For an idea of the range and dollar value of NGO activity funded by Ford Foundation (only one of many foreign foundations funding civil society in India):

Contrast the Occupy Wall Street protests with the beginnings of the Tea Party.

While the Tea Party was rife with discussion of 9-11, the NWO, Rothschilds, and the Federal Reserve (in fact, those conspiracy theories are what created the Tea Party), none of that is present at the OWS protests.

The anger has been directed at the 1% at the top and the arguments are broadly anti-capitalist in a revolutionary sounding way, but as far as I can tell, not in substance.

Matt Taibbi (who came by OWS to give advice on specific proposals), has proposed some five reforms that are actually strangely lame and misplaced.

A small tax on all stock and bond trading, for instance, is highly unlikely to hamper the largest high frequency traders. It will burden small day-traders (mostly the middle-class) and smaller professionals. And from the point of view of fairness or morality, it’s completely misdirected, since these people were some of the main victims of the casino markets of the last couple of decades. The big fish were literally living off the losses of the small fry, whom they shook out of the market with each sudden movement up or down.

Changing compensation at Wall Street is also a curiously modest demand for a movement that tries to cast itself as a ground-shaking revolution.

It looks like the rhetoric and imagery are intended to scare.

The ideology is communist, or at least collectivist, but the proposals are reformist. Which makes me still more convinced that the whole movement has come out of the ruling classes to begin with.

It is likely intended to create a groundswell of approval for various kinds of insider generated regulations and redistributions of wealth, as well as for an increase in central power, masquerading as “decentralized direct democracy.”

The New Republic:

“The mystery that will launch a thousand media seminars is: How did a modest encampment in Zuccotti Park morph in less than a month into a global news story?

“At the beginning, this protest seemed fairly small,” said Blair Taylor, a 35-year-old, working on his Ph.D. in political science at the New School, who has been visiting Zuccotti Park since the onset of the protest. “Originally, there was a lot of right-wing sentiment—9/11 Truthers and Ron Paul supporters. Now it’s much more left-wing.” That was certainly my impression at Zuccotti Park as I interviewed at random an herbal beverage brewer from North Carolina; a 55-year-old historian of feminist art and magic who lives three blocks away; a sculptor from suburban Westchester County; and an unemployed construction worker from Staten Island who acknowledged, “These problems are going to take years to fix. It won’t happen overnight.” Maybe I would have come up with something different if I had not conspicuously avoided everyone with large, visible tattoos or a manic glint in their eyes.

My very tentative theory about the media success of Occupy Wall Street begins with the cleverness of the initial concept. Even if no one whom I interviewed at the protests had seen anyone even remotely responsible for the economic meltdown, it is easy to imagine that the demonstrators were confronting Goldman Sachs partners and hedge-fund managers daily on their way to work. Occupy Wall Street has a much more dramatic ring than Camp-Out in Lower Manhattan. Another major factor was the way that the normally astute New York Police Department fanned the movement with their indefensible use of pepper spray and their initial penchant for mass arrests. When you are trying to create a mass movement, it is way better to be martyrs than ignored.

The final aspect is that the Occupy Wall Street protests filled in a missing piece in the political puzzle. Mark Schmitt shrewdly suggested that liberals had long been fantasizing about a Tea Party of the left. But I also think serious journalists had been waiting for some bellow of outrage over the way that Wall Street plutocrats had been laughing all the way to their annual bonuses. Why in popular culture is Bernie Madoff a more notorious symbol of greed than AIG or the bankers who packaged sub-prime mortgages? Someone in America had to get mad other than Elizabeth Warren. So when the demonstrators with their amorphous sense of injustice arrived in Zuccotti Park, media stars were born.”

Éliphas Lévi’s (Bonœ Memoriœ) creed, and that of his disciples.

“We believe in a God-Principle, the essence of all existence, of all good and of all justice, inseparable from nature which is its law and which reveals itself through intelligence and love.

We believe in Humanity, daughter of God, of which all the members are indissolubly connected one with the other so that all must co-operate in the salvation of each, and each in the salvation of all.

We believe that to serve the Divine essence it is necessary to serve Humanity.

We believe in the reparation of evil, and in the triumph of good in the life eternal.”

“To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.”-from The Threshold of Magical Science

My Comment

Some believe these teachings to be pure evil, since they deny the divinity of Christ, but then, so do Islam and Hinduism.

But Jesus said “Other sheep have I that are not of this flock” and “In my house there are many mansions”, so at least, from the promise of those words,  I don’t think the denial of the unique salvation of Christ damns a teaching.

Hinduism also denies it. Islam only calls Jesus a great prophet.

There’s error in the Bible, except in the eyes of the most fanatical fundamentalists, or for people whose interpretations are so elastic they can read anything into anything.

To those people who say that many of the theosophists were unscrupulous, I say perhaps they were. So were many in orthodox faiths.  And many occultists were not unscrupulous.

Many of the great problems in modernity have arisen because of its tendency to see “evil” everywhere. Where the eastern mind sees human error, the modern mind sees devilry. By looking for too many devils in nature, the mind itself becomes devilish

Nothing in Levi’s credo contradicts anything in the gospel, if one reads both of them with an open mind.

Who is not against me is for me, said the protagonist of the gospel. It is not the belief that damns anyone. It is the practice.

Christians have used the words of the gospel to castrate themselves (Origen) and enslave others (Conquistadors). Should we blame Jesus for that?

Everyone receives according to his capacity. Jesus himself spoke in parables so he would reach the most artless peasant and the most learned rabbi, both spiritual novices and the tried and tested.

Just as man’ s technological prowess has outstripped his spiritual development, making every technological advance an equal advance in the science of death, so also religious dogmas in the hands of selfish and immature people have been more destructive than life-giving.

Intellectual studies have to keep pace with personal growth.

Knowledge itself is not evil, any more than nuclear fission or guns. What is evil is the ends to which knowledge is used.

[Note: I added a good bit of explanation to the original post, because of the danger that someone unfamiliar with these texts would think I was endorsing “devil worship” as most people understand it.  Not so. But the figure of the devil varies from tradition to tradition, and even within a tradition. And one needs to have an understanding of the context of the quotation I cited.]

Daniel McAdams at LRC blog:

“According to FBI director Robert Muller, the latest FBI-created-and-miraculously-defeated terror threat –– this time straight out of Iran and straight from the top — was something “straight out of a Hollywood script.” Well, he should know so we’ll take him at his word.

Although the same neocons who are probably writing these Hollywood scripts are screaming “this means war!!”, we cannot help but wonder just how deep is the manipulation of our media and our government by shadow forces both foreign and domestic pushing us covertly toward another war.

Considering the latest news out of the UK, where the male partner of recently departed in scandal Defense Secretary Liam Fox is revealed to have been working covertly with the Mossad to overthrow the Iranian government, these speculations should no longer be written off as the conspiratorial thinking of feverish minds.

Disgraced Secretary Fox had been jet-setting all over the world with his “best man,” Adam Werritty, in tow; Werrittty passed himself off as Fox’s de facto chief of staff and it is in this capacity that he has been engaged over the past several years covertly bumping up the Iranian “opposition” — the same Green Movement that some of us were attacked for suggesting had a very, umm, Western flavor — and attempting to overthrow the Iranian regime.

Just the outlandish suggestion that a booze-addled Iranian immigrant used car salesman was plotting to have the Saudi ambassador assassinated was enough to have the media, ThinkTankistan, and the Left/Right interventionists screaming that an “act of war” had been committed by Iran and demanding an invasion. Yet why is it never an act of war when Western spooks go into Iran in blatant attempt to overthrow its government and foment phony “Green Revolutions” where scores are killed?”

With the Fox scandal breaking big in the UK, it is increasingly obvious that these scripts written to bring the US and its allies to a disastrous war on Iran are more of a collaborative effort, perhaps Hollywood, Langley, and Tel Aviv.”

I disagree sometimes with Arundhathi Roy’s positions and rhetoric, but this issue I agree with her. Arundhathi, an artist, smells something fishy in the Anna Hazare movement.

“The Jan Lokpal bill is a ”regressive piece of legislation” and Anna Hazare has been ”used as a prop by foreign-funded NGOs” to lead the anti-corruption movement, writer and activist Arundhati Roy has said.

In an interview to CNN IBN, Roy said she is glad that the civil society’s Jan Lokpal bill did not go through in parliament. “I am extremely glad that the Jan Lokpal bill did not go through parliament in its current form,” Roy said.

“I think the legislation is a dangerous piece of work. You used the real and legitimate anger of the people against corruption to push through this specific piece of legislation, which is very regressive according to me,” she added.

Alleging that activist Anna Hazare, who spearheaded the anti-corruption movement, was used just as a prop, Roy said: “It was an NGO-driven movement by Kiran Bedi, (Arvind) Kejriwal and (Manish) Sisodia. Three of them run NGOs.”

“I wanted to indicate why these NGOs are participating to mediate in what the public policy should be. World Bank and Ford Foundation fund the anti-corruption campaigns. Anna Hazare was picked up and propped up as the saint for the masses. He was not the brain behind the movement,” she added.

Talking about the Jan Lokpal bill, Roy said that it attempts to create a form of “parallel oligarchy”. “The Jan Lokpal team, including the chairman, is to be selected by a pool of elite people and they are a pool of elite people. You have a bureaucracy which will have the policing power, the power to tap phones, prosecute, charge and judge from the prime minister to the bottom,” she said.

Roy also questioned the media for its 24X7 coverage of Hazare’s 12-day fast. “For a nation of one billion people, the media did not find anything else to report,” she said, adding that “certain major TV channels campaigned for” the movement. “That’s a kind of corruption for me at first place”.

My Comment:

That is of course what I have been saying here for many years….

Being anti-government is a naive position if you don’t understand that there is a shadow government far more dangerous than the folks who hold 9 to 5 jobs at the post office. Really.

It is the entry of the shadow government into the daylight government that has destroyed it.

Some libertarians would say that that emergence is inevitable. I disagree, although I think they are right if they are talking about the governments of empires. But then, the governments of empires are already corrupt by virtue of their nature as the pinnacle of the mercantilist system.

The same thing is unlikely to be true of a local government in a small republic.

The main thing is not to let ideology and slogans get in the way of practical wisdom.

Holding to your principles is right, but nothing wrong with also holding to your knowledge of history and your street smarts.

A map, to repeat myself, is not the road.

Wikileaks has been driving the so-called anti-corruption struggle of Anna Hazare in India, which the English media in India, the uncritical product of colonized minds in post-colonial bodies, has been relentlessly promoting.

The Anna Hazare-led anti-corruption movement seems to be supported by both the extreme right communal (race-baiting) faction (RSS-related), as well as by the mouthpieces of the transnational world of civil-society outfits and NGOs funded by the globalists (Rockefeller Foundation). The usual suspects behind the OccupyWallStreet protests.

These kinds of serial coordinated nation-wide protests across the globe can only be produced by big, big money, with all kinds of government, police and secret service connections.

Closely related movements (Assange is the common factor) that name-check Zionist Rupert Murdoch on one hand (Wikileaks), get the support of another globalist financier Soros (OWS), on the other;  that have Anonymous behind them (OWS) and are also connected to some factions of the Hindu RSS (Anna Hazare), are not spontaneous uprisings of the masses, most of whom are too busy trying to survive.

An Indian blog, Exit and Opinion Polls In India, writes:

“Thanks to 24×7 television, we have come to be accustomed to protesters supporting Anna Hazare waving the Indian flags or have the flag painted into their faces or body and chanting patriotic songs like Vande Mantram; vociferously demanding India adopt the Jan Lok Pal Bill. The whole movement have been projected. as the country’s second independence struggle.

When the  movement against corruption was launched, the Lokpal bill was seen as a possible solution. It was but the backdrop against which a larger fight was being launched. Watching these protestors, priorities seem to have changed. As one blogger, Aseem Rastogi commented:

” Where is the cause in midst of all the protests? Are people more worried about Anna than the Lokpal? Are people thinking more about Anna’s health than removing corruption from the society? Does the general public realise what they are fighting for?”

A CNN-IBN state of the Nation poll across 19 states and 20,000 respondents,  found that only 1/3rd of Indians  heard about the Jan Lokpal Bill and of these, only 1/4th have some vague idea what the bill is about. Put simply, these are a bunch of  mostly ignorant people, either driven by pure emotion or publicity hungry individuals  who want to be captured by the 24×7 news channels. Most  are totally naive to accept Team Anna’s propaganda that a “strong Lokpal” will banish corruption  from our country like waving  a magic wand.

So what are they fighting for? If they are the super-patriots in our society,  none question why the Jan Lok Bill which they are campaigning to be adopted by the country initially called for the ‘selection’ committee to be constituted by only “All Nobel Laureates of Indian Origin” or “Last two Magsaysay Award winners of Indian origin”.

It is a well known fact only nominees approved by the U.S. government can win the Nobel Prize. As far as the Magsaysay Award winners are concerned, this award is an American award for Asians established and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation ostensibly in memory of Ramon Magsaysay, the former President of Philippines. As a scrutiny of the previous winners of the Magasaysay Award shows it is entirely reserved for civil society actors,

This is the reason why to date neither the Nobel nor Magsaysay committees have conferred their awards to Gandhiji but the Magsaysay award have been conferred to almost all the leading lights of Team Anna – Anna Hazare; Kiran Bedi and Arvind Kejriwal. These scamsters by this clause was ensuring that all future Lok Pals will be their choice or proxies to do their bidding.

Fortunately for us, stung by wide public criticism, the latest version of the Bill drops the Nobel laureates and the Magsaysay winners, and brings in “retired army personnel who are five star Generals”. It tells you a bit about where the balance of power is tilting. The miltrary? As if they are untouched by this scourge and there had been no scams like Adarsh Housing!

A RSS leaning scholar, N.T.Ravindranath comprehensively exposes the civil society design in his paper : Anna Hazare lands up in fifth columnist camp. Read more: http://www.satyashodh.com/Anna%20Hazare_NTR_180511.pdf

This is a must read for all trying to understand the Anna phenomenon. It will make it clear why it takes more than a topi and fast for Anna to be accepted as a second Gandhi and the the so called second freedom struggle is really more about mortgaging your freedom.

Prashant Bhusan from ground zero threw down the challenge: Are you for Anna or not? Let’s stand up and be counted to say no. This blog will be pleased to publish any articles to defeat the Anna scam on the country.

Meanwhile, boycott Times Now and Arnab Goswami, the rabble rouser who turned Anna from a non-entity to a 24×7 news phenomenon.

Memewatchers (via Korey Snodgrass, from the comment section of The Daily Bell):

http://memewatchers.com/gerald-celente-calls-for-new-world-order

“Government is corrupt and abusive but it can be fixed all we need is transparent and direct democracy. Now thanks to the Internet it is all possible. Hurray!!! Big government is now finally gonna work. We are gonna create our own New World Order.

George Celente was interviewed by Alex Jones yesterday and during the interview he called for a New World Order controlled by Direct Democracy. Amazingly Alex failed to question him on this astounding proclamation, instead Alex simply replied ‘well it is no doubt our republic is broken’. Claims like these are very troublesome especially when they are coming from well known figures in the alternative media known to be allies in the fight against the New World Order.”

My Comment:

No, dear memewatchers. It is not “troublesome”.

It is to be expected.

Where have you been? Celente’s stuff is all over the net, he is interviewed on TV, and there is always a price for such acceptance and approval.

We have quoted Celente many times and we like what he says, when it is on specific topics. But we have seen how he picks up themes and even ideas that are in the air but never gets too concrete about anything. We said nothing, hoping for the best, but prepared for the worst.

Celente cannot change the terms of the debate.

The corporate-state cannot be fought on its own terms – mass acceptance, traditional outlets, PC-bounded debate. The medium will kill the message everytime.

James Altucher, the financial blogger, has already broached “Direct Democracy” (abolish the President and Congress and take referendums on the net directly). Gerald Celente is another. Both are from the financial media in New York. That is significant, surely. They are surely not outsiders in the financial media, however much they might adopt the language of outsiders.

And there will be many more such insider “outsiders” using the language of the politicians and the business classes.

This language – advertising, opinion-polling, perception- management, consumer satisfaction – is nothing more than the language of corporations and the methods of mass manufacture and distribution.

It is also the language of the state.

Government (posing as anti-government) will operate forcibly, through secret control of weaponry by agents of the NWO in each ostensibly sovereign state; through the infiltration and subversion of government organs on behalf of transnational rather than local interests; through the human rights regimes and NWOs; and through blackmail and bribery by the spy agencies and police forces of all kinds.

Anyone can see how this will enable the social media mafia (Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, Digg, etc), the establishment media (CJR,  WashPo, NY Times, WSJ etc), the establishment alternatives (Nation, Democracy Now, Alternet etc), the speculator-hedge funds and banksters (Soros etc.), the psyops folks (probably Wikileaks, and other “controlled opposition” anti-empire and even anti-NWO mouthpieces) and the secret spy agencies (NSA, CIA etc) to come together to control what becomes an issue, what doesn’t, what the parameters of debate are, how problems are solved, and who profits.

With advertising, and behavior modification as highly developed as they are now, it will be nothing to sway the masses one way or other from behind the curtains. The wizard will be gone. But a whole team of puppet-masters will take his place.

Thus the corporate-communist convergence instantiated in Occupy Wall Street.

Local autocrats will be overthrown. In their place will come scientific tyranny, masquerading as Direct Democracy, Free Markets (if that’s your cup of tea) or Anarchist Socialism (if it’s not).

Different strokes, but the same folks.

There is no such thing as a large centrally-controlled republic.

There can only be federated republics.

A large centrally controlled republic is only another name for oligarchy.

Oligarchy, disguised as “direct participatory democracy” is secret rule by oligarchs.

Secret rule = Tyranny.

I do not  say that direct referendums necessarily lack merit. They might work, were we living in small city states…. and were the internet discontinuous, fragmented, and highly private…. and were most people rational, well-educated, self-critical and self-reliant.

But we aren’t, it isn’t, and they aren’t.

So Direct Internet Democracy will not be anarchism, right or left, and it won’t be Christian liberty. Nor will it be federalism or decentralization.

It will be the direct control of the masses through electronic networks, propaganda, surveillance, and co-option of alternative mouthpieces of all stripes, across the board.

Direct Electronic Democracy = Tyranny

I call it Direct Electronic Action for Tyrants and Demagogues

Which equals DEATH. The death of true liberty.

Still,  I let me be perverse and say that I don’t oppose OWS completely, because that is what the mass of people want.

The mass of people, of course, is not the majority of people. The mass of people is simply people acting as masses. Which is a different thing.

But nonetheless the masses are a lot of people.

Now, truth (little t) lives in some form in all people, no matter how far they seem to be from Truth (big t). And so the truth of this moment is exhaustion, fear, burden, terror. The truth of this moment is security.

People want security and are willing to give up their freedom for it.  So be it.

It cannot be too much worse than the nightmare that the corporate-state brought to the world in the 20th century.

Those who had liberty used it to worship power. State power and money power.

Now their worship of power is moving toward to its logical conclusion.

Yet, it isn’t for us to predict doom. We were not called to be Jeremiah.

So we will hold out some small hope.

OWS and Assange may be red flags, but red is as good a color as any. It beats being blue. Blue is sad, it’s fearful. You see red, you’re angry.

Anger is fear projected outward. It’s action. Even if the action is not so much direct action, as directed action.

Action –  good or bad, we’ll see.  Perhaps it will correct itself as it goes along..

Meanwhile, we tend our own garden and keep our distance, if not our silence..

Update:

I’ve deleted those emails from Breitbart. Thomas Ryan turns out to be a security cop/pro who posed as a protester and then  got their emails under false pretenses and forwarded it to Breitbart. The cops might have been involved.

The protesters have a right to their private lists and communications. Also, after reviewing one of the videos of the organizers on Big Government, I have to say their scary captions and sinister music did not match what was actually being said by the activist on the video.  So, there’s image manipulation going on at OWS, sure, but I’m not sure the conservative picture of it is truthful either.

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OccupyWallStreet emails reveal intentional placement of women and children in front lines to dominate TV imagery in clashes with cops

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Update:

Julian Assange has shown up at the protests at the London Stock Exchange. More theater. Ayatollah Khameini (whom many libertarians consider part of the globalist crowd) has claimed it will topple capitalism (talk about seeding memes).

Hate to do the color-coding of the optics of this public spectacle here, but I couldn’t help noticing that most (not all) of the OWS protests in New York seemed to be white. And the names of all the protests in London sound like the folks would be white.

But when they were arresting insider traders all this while, so many of those faces turned out to be, you know, Sri Lankans, various Chinese and Middle-Eastern folks and other non-whites, although most people know that most of Wall Street is….. um…. well….. not to put too fine a point on it….. white.

Notice those nationalities I mentioned – Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Sri Lankans – are in the cross-hairs of both the nationalist imperialists and the “anti-empire” transnationalists (via International Criminal Court and human rights abuses, enter Francis Boyle and Bruce Fein).

Empire and anti-empire both co-opted by the Anglo-Zio elites.

So do you get the subtle message being sent that crimes when they are committed are largely by all those non-whites?

But when there is global resistance, truth-telling, and salvation of the masses, then it’s always… um…. well…… not to put too fine a point on it…..white.

Such is the language of empire, to those of us who have been listening to its subtexts for a lifetime.

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The New York Times has a piece that references someone else who supports OccupyWallStreet, John Paulson, a speculator who seems to have ties to the banking mafia behind the 2008 market collapse. Interesting. Soros supports OWS, which,  as I have already noted, is going out of its way to instill fear that it is anti-middle class, not just against financial corruption or “the rich”.

Correction: I incorrectly included John Paulson, the speculator, in this group, because I misread what he said. Apparently, he is completely AGAINST OccupyWallStreet.  Well, that is good news.  Maybe, he’s aware of how dangerous this could be.  However, Jim Chanos, apparently has lent support to it].

Now why would they do that? Why would they hold up signs against “white collars”, make explicit references to the middle-class as “contributing nothing”? How does that help them? Why is it that student loans are such a big part of the protests, according to some? What is the common thread?

The explanation that fits all these facts is that this is a deliberate attempt by the powers-that-be, the very same people who caused the collapse, to create a fake opposition that deliberately provokes the middle-class libertarians who form the bulk of Paul supporters and anti-Fed activists, who really do know where the problem lies. By doing so, it steals their following and muddies their message.  Thus the focus on student loans hints that the target audience of this theater is NOT the working classes all over the world, but the western middle class, which is being directed to think along certain lines.

By antagonizing that class, the movement corners popular anger, claims the mantle of anarchist from anti-state anarchists,  increases support for a global regulatory regime and central control, while also staying on top of all real anarchist opposition and discrediting it.

The New York Times:

“Generally, bankers dismiss the protesters as gullible and unsophisticated. Not many are willing to say this out loud, for fear of drawing public ire — or the masses to their doorsteps. “Anybody who dismisses them publicly is putting a bull’s-eye on their back,” the hedge fund manager said.
I’ll come back to this and add some links so you’ll see what I’m saying.