Jim Hightower - Wall Street is Dazed and Confused

by: Jim Hightower, Truthout | Op-Ed

http://www.truth-out.org/wall-street-dazed-and-confused/1319028757

Astonishingly, some Wall Streeters continue to be clueless about what the Occupy Wall Street movement is protesting. Yoo-hoo, Streeters: Note that the movement's name has the term "Wall Street" in it.

While there is a plethora of particular issues being raised by the protesters -- from the corrupting power of corporate money in our elections to the demise of middle-class wages -- the unifying theme is that each one adds to the rising tide of economic inequality that's enriching the most privileged few by knocking down America's workaday majority. And, Mr. and Ms. Streeter, guess who is the most powerful perpetrators of this greed-fueled disparity: Yes, you.

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[Video] Gary Null at Knocking on the Devil's Door Screening, Huntington, NY

Gary Null Q&A and audience reactions at the premiere of his documentary Knocking on the Devil's Door at the Huntington Arts Cinema in Huntington, NY.

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Getting Off The Grid - A Blueprint for A New Life

What will YOU do when a disaster hits? What can you do, where can you go to help your family weather the storm sustainably? We have answers in this new 46-page world report on living off the grid.

Getting Off the Grid: A Blueprint for a New Life

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People Speak Truth to Power - Indian Point Rally! [Video]

Gary Null speaks at the highly successful Rally to Close Indian Point and Stop Hydrofracking on Saturday, October 8.

Don't forget to sign the Online Petition to the Governor and State Assemblies of NY:

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"Gary Null, PhD, and Jeremy Stillman" - Solar Storms: Katrina Times 1,000?

We have learned nothing since Katrina. Our decrepit water and gas systems have been around for sixty to eighty years. Our roads, bridges and tunnels and levees are in a state of abject disrepair. We have not taken the crucial step of constructing emergency facilities in our cities and towns. Besides putting many people to work, building these facilities would provide some semblance of civility during a time of crisis. People would be able to take refuge and have access to medical clinics and food banks. The current response network that relies on the Red Cross, FEMA and the National Guard during times of crisis is dangerously inadequate. Now imagine that something could dwarf all of this; something that could kill tens of millions of Americans and cause at least half of America to experience life as if they were living in a Mad Max film. Imagine that a gigantic mass of plasma is released from the sun and heads directly for the Earth. Even though we have been assured that we can withstand such an event, the power of this coronal mass ejection overwhelms our electric grids and fries our power substations rendering them beyond repair. Our communications satellites are also severely damaged during the solar event and are unable to function. We are not told what has happened. When we pick up our phones, there is no dial tone. When we turn on the radio, we hear nothing. We head out to the street to ask our neighbors what has happened but nobody seems to know. The first inconvenience we notice is that our air conditioning is not working during the stifling heat of a warm summer day. Or worse still, our heat has been cut off as temperatures dip below thirty degrees.

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"Jim Hightower" - Something Big Is Happening: #OccupyTogether

To paraphrase one of Bob Dylan's songs of youthful protest, "Something's happening here, and you don't know what it is, do you Ms. Bellafante?" A New York Times writer, Ginia Bellafante, is but one of many establishment reporters and pundits who've been covering the fledgling "Occupy Wall Street " movement — but completely missing the story. Instead of really digging into what's "happening here," they've resorted to fuddy-duddy mockery of an important populist protest that has sprouted right in Wall Street's own neighborhood. In a September article, Bellafante dismissed the young people's effort as "fractured and airy," calling it a "carnival" in an "intellectual vacuum." Their cause is so "diffuse and leaderless," she wrote, that its purpose is "virtually impossible to decipher." No wonder, she concluded, that participation in the movement is "dwindling."

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"Mitchell J. Rabin" - The Morphogenetic Fields, They Are A'Changin'

Bob Dylan might not have had that idea exactly when he wrote his folk song that described a movement kicked up in the famous '60's but in effect, he did. British biologist Rupert Sheldrake hadn't yet updated his version of the concept by then, but the notion still existed. And now, as when Dylan was most vocal, there is much afoot. It doesn't always look so pretty, in fact, it rarely does--what with wars raging sponsored by the USA, Big Pharma doing all it can with its government agents, the FDA, to squash our access to nutritional supplements or Monsanto's attempt to control all seed and food production across the globe with governmental cooperation, nation-to-nation. Yes, things don't look good when you see it only through these lenses.

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"Danny Schechter" - Unions Promise Support As #OccupyWallStreet Enters Third Week

#OccupyWallStreet has yet to attract the 20,000 militants they had hoped for but its growing and, more importantly retaining its sense of community, non-violence, and sense of a tolerant community. Most important is that similar actions are already taking place in other cities like a March on Friday in Boston against the Bank of America. An even bigger one is being planned for Washington in October. Other organizations are supporting this emerging movement. Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union say they “applaud the courage of the young people on Wall Street,” and are planning to turn out their members next week. I saw T Shirts of UAW members and met some activists from the Salvadorian community. Already #OccupyWallStreet sent over a hundred people to back a protest by postal workers trying to save their jobs and the Post Office. The longer this lasts, and is allowed to last, the more it is likely to grow.

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