'Britain is quite mad. You know, we're not sure Rebekah Brooks was such a nice woman. But given the larger cruelties of the world and whom she apparently works for, the charges seem a bit exaggerated. Even the phone hacking. The crazy elite families have apparently been building a full matrix of eavesdropping facilities for the past 50 years. The idea that this young woman is going to be charged for something that governments around the world spend billions on every year is a bit rich.'

So Murdoch turns on the Tories after - 2 years I think? Since it's 3 years til the next election I guess he doesn't have to care about sides at all at this point, just anger. It's good to smoke and eat pies at the minute (as long as you have a job)

It’s wrong to think of Ron Paul’s racism and his libertarianism as two distinct parts of his political persona, when in fact they are deeply tied together. White supremacists understand what Glenn, apparently, does not; the absence of Federal authority makes it easier for private actors and local governments to repress the civil and political rights of minorities. Paul’s libertarianism emerged in a regional and cultural context that was deeply hostile to Federal efforts at integration. The newsletters give strong indication that none of this is lost on Ron Paul. A notional President Paul is just as likely to use the powers of the office to gut Federal enforcement of a wide range of civil liberties protections as he is to do any of the things that Glenn would like him to do.

To engender populism, one must invariably sacrifice truth. And my commitment to the Truth, to the Dharma (to borrow a Buddhist metaphor) is far greater than my commitment to the Buddha (the teacher of Truth) or the Sangha (the community of truth-seekers). Both the Buddha and the Sangha are subject to human foibles. But the Truth remains clear, even if our apprehension of it, especially in heated moments like now, remains occluded.

The only criticism seems to be that he isn't Gandhian enough. #facepalm. Corruption and public-private collusion seems to elicit the same kind of anti-growth anti-capitalist stance as the occupy movement.

"to the extent it has a critique of capital, OWS errs on the side of the populist — parasitic finance, evil capitalists, biased governance; the 99% slogan is problematic not just because it elides difficult issues about difference but because it assumes that structural forces (the police, for example) can be overcome with shame or rational argument; some of its elements are too hasty to call for reregulation and are ripe for co-optation; and this just begins the list."

Interesting: survey of populist political opinions using Facebook fanpages + Facebook ad tool to calibrate demographics (see the methodology annex in the pdf)

'Dominant Social Theme: The problems in the world today can all be tracked back to the big corporations – the corporatocracy that runs the world. -- Who runs the corporations? Hm-mm. It seems to us that the corporations and Wall Street itself would not exist in their current world-spanning posture without CENTRAL BANKING and the ability of those who supervise the mechanism to print endless amounts of money from nothing. This is what is rapidly turning the world into a single, large banana republic, or more grimly, a global gulag. Why Ms. Wolf cannot see this is a mystery to us. With so much information available on the Internet about central banking and the elite clique that evidently and obviously runs it, one could be forgiven for beginning to think that those who point fingers at corporations, or even politicians, are practicing a form of disinformation. Because of the Internet and what we call the Internet Reformation, the mercantilist strategy has been well exposed of late and the Anglosphere power elite that is behind the greater manipulation doesn't like it. They have counterattacked, just as they did during the era of the Gutenberg Press, by creating populist movements to confuse people about the real culprits. But just as happened then, these movements eventually shall spin out of control, creating results that support freedom in ways that the elites fear but cannot control. In the meantime, we have to put up with Occupy Wall Street – which is not controlled at the "street" level but is certainly controlled at the top.' -- Pied pipers are piping

'Dominant Social Theme: Workers unite! There is an emergency! The world is warming! Al Gore tried to explain it! The UN tried to fix it! Now it is up to us! Never mind that it doesn't exist – it's still important! It's the best way to realize the one-world ambitions of the power elite to whom we are beholden! Oops! Shouldn't have said that. (We got carried away.) -- Free-Market Analysis: The Anglosphere elites are trying everything they can to implement "solutions" to the non-existent problem of global warming and now it seems they've set their controlled Occupy Wall Street movement to the task. Adbusters has proudly posted a screed on the new OWS "news" website calling for a global decentralized protest movement that will focus on, of all things, global warming. OWS at the top is increasingly a stalking horse for the UN's unrealized agenda. What could not be gained so far by the UN because of resolute opposition via principled people (mostly patriotic Americans) is to be achieved by a manipulated movement of "people power" that is supposed to sweep all before it. How do you combat the world's growing recognition that the 20th century was nothing but elite-directed history? You used MORE directed history. Watch how OWS evolves.' -- Obvious obvious is obvious

'These self-appointed "leaders" (who do not exist, they say) such as DeGraw and Assange seem to have outsized clout in a movement that is supposed to be grass-roots and consultative. The non-leadership of OWS seems intent on focusing the movement directly on Wall Street and its captains of greed, despite dissenting voices and libertarian involvement. Zero Hedge carried an article yesterday warning about the scapegoating of Wall Street as a "catalyst for class warfare." The article cited a new poll commissioned by The Hill concluding that, "in the minds of likely voters, Washington, not Wall Street, is primarily to blame for the financial crisis and the subsequent recession." This does not seem to bother DeGraw who merrily soldiers forward as the scourge of Wall Street. Talk of guillotines, of the French Revolution and class warfare (that inevitably ends in the bloodshed of the middle class that DeGraw is supposedly avenging) seem not to bother him. Is DeGraw aware of history's lessons? If you don't change the system the problems will reoccur. Sure, punish people if it makes you feel good. Hang 'em high. Behead them. But first do SOMETHING SERIOUS. Confront the real issue, which is money creation and the euphorias it causes.'

Take The Square's guide to people's assemblies

10/10/11

'To conflate Wall Street – as an industry, anyway – with central banking is simply wrong. One is an evolution of the free market. The other hides behind it. Put central banking out of business and the worst excesses of Wall Street will almost immediately become a thing of the past. Put Wall Street out of business and central bankers will reconstitute over the weekend. Money Power lies with central banks, run by the Anglosphere power elite. These elites are quite prepared to sacrifice Wall Street. They WANT to regulate the private sector. Regulate it until it is cold as a corpse so that they can re-animate as they choose. The more laws there are, the better they do. The process is called mercantilism. The powers-that-be CONTROL governments. Pass a law and you are only adding to their arsenal. In fact, the leaders of Occupy Wall Street are DELIBERATELY turning the movement into a populist protest that looks to government for changes that will make societies work better. It is evident and obvious. Who knows who they work for – but evidently they are not who and what they say they are. We wish we were wrong.'

"But the modern Democratic Party is not likely to embrace left-wing populism the way the GOP has embraced – or, more accurately, been forced to embrace – right-wing populism. Just follow the money, and remember history."