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PreOccupied: Occupy Movement Needs the Truth

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Please allow the opportunity to look at this from outside the box. First off we must accept that many/most the “people” participating in some way are well intentioned and good at heart folks. The sad and somewhat ugly truth is that the “Occupy Movement” is a total sham. If you take some time and review some of the following data before jumping to any conclusions, something should hit a nerve somewhere.

Moral to the story is simple, step outside the box, follow the money and question authority before it’s too late. Here is just one perspective worth questioning: Consensus: How the Occupy Movement has Become a Danger to Itself

The six corporations that collectively control U.S. media today are Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., CBS Corporation and NBC Universal. Together, the “big six” absolutely dominate news and entertainment in the United States. But even those areas of the media that the “big six” do not completely control are becoming increasingly concentrated. For example, Clear Channel now owns over 1000 radio stations across the United States. Companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are increasingly dominating the Internet.

But it is the “big six” that are the biggest concerns. When you control what Americans watch, hear and read you gain a great deal of control over what they think. They don’t call it “programming” for nothing.

~ http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read

While following the ongoing “uprisings” and “revolutions” for the past year beginning in Tunisia one thing became very clear through the fog of war. Not an easy trend to notice but it was indeed hidden in plain sight all along. The entire scheme was based upon propaganda based upon fraud, lies and deception and was well planned for in advance.

Who Controls the World: CIA Secret Operations Declassified
“Finally, an era is going to be uncovered, a time of Iran Contra, President Reagan, the fall of the Soviet Union, one of corruption and false applauses. Coupmedia had shared on several occasions information regarding secret files related to this period, in different articles including September 11th 2001 Cover-Up Leaked Article.” ~ http://coupmedia.org/intelligence-leaks/who-controls-the-world-cia-secret-operations-declassified-0612

Finding the information is a different story but by going back and reviewing missed articles and data that were hidden with a combination of propaganda via the msm and “personalized” algorithms via search and social media outlets. Long story short, your own browsing/internet habits are “personalized” in such a way as to control access to information by diversion.

So what is being hidden behind your “personalized” feature bubble?

Several of questions were often asked when the uprisings began but were never properly investigated due to the rapid nature of events thus went unanswered, aka: Outta sight, outta mind. The primary question should be who/what funded it all since we know $$$ is required for anything. These answers were actually being answered within days and/or weeks following the magical “dates” reflective of the uprising.

Before we get too far check out this document to see why it seems so confusing: Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars

“The last weekend’s news give convincing evidence that all the “revolutions” in Northern Africa aim to achieve certain destructive purposes. Now the world order is being destroyed. We can see for ourselves how the things were going on in Europe in 1930th, when England, USA and France consequently surrendered their allies (Czechoslovakia and Poland) and neutral parties (Austria), hastily destructing the European Defence System of the time. You must all remember the terrifying results of those events.” ~ Nikolay Starikov, A Planned Chaos published 05 April 2011 http://nstarikov.ru/en/blog/422

Now the problem get compounded when one does not know where the funding came from. All funding comes with strings attached and one cannot bite the hand that feeds it. Sometimes it is too late and you are indebted to the lender of said funding. The devil was in the details and was available long ago.

World Bank ‘fails poor’ says Stiglitz. FIRST BROADCAST 27 APRIL 2001
Former chief economist of the World Bank Joseph Stiglitz condemned the organisation for failing poor countries. Greg Palast spoke to Jospeh Stiglitz and then president of the World Bank Joseph Wolfensohn to assess claims of corruption. ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fes_fwJSX0I

There are dozens and dozens of well researched articles that expose the fundamental flaws within the “Occupy Movement” as well as who funded the endeavour. It becomes rather obvious that the ultra-elite banksters that comprise the top 1/10 of 1 percent have intentionally placed the remaining 9/10 of one percent in the cross-hairs of a divided and somewhat unorganized 99%. Has any “group addressed this issue?

“On Dec. 10, 1974, the U.S. National Security Council under Henry Kissinger completed a classified 200-page study, “National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.” The study falsely claimed that population growth in the so-called Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs) was a grave threat to U.S. national security. Adopted as official policy in November 1975 by President Gerald Ford, NSSM 200 outlined a covert plan to reduce population growth in those countries through birth control, and also, implicitly, war and famine. Brent Scowcroft, who had by then replaced Kissinger as national security adviser (the same post Scowcroft was to hold in the Bush administration), was put in charge of implementing the plan. CIA Director George Bush was ordered to assist Scowcroft, as were the secretaries of state, treasury, defense, and agriculture.” ~ http://www.schillerinstitute.org/food_for_peace/kiss_nssm_jb_1995.html

What needs to transpire is the local movements need to take the initiative of addressing local issues. These issues may be collaborated where they overlap bu need to remain focused. It is by design that the “Occupy Movement” keeps getting distracted by itself. It is also by design that the movement cherry picks the msm for certain bit’s ‘o inspiration that contribute to the profits the “Military Industrial Complex” across the board. Keep in mind that while attempting to expose the msm and it’s ties to the same core group of global investors, it is protecting it’s own investors by diverting the attention towards their minions within the top 1%, but more than likely accounting for the top 2%, aka: politicians, soldiers, law enforcement, executives, small businesses, etc.

“We are now literally, passive observers of our own funerals in a world of total media saturation and control. A world of endless tragedy but at a distance, mediated by an unseen hand and fed to us pretty much like an out-of-control soap opera, where events break and at first reporting is chaotic and normally wrong but as soon as the MSM has gotten hold of the ‘right script’ then ‘reasons’, ’causes’ and ‘solutions’ can then be inserted for each unfolding, dramatic episode.” ~ http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28308

Trying this theory arrives at more realistic “numbers” if one considers these variables that are debate-able. The “controlling class” aka: banksters, of most nations is usually 1/10 of 1 percent. They control the $$$ so they do not give a rats @ss what happens to anything or anyone. They probably have never heard about this social media concept because it does not enhance their own lives, nor their offspring/tribe/clan/coven. They do understand how to control the media though. This is how “they” claim there is no censorship because they are controlling the flow of information, censoring is the responsibility of other groups by way of dis-information operations. The idea is to crush whistle-blowers and corruption investigations by discouraging those “in the know” from exposing the exploitative practices that produce maximum profits.

“Its incredibly important to have publicly traded media companies follow Federal laws including Sarbanes-Oxley statues, ” said the MySpace Founder “Equally important is an unfettered and uncorrupted free press in America that does not collude against Whistleblowers. I am hopeful and fully expect the Directors of the New York Times to report out on their internal investigation into the matter including working with the SEC if appropriate to bring to light any corruption or improper arrangements with other media companies which may have existed under the former CEO Janet Robinson.” ~ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fg%2Fa%2F2011%2F12%2F20%2Fprweb9052500.DTL

The remaining of the top 2% follow the rules of legal exploitation and extortion and are comprised of the “known” wealthiest people and their foot soldiers. Now take the interesting stat that most nations require at least 1% of their subjects/citizens/slaves to be in readily available military forces. Now that leaves us with approx. 97% so the 99% slogan itself is fraudulent because you are immediately including subversive elements in the movement. Now let’s rely upon the natural law of averages and consider that it takes equal parts to make a whole and the 97% ends up being 48.5% which does not even comprise half of the 99% it claims to represent. Math just sucks.

“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression…. There is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we must be most aware of change in the air — however slight — lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” — William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice from 1939–1975
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/239161-This-is-Where-the-American-Illusion-Comes-to-an-End-2012-The-End-of-the-World-As-We-Know-It

It may be a stretch to even consider there is/was something fishy but that brings us to accountability. We know that many wealthy people are greedy but what we don’t know is how many are generous. Most people do good deeds and never speak of them. They are known as anonymous donors for a reason. They seek no glory for being compassionate plus many have to hide acts of humanity or generosity from their greedy counterparts if they are not designed to return a profit.

Return on investment, these “groups” of investors are what NGO’s are, which is the most dangerous element in any society. NGO’s wield great powers, politically and socially, and employ countless individuals but at what cost? Now who has the most to gain from the collapse of everything? How big is that house of cards? Who really determines what military “humanitarian” intervention is? Now ask yourself why this line of question is not allowed on any “official” Occupy page or group? Were these kids not advised to ALWAYS question authority?

Now consider the “Occupy Movement” along with the situations in the US, EU, Iran, Libya/Syria, etc. and who/what determines what is considered when launching “legal” military intervention in order to protect civilians. Maybe more importantly we should see who’s opinions are ignored. Take that further if you like and ponder what will happen when they light the fuse in the USA.

“The encirclement of Syria and Lebanon has long been in the works. Since 2001, Washington and NATO have started the process of cordoning off Lebanon and Syria. The permanent NATO presence in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Syrian Accountability Act are part of this initiative. It appears that this roadmap is based on a 1996 Israeli document aimed at controlling Syria. The document’s name is A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.”

“The 1996 Israeli document, which included prominent U.S. policy figures as authors, calls for “rolling back Syria” in 2000 or afterward. The roadmap outlines pushing the Syrians out of Lebanon, diverting the attention of Damascus by using an anti-Syrian opposition in Lebanon, and then destabilizing Syria with the help of both Jordan and Turkey. This has all respectively occurred from 2005 to 2011. This is also why the anti-Syrian March 14 Alliance and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) were created in Lebanon.” ~ http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28018

Here is a bit ‘o trivia about the $$$ behind “Human Rights Watch” and the “Open Society Foundation” that many are unaware of. The FACT of the matter is that it also happens to be the same “person” that helped to found/fund/support the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Crisis Group (ICG) along side Zbigniew Brzezinski, Richard Armitage, Kenneth Aldelman, the Bush Sr. Regime, the Arab Spring Uprisings, the Muslim Brotherhood, Moncef Marzouki the new President of Tunisia, Egypt’s Mohamed ElBaradei, destabilization/intervention in Iran, Israel, Russia, Uganda, Libya, Syria, sponsors of Adbusters, US Day of Rage and the Occupy Movement, just to name a few.

Now the groups/pages that represent those opposed to the ‘Occupy Movement” may be trying to do one thing but they are also chasing the wrong targets. they are being used, subversively, to continue to undermine the “Occupy Movement” because it was rigged with a self-destruct mechanism that will effectively divide everyone involved.

Sadly a lot of good people will eventually be the sacrificial lambs while a handful of selected conspirators, aka: organizers, will be rounded up as domestic terrorists and of coarse some CEO’s and Execs will face the tribunals along with a whack load of politicians.

“Hitler came to power by one of the biggest margins in the history of Germany. And after he came to power, people continued to support him. While millions of lives were destroyed, instead of going against him, the majority continued to support him or they chose to remain silent. And yet, today Hitler’s government is identified as a fascist government.”

Goebbels used the phrase “The Big Lie” in his article “From Churchill’s Lie Factory,” dated 12th January 1941. According to Goebbels, “the essential English leadership’s secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness.” The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. Goebbels simply concluded: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

“Goebbels used big lies in all of Nazi Party’s propaganda activities and the German people chose to believe him. Big lies are needed for people not to fail to perceive and avoid transcending the imposed thought patterns.”

http://wikileaks-movie.com/blog/2011/the-big-lie-meltem-arikan-occupywallstreet-wikileaks/

War + NeoCons = $$$

“Washington’s agenda for Egypt and Tunisia was to hijack the protest movement; what prevails in Egypt is the maintenance of a de facto military regime. In Tunisia, following the October 2011 parliamentary elections, the neoliberal policy framework remains unscathed.” ~ Libya and “The Arab Spring”: Neoliberalism, “Regime Change” and NATO’s “Humanitarian Wars – by Michel Chossudovsky, Finian Cunningham, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – 2011-12-25

If anyone would like to debunk this observation it would be welcomed but first do some research into who/what has funded every modern day revolution and/or war. Then add up the numbers of losers and winners. Then look at who the original lenders were and how much “interest” they charged. Guess who ALWAYS wins no matter who loses. Guess who funded all the uprisings, revolutions, crack downs, investigations, propaganda, military intervention, elections, laws and legislation in 2011. Overwhelming evidence suggests that one “individual” is playing Russian Roulette with other the key global banksters to see who will control the whole worlds economy by destabilizing every nation possible. Sorry, this comment was rather long but hopefully it can inspire others involved to question the organizers of their groups and have them question those that led this movement astray from it’s original intentions.

Searching for data

Let’s do some relatively simple searching…

“A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.”

http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22A+Clean+Break%3A+A+New+Strategy+for+Securing+the+Realm%22

A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing – The Institute for …
The report, entitled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” is the framework for a series of follow-up reports on strategy. Israel has a large …
http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm

IRmep Policy Brief: ‘Clean Break’ or Dirty War?
31 Mar 2003 … “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” (ACB) contains six pages of policy recommendations for Benjamin Netanyahu. …
http://www.irmep.org/policy_briefs/3_27_2003_clean_break_or_dirty_war.html

Playing skittles with Saddam | World news | guardian.co.uk
3 Sep 2002 … Entitled “A clean break: a new strategy for securing the realm”, it was intended as a political blueprint for the incoming government of Binyamin …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/sep/03/worlddispatch.iraq

A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm // Current TV
27 Aug 2009 Following is a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ “Study Group on …
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103×15641

Relativity of data

PNAC’s papers were written by the same people who wrote Israeli policy papers who hold dual citizenship to Israel. The Iraq war and control over energy resources is outlined in Israel’s A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” which was written by Richard Perle and Douglas Feith. You can read the IASPS’s (Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Science) paper called The Afghan Vortex, written a year before the invasion.

In 1992 Paul Wolfowitz wrote the Defense Planning Guidance, with his former student, Lewis Libby:

“The foreign strategy of the US must be unapologetic, idealistic, assertive and well funded. America must not only be the world’s policeman or its sheriff, it must be its beacon and guide… Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power. These regions include Western Europe, East Asia, the territory of the former Soviet Union, and Southwest Asia..There are three additional aspects to this objective: First the U.S must show the leadership necessary to establish and protect a new order that holds the promise of convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests. Second, in the non-defense areas, we must account sufficiently for the interests of the advanced industrial nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership or seeking to overturn the established political and economic order. Finally, we must maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role.” ~ Paul Wolfowitz

How PNAC and OSP Created the War
In Feb 2001, the US and UK attacked Iraq with public disapproval. Bush bombed Baghdad two weeks after being sworn into office.
http://www.reachingtruth.com/pnacosp.html

Wonder what a PNAC is?

Quickly scanning…

Background and Articles relating to “Project for a New American Century” via informationclearinghouse.info

Project for a New American Century
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1937.htm

Listed below are a number of article you will find helpful in exploring the role played by the Project for a New American Century. You may find it helps your study to study the articles in the order that they are listed.

1) Blood Money: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1728.htm

2) The Origins of the Bush Iraq War Plan: http://64.176.94.191/article1510.htm

3) The war against Iraq and America’s drive for world domination: http://64.176.94.191/article1555.htm

4) Dick Cheney’s Song of America: http://64.176.94.191/article1544.htm

5) A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm: http://64.176.94.191/article1438.htm

PDF Downloads

The National Security Strategy of the United States of America: http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.pdf

PNAC: Rebuilding Americas Defenses: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

THIS WEB SITE CONTAINS 100′S OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC. USE THE SEARCH FACILITY BELOW FOR FURTHER STUDY.

Project for a New American Century
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1937.htm

“Project for a New American Century”

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Welcome to the Project for the New American Century
The Project for the New American Century is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is …
http://www.newamericancentury.org/

Statement of Principles
June 3, 1997. American foreign and defense policy is adrift. Conservatives have criticized the incoherent policies of the Clinton Administration. They have also …
http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

[PDF] Why Another Defense Review
REBUILDING. AMERICA’S. DEFENSES. Strategy, Forces and Resources. For a New Century. A Report of. The Project for the New American Century …
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

29 Nov 2005 … PNAC.info – Dedicated to drawing attention to the neoconservative foreign policy approach, and its consequences for America and the world.
http://pnac.info/

Project for the New American Century (PNAC). “Lead the World to …
9 Apr 2003 … We provide below selected references on the New American Century Road Map together with the letter addressed by the PNAC to George W …
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/NAC304A.html

Project for a New American Century – RationalWiki
17 Feb 2011 … The Project for a New American Century (PNAC) is a massive neoconservative think-tank created in 1997. Its goal is “to promote American …
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Project_for_a_New_American_Century

The New American Century | Watch Free Documentary Online
topdocumentaryfilms.com/new-american-century/
This documentary film goes in detail through the untold history of The Project for the New American Century with tons of archival footage and connects it r…
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/new-american-century/

(Full Movie) The New American Century – YouTube
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1Hr 34Mins-This is the Complete Full Movie Produced by Massimo Mazzucco THE NEW AMERICAN …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fk6qkHs0oM

http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22Project+for+a+New+American+Century%22

“Project for a New American Century”+”George Soros”

Wait a second… Maybe it would be better to take a look at what may be hidden in plain sight… Let’s try something and connect a couple of dots if we can… Advanced search…

http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22Project+for+a+New+American+Century%22+%22George+Soros%22

Land Destroyer: George Soros & Egypt’s New Constitution
18 Feb 2011… the extreme right-winged Project for a New American Century, the literal … The fact that George Soros, a fellow ICG trustee along side protest …
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/02/george-soros-egypts-new-constitution.html

Land Destroyer: Neo-Cons for Human Rights?
14 Feb 2011… Crisis Group think-tank along side Zbigniew Brzezinski, George Soros, and the above mentioned Kenneth Adelman and Richard Armitage. …
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/02/neo-cons-for-human-rights.html

George Soros and the Egypt constitution « Follow The Money
26 Feb 2011 – … the extreme right-winged Project for a New American Century, the literal … The fact that George Soros, a fellow ICG trustee along side protest …
http://seeker401.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/george-soros-and-the-egypt-constitution/

Barack Obama – Zionist Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing – War Crimes
In both Georgia and Ukraine, the dirty hands of George Soros can be found pushing …… Project for a New American Century (PNAC) A Complete List of PNAC …
http://www.nogw.com/warforisrael.html

The new paradigm for financial markets: the credit crisis of 2008 … – Google Books Result
George Soros – 2008 – 162 pages
What an ironic outcome for the Project for a New American Century! How to accommodate a surging China within the world order will be one of the most …

The Raw Story | Tag Archive | project for a new american century
Topics » project for a new american century. Palin adviser is lobbyist for George Soros: report · tweet. Is Sarah Palin part of George Soros’ supposed …
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/tag/project-for-a-new-american-century/

Makow – Michael Moore Shills For Illuminati Bankers Propaganda 911
Moore fails to mention that Rothschild agent financier George Soros also bailed out … William Kristol is the chairman of the “Project for a New American Century. …
http://www.rense.com/general54/mih.htm

“The+Military+Industrial+Complex”

Let’s see what the bankster’s invest in other that politicians and suspicious NGO’s. Searching…

http://www.google.ca/search?q=The+Military+Industrial+Complex

Military–industrial complex – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Military–industrial complex (MIC), or Military–industrial-congressional complex ( MICC) is a concept commonly used to refer to policy and monetary relationships …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex

Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex. – YouTube
3 min – 4 Aug 2006 Uploaded by RobUniv
Dwight D. Eisenhower exit speech on Jan.17,1961. Warning us of the military industrial complex.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY

Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, …
http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/indust.html

What is the Military-Industrial Complex?
The Military-Industrial Complex is a phrase used to signify a comfortable relationship between parties that are charged to manage wars (the military, the …
http://www.militaryindustrialcomplex.com/what-is-the-military-industrial-complex.asp

The new cyber military-industrial complex – The Globe and Mail
28 Mar 2011 … Like all arms races before it, the growing tensions in cyberspace and the proliferation of tools and services that feed it create a climate of fear …
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/the-new-cyber-military-industrial-complex/article1957159/

Canada’s military-industrial complex – thestar
26 Feb 2008 … In a defining moment for Canada, Jean Chrétien resisted U.S. pressure and kept Canada out of Iraq.
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/306751

The Military-Industrial Complex – by Chalmers Johnson and Tom …
28 Jul 2008 … Although Eisenhower’s reference to the military-industrial complex is, by now, well-known, his warning against its “unwarranted influence” has, …
http://antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=13214

Financing Fascism: The Military-Industrial Complex and the Rise of …
30 Sep 2007 … military-industrial complex has played in all our lives, and continues to play … military-industrial complex, as this is exemplified with the former …
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/the-uncertain-future-of-the-military-industrial-complex/249861/

[PDF] The Uncertain Future of the Military-Industrial Complex – August …
14 Dec 2011 … The U.S. defense industry, flush since September 2001, may once again be facing a period of decline.
http://www.journalof911studies.com/letters/b/MarshallMilitaryIndComplexPNAC.pdf

“Iran”+”George Soros”

Let’s search “Iran”+”George Soros” and whaddaya know…

http://www.google.ca/search?q=”Iran”+”George+Soros”

Soros: iran regime will fall soon
19 Feb 2011 … 19 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire George Soros says Iran’s ruling regime will topple within the year, although he warns the situation there could …
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/george-soros-iran-regime/2011/02/19/id/386741

George Soros Says Iran Regime Wont Last Through The Year :
20 Feb 2011 … Billionaire and open globalist George Soros says the Iran Regime will not last through the year. This is an open admission that the globalists …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCzWby53kQY

IRAN / GEORGE SOROS / FAREED ZAKARIA ! – YouTube
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cnn report / fareed zakaria interview george soros milliyarder politicer invester politics regim changer …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpHdiWvzWCI20

George Soros Says Iran Regime Wont Last Through The Year :
20 Feb 2011 – Billionaire and open globalist George Soros says the Iran Regime will not last through the year. This is an open admission that the globalists …
http://theintelhub.com/2011/02/20/george-soros-says-iran-regime-wont-last-through-the-year/

Soros: Iran regime ‘will not survive’ – John King USA – CNN.com Blogs
19 Feb 2011 … John King’s panel discuss George Soros’ comments that Iran’s regime won’t survive the year. ..
http://johnkingusa.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/19/soros-iran-regime-will-not-survive/

Iran’s Fear of a ‘Velvet Revolution’ – NYTimes.com
27 Aug 2009 … The leaders of Iran’s Islamic Republic appear to be obsessed with the … by foreign governments and the billionaire financier George Soros. …
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/irans-fear-of-a-velvet-revolution/

Now just for kicks try this search and become hypnotized by how easy it is to highlight and spread propaganda. Searching but note your results may vary…

“Occupy+Wall+Street”+”George+Soros”

Now just for kicks try this search and become hypnotized by how easy it is to highlight and spread propaganda. Searching…

http://www.google.ca/search?q=”Occupy+Wall+Street”+”George+Soros”

“It is hardly a speculative theory then, that the uprisings were part of an immense geopolitical campaign conceived in the West and carried out through its proxies with the assistance of disingenuous foundations, organizations, and the stable of NGOs they maintain throughout the world. As we will see, preparations for the “Arab Spring” and the global campaign that is now encroaching on both Russia and China, as predicted in February 2011′s “The Middle East & then the World,” began not as unrest had already begun, but years before the first “fist” was raised, and within seminar rooms in D.C. and New York, US-funded training facilities in Serbia, and camps held in neighboring countries, not within the Arab World itself.” ~ http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28343

Any additional inquiries about the upcoming events should be directed to George Soros and his merry band of globalists…

Additional references


This Land Is Your (Occupied) Land

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Published by Rebecca Solnit via Tomdispatch.com | ©

The other day in my Manhattan neighborhood, a woman passed me in the street. She was obviously headed for a demonstration somewhere in the big city, with a sign tucked sideways under her arm. I could just make out the large black letters on a white background that said: “I Want My Job Back.” And they claim the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators have no demands!

Here are a few observations from recent trips to Zuccotti Park and various marches I’ve been on, including last Saturday when the Occupy movement went global with, the Washington Post reports, rallies in “more than 900” cities in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the United States. Having been at many demonstrations in my life, here’s the strangest and perhaps the most striking thing I’ve noticed: I have yet to see a single counterdemonstration, or even a single counterdemonstrator. Not one. Nor a single sign expressing disapproval, outrage, or upset with the Occupy Wall Street movement. This, believe me, is not normal for protests. Talk about expressing the will of the 99%!

And the earliest public opinion polls reflect this. According to an Ipsos poll, a startling 82% of Americans have heard of the movement, striking percentages are following it with some attention, and — according to TIME magazine — 54% of Americans have a favorable view of it, only 23% an unfavorable one. Perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising in a country in which 86% of those polled believe “Wall Street and its lobbyists have too much influence in Washington,” or in which median household income fell by 6.7% after the Great Recession of 2008 was officially declared over (9.8% since it began).

I was at the edge of Zuccotti Park the other day when members of SEIU 32BJ, the building workers union, arrived, a sea of yellow T-shirts and signs. With a new contract on the horizon, they had been demonstrating on their own in the Wall Street area and decided “spontaneously” — so several told me — to march to the park. (As one SEIU organizer put it, “Our members really get it, the connection between this and us.”) The energy was sky-high, the excitement palpable, the chanting and cheering loud as they looked down on what could only be described visually as a hippie encampment.

Had this been the 1960s, conflict would undoubtedly have followed. I found myself with a burly white guy wearing a red Communications Workers of America T-shirt on one side of me and a young black woman with a yellow SEIU T-shirt on the other. He promptly commented with indignation and accuracy: “You know, we were saying the 1% and the 99% for like five years and nobody paid attention because we’re unions, we’re the wallpaper!” I braced myself for the coming diatribe against the Zuccotti Park protesters for appropriating the slogan and grabbing the glory. Instead, he continued with unmistakable enthusiasm, “You know, it’s great that these kids have taken it and put it on the map!” At which point the young woman next to me chimed in with equal enthusiasm, “It’s not just the unions any more! It’s bigger than that!”

It is bigger and could be bigger yet, 900 cities or not. It could explode in all sorts of unknown directions in all sorts of unexpected places. This weekend, at another spot, I listened to a group of young people from local colleges, for instance, talking soberly about the possibility of taking over campus buildings, only to be drowned out by arriving marchers powered by drums chanting, “We are unstoppable! Another world is possible!” In that same crowd, amid varied signs (“Arab Spring, European Summer, American Fall, Chinese Winter,” “Mink Coats Don’t Trickle Down”) was one that said, “My dad works for Wall Street and I’m taking a stand” — and she was.

Whatever other worlds are possible, no one at TomDispatch has pointed longer or more vigorously to the remarkable possibilities that lurk in our present world, in our moment, in ourselves than Rebecca Solnit, who long ago saw the hope that lay “in the dark” and whose moment this has to be. Tom

Letter to a Dead Man About the Occupation of Hope

By Rebecca Solnit Originally posted at 10:13am, October 18, 2011

Dear young man who died on the fourth day of this turbulent 2011, dear Mohammed Bouazizi,

I want to write you about an astonishing year — with three months yet to run. I want to tell you about the power of despair and the margins of hope and the bonds of civil society.

I wish you could see the way that your small life and large death became a catalyst for the fall of so many dictators in what is known as the Arab Spring.

We are now in some sort of an American Fall. Civil society here has suddenly hit the ground running, and we are all headed toward a future no one imagined when you, a young Tunisian vegetable seller capable of giving so much, who instead had so much taken from you, burned yourself to death to protest your impoverished and humiliated state.

You lit yourself on fire on December 17, 2010, exactly nine months before Occupy Wall Street began. Your death two weeks later would be the beginning of so much. You lit yourself on fire because you were voiceless, powerless, and evidently without hope. And yet you must have had one small hope left: that your death would have an impact; that you, who had so few powers, even the power to make a decent living or protect your modest possessions or be treated fairly and decently by the police, had the power to protest. As it turned out, you had that power beyond your wildest dreams, and you had it because your hope, however diminished, was the dream of the many, the dream of what we now have started calling the 99%.

And so Tunisia erupted and overthrew its government, and Egypt caught fire, as did Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, and Libya, where the nonviolent protests elsewhere turned into a civil war the rebels have almost won after several bloody months. Who could have imagined a Middle East without Ben Ali of Tunisia, without Mubarak, without Gaddafi? And yet here we are, in the unimaginable world. Again. And almost everywhere.

Japan was literally shaken loose from its plans and arrangements by the March 11th earthquake and tsunami, and that country has undergone profound soul-searching about values and priorities. China is turbulent, and no one knows how much longer the discontent of the repressed middle class and the hungry poor there will remain containable. India: who knows? The Saudi government is so frightened it even gave women a few new rights. Syrians wouldn’t go home even when their army began to shoot them down. Crowds of up to a million Italians have been protesting austerity measures in recent months. The Greeks, well, if you’ve been following events, you know about the Greeks. Have I forgotten Israel? Huge demonstrations against the economic status quo there lasted all summer and into this fall.

As you knew at the outset, it’s all about economics. This wild year, Greece boiled over again into crisis with colossal protests, demonstrations, blockades, and outright street warfare. Icelanders continued their fight against bailing out the banks that sank their country’s economy in 2008 and continue pelting politicians with eggs. Their former prime minister may become the first head of state to face legal charges in connection with the global financial collapse. Spanish youth began to rise up on May 15th.

Distinctively, in so many of these uprisings the participants were not advocating for one party or a simple position, but for a better world, for dignity, for respect, for real democracy, for belonging, for hope and possibility — and their economic underpinnings. The Spanish young whose future had been sold out to benefit corporations and their 1% were nicknamed the Indignados, and they lived in the plazas of Spain this summer. Occupied Madrid, like Occupied Tahrir Square, preceded Occupy Wall Street.

In Chile, students outraged by the cost of an education and the profound inequities of their society have been demonstrating since May — with everything from kiss-ins to school occupations to marches of 150,000 or more. Forty thousand students marched against “education reform” in Colombia last week. And in August in Britain the young went on a rampage that tore up London, Birmingham, and dozens of other communities, an event that began when the police shot Mark Duggan, a dark-skinned 29-year-old Londoner. Young Britons had risen up more peaceably over tuition hikes the winter before. There, too, things are bleak and volatile — something I know you would understand. In Mexico, a beautiful movement involving mass demonstrations against the drug war has arisen, triggered by the death of another young man, and by the grief and vision of his father, leftwing poet Javier Cicilia.

The United States had one great eruption in Wisconsin this winter, when the citizenry occupied their state capitol building in Madison for weeks. Egyptians and others elsewhere on the planet called a local pizza parlor and sent pies to the occupiers. We all know the links. We’re all watching. So the Occupy movement has spilled over from Wall Street. Hundreds of occupations are happening all over the North America: in Oklahoma City and Tijuana, in Victoria and Fort Lauderdale.

The 99%

We are the 99% is the cry of the Occupy movement. This summer one of the flyers that helped launch the Occupy Wall Street protest read: “We, the 99%, call for an open general assembly Aug. 9, 7:30 pm at the Potato Famine Memorial NYC.” It was an assembly to discuss the September 17th occupation-to-come.

The Irish Hunger Memorial, so close to Wall Street, commemorates the million Irish peasants who starved in the 1840s, while Ireland remained a food-exporting country and the landed gentry continued to profit. It’s a monument to the exploitation of the many by the few, to the forces that turned some of our ancestors — including my mother’s four Irish grandparents — into immigrants, forces that are still pushing people out of farms, homes, nations, regions.

The Irish famine was one of the great examples of those disasters of the modern era that are not crises of scarcity, but of distribution. The United States is now the wealthiest country the world has ever known, and has an abundance of natural resources, as well as of nurses, doctors, universities, teachers, housing, and food — so ours, too, is a crisis of distribution. Everyone could have everything they need and the rich would still be rich enough, but you know that enough isn’t a concept for them. They’re greedy, and their 30-year grab for yet more has carved away at what’s minimally necessary for the survival and dignity of the rest of us. So the Famine Memorial couldn’t have been a more appropriate place for Occupy Wall Street to begin.

The 99%, those who starve during famines and lose their livelihoods and homes during crashes, were going to respond to the 1% who had been served so well by the Bush administration and by the era of extreme privatization it ushered in. As my friend Andy Kroll reported at TomDispatch, “The top 1% of earners enjoyed 65% of all income growth in America for much of the decade” just passed. “In 2010,” he added, “20.5 million people, or 6.7% of all Americans, scraped by with less than $11,157 for a family of four — that is, less than half of the poverty line.” You can’t get by on less than $1,000 a month in this country where a single visit to an emergency room can cost your annual income, a car twice that, and a year at a private college more than four times that.

Later in August came the website started by a 28-year-old New York City activist, we are the 99 percent, to which hundreds daily now submit photographs of themselves. Each of them also testifies to the bleak conditions they find themselves in, despite their hard work and educations which often left them in debt, despite the promises dangled before them that (if they played the game right) they’d be safe, housed, and living a part of that oversold dream.

It’s a website of unremitting waking nightmares, economic bad dreams that a little wealth redistribution would eliminate (even without eliminating the wealthy). The people contributing aren’t asking for luxuries. They would simply prefer not to be worked to death like so many nineteenth-century millworkers, nor to have their whole world come crashing down if they get sick. They want to survive with dignity, and their testimony will break your heart.

Mohammed Bouazizi, dead at 26, you to whom I’m writing, here is one of the recent posts at that site:

“I am 26 years old. I am $134,000 in debt. I started working at 14 years old, and have worked Full-Time since I turned 20. I work in I.T. and got laid off in July 2011. I was LUCKY, and found a job RIGHT AWAY: with a Pay Cut and MORE HOURS.
 Now, I just found out that my Dad got laid off last week – after 18 YEARS with the same employer. I have debilitating (SP! Sorry!) O.C.D. and can’t take time away from work to get treatment because I can’t afford my mortgage payments if I don’t go to work, and I’m afraid I’ll lose my NEW job if I take time off!!! WE ARE THE 99%.”

Some of the people at we are the 99% offer at least partial views of their faces, but the young IT worker quoted above holds a handwritten letter so long that it obscures his face. Poverty obscures your face too. It obscures your talents, potential, even your distinctive voice, and if it goes deep enough, it eradicates you by degrees of hunger and degradation. Poverty is a creation of the systems against which people all over the planet are revolting this wild year of 2011. The Arab Spring, after all, was an economic revolt. What were all those dictatorships and autocracies for, if not to squeeze as much profit as possible out of subjugated populations — profit for rulers, profit for multinational corporations, profit for that 1%.

“We are not goods in the hands of politicians and bankers,” was the slogan of the first student protest called in Spain this year. Your beautiful generation, Mohammed Bouazizi, has arisen and is bringing the rest of us along, even here in the United States.

The People’s Microphone

Its earliest critics seemed to think that Occupy Wall Street was a lobbying group whose chosen task on this planet should be to create a package of realistic demands. In other words, they were convinced that the occupiers should become supplicants, asking the powerful for some kind of handout like college debt forgiveness. They were suggesting that a dream as wide as the sky be stuffed into little bottles and put up for sale. Or simply smashed.

In the same way, they wanted this movement to hurry up and appoint leaders, so that there would be someone to single out and investigate, pick off, or corrupt. At heart, however, this is a leaderless movement, an anarchist movement, catalyzed by the grace of civil society and the hard work of the collective. The Occupy movement — like so many movements around the world now — is using general assemblies as its form of protest and process. Its members are not facing the authorities, but each other, coming to know themselves, trying to give rise to the democracy they desire on a small scale rather than merely railing against its absence on a large scale.

These are the famous Occupy general assemblies in which decisions are made by consensus and, in the absence of amplification (by order of the New York City police), the people’s mike is used: those assembled repeat what is said as it’s said, creating a human megaphone effect. This is accompanied by a small vocabulary of hand gestures, which help people participate in the complex process of a huge group having a conversation.

In other words, the process is also the goal: direct democracy. No one can hand that down to you. You live direct democracy in that moment when you find yourself participating in civil society as a citizen with an equal voice. Put another way, the Occupiers are not demanding that something be given to them but formulating something new. That it involves no technology, not even bullhorns, is itself remarkable in this wired era. It’s just passionate people together — and then Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, text messages, emails, and online sites like this one spread the word, along with some print media, notably the Occupied Wall Street Journal.

The beauty and the genius of this movement in this moment is that it has found a way to define its needs and desires without putting limits on them that would automatically exclude so many. In doing so, it has spoken to nearly all of us.

There is the terrible rage at economic injustice that is shared by college students looking at a future of debt and overwork, as well as those who couldn’t afford college in the first place, by working people struggling ever harder for less, by the many who have no jobs and few prospects, by people forced out of their homes by the games banks play with mortgages and profits, and by everyone the catastrophe that is healthcare in this country has affected. And by the rest of us, furious on their behalf (and on our own).

And then there is the joyous hope that things could actually be different. That hope has been fulfilled a little in the way that an open-ended occupation has survived four weeks and more and turned into hundreds of Occupy actions around the country and marches in almost 1,000 cities around the world last Sunday, from Sydney to Tokyo to Santa Rosa. It speaks for so many; it speaks for the 99%; and it speaks clearly, so clearly that an ex-Marine showed up with a hand-lettered sign that said, “2nd time I’ve fought for my country, 1st time I’ve known my enemy.”

The climate change movement showed up at Occupy Wall Street, too. What’s blocking action on climate change is what’s blocking action on all the other issues that matter: it would cut into profits. Never mind the deep future, not when what’s at stake is quarterly earnings.

A dozen years ago, after the wildly successful revolt against neoliberal economic policy in Seattle, the slogan that stuck around was: “Another World Is Possible.” I was never sure about that one because in crucial places and ways that other world is already here. In a YouTube video of the New York occupation, however, I watched an old woman in a straw hat say, “We’re fighting for a society in which everyone is important.” What a beautiful summation! Could any demand be clearer than that? And could the ways in which people have no value under our current economic regime be more obvious?

What Is Your Occupation?

Occupy Wall Street. Occupy together. Occupy New Orleans, Portland, Stockton, Boston, Las Cruces, Minneapolis. Occupy. The very word is a manifesto, a position statement, and a position as well. For so many people, particularly men, their occupation is their identity, and when a job is lost, they become not just unemployed, but no one. The Occupy movement offers them a new occupation, work that won’t pay the bills, but a job worth doing. “Lost my job, found an occupation,” said one sign in the crowd of witty signs.

There is, of course, a bleaker meaning for the word occupation, as in “the U.S. is occupying Iraq.” Even National Public Radio gives the Dow Jones report several times a day, as though the rise and fall of the stock market had not long ago been decoupled from the rise and fall of genuine measures of wellbeing for the 99%. A small part of Wall Street, which has long occupied us as if it were a foreign power, is now occupied as though it were a foreign country.

Wall Street is a foreign country — and maybe an enemy country as well. And now it’s occupied. The way that Native Americans occupied Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay for 18 months four decades ago and galvanized a national Native American rights movement. You pick some place to stand, and when you stand there, you find your other occupation, as a member of civil society.

This May in Ohio, a group of Robin Hoods literally lowered a drawbridge they made so they could cross a “moat” around Chase Bank’s headquarters and invade its shareholders’ meeting. Forty Robin Hoods also showed up en masse last week in kayaks for a national mortgage bankers’ meeting in Chicago. Houses facing foreclosure are being occupied. Foreclosure is, of course, a way of turning people into non-occupants.

At this moment in history, occupation should be everyone’s occupation.

Baby Pictures of a Revolt

Young man whose despair gave birth to hope, no one knows what the future holds. When you set yourself afire almost ten months ago, you certainly didn’t know, nor do any of us know now, what the long-term outcome of the Arab Spring will be, let alone this American Fall. Such a movement arrives in the world like a newborn. Who knows its fate, or even whether it will survive to grow up?

It may be suppressed like the Prague Spring of 1968. It may go through a crazy adolescence like the French Revolution of 1789 and yet grow beyond its parents’ dreams. Radiant at birth, wreathed in smiles, it may become a stolid bourgeois citizen as did such movements in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the reunited Germany after civil society freed those countries from totalitarianism.

It may grow up into turbulence as has the Philippines since its 1986 revolution ousted the kleptocracy of the Marcos family. Revolution may be assassinated young, the way the democratic government of Mohammed Mossadegh was in Iran in 1953, that of President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954, and President Salvador Allende’s Chilean experiment on September 11, 1973, all three in CIA-backed military coups. On behalf of the 1%.

Whether a human child or a child of history, we can’t know who or what it will become, but it’s still possible to grasp something about it by asking who or what it resembles. What does Occupy Wall Street look like? Well, its siblings born around the world this year, of course, and perhaps in some way the American civil rights movement that began in the 1950s.

There was a national uprising in the United States no less spontaneous in its formation during the great depression of the 1870s, but the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was violent, while the Occupy movement is deeply imbued with the spirit and tactics of nonviolence. The last Great Depression, the one that began in 1929, created a host of radical movements, as well as the Hoovervilles of homeless people. There are family resemblances. The marches and actions against the coming invasion of Iraq on February 15, 2003, on all seven continents (yes, including Antarctica) are clearly kin. And the anti-corporate globalization movement is a godmother. And then there’s a sibling just a decade older.

Cousin 9/11

Zuccotti Park is just two blocks from Wall Street, and also just a block from Ground Zero, the site of the 9/11 attack. On that day, it was badly damaged. This September 21st, my dear friend Marina Sitrin wrote me from Occupy Wall Street: “There are people from more diverse backgrounds racially, more diverse age groups, including not just a few children here with their parents, and a number of working people from the area. In particular, some of the security guards from the 9.11 memorial, a block away have been coming by for lunch and chatting with people, as has a local group of construction workers.”

If the Arab Spring was the decade-later antithesis of 9/11, a largely nonviolent, publicly inclusive revolt that forced the Western world to get over its fearful fantasy that all young Muslims are terrorists, jihadis, and suicide bombers, then Occupy Wall Street, which began six days after the 10th anniversary of that nightmarish day in September, is the other half of 9/11 in New York. What was remarkable about that day 10 years ago is how calmly and beautifully everyone behaved. New Yorkers helped each other down those dozens of floors of stairs in the Twin Towers and away from the catastrophe, while others lined up to give blood, desperate to do something, anything, to participate, to be part of a newfound sense of community that arose in the city that day.

There was, for example, a huge commissary organized on Chelsea Piers that provided free food, medical supplies, and work equipment for the people at Ground Zero and also helped find housing for the displaced. It was not an official effort, but one that arose even more spontaneously than Occupy Wall Street, without leaders or institutions — and it was forcibly disbanded when the official organizations got their act together a few days later. Those who participated experienced a sense of democracy amid all the distress and sorrow, a tremendous joy in finding meaningful work and deep social connections, and a little temporary joy, as they often do in disaster.

When I began to study the history of urban disaster years ago, I found such unexpected exhibitions of that kind of joy again and again, uniting the generative moments of protests, demonstrations, revolts, and revolutions with the aftermath of some disasters. Even when the losses were terrible, the ways that people came together to meet the occasion were almost always inspiring.

Since I wrote A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, I have been asked again and again whether economic crisis begets the same kind of community as sudden disasters. It did in Argentina in 2001, when the economy crashed there. And it has now, in the streets of New York and many other cities, in 2011. A sign at Occupy San Francisco said, “IT’S TIME.” It is. It’s been time for a long time.

No Hope But in Ourselves

The birth of this moment was delayed three years. Argentinians reacted immediately to the 2001 crisis and to long-simmering grievances with an economy that had ground so many of them down even before the government froze all bank accounts and the economy crashed. On the other hand, our economy collapsed three years ago this month to headlines like “Capitalism is dead” in the business press. There was certainly some fury and outrage at the time, but the real reaction was delayed, or decoyed.

The outrage of the moment did, in fact, result in a powerful grassroots movement that focused on a single political candidate to fix it all for us, as he promised he would. It was a beautiful movement, a hopeful movement, much more so than its candidate. The movement got its lone candidate into the highest office in the land, where he remains today, and then walked away as though the job was done. It had just begun.

That movement could have fought the corporations, given us a real climate-change policy, and more, but it allowed itself to be disbanded as though one elected politician were the equivalent of ten million citizens, of civil society itself. It was a broad-based movement, of all ages and races, and I think it’s back, disillusioned with politicians and electoral politics, determined this time to do it for itself, beyond and outside the corroded arenas of institutional power.

I don’t know exactly who this baby looks like, but I know that who you look like is not who you will become. This unanticipated baby has a month behind it and a future ahead of it that none of us can see, but its birth should give you hope.

Love,

Rebecca

 
About the author, TomDispatch regular Rebecca Solnit hopes to visit Occupy Wall Street soon. A product of the California public educational system back when the public schools were functional and universities affordable, she is the author of 13 books, including A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster and Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. Twenty years ago this October, Rebecca Solnit was writing about the Kennedy assassination for her first book when the Loma Prieta earthquake struck. She hit save, stood in a doorway until the shaking was over, and marveled in the days after at the calm, warm mood of the people of her city and her own changed state of mind. She’s written regularly for TomDispatch since the outbreak of the war in Iraq.
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