MUST WATCH: Naomi Wolf - "Americans are facing a coup as of this morning. It's happened."
Dem Bruce Lee Styles Sun, 10/05/2008 - 5:30pm
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Thanks for posting this Dem
Just remember guys, its always darkest before dawn.
No matter how bad it appears to be, look forward to the rebirth of a new nation and the sunrise that will follow.
The Times that Try the Souls of Men ..........
A Hammer Shatters Glass but Forges Steel.
.......Also Define the Foundations of a New National Re-Awakening and Rebirth......
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.............
The Rest is History. Or Should I say the Future......
:)
We CAN run with the footmen. And SURELY we CAN CONTEND with the horsmen.
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The CONSTITUTION is NOT going to "collapse" into pulverized dust no matter how much thermate/explosives or planes they throw at it
Have you developed relationships
with your local governments as Naomi has suggested? She is explaining that this is vital. Wherever you live, there is a local town board, which is the basic cell of political action, not the national races. It is here that one can have the most influence at this time. State and local. The Federal has been basically bought off, but there are still local folks who care about what's going on.
In making presentations, I suggest using an article by John Mueller, http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060901facomment85501/john-mueller/is-the..., which basically states that the so-called "terrorist threat" is a hoax. He has also written a book, "overblown," which says the same thing. His credentials are impeccable, in the establishment sense. This article and book take one 90 percent down the path one needs to go without introducing the the idea that 9-11 was an inside job. Thus, the debate won't get needlessly bogged down, while it will advance to the point where one can address the true perpetrators of 9-11. People will accept and read this article, book, or a description of the same as I found on amazon.com, without any resistance that might accompany 9-11 inside job material. It also blows a hole in the hoax of the bogus Islamic threat.
I also suggest using this 2005 document, http://www.napawash.org/si/HS-WHITE.pdf, which shows that the government will use force or coercion to make local governments comply with Homeland Security measures. In other words, local government control will be a thing of the past. Chertoff said basically the same thing in a speech recently.
Let local officials know that the government is removing yet another and key check and balance in subverting the power of local governments. I believe you will get a very good hearing.
Make your presentation short, three minutes, but very well organized, and understated. That will let people know that you respect their time, you are not trying to monopolize their meeting, and give them time for feedback. Focus on the trend for local government functions such as highway departments, to be absorbed by Federal agencies, which is a matter of local control.
Too bad
Ms. Wolf can't get over her denial (at least publicly) and KNOW that the coup de ta took place in Sept. 01 !!!!!! We have to as a movement, take the hard work she talks about,, but not just in her areas, we gotta spread the truth message so far that people will look unpatriotic for NOT looking (Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. ---- T. Jeff. i believe) at the issue, cause you don't have to educate them fullly, all you have to do is tie it into what they know something about (fin crisis, iraq, big gov, losing freedoms, going from a largely respected nation to the #1 feared nation in the world) and care about and then get them to look into it. As always remember MLK & Ghandi (Ghandi "The truth must be professed w/love otherwise it will be rejected.) (MLK There comes a time when we must all protest, and that time has come today {he was talkin about the sham vietnam, and he was killed for it}). Spread it baby -------
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." ---- Mark Twain
Different Naomi but related
Naomi Klein: Wall St. Crisis Should Be for Neoliberalism What Fall of Berlin Wall Was for Communism
As the world reels from the financial crisis on Wall Street and the taxpayer-funded $700 billion bailout, we spend the hour with Naomi Klein on the economy, politics and “disaster capitalism.” The Shock Doctrine author recently spoke at the University of Chicago to oppose the creation of an economic research center named after the University’s most famous economist, Milton Friedman. Klein says Friedman’s economic philosophy championed the kind of deregulation that led to the current crisis.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/6/naomi_klein
additional Naomi Klein media
Monday, October 6, 2008
Wall Street's Shadow Market
Steve Kroft looks at some of the arcane Wall Street financial instruments that have magnified the economic crisis.
Not the sub-prime mortgages, it was Credit Default Swaps!
This is truly criminal. I would watch for the CEOs and officers of these companies to escape to countries without extradition treaties. They knowingly fucked the whole US and possibly the world economy in the interests of their own greed. THEY ARE CRIMINALS. THEY SHOULD BE DEALT WITH! THEIR FORTUNES SHOULD BE TAKEN FROM THEM AND THEY SHOULD BE IN PRISON.
Credit Default Swaps
it was really insurance but if they called it insurance then it would have been regulated.
Regulation is bad for the free market system after all (barf)
Yes, regulation is bad
It is enforced through violence (or the threat of).
Naomi Klein is an idiot
when it comes to economics. She's got the cause exactly backwards--it was too much regulation that caused these problems.
Important and timely post. Thanks Dem for putting it up.
"The End Of America" is spot on and what she illustrates here proves that the playbook is being followed. I so admire her courage, energy and wisdom which she freely shares with us at potentially great personal risk. I look forward to reading this new book from a true patriot. Thanks again for the post.
sad but true
the steve kroft video above renders this as a paint-by-numbers "greed & incompetence" apology... it burns my wick that we let these criminals off because "people didn't know any better".. .this is an outright lie. i used to provide technology support to wall street up until january of this year. i got the heads up from some friends working at an OLD hedge fund (the real "scientists" of wall street) and i bailed as soon as i could. people sent up all kinds of flags to the fed and no one did anything. this is not incompetence, not by a long stretch.
also, klein invokes mass arrests: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/09/statewide-immig.html
Noami says...
The Bush Administration's lawyers have defined the "War On Terror" as being all-encompassing. The land you live on is a "warzone."
Which event STARTED the "War On Terror" I wonder?
At the Philadelphia Tea Party, I said "Our Civil Liberties are disappearing. Wars are being fought in our name, and 1000's upon 1000's of people are dying. This country has been bankrupted while the rich have become richer. Elements of our Government have used the events of 9/11 to make all of this happen, and if 9/11 wasn't what we were led to believe, then we need to know about it, and we need to know about it now."
9/11 wasn't what we were led to believe. At all. Period. We have what we need to bring an end to the "War On Terror." It's called 9/11 Truth.
That is as true today as it was in the days, and months after 9/11. When only the faintest "whisper" of 9/11 Truth could be heard.
Do these people deserve to know how and why their loved ones were murdered? Do we deserve to know how and why 9/11 happened?
The End Of America Movie
coming October 21st...pre-order @ http://www.endofamericamovie.com
trailer...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w01YgTiaFj4
http://naomiwolf.org/
After watching the interview
on the post, I went to the sites referenced there and found it to be strange that, after getting the warning that we're in the thick of it now and need to act and there's not much time, etc., I couldn't actually watch the film or share it. In fact, when it comes Oct. 21, will we have to buy it to watch it or share it? How does that jive with the emergency she's trying to wake us up to?
I have nothing agains people selling their wares, but there's something funny about this situation with the movie. If we're in a dire situation that we only have so much time to deal with, why the heck isn't this movie available now and for free over the internet?
I dunno
I just found out about the movie myself, n posted the info.
You don't need the movie to know what she has to say.
You can see her presentation about her book, "The End Of America" on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc
There are several interviews with her on youtube also.
The video you see above updates the presentation at the link I have posted.
She is a very smart person with important information available to you, RIGHT NOW, free of charge.
How we respond
will Define the Rebirth of a New America.
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The CONSTITUTION is NOT going to "collapse" into pulverized dust no matter how much thermate/explosives or planes they throw at it
They pulled it!!
Scumbags!!