86-year old.

Corporate Religion


'I enjoy being a girl,' as Britain and its Commonwealth abolish royal maleprecedence
Author's program note. So, at last it came, after a thousand long years, then as swift as lightning... girl royals are now equals of boy royals, by parliamentary fiat and the Queen's own signature . And all the Founding Mothers of Women's Rights and Feminism are cock-a-hoop, equality in all occupations -- even the most august -- having always been their goal.

My Brightest Diamond - To Pluto's Moon (Live)



Shape-Shifting Donkey Prostitute Strikes Again
"Your worship, I only came to know that I was being intimate with a donkey when I got arrested," a 28-year-old Zimbabwe man told a magistrate on Monday.

Revolt of the Turkeys, Part One
In which a rabble-rousing turkey escapes the farm and finds himself in Washington, where his talents land him a broadcasting job.

Solioonensius
After having profoundly studied the sunspots, the great Russian erudite Georges Lakhovsky reached the point of discovering that an intimate relationship exists between sunspots and wars.

Is Socialism’s True Father—Satan?
The bible of modern community activists—Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals—contains a surprising yet highly illustrative dedication, a paean to Satan.

Origins of religion and the human revolution
Jack Conrad gives his assessment of some of the main theories and asks what apes can teach us

What happens if the Flying Spaghetti Monster lands.
I mean he wouldn't be flying so what would he be? Would he even still exist? Also, what do pirates have to do with the FSM?
Czarcasm - Free Range Chicken Of Bristol: 'The Flying Spaghetti Monster does not "land"-it grasps the Earth in it's Noodly Goodness and takes us for a ride.'

Too Controversial: Pirate Party Banned From Gaming Exhibition
Despite having booked and paid for their booth at Gamex, Sweden’s largest gaming exhibition, the Pirate Party have been excluded from the action this week. The party, who say they were nagged for 2 to 3 months to book for the event, were this week informed they were too controversial and no longer welcome.

God vs. the flying spaghetti monster at the Society of Edmonton Atheists (Part 1)
On the evening of November 1 I was pleased once again to share an evening with the motley crew at the Society of Edmonton Atheists. My topic for the evening was “What hath God to do with the flying spaghetti monster?” I spent the first section of the talk summarizing a range of entities that are popularly compared to God from Bertrand Russell’s famous flying teapot through Santa Claus, invisible pink unicorns, Zeus, and fairies, and finally settling on the most recent member of this most ignominious pantheon, the fabled flying spaghetti monster.

British ISP told to block Pirate Bay torrent site, or face court
A music industry coalition has asked the UK’s largest ISP to block access to the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, or face court.

Do aliens believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and does the Flying Spaghetti Monster believe in aliens?
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker
The Flying Spaghetti Monster doesn't believe, he knows.

Pastafarians' $1bn global HQ in Birmingham's Spaghetti Junction
Birmingham - The international fight against dodgy durum wheat products intensified today with the announcement that the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is to relocate to an iconic new HQ in the Midlands.
Church followers - known as Pastafarians - are bankrolling construction of the $1 billion Puttanesca Twin Towers building in the Spaghetti Junction area of Birmingham.

Occupy, Protest, Won't Get Fooled Again

The Who-Won't get Fooled Again - Occupy Wall Street Etc. Dedicated to those who stand up and request redress of grievances by our Gov't. Slideshow and video of protest's from 1932 to Present.

Video from Anonymous to Occupy sites

A message from Anonymous to Wall street, New York and the protestors

This is a message from anonymous to the people of New York city, wall street and members of the protest. We are crowding your streets, we are filling its veins. This might be painful, but you will not open your eyes so we are being forced to dilate them. This your protest. Welcome your new neighbors for they choose to sleep on the streets for you. They choose to open their mouths when you are too exhausted, they are your brothers. They are here for your benefit, they are young, they are the children of the internet. They are generation zero. They are taking their future back into their hands. They are reviving the country you have long left to rot and whither, never forget this. Treat them with kindness. Nod your heads in respect to them. Give them water, shake their hands, the smallest gratitude will incite them.
Wall street: four years ago you saw that the country was brittle. You saw that it was ripe for the taking, and so you did. You shattered the country and collected the fragmented pieces to line your pockets. We stand here today, united and strong, 4 years later. We stand before your butcher block, before you slaughter house. Did you think that the people would not come to know what you have done? You sit before your trading screens, before your analysis. You are the players of the game and you play very well, and you rig the game even better. You care very little about the average American, mere pawns, but you have strongly misread the world. Your complete lack of compassion has left you with a grave error. The game is over wall street. You forget that a poor man will slit your belly to eat what you have already eaten. Can you hear us wall street? Can you hear our racket Goldman Sachs? Can you hear the defiant beating of our drums? Keep trying to belittle us pundits, you lap dogs of the elite. Keep trying to sum up this movement in a sound byte. This is a cultural crisis, and you are simply too stupid to understand it. We cannot be frightened by all the kings men for we are the court jesters. We will consume everything you throw at us and we will grow from it. This is our arab spring, this is our time.
Protesters: Savor the smell of tear gas, savor the feeling of pepper spray. Rejoice to your bruises and your tears. You are our generation's counter culture, you are our martyrs. Clench your fists and grind your teeth. Do not be moved and you will have fire breathed into you. Smile at the police, ignore the pundits, the worse it gets the stronger you become, the more hopeless your movement looks, the closer you are to success. You will be written into history. You will be backed up, we will not let your fire be smothered. We will not let your cries go idle.
We are anonymous.
We are legion.
We do not forget.
We do not forgive.
Expect us.

CA violence: RT footage from 'occupied' Oakland

Thousands shut down the city's port in a new peaceful demonstration, but in the midnight hours a few hundred clashed with police. Kayvan Sabehgi became the second American Military veteran to be hospitalized in Oakland. Following the first attack on Scott Olsen, people involved in Occupy-style demonstrations across the world held up signs and led chants in honor of the wounded vet, who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan for the US Marines.

11 American Protests That Helped Shape The Occupy Wall Street Movement
Here are 11 uprisings you may never have heard of that helped changed the America.

(Un)Lawful Access: Experts Line Up Against Online Spying


The Oakland General Strike, “inspiring, unprecedented, diverse, joyful, focused, radical, affirming”
More photos from friend and Board Member Karen Pickett. Karen, a longtime Earth First!er Coordinates the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters.

Marines Muster to resist the central bankers' tyranny!

Marines Muster to resist the central bankers' tyranny! from theRedPillRadio on Vimeo.

Peaceful civil disobedience, and an end to central bankers' engineered wars are being PROMOTED by activist Marines.
Marines are answering the call for leadership against their 1% oppressors. They recognize that the politicians are just puppets for those who have the power to invent money and control the media.
Marines showcased: Scott Olsen, Shamar Thomas, Jose Guerena, James Cathey, Smedley Butler, Alan Sabrosky, Adam Kokesh, Gordon Duff

"Occupy" Movement Rolls to Rio
Inspired by the movement for real democracy and people's power that has spread to hundreds of cities around the world, young Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro have created their own version of "Occupy Wall Street", dubbed "Occupy Rio".

Oil Puts the Squeeze On the Economy

Peak Moment 204: This turbulent, troubled global economy is precisely what Chris Martenson predicted in early 2010, "When Exponential Meets Reality" (episode 166). He asserts that we can no longer look at the economy without factoring in the terminal decline of its master resource -- oil. The author of "The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy and Environment" believes that, as "the generation that gets to deal with hitting up to resource limits," we first need a new cultural story to inspire appropriate action.

The financial crash in Iceland in 6 minutes according to ABC´s 20/20

In the early 21st century, Iceland experienced one of the most spectacular cycles of boom and bust in history.

For centuries, Iceland was a simple fishing society, largely shut off from mainland Europe. The people survived off the sheep in the meadows and the fish in the sea. For cultural sustenance they had elaborate sagas -- intricate tales of fairies and goblins, heroes and ghosts -- that would inspire J.R.R. Tolkien and other fantasy writers.

At the peak of Iceland's boom, Stefan Alfsson left his fishing boat and started trading commodities for an investment bank. "We could do more," he said. "I got a bigger house, bigger and more cars, better snowmobiles."

Then a modern saga began to unfold -- that of a nation of fishermen who became millionaires, only to lose it all and return to the seas.

David Dees Soft Kill


Cashing in as the face of Anonymous: Hacking group spokesman lands a six figure book deal
As the face of the Anonymous hacking group, he is already a high profile character.
But Barrett Brown has been more visible than ever this week, as he promoted his new book on the shadowy cooperative's activities and motivations.
Brown appears to have cashed in on his connection to the controversial alliance of hacktivists- the former heroin addict from Dallas claims to have been paid a six figure sum for his forthcoming book.

This Is How The Banksters Took Control Of You!!!

'The answer to the Kennedy assassination is with the Federal Reserve Bank. Don't underestimate that. It's wrong to blame it on (CIA official James) Angleton and the CIA per se only. This is only one finger of the same hand. The people who supply the money are above the CIA.'
- wife of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, told to author A.J. Weberman

I am one of those who do not believe the national debt is a national blessing... it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country
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Andrew Jackson, Letter to L. H. Coleman of Warrenton, N.C., 29 April 1824

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (1913), Doubleday

"The Rothschilds introduced the rule of money into European politics. The Rothschilds were the servants of money who undertook the reconstruction of the world as an image of money and its functions. Money and the employment of wealth have become the law of European life; we no longer have nations, but economic provinces." (New York Times, Professor Wilheim, a German historian, July 8, 1937).

"If you will look back at every war in Europe during the nineteenth century, you will see that they always ended with the establishment of a 'balance of power.' With every reshuffling there was a balance of power in a new grouping around the House of Rothschild in England, France, or Austria. They grouped nations so that if any king got out of line, a war would break out and the war would be decided by which way the financing went. Researching the debt positions of the warring nations will usually indicate who was to be punished." (Economist Stuart Crane).

From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Webster, has so ably shown, a definitely recognisable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

Winston Churchill, "Zionism versus Bolshevism", Illustrated Sunday Herald (London), February 8, 1920, pg. 5

The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system which put nations and peoples under control of the few.

Henry Ford, My Life and Work, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create and destroy money. The amount of money in existence varies only with the action of the banks in increasing or decreasing deposits and bank purchases. Every loan, overdraft or bank purchase creates a deposit, and every repayment or bank sale destroys a deposit. .... And they who control the credit of a nation, direct the policy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.

Reginald McKenna, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, addressing the shareholders as Chairman of the Midland Bank, at the Annual General Meeting in January 1924.

The present Federal Reserve System is a flagrant case of the Governments conferring a special privilege upon bankers. The Government hands to the banks its credit, at virtually no cost to the banks, to be loaned out by the bankers for their own private profit. Still worse, however, is the fact that it gives the bankers practically complete control of the amount of money that shall be in circulation. Not one dollar of these Federal Reserve notes gets into circulation without being borrowed into circulation and without someone paying interest to some bank to keep it circulating. Our present money system is a debt money system. Before a dollar can circulate, a debt must be created. Such a system assumes that you can borrow yourself out of debt.

Willis A. Overholser, A short review and analysis of the history of money in the United States, with an introduction to the current money problem (1936), p. 56