M.K.Gandhi:

No Cowardice

“I want both the Hindus and Mussalmans to cultivate the cool courage to die without killing. But if one has not that courage, I want him to cultivate the art of killing and being killed rather than, in a cowardly manner, flee from danger. For the latter, in spite of his flight, does commit mental himsa. He flees because he has not the courage to be killed in the act of killing. (YI, 20-10-1921, p335)

“My method of nonviolence can never lead to loss of strength, but it alone will make it possible, if the nation wills it, to offer disciplined and concerted violence in time of danger. (YI, 29-5-1924, p176)

“My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force. It has no room for cowardice or even weakness. There is hope for a violent man to be some day non-violent, but there is none for a coward. I have, therefore, said more than once….that, if we do not know how to defend ourselves, our women and our places of worship by the force of suffering, i.e., nonviolence, we must, if we are men, be at least able to defend all these by fighting. (YI, 16-6-1927, p196)”

Business Insider has run an article claiming that Peter Schiff, and by extension, all libertarians who believe in freedom of association, are actually covert (and not so covert) racists. The claim is they want to avoid hiring minorities, and are using “libertarianism” as a cover for that.

Well, freedom of association is not a cover for anything.  It is a cardinal principle of liberty.  Peter Schiff can and should be able to hire whom he wants in his private business.

But while Peter might not be a racist, he is almost certainly a good German..that is to say, a good Zionist. Which, these days, is also a good American. And latterly even a good Indian.

Like most good Americans, most good Israelis, and even quite a few good Indians, he sees the Anglo-Israeli “lebensraum” as legitimate, justified, and extending to other people’s property.  Indeed, everywhere. Full spectrum lebensraum.

What is the sound of a property right, if it is bull-dozed away in the night?

Can you hear it? Can you defend it?

If you don’t, doesn’t that make you a good Zionist? And isn’t a good Zionist no different from a good German?

What were the Germans doing except “getting what they had been denied before” ? Room to live. Even if the room was already occupied. Even if it meant driving the occupants into the streets. Or killing them. Or robbing them.

What are the property rights of Palestinians? How many Muslim lives does it take to keep Christendom guilt-free of its own Judenhass?

And should the rest of us, whose consciences aren’t burdened by any such guilt, make sure that no future age will judge us guilty likewise

NOTE:

When I wrote about Christian Zionism and the targets of my criticism were Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and others, I really do not recall getting anything but positive mail. No-one took me to task for criticizing Christians or Protestants or Anglos or blacks. Nor did anyone criticize me for attacking Hindutvadi ideologues. But when the target is Zionism and the person is Jewish, how suddenly the tune changes. How suddenly I am told that the word itself is “racist” and anti-Jewish.

There is a word for this. Servility. It is beneath the dignity of any writer to bow and scrape for the privilege of throwing out a few scraps of truth.  I would not bother to blog if I had to be mealy-mouthed and opportunistic in my thinking. I would not call that thinking, but a kind of abasement of the spirit.

ORIGINAL POST

The Daily Bell explains why it is entirely false to say Hitler was a German Nazi. He was actually only a “German” and a “Nazi” not a German Nazi.

Still don’t get it? Me neither, but here it is, with some substitutions made to clarify things:

“We don’t buy off on the meme of the evil, Zionist Jew, evil, Nazi Germans, either. We would tend to categorize this as yet another promotional meme of the elite – that Israeli Zionists Nazi  Germans ran the world.Germany. Those who talk this way are inevitably branded as anti-Semites anti-German, their sentiments devalued, their credibility undermined. And that’s the plan, isn’t it?

Impossibly powerful “Jewish” “German” central banking military families have ensured the effectiveness of this meme over the past 50 years.”

Comment:

This seems to translate into the following:

“Nazi Germans did not run Germany. That was just a meme intended to discredit people who used it by inviting allegations of anti-Germanism. Only anti-Germans could possibly consider Nazi Germans to be evil. They weren’t even Nazis. They were six thousand year old diabolical pedophile Satanists pretending to be “Nazis.” Thus we should analyze Satanism, not Nazism, for an explanation of the Holocaust.”

So, you have libertarians who think that the last 6000 years of history in the West and every ideological stream and major conflict in it were creations of a handful of powerful Satanic families sharing the same bloodlines (!) who are “Jewish” but not Jewish.

And that, for your information, is NOT anti-Semitic.

But if someone writes that the Anglo-American imperium is a  Zionist operation, and calls Zionism a racist political ideology, then that is anti-Semitic, or liable to being read as such.

The analysis is as strange as anything I’ve read, with all due respect to the hard-working Bell editors.

Anti-Semitism is no more than a censor’s term. It  censors the deconstruction of a racist ideology, which, as I have said any number of times, uses Israel.

Israel is thus a central part of the ideology, but Zion itself doesn’t refer solely to Israel.

Nor are Zionists Israelis, necessarily. A whole lot of them are Americans (like Bush, Cheney, and Obama) or Europeans (Sarkozy, Blair). Some are Iranians and Indians. Some are Christians ( like Michele Bachmann), Hindu (check out the Facebook page of Hindu Zionists), and even Muslim.

Zion, one last time, refers to the Promised Kingdom, to the “Shining City On A Hill” (that would be what Ronald Reagan meant when he equated America to the city on the hill).

It is the kingdom of god on earth. It is thus a Utopian ideology, as many such ideologies are.

I leave it to any sensible reader to figure out which of the two descriptions of the origins of the globalists’ new order –   in early modern politico-theological ideology, or in a six-thousand-year old Satanic cult –  is credible, and which is simply a hoary trope that really does have racist implications.

What is my explanation of these strange locutions?

The Bell is based in Switzerland, which is subject to European law. Under European law it is considered anti-Semitic to even equate Zionism to Nazism or to oppose the legitimacy of Israel, or to attack Zionism, without in the same breath attacking Islamicist ideologues and terrorists. [Of course, this standard doesn’t apply to any other religion or race or country, which on its face is evidence of the frankly supremacist thinking behind Zionism]

Well, that is the case also in the US. However, in Europe and in Canada, you can also go to jail for flouting the prohibition. In the US, so far, you will not.  In fact,  websites that are really anti-Semitic, espousing biological determinism, and advocating legal sanctions against Jewish people, have not vanished.

Contrary to popular opinion, anti-Semitism is not what gets you cybergulag, libel suits, and other such intimidation. No sir. The elites love anti-Semitic rhetoric, as they love racist or misogynistic rhetoric. It drives ratings and controversy.

What the elites cannot stand are two types of critic:

1. Critics who deconstruct the elites rationally in a way that is consistent with the elites’ own intellectual sensibilities and moral yardsticks, thus providing a defensible intellectual basis for political action against them.

2. Whistle-blowers or researchers who provide the evidence for effective legal/political action against them.

One cannot prosecute lizards, shape-shifting reptiles, Merovingian bloodlines, German death-cults or by-gone Frankist heresies.

Not so with Zionist financiers.

If what I said were not true, ask why it is that 9/11 research and naked-short selling are also taboo? Ask why the Tea-Party, which did not see either bankers or money as evil, was quickly demonized and co-opted by the media and the corporate elites, but OccupationWallStreet, which really does see money and banking as evil, has been embraced by them? [Correction, Nov. 1]:

Part of OWS, the part that wants more regulations and wants more debt, has been embraced by the elites. The part that is against financial crime Wall Street financiers and against Zionism has been demonized. That should tell you in which direction any sane opponent of globalism should head. We should be supporting the prosecution of financial crime at the highest level, and here again, nuance is needed. We should oppose the demonization and prosecution of petty financial wrong-doers, who become scape-goats for public anger, and should pursue the highest level. In other words, crimes directly connected to 9-11 and the financial coup.

Notice where the counter attacks have been directed.

Jimmy Carter was targeted with a lawsuit for writing critically about Israel. Eliot Spitzer former NY AG has been sued. In a  Salon piece, Spitzer identified Marsh & McLennan officials as corrupt (M&M is one of the outfits close to the 9-11 story). He has now been sued for libel for $90 million.

The financial site, Deep Capture , which attempts to trace the connections between the media, the Russian Jewish mafia, Islamic jihadi networks and the market collapse, has been blocked on the web, following a Supreme Court order from British Columbia.  The American courts have not allowed RICO to be invoked in Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne’s lawsuit against Goldman Sachs.

It goes on.

Each time, the target is always someone with information that could unravel the actual mechanism by which the globalists hijacked this country and the “international community,” a.k.a. Anglo-America, Europe and their satellites and allies.

Short answer: Uncovering the truth about 9-11, prosecuting criminal market manipulation, and ending the fiat-money scam will stop the whole globalist/Zionist juggernaut.

Some bi-partisan unveiling going on here.

From Forbes (via DailyBell):

The Top Twenty Corporate Owners

1. Barclays plc
2. Capital Group Companies Inc
3. FMR Corporation
4. AXA
5. State Street Corporation
6. JP Morgan Chase & Co
7. Legal & General Group plc
8. Vanguard Group Inc
9. UBS AG
10. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc
11. Wellington Management Co LLP
12. Deutsche Bank AG
13. Franklin Resources Inc
14. Credit Suisse Group
15. Walton Enterprises LLC (holding company for Wal-Mart heirs)
16. Bank of New York Mellon Corp
17. Natixis
18. Goldman Sachs Group Inc
19. T Rowe Price Group Inc
20. Legg Mason Inc

Forbes again:

McGraw-Hill, which owns Standard & Poor’s, Northwestern Mutual, which owns Russell Investments, the index arm of which runs the benchmark Russell 1,000 and Russell 3,000, CME Group which owns 90% of Dow Jones Indexes, and Barclay’s, which took over Lehman Brothers and its Lehman Aggregate Bond Index, the dominant world bond fund index. Together, these four firms dominate the world of indexing. And in turn, that means they hold real sway over the world’s money.

: McGraw-Hill, which owns Standard & Poor’s, Northwestern Mutual, which owns Russell Investments, the index arm of which runs the benchmark Russell 1,000 and Russell 3,000, CME Group which owns 90% of Dow Jones Indexes, and Barclay’s, which took over Lehman Brothers and its Lehman Aggregate Bond Index, the dominant world bond fund index. Together, these four firms dominate the world of indexing. And in turn, that means they hold real sway over the world’s money.

Comment

I looked up who owns McGraw-Hill and found this table:

I followed up on that and came across the interesting and little-known fact that the largest securities company in the world is something called State Street Corporation (which owns the second-largest number of shares in McGraw-Hill). Fortunately, I didn’t have to dig further, since the hard-working folks at Firedoglake had already done the spade-work:

Firedoglake:

“State Street Corporation is listed on the NYSE, ticker symbol STT, and let me express my surprised face, to discover that a major holder of State Street Corporation is BlackRock at 2.4%.

So BlackRock invests in State Street who owns Blackrock’s nearest competitor who then both have major positions in McGraw-Hill which maintains the wholly owns subsidiary S&P. Where is the line drawn between one company and the other? Legally I am sure its all up and up since their lobbyists wrote the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act which Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan, and my personal favorite Larry Summers who told then President Clinton was a fantastic idea. Time Magazine then trumpted them ‘The Committee To Save The World‘. How’d all that savey-world stuff work out for ya?

Then there is BlackRock. They are a massive globo-zilla private equity firm formed in 1988 by Laurence Fink (from what is now called Credit-Suisse First Boston) and Robert S. Kapito. They are now the largest manager of the State Street invention “Exchange Traded Funds”. Also they are a private equity firm so they do not have the regulatory burden lapdog the SEC would have imposed on them. That is if SEC actually did their job instead of serving corporate masters rather than the large and small investors they are supposed to be protecting from fraud.

Laurence while still at First Boston co-created the first Collateralized (sic) Mortgage Obligations for… wait for it… Freddie Mac way back in 1983!”

The ideas that have come out of America’s Ivy League (Keynesianism, radical feminism, cultural Marxism) tend to be granted the presumption that they’re “progressive” or “liberal” or at least “high-minded”. It’s time this presumption was erased. We’ve known for a while that leading universities have pursued such ethically questionable areas of research as bio-weapons and mind-control.

But, as this 1995 article shows, even their routine practices have been tainted: the nude photographing of  entering students at prominent colleges surely displays a disturbing resemblance to eugenicist practices from the Nazi period.

The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal

Ron Rosenbaum, NY Times, 1995

“To Elderkin, Sheldon was no mere body-typer: he was a true philosophe, “the first to introduce holistic perspective” to American science, a proto-New Ager. Elderkin became Sheldon’s research associate, his trusty cameraman and a kind of private eye, compiling case histories of Sheldon’s posture nudes to confirm Sheldon’s theories about physique and destiny. He also witnessed Sheldon’s downfall.

…….

In 1987, the curators of the National Anthropological Archives acquired the remains of Sheldon’s life work, which were gathering dust in “dead storage” in a Goodwill warehouse in Boston. While there were solid archival reasons for making the acquisition, the curators are clearly aware that they harbor some potentially explosive material in their storage rooms. And they did not make it easy for me to gain access.

On my first visit, I was informed by a good-natured but wary supervisor that the restrictive grant of Sheldon’s materials by his estate would permit me to review only the written materials in the Sheldon archives. The actual photographs, he said, were off-limits. To see them, I would have to petition the chief of archivists. Determined to pursue the matter to the bitter end, I began the process of applying for permission.

Meanwhile, I plunged into the written material hoping to find answers to several unresolved mysteries. Although I did not find substantiation in those files for Hersey’s belief that Sheldon was actively engaged in a master-race eugenic project, I did find stunning confirmation of Hersey’s charge that Sheldon held racist views.

In Box 43 I came across a document never referred to in any of the literature on Sheldon I’d seen. It was a faded offprint of a 1924 Sheldon study, “The Intelligence of Mexican Children.” In it are damning assertions presented as scientific truisms that “Negro intelligence” comes to a “standstill at about the 10th year,” Mexican at about age 12. To the author of such sentiments, America’s elite institutions entrusted their student bodies.

Another box held clues to the truth behind Nora Ephron’s tale about smoking and organ size. It turned out to be true that a research arm of the tobacco industry had sponsored studies on the relationship between masculinity and smoking, and that the studies had involved Sheldonian posture photos of Harvard men — although there is no evidence that the criterion of masculinity was the “obvious one” referred to by Ephron. I located a fascinating report on this research in a December 1959 issue of the respected journal Science, a report titled “Masculinity and Smoking.” According to the article, and contrary to the rumor, it is “not strength but weakness of the masculine component” that is “more frequent in the heavier smokers.” Here, perhaps, is the most profound cultural legacy of the Sheldonian posture-photo phenomenon: the blueprint for the sexual iconography of tobacco advertising. If, in fact, heavy smokers looked more like Harvard nerds than Marlboro men, why not use advertising imagery to make Harvard nerds feel like virile cowboys when they smoked?………

….THREE MONTHS LATER, I FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN gaining permission to study the elusive posture photos. As I sat at my desk in the reading room, under a portrait of Chief Blue Eagle, the long-sought cache materialized. A curator trundled in a library cart from the storage facility. Teetering on top of the cart were stacks of big, gray cardboard boxes. The curator handed me a pair of the white cotton gloves that researchers must use to handle archival material.

The contents of the boxes were described in an accompanying “Finder’s Aid” in this fashion: BOX 90 YALE UNIVERSITY CLASS OF 1971

Negatives. Full length views of nude freshmen men, front, back and rear. Includes weight, height, previous or maximum weight, with age, name, or initials. BOX 95 MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE PHOTOGRAPHS

Negatives. Made in 1950. Full length views of nude women, front, back and rear. Includes height, weight, date and age. Includes some photographs marked S.P.C.

Among the other classes listed in the Finder’s Aid were: the Yale classes of ’50, ’63, ’64, ’66 and ’71; the Princeton class of ’52; Smith ’50 and ’52; Vassar ’42 and ’52; Mount Holyoke ’53; Swarthmore ’51; University of California ’61 and ’67; Hotchkiss ’71; Syracuse ’50; University of Wisconsin ’53; Purdue ’53; University of Pennsylvania ’51, and Brooklyn College ’51 and ’52. There were also undated photos from the Oregon Hospital for the Criminally Insane (which I could not distinguish in any way from the Ivy League photos). All told, there were some 20,000 photographs of men — 9,000 from Yale — and 7,000 of women……..

… the faces of the women were another story. I was surprised at how many looked deeply unhappy, as if pained at being subjected to this procedure. On the faces of quite a few I saw what looked like grimaces, reflecting pronounced discomfort, perhaps even anger.

I was not much more comfortable myself sitting there in the midst of stacks of boxes of such images. There I was at the end of my quest. I’d tracked down the fabled photographs, but the lessons of the posture-photo ritual were elusive.

“THERE’S A TREMENDOUS LESSON HERE,” MISS manners declares. “Which is that one should have sympathy and tolerance for respectable women from whose past naked pictures suddenly show up. One should think of the many times where some woman becomes prominent like Marilyn Monroe and suddenly there are nude pictures in her past. Shouldn’t we be a little less condemning of someone in that position?”

A little less condemning of the victims, yes, certainly. (I speak as one myself, although it turned out that my photo was burned in the Yale bonfire of the late 70’s.) But what about the perpetrators? What could have possessed so many elite institutions of higher education to turn their student bodies over to the practitioners of what now seems so dubious a science project?

It’s a question that baffles the current powers that be at Ivy League schools. The response of Gary Fryer, Yale’s spokesman, is representative: “We searched, but there’s nobody around now who was involved with the decision.” Even so, he assures me, nothing like it could happen again; concerns about privacy have heightened, and, as he puts it, “there’s now a Federal law against disclosing anything in a college student’s record to any outsider without written permission.”

In other words, “We won’t get fooled again.” Though he is undoubtedly correct that nothing precisely like the posture-photo folly could happen again, it is hard to deny the possibility, the likelihood, that well-meaning people and institutions will get taken in — are being taken in — by those who peddle scientific conjecture as certainty. Sheldon’s dream of reducing the complexity of human personality and the contingency of human fate to a single number is a recurrent one, as the continuing I.Q. controversy demonstrates. And a reminder that skepticism is still valuable in the face of scientific claims of certainty, particularly in the slippery realms of human behavior.”

From Craig Murray.org

“The barefaced lie about Gadaffi being killed in the crossfire bodes ill for the openness, transparency and good government we can expect to see now in Libya. But today I am worrying about the effect on our society of human death as entertainment. I have never been an apologist for Gadaffi, but if his regime tortured and murdered, the remedy is not to torture and murder him – even the Nazis were given due process.

This murder is becoming the norm. It was a NATO air strike which took out Gadaffi’s escaping convoy and first wounded him. Two days ago two teenage sons of Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical US/Yemeni cleric executed without trial last week, were executed by a US drone attack as they had dinner. They were aged 16 and 19. They had committed no crime I can find alleged against them. There has been no publicity.

All this killing brings triumphalist politicians smirking on our screens. We seem to have become as dehumanised as ancient Rome. Little human pity is expressed for the way Gadaffi was killed – indeed there is notably less media reflection of pity or revulsion than there was at the (at least judicial) hanging of Saddam Hussein. Is that a measure of the descent into bloodlust barbarism in our society? The complete lack of empathy towards the traveller families being torn from their homes at Dale Farm is part of the same brutalism towards “the other”. Why don’t we go the whole way and have them eaten by lions in the ring?

History shows that bloody appetite once aroused feeds upon itself. We have already had Defence Secretary Hammond on Sky News today positing NATO action now against Syria, while the current US proto-pretext for attacking Iran – the fantasy plot against the Saudi Ambassador – is as believable as Gadaffi’s death in the crossfire.

More death is on the way, to keep the circus going. Then the crowds may not notice there is no bread – no jobs, and their earnings and income eaten up by huge state enforced transfers to the bankers, whether by bailouts or “quantitive easing”.

Comment:

If anyone by now cannot see that US foreign policy, post 9-11, has been radically anti-Christian, no matter how much “Judeo-Christian” rhetoric about “ethics”, “human rights,” and “the rule of law” is thrown around, they are willfully blind.

This is not war on Islam alone. Islam is simply a proxy for the traditional world, its values, its beliefs, its worth.  This is war that dispenses with all of it.  This is war, started by covert action, waged by deception and lies, and completed with savage blood-letting of a kind repugnant to any notion of just war or law, in traditional religion or humanism.

Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, presumably Syria and Iran as well.  The Zionists – for that is who they are – declare themselves against all standards. The pretense of humanism and secularism has long been dropped. The glorying in power is evident in the response of the elites to the killing of Gaddafi.

Hillary Clinton, uncrowned queen of the future feminist supranational order of Gaia, heiress apparent to the bankers’ throne,  cackled.

Father Rama Coomaraswamy on the compatibility of Hinduism and Catholicism:

“Let me speak to the matter of my conversion in which discussion I sense an ad hominum intent. Conversion is both a complex and a simple matter dependent on the grace of God. If I was taught as a Hindu to love and serve God, why would I not continue to believe that when I became a Catholic? And what is surprising about feeling uncomfortable in a purely secular society? I studied the Faith for some two years before seeking baptism.

I have a somewhat unusual background, Deo gratias. My family has included both Jesuit priests and Hindu monks. I was as young man first introduced to the reality of God by a Tibetan monk. I have lived with Hindus and Sufi Muslims as well as with many wonderful Catholics. Many of these individuals feel about their religion much as I do about mine, I proffer no judgment about their beliefs, I know they are men of prayer and love God and feel they may well fall into those that St Pius X said belong to the soul of the Church. But as Muslims are fond of saying, “God knows best.” This does not mean that I am against conversion, and I am happy to preach when opportunity arises, “Christ, and Christ Crucified.” It should be absolutely clear that no one can be saved by error. Those outside the Church who are saved, are saved by the divine Word (logos) which is Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Since my conversion I have never departed from the traditional Catholic faith, though I have often fallen from grace. I think my writings bear witness to my orthodoxy. I think any aspersions cast upon my Catholicism are completely unjustified.”

Chicago police arrested OccupyWallStreet protesters who didn’t leave Grant Park on Saturday night when it closed at 11 PM. Some spent 24 hours or more in jail,  some were not allowed to make their one call to family for 16 hours, and one group of 30 men spent 30 hours penned up together with no toilet paper. The previous weekend, as well, 175 people had been arrested for protesting, but it is alleged that they were not treated as harshly. The treatment meted this time was seen as a show of force to deter future protests.  Mayor Rahm Emanuel, is widely regarded as being behind the crack-down.  A group of nurses and medical volunteers was among the arrested.

Hat-tip to Left-Wing Christian for spotting this press release from National Nurses United:

Nurses Condemn Chicago Mayor Emanuel for Arrest Of Nurses, Medical Volunteers at Occupy Chicago

For Immediate Release
October 23, 2011

RNs to Picket Mayor’s Office Monday Morning at 10 am

Registered nurses from across the U.S. today condemned Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for his decision to arrest nurse volunteers, as well as peaceful protesters, in a late night crackdown Saturday night at the Occupy Chicago protest.

NNU is asking supporters to call Mayor Emanuel’s office at 312-744-5000 and demand they immediately drop all charges against the nurses and other protesters, and stop the harassment and arrests of the nurses and others peacefully exercising their free speech rights. Nurses will also picket the mayor’s office at 10 a.m. Monday morning, at City Hall at the LaSalle entrance.

Nurse leaders of National Nurses United who set up a nurses’ station to provide basic first aid to Chicago protesters – as NNU has done peacefully in five other cities across the U.S. – were among the some 130 people arrested by Chicago police. The police also tore down the first aid station, and arrested scores of others who had peacefully assembled to support the station.

“Even in wartime, combatants respect the work of nurses and other first responders. Yet Mayor Emanuel and Chicago seem to care as little about that tradition as they do in protecting the constitutional rights of free speech and assembly.” said NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro. “These arrests are disgraceful and unconscionable, and will not deter our nurses from continuing this mission, setting up the station again, and continuing to support the protests.”

Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, the largest online news show in the world , supports OccupyWallStreet and sees similarities between it and the Tea Party.

He proposes an amendment to the US constitution banning corporate political donations.

This is a possible 28th Amendment, according to Cenk’s Wolf PAC:

“Corporations are not people. They have none of the Constitutional rights of human beings. Corporations are not allowed to give money to any politician, directly or indirectly. No politician can raise over $100 from any person or entity. All elections must be publicly financed.”

We can give three cheers for that. Corporations are not people. At last,  an adult moment.

Meanwhile CEO Patrick Byrne, the most influential minarchist libertarian figure in the “reform Wall Street” crowd has got on board with this suggestion, as well as with the suggestion to reintroduce Glass-Steagall, with which I concur, although there are several research papers that point to its irrelevance.

Uygur and Byrne also want to put limits on leverage, and, most controversially, bring the SEC into the DOJ – a move bound to elicit yelps from Wall Street.

That last I think would be quite dangerous.  The rest is at least worth discussing.

Byrne also makes the good point that it’s not so much “more regulation versus less,” but institutional redesign. I’ve suggested this myself, pointing out that the language we use for these things traps us in certain futile ways of thinking. A change in language helps new thinking.

This is the first time, I’ll admit, that I’ve heard something I liked out of OccupyWallStreet.

(Links to follow)