Occupy Wall Street destroyed by police

MIDNIGHT POLICE RAID

Occupy Los Angeles watched the livestream and spontaneously woke the camp and marched two miles through a deserted downtown banging drums in solidarity, causing an LAPD tactical alert until 2:00 am.

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(AP) Occupy Wall Street protesters have been ordered to leave [and struck with batons and pepper spray] Zuccotti Park, their longtime encampment in Lower Manhattan. But they've been told they can return once it has been cleaned [and their computers, tents, generators, equipment, food, and everything else has been destroyed, pile into bins and carted away].

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(John Taggart/NY Daily News)

At about 1:00 am Tuesday [Nov. 15, 2011], police handed out notices from the park's "owner," Brookfield Office Properties, and the City saying that the park had to be cleared because it had become unsanitary and hazardous.

Protesters were told they could return -- but without sleeping bags, tarps, or tents [or any protection from the elements as winter descends].

Paul Browne, a spokesman for the NYPD, says most people began filing out of the park once they received the notices; one person was arrested for disorderly conduct. Brown says the park was not heavily populated Tuesday morning. More

Camp Bulldozed to "Clean" It
NEW YORK - Hundreds of New York police...dressed in riot gear, descended on the headquarters of "Occupy Wall Street" in Zuccotti Park early Tuesday, issuing protesters with eviction letters and warning they would be arrested if they remained. The officers arrived just after midnight...ordering them to temporarily evacuate the park. Campers were told [but not given the chance] to remove their tents and all their belongings... [That removal was done by special police cleaning/demolishing crews.] More

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Occupy Oakland tossed from one camp yesterday

Happy Birthday, Columbus (video)

For the World to Live "Columbus" Must Die
Russell Means, Program #MEAR003, recorded in Denver, CO on April 27, 1992
LISTEN TO AUDIO. For too many of us, for too long, the indigenous peoples of this continent have been curiosities that existed somewhere over the horizon between fantasy and reality. The popularly crafted images were of medicine men [mostly women], squaws, peace pipes, teepees, tom toms, tomahawks, war bonnets, war paint, war whoops, and war parties. The only Indians we knew were named Tonto, Geronimo, and Crazy Horse. In recent years a lot of these cliches have disappeared. The American Indian Movement has done much to break down the conventional stereotypes. AIM articulates a program of self awareness and pride. It promotes treaty and land rights and religious freedom for Native Americans.

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Russell Means, an Oglala Dakota and a prominent voice in the continuing struggle for indigenous rights, is a founding member of AIM and one of its leading spokespersons. He is Chief Executive Officer of the American Indian Anti-Defamation Council, an organization which monitors anti-Indian racism in the media and politics, and has organized and lectured throughout the world.

"Where Next Columbus?"
Crass
Another's hope, another's game
Another's loss, another's gain
Another's lies, another's truth
Another's doubt, another's proof
Another's left, another's right
Another's peace, another's fight
Another's name, another's aim
Another's fall, another's fame
Another's pride, another's shame
Another's love, another's pain
Another's hope, another's game
Another's loss, another's gain
Another's lies, another's truth...

Marx had an idea from the confusion of his head
Then there were a thousand more waiting to be led
The books are sold, the quotes are bought
You learn them well and then you're caught

Another's left, another's right
Another's peace, another's fight
Mussolini had ideas from the confusion of his heart
Then there were a thousand more waiting to play their part
The stage was set, the costumes worn
And another empire of destruction born
Another's name, another's aim
Another's fall, another's fame
Jung had an idea from the confusion of his dream
Then there were a thousand more waiting to be seen
You're not yourself, the theory says
But I can help, your complex pays

Another's hope, another's game
Another's loss, another's gain

Satre had an idea from the confusion of his brain
Then there were a thousand more indulging in his pain
Revelling in isolation and existential choice
Can you truly be alone when you use another's voice?

Another's lies, another's truth
Another's doubt, another's proof
The idea born in someone's mind
Is nurtured by a thousand blind
Anonymous beings, vacuous souls
Do you fear the confusion, your lack of control?
You lift your arm to write a name
So caught up in the identity game

Who do you see? Who do you watch?
Who's your leader? Which is your flock?
Who do you watch? Who do you watch?
Who's your leader? Which is your flock?
Einstein had an idea from the confusion of his knowledge
Then there were a thousand more turning to advantage
They realised that their god was dead
So they reclaimed power through the bomb instead
Anothers code, another's brain
They'll shower us all in deadly rain
Jesus had an idea from the confusion of his soul
Then there were a thousand more waiting to take control
The guilt is sold, forgiveness bought
The cross is there as your reward

Anothers love, another's pain
Anothers pride, another's shame
Do you watch at a distance from the side you have chosen?
Whose answers serve you best? Who'll save you from confusion?
Who will leave you an exit and a comfortable cover
Who will take you oh so near the edge, but never drop you over?
Who do you watch?

Destroying Our Economy on Purpose

Wisdom Quarterly

A one hundred trillion dollar note (jimgottuso.wordpress.com). What happened to Zimbabwe when its economy collapsed and hyperinflation set in (cato.org)?

Remember, "Obama" is just a figurehead. He neither makes decisions nor chooses the course of events. His job is to make things sound palatable by wielding a carrot rather than Cheney-Bush's stick. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner goes along as well. Their scripts are written for them. And money is moved from wherever it is (e.g., US real estate, pension holdings, civil servants' salaries) into the personal accounts of corporations and individuals that will rule in the future. The "movers and shakers" remain unseen.

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Bankers, Pentagon officials, CIA agents, billionaires, nagas, asuras, "Illuminati," dynasties, royal bloodlines, members of secret societies, moguls -- it hardly matters who sits at the throne, the helm of any country's economy. Banker A.M. Rothschild put it succinctly: "Permit me to issue and control the money of the nation and I care not who makes its laws." While we argue left/right, Republican/Democrat, heathen/Christian, conservative/liberal, our country is being undermined. Our experiment in democracy has gone from the hands of the people to a government of the powerful, by the powerful (Koch Brothers, etc.), for the powerful.

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Anger, Madness, and Destructive Behavior

Dr. Stephen A. Diamond, Secrets of Psychotherapy (IV): Change or Acceptance?

What is the ultimate goal of psychotherapy?

Let's start with a simple word association experiment: When thinking about psychotherapy, what is the first word that comes to mind to describe what therapy is all about?

Take a few seconds. Got it? For many,my guess is that one, if not the very first, of those words was change. But what if I were to say that psychotherapy is really at least as much about acceptance?

When Sigmund Freud made the oft-cited and misunderstood statement that the purpose of psychoanalysis is to "transform neurotic misery into common unhappiness," he was speaking of change.

But how is even such seemingly modest change accomplished in therapy? So much of the changes that happen in psychotherapy parallel a gradual process of acceptance: acceptance of life as it truly is, as opposed to the way we wish it to be.

Acceptance of past childhood trauma and its pervasive unconscious influence in the present. Acceptance of ourselves for who we are, rather than who we are not.

Freud's off-the-cuff comment may seem cynical. But when seen in the light of his own personal suffering from oral cancer during the final 15 years of his life and how he stoically faced that terrible fate, it is a mature and sober commentary on the absolute necessity of acceptance.

Rather than reflecting his profound pessimism about the human condition, as many mistakenly conclude, Freud's remark recognizes deeply and personally the need for courageous acceptance of physical and emotional suffering and, moreover, the high price we pay for trying to avoid or deny life's tragic aspect. More

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The End is Near; Heaven is Nearer (cartoon)

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Fundamentalist Christians (FamilyRadio.com) researching and interpreting the Judeo-Christian Bible determined that we have been in the End Times for quite some time.

And the exact date of "Judgment Day" is May 21, 2011 "guaranteed."

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Social psychologists have studied doomsday cults particularly before and after a definite prediction of doom. The remarkable and consistent finding is that failure strengthens rather than destroying them.

Why did the world not end when it "should" have? Could it have been something we did? Was it our prayers? Did we awaken people by bringing their attention to the impending end which is yet to come?

The fact of the matter is, this is not the first end, nor will it be the last. The end is always near. Each individual will face it. But we look for it collectively. The CIA/Shadow Government will oblige us with a simulated Space Invasion, a Second Coming, or some such calamity that will bring us into the (Brave) New World Order of full-spectrum control, conformity, and a precipitous population "adjustment"?

The Many Buddhist Heavens

A Thai Buddhist temple emulating one of the many "mansions" (vimanas) in the many planes of heaven or "space" (Stuck in Customs/Flickr.com)

In Buddhist cosmology, Sakka (Sakra, Indra, Rudra) is the "King of Kings," "Lord of Lords," and the "son-of-god" (Sanskrit, devaputra or "a being born among devas").

He threw out the "demons" (asuras or "titans") when he was reborn as lord among the deva-lords of the Heaven of the Thirty-Three (Tavatimsa). He is king of the lesser Four Great Kings of the heavenly plane (divided into cardinal quadrants) immediately above the Earth.

He was once a human or "son of man" but was reborn among the "gods" (devas) and so is referred to as a "son of god." Change the "a" to a "the," and there we have the Eastern philosophical rudiments of Christianity.

It's no accident that this ancient pre-Buddhist cosmology/mythology was appropriated by early Christians as the great "wisdom of the East" along with the teaching of how to be "born again" into that heaven -- karma or "reaping what is sown."

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(Panic Button 13/Flickr.com)

There will be a tomorrow. And many days after that. The [updated, added to, edited, retranslated] Christian Bible now teaches that one day true believers elected by God to receive salvation [not redeemed by their own actions?] will be raptured (taken up) out of this world to meet the sky-God in the air and forever be with the Lord:

• "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord" (1 Thessalonians 4:16,17).

End of the World moved up to May 21, 2011

Peter Smith (Faith and Works blog, Courier-Journal.com)

Judgment Day will be later this May "guaranteed"

While you're marking Derby Day, here's something to consider if you have plans for Preakness Day: Several billboards around Louisville -- and the nation and world -- are warning of an impending Day of Judgment to be on a date certain: May 21, 2011.

That’s when believers would be raptured to heaven. The complete end of the world, we "must realize," would come five months later on Oct. 21, 2011 according to the proponent's Website.

It’s part of a worldwide publicity blitz by a broadcast ministry called Family Radio, based in Oakland, California.

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American Dad: Rapture's Delight (in Russian)

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The End?
Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)
It's like we have been trying to say: The "end" is not the end. The world will not end. Judgment Day is everyday for everyone who passes away. Karma is our judge, whether or not a god or other entity does. Gods themselves are controlled by karma.

The rapture is a misunderstanding of events likely to happen. Originally it seems to have meant that UFOs would descend from the heavens (the skies, space) to save 144,000 or so people (possibly naked) and take them up to safety. The lowest celestial realms are interested in the welfare of this planet and the good people on it.

Those people are not limited to Jews (or Christians) although these traditions began to teach that they were the "chosen people" of their tribal deity. There has been a great deal of contact with many peoples of the Earth. But at no time are people told, "It's the end, pure destruction, all is lost." Even Christianity does not teach such a thing. But try to tell that to Christians.

What do altered scriptures say, to say nothing of the original texts? Inimical entities will use the Earth to fight celestial entities. Rather than welcoming celestial "saviors," people around the world are being trained to fear, loathe, and fight anyone coming down. "They are all green, gooey, gray, and scary," we have come to believe.

Christian soldiers are ready to shoot at Jesus if he does not fit their image of a bigger than life translucent savior with blond hair and a kind smile. If he comes by ship, he had better be ready to dodge our Star Wars anti-spacecraft apparatus and laser pulse weapons.

In Buddhist/Hindu terms, it is Sakka (a.k.a. Indra, St. Michael, Thor, etc.) and the "shining ones" (devas) who, after keeping an eye on the planet and the general level of virtue of the population, will stand in defense against titans, reptilians, and ogres (asuras, nagas, and yakkhas) who are already here manipulating human affairs.

But it all sounds so preposterous, so mythological, so cartoonish that the only way to portray it is in a foreign-language cartoon. So here we again present the CIA's own Stan Smith and family of "American Dad" fame in "Rapture's Delight."