The only way our Government officials know how to win a campaign is by mud-slinging and their approach to OWS is shallow and no different. Talking points like “sanitary” issues are the only leg our local Governments have to stand on as a basis for disrupting and attempting to clear the Occupations. This fabrication has been sold to the media from day one as grounds for ending the protests. It’s a smear campaign and the only way politicians know how to combat an opponent- with money and lies. Occupiers are patriots and raise their voices for all of us to facilitate read change in our unbalanced economic system. Help raise awareness with some free posters I designed for you to share around on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/11/propaganda-for-occupy-movement.html

The encouraging news is that now appear to be fissures within the 1% (or those employed by the 1%. For a long time in America, things like this memo simply were not being revealed. OWS put a giant crack in the wall and now everyone of us, the entire 99%, must break through in our own way.

Bloomberg LP, $201,000

Knock me over with a feather baton.

BTW: This current memo is nothing but an application of the Right Wing’s Manifesto which is set forth in the Powell Memorandum, written by soon-to-be Justice Lewis Powell in 1971:

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_accountability/powell_memo_lewis.html

If you really want to know how the Cons have taken over America you should be familiar with this document. The Chamber of Commerce is prominently mentioned but the memo is breathtaking in its breadth and prescribed propaganda techniques.

Good point. And Kudos to Chris for getting it out there.

Thank you. DDay, for that client list of Clark, Lytle, Geduldig, & Cranford.

May they long be remembered:

American Bankers Association
American Institue of CPAs
AT&T
Bloomberg LP
Electronic Payments Coalition
Investment Co Inst,
Mastercard
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Verizon

No person of conscience should do “business” of ANY sort with these “entities”.

It is always most useful to know the names, the actual identities, of those who would selfishly and cynically destroy civil society and the Rule of Law.

DW

Donnelly said in a statement, “These four lobbyists have made themselves into poster children for the one percent who think they own Washington.

“…the one percent who think they own Washington..”

I think he means the one percent who do own Washington.

This is the reason GE/Comcast schedule Chris Hayes’ Upwith programme during the unwatchable weekend hours, while that ranting buffoon Ed has a weeknight show and the unprofessional Sharpton is on every afternoon. It’s on purpose.

And why Cenk refused the time slot when it was offered to him.

This memo sickens me as much as the video of police pepper spraying students. Both are emblematic of a democracy in deep trouble, co-opted by the financial services industry who wants to rule the planet.

This is exactly how ACORN was taken down, an organization whose crime was empowering poor people and registering them to vote. These financial hit men have been at work in this country since its founding, finding ways to initimidate and destroy idealistic citizens and community leaders. This 4-page memo defines the ugliness at work in this country and shows the process by which democracy is imperiled.

Funny, I don’t hear a peep from our elected officials. Do you?

The ABA claims that the memo was unsolicited and that they didn’t act on it.

And I believe them. Really.

lol. Bloomberg. Who could’ve guessed?

Last week I got the impression that Chris was afraid Glenn Greenwald would say something more than is allowed. :( I wish they could actually speak about the issues without being harnessed.

Why would the bankstas pay these grifters $850,000 when they already have FOX News

Score one for Chris Hayes. Any idea how he got his hands on the document?

$850 G’s is chump change to these gangsters.

Because it’s targeted at a different audience. The lobbyists are targeting Republicans who they are afraid will stop being sympathetic with Wall Street out of political expediency. They set up a straw man, in this case sane Republicans, which doesn’t really exist and conveniently offer a solution for the low, low cost of $__________. Thus the conservative members of congress, Vichycrats and Republicans alike, are exploited by the same fear they use to manipulate the public. The lobbyists are the puppet masters but are no longer bothering to hide the strings. Maybe the clients who think they’re in charge will one day wake up.

Very astute observation. I’ve recorded the show and (comparatively speaking) found it to be pretty good. Too bad it’s (essentially) in the middle of the night for the left-coasters.

sane Republicans

Oxymoron of the Day.

You can get more with mindfuckery and a gun than with only mindfuckery. PR is what you turn to when the truth won’t do, and if that doesn’t get the job done, you rely on the men with guns. That is what they have turned my America into. And there are no pretenses anymore.

The actual memo document might as well have been issued out of the Ministry of Truth. It’s truly Orwellian in its content and tone.

Where is Floyd R. Turbo when we really need him? heh…

Glenn has pretty much been ‘sedated’ during his appearances on this network. His last one on Rachel’s show was almost embarrassingly suffocated by time and her very strict adherence to hard breaks and didn’t ask him to stay over till the next segment like she ‘normally’ would.
here is Floyd…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqXDN3Scsls

Yes. There is no pretense … anymore.

Our “Capitalist” Masters have agreed with Mao: “Power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

The “power” that such tyranny may wield does not, however, beget respect, it may compell a certain allegiance but it is grudging, at best and seeks the earliest release which may be found … for such “suasion” is hated and detested. Real human beings do not serrender to the servitude of serfdom or slavery, they resist, and small acts of resistance grow to become larger acts of rebellion … and ultimately, of revolution …

(An OT, rc, have your client’s funds been unfrozen since the judge in NYC made his decision on Thursday? I have been meaning to ask you, and have seized upon this propitious moment, to do so …;~)

DW

The memo also asserts that Democratic victories in 2012 would be detrimental for Wall Street and targets specific races in which it says Wall Street would benefit by electing Republicans instead.

Does anyone in power actually *believe* this?? Boyohboy Clark, Lytle, etal, aren’t beyond lying to anyone about anything. AS IF some so-called “Democratic” politician, these days, ain’t gonna be sucking up BIG TIME to Wall St. The premise of this would be hilarious, if the whole thing didn’t stink and was totally sick & twisted.

Well thanks for the update. Really no surprises here, are there?

I was commenting on another thread that the propoganda media has done a “great” job at bamboozling most citizens into *believing* that most/all of the Occupy protestors are lazy effen wanking slackers who don’t want a job, have their hands out, don’t know what it is that they’re “protesting” about & aren’t true “contributing members of *our* society.” Plus the protestors are violent crooks who are “forcing” the various PDs to “waste precious tax dollars” on having to “control” the violent out of control protestors. I kid not.

Citizens are ever so easily bamboozled and don’t do one damn thing to find out real info other than click their clicker to another 1%-owned propoganda media outlet. These lobbyists can be as blatant as the like bc the vast majority of citizens will never ever know anything like this is going on, and frankly, most of them really don’t care, either, more’s the pity. Just saying…

Shush now. I’m sure they’re just historians providing strategic advice….

Hi, Shoto. Enlighten me, please, amigo. Should I know who that character is?
I’ll go to the toobz for an answer if you don’t bother to educate me.

hahahahahahhaha.

I do so love the workings of your mind, DW.

RE my situation, thanks for your concern. It ain’t good. Now they are talking about returning 60% of his cash, not really enough to trade futures with, and I think he is so disgusted with what’s happened that his emotional response will be to quit me. Can’t blame him, but I think he will be missing out on a really big downturn that I think is coming and that I think I have correctly targeted. Since MF Global went down, I’ve done three trades for a friend based on my scenario, the same one I shared with the community here. My friend made a lot of money on each of those trades, and has “tipped” me few hundred, but I cannot charge him the way I would a real client, even though I’m doing the same work. I really need to find a new client, extremely difficult to do in this environment.

Ah, graduates of Gingrich Newt University, aka GNU State, are they, Prarie Sunshine?

GNU State is known to provide its most ardent students with a GNU way of looking at “things” and GNU way of doing those “things”.

Consider the possumbilities of a GNU President, as compared to the G-OLD?

(Apologies, most sincere, to dear, everywhere gnu, whether in Africa or the local zoo.)

DW

Thank you for the link.
That’s what this is about – education and information is power.
So thanks.

As for the lobbying memo, it’s basic scare tactics by the lobbying firm to drum up loot. Our loot. The 16+ trillion (and much much more) they stole. Now the rest of the thieves want a piece and they will protect the original thieves if they get a piece of the loot.
The corporatist Dem party and the corporatist Repub part have sold their souls to these things. And the Devil never gives back a soul. Both branches of the Corporatist party know this. They’re not going to turn against Wall Street or their other masters. They can’t. Once you go Darkside, there’s no going back.

Ah, the 60% “deal” (and no admission of wrongdoing).

I am certain you are correct, rc, in your targeted prediction(s).

And I have often thought you ought, at least, to write a column for some major “outlet” as you deserve something, $eriously, for you insights, but most especially for your sense of timing … which is what it is, really, all about. You’ve your finger on that “pulse” far more firmly than I ever could, although I am quite aware of its “beat” which seems very “thready”, yet almost violent, at times.

Frankly, the American people haven’t a clue as to how quickly “things” will change when the big money-holders really begin to panic and get jumpy.

I imagine some astute ones will not have the leverage or staying power they think they have and that the simple, “honest” sociopath is going to become some psychopath’s lunch … you betcha … would be my uneducated guess.

I was surprised to learn how many “farmers” were tied to MF Global, but I understand their sense of trying to be more “sophisticated” in their land-based “hedging:.

I hope that your client might come to realize that you could well save their assets, big-time.

DW

Excellent article by Ehrenreich about exposure of the homeless issue that the OCCUPY movement reveals, and the corporate links to homelessness that began in the 1980s. Of course, by intertwining the homeless with OCCUPY will provide further fuel for those who wish to destroy both.

Thank you very much for that link, fatster, it is indeed, excellent, and I hope that everyone at FDL might, somehow, chance across it … as it says so very much, very clearly, about the state of human existence in the United States of America, today.

DW

I leap to the defense of gnus worldwide. There is nothing gnu under the scum.

The memo confirmed the dastardly strategy to which many of us here have referred.In the context of two-party theatrics,the Dems dutifully create the G20 landscape of austerity atmospherics from which Wall St. relies on the pubs to be the accelerant that pushes this agenda of G20 kleptocrats into a far more draconian horizon of debt peonage.Then the slow-witted and fear-driven dupe enables this false-choice devolution by voting for the lesser evil and hence further moves the center into entrenched fascism .

Here’s my own take on Hayes’ scoop: “Republican Spider Man sez“, “With great power comes great immunity.”

For all we know Obama is getting the exact same memo from his major contributors, and we have all seen how effect Obama himself is at wrecking the New Deal under the guise of “being an effect centrist”.

Interesting that they immediately assume there are only a few Koch-bros equivalent funders of the movement.
Yes, the big labor unions are trying to co-opt and/or ride the coat-tails of OWS, but do we even really have “funders”? Isn’t that the whole point?

Are gnu like certain other ungulates, where singular and plural are the same?

Do gnu read gnus-papers and do they say “Who Gnu?”

Is “scum” as low-down as a snake in a wagon-wheel rut at the bottom of a low spot?

Eye shore hope t’aint nothin gnu down under sech a thang, rc.

Have ya ever heard that old saying, “The scum also rises”?

I reckon there’s a bunch-o-scum at the tippy-top, just a hunch, mind you.

DW

Just for everyone’s information, here are all the listed emails from Clark Lytle’s website, just in case anybody wants to “volunteer” some “information” to their project:

clark@clgcdc.com

lytle@clgcdc.com

geduldig@clgcdc.com

cranford@clgcdc.com

judy@clgcdc.com

wren@clgcdc.com

geller@clgcdc.com

parker@clgcdc.com

Tee hee.

“I reckon there’s a bunch-o-scum at the tippy-top, just a hunch, mind you gnu.”

It really is all about feeling the pulse and judging the timing. I have a leg up on it because I decided that to be the truth decades ago, and have concentrated my focus accordingly while most remain bamboozled by the industry-favorable “buy and hold” bullshit mantra.

You’re so right about how quickly things can change. A while back I predicted there would be a 1,000 point down day. Within a year, we had that. Now the door is open to multi-thousand point drops. The computers act faster than any human could, and faster than most can even conceive of.

Re farmers, they were actually the original players in the futures markets. Very legitimate and pragmatic for them to use futures to manage the risks in their business. They are not the gamblers, really it’s the index and non-farm commodity futures traders that are the big and reckless players. Of course, I am less than an insect among these guys, even though I think I am better at what I try to do than many traders even believe to be possible. But, I can’t get access to the big game because my methods are my own, therefore unorthodox, therefore suspect, no matter how many times I audition and show good results. The big guys all want to be trend-followers, and I am the opposite, always grabbing for that “falling knife” they speak of. Computer power v. The Force lol. (Zen, really.)

Anyway, I don’t want to write, I want to trade. I want to use the skills I’ve developed to be able to accurately predict what the very next move will be, to act on that insight, and to get paid immediately, without having to kiss anybody’s ass or take advantage of or damage anybody to make my living. And, my physical condition is so bad that I really can’t do anything that requires more than pure brain power. Sad but true.

In this context, no gnus is good gnus.

Well, you’ve considerable brain power, rc, and the rest of your last paragraph, as you may well imagine, I most thoroughly agree with. Your second paragraph imparts the understandings which confirms the last …

Had I the necessary means, I assure you, I’d be more than willing to happily let you grow such in the service of your larger insights.

Many are the “little people” who could well benefit from your wit and wisdom, what for the lack of a better word, I’ll term your nuanced “intuition” … I am most certain.

I sense that, with the proper “position”, you might instruct the big boyz and gurlz in a lesson they would not soon forget.

DW

I do wonder whether gnu would agree with gyou?

In their absence, singular or plural, gw-one may only suspeculate.

Who gnu and when did they gno it?

(Gnu couldda gnumagined?)

Let us, now, leave our Gnufoundland to gnu-er and better thinks.

;~DW

Thoroughly pun-ishing. And pun-gent, those gnu, I suspect.

Aha. Floyd R. Turbo. I do dearly miss Carson.

As would be-hoof them, one gnumagines, rc.

Good olfactory journeys, to g-ewe.

DW

The “little people” deserve to benefit from the markets that determine so much of our lives. Which is why I occasionally share my predictions, the ones I am most certain of, with the community here. You may recall that I also used to do that in my previous incarnation. I have never been wrong here, nobody would have lost any money taking my advice, but I don’t get feedback so I don’t think any are acting on the guidance. Probably most don’t have the money to risk. But I love the idea of lefties filling their pockets from the center of he capitalist playground, milking the money machine for their own benefit.

I slink away in awe.

So, you and MichelleC, provocateurs extraordinaire, are here to provide unity and solidarity? Oh, wait….I meant inject dissension and to promulgate deviceful comments that divide people who are supposed to be on the same side? Oh, I get it. Instead, tell us why you think Ed is a buffoon, is it because he stands up for the middle class so vociferously? And tell us how Sharpton is unprofessional? RevAl makes some important points why attack the messenger and his delivery? Debate what he says, not what his mannerisms are. But Cenk I will agree did not want to “play their MSM game” by compromising his method of doing the show he wanted to the way he wanted to do it and he should be applauded, and anyone who has followed The Young Turks understands this, which isn’t to say that RevAl has signed on to necessarily do it “their” way, he still goes after the right with the same vigor the same as Cenk did.
Ed was placed in the more Prime time slot for a reason maybe, though I haven’t seen why they changed Lawrence and Ed’s time slots. Sharpton has done a good job of exposing the hypocrisy of the conservatives and you call him unprofessional, what makes him unprofessional? He is way better than any hosts on FOX noise who are like empty suits, or used car salesmen who dress nice but haven’t any depth in their intellectual prowess(as all at FOX are, sadly even Chris Wllace, who had a lot of potential but he is no better than OH’Really?). And importantly, RevAl has the truth on his side without distorting it, unlike FAUX news.

Not to burst your bubble, but Sharpton has been quoted as saying that under no circumstances will he criticize Obama. That renders him unserious, unprofessional, and unworthy of getting my ears and time anymore. I want illumination, not propaganda.

I was wading through the comments to make the same point.

They had to have some big money behind the tea baggers for the whole thing to exist, (last stats I saw half were unemployed), so this OWS must be funded by somebody big on our side.

From what I’ve seen, there has been less money spent by non-participants on the whole OWS than on a singe teabagging party. (Well probably not really, but you get the point).

Hayes report had me giggling this morning – I immediately thought of what Anonymous/Wikileaks did to HB Gary — granted, they’re just snake oil salesmen and probably perceive OWS as a lesser cash cow, but a cash cow just the same – I simply can’t wait to see where this goes

yo CLGC, INCOMING ! lol

p.s. mad props to Hayes for this

I wrote this diary about Ed when Obama killed bin Laden. Ed’s not all bad, he believes in unions, but he’s a pied piper for the democrats. He’s a partisan and and has no principles that aren’t flexible. Politics are more of a team sport for Ed.
Reverend Al is a self promoter, about as solid as Reverend Jackson who stepped up to counsel clinton during the lMonica Lewinsky scandal right before he was exposed for being someone’s baby-daddy, someone besides his wife. See blackagendareport.com for an expansion on the subject of what a great guy Reverend Al is. They have an image of him at the bottom of the front page where they’ve made him one of the three stooges.
There has been plenty of discussion over the positions of liberal pundits over the years and the way they propagate insidious messages. You can do a search here at firedoglake for ed shutlz or maddow, or search the archives at the dailyhowler.com.

Most people aren’t aware of the subtle messages but it’s all a part of exercising critical thinking skills. Why do you think people reccomend turning off the TV? Amazingly, one of the myths on the left, or within dem circles is that they know the truth, they are part of the “reality based community”. This conceit is a red flag, and should give us all the more reason to take a closer look. Before you attack Teddy, you should read some more on the subject. It’s not that Maddow, Ed, or Rev. Al is all bad, but they stay within the limits placed on them by their corporate masters, and sometimes they leave out essential information.

Get this out guys. People should be on this.

Obama deploying 20,000 troops inside U.S. to prepare for “event” ?
This is serious and people should know how far things are going
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmzTqHOfVvE&feature=share

O/T, with apologies. Super Committee Negotiations Now About How to Fail Gracefully Sheesh.

LINK.

Once in a while the money gets trumped by a critical mass of people on a communal errand, and the elites get screwed (temporarily at least).

Then they dust themselves off and move on, eventually back to their old M.O. I’m afraid.

National Lawyers Guild Files FOIA Requests Seeking Evidence of Federal Role in Occupy Crackdown

Agencies contacted: DOJ, Homeland Security, FBI, CIA and National Parks Service.

More here.

Not a bug, but a feature (ask Grover).

Corporate power grows stronger as government wanes

LINK.

From 2008.

Old.

Meanwhile, Chris Hayes on this show tries to discredit OWS by again trying to twist OWS into a pro-President Bush-bama affair.