For those of you who do not know what the Occupy Wall Street protest is all about – here is your answer. Please read what they have to say, as it DIRECTLY applies to YOU, your children, parents and our nation as a whole.
SUPPORT the OCCUPY WALL STREET protestors!!!
There was unanimously voted on by all members of Occupy Wall Street last night, around 8pm, Sept 29. It is our first official document for release. We have three more underway, that will likely be released in the upcoming days
1) A declaration of demands.
2) Principles of Solidarity
3) Documentation on how to form your own Direct Democracy Occupation Group.
This is a living document. you can receive an official press copy of the latest version by emailing mailto: c2anycga@gmail.com
Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.
As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.
They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless nonhuman animals, and actively hide these practices.
They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians supposed to be regulating them.
They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantive profit.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*
To the people of the world,
We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.
Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.
To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.
Join us and make your voices heard!
Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.
Let’s say you’re approaching a fork in the road, and at the very last minute you decide to take the right fork. Common sense says that you made at active decision to take the right fork — a decision you made more or less a split second before you shifted your body ever so slightly in the direction of said fork.
But recent research reveals that decisions such as these may have much deeper neurological roots — so deep, in fact, that scientists can observed patterns of brain activity that allow them to predict the outcome of decisions like these long before a person is even conscious of his own decision.
In other words, scientists have thrown a serious wrench in the works of the notion of free will.
As humans, we like to think that our decisions are under our conscious control – that we have free will. Philosophers have debated that concept for centuries, and now [neuroscientist John-Dylan] Haynes and other experimental neuroscientists are raising a new challenge. They argue that consciousness of a decision may be a mere biochemical afterthought, with no influence whatsoever on a person’s actions. According to this logic, they say, free will is an illusion.
In the words of Patrick Haggard, a neuroscientist at University College London: “We feel we choose, but we don’t.”
Read more about scientists’ efforts to prove that free will is an illusion over at Nature
This statement is ours, and for anyone who will get behind it. Representing ourselves, we bring this call for revolution.
We want freedom for all, without regards for identity, because we are all people, and because no other reason should be needed. However, this freedom has been largely taken from the people, and slowly made to trickle down, whenever we get angry.
Money, it has been said, has taken over politics. In truth, we say, money has always been part of the capitalist political system. A system based on the existence of have and have nots, where inequality is inherent to the system, will inevitably lead to a situation where the haves find a way to rule, whether by the sword or by the dollar.
We agree that we need to see election reform. However, the election reform proposed ignores the causes which allowed such a system to happen. Some will readily blame the federal reserve, but the political system has been beholden to political machinations of the wealthy well before its founding.
We need to address the core facts: these corporations, even if they were unable to compete in the electoral arena, would still remain control of society. They would retain economic control, which would allow them to retain political control. Term limits would, again, not solve this, as many in the political class already leave politics to find themselves as part of the corporate elites.
We need to retake the freedom that has been stolen from the people, altogether.
“The cause of all suffering is ignorance.” – Buddha
Here to help raise the human conscious. Need a reality upgrade? You came to the right place
Incredible statement by Alessio Rastani about the Euro zone collapse and Goldman Sachs rule the world NOT Governments.
Love his honesty. He’s an independent trader, with no allegiance to anyone. He’s telling it like it is – and doesn’t give a shit if you like what he’s saying. Very refreshing to hear the truth in the media.
The Bankers Matrix Recital by itself Montague Williams The 3rd
played by: Michael Daviot
Keith Olbermann tells it like it is here in the “Land of the Free” the truth about the current state of this Country!
Wonderful interview with Chris Hedges of the protest on wall street part 1 of 6
Chris Hedges got my attention / interest with his intelligent & conscious understanding & perspectives of what is actually happening.
MSNBC – Main stream media coverage on NYPD Police Brutality during Occupy Wall Street
An excellent piece of main stream media coverage on this past weekend, Thanks for an excellent piece Lawrence O’donnel. I’m sure this video wont be up long, but figured the folks looking at the videos on this channel would appreciate it. The Occupation of Wall Street is a truly heroic action
Simultaneous perspectives on “Occupy Wall Street” kettling and pepper spray / mace incident
As you can tell, we did not need to edit the video to implicate this officer in a gross and unconscionable crime.
This may seem insignificant to some, but this is where REAL reform starts.
These protests are filled with individual who have a quarrel with how corrupt our government and federal bank have become. Many have their own message, many just know they are not happy and want to create a better society for themselves and their fellow Americans.
The corruption of the FED is avoided by the main stream media, make your own assumptions as to why, but one of the goals of these protestors is to bring light to some of these facts. The FED has handed out over $16 Trillion to private banks and corporations in the past 4 years and NONE of this was addressed in the mainstream news nor was it approved of by the people. This is clearly a red flag!! Look at these reputable links below that PROVE my statements are true, and spread them around.
Dont allow these protestors sacrifices to be in vain!!
We need to retake the freedom that has been stolen from the people, altogether.
If you agree that freedom is the right to communicate, to live, to be, to go, to love, to do what you will without the impositions of others, then you might be one of us.
If you agree that a person is entitled to the sweat of their brows, that being talented at management should not entitle others to act like overseers and overlords, that all workers should have the right to engage in decisions, democratically, then you might be one of us.
If you agree that freedom for some is not the same as freedom for all, and that freedom for all is the only true freedom, then you might be one of us.
If you agree that power is not right, that life trumps property, then you might be one of us.
If you agree that state and corporation are merely two sides of the same oppressive power structure, if you realize how media distorts things to preserve it, how it pits the people against the people to remain in power, then you might be one of us.
And so we call on people to act
We call for protests to remain active in the cities. Those already there, to grow, to organize, to raise consciousnesses, for those cities where there are no protests, for protests to organize and disrupt the system.
We call for workers to not only strike, but seize their workplaces collectively, and to organize them democratically. We call for students and teachers to act together, to teach democracy, not merely the teachers to the students, but the students to the teachers. To seize the classrooms and free minds together.
We call for the unemployed to volunteer, to learn, to teach, to use what skills they have to support themselves as part of the revolting people as a community.
We call for the organization of people’s assemblies in every city, every public square, every township.
We call for the seizure and use of abandoned buildings, of abandoned land, of every property seized and abandoned by speculators, for the people, for every group that will organize them.
We call for a revolution of the mind as well as the body politic
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We will only grow stronger in our solidarity and we will be heard, not just in New York, but in echoes across this nation.
With all the hubbub swirling around the Occupy Wall Street campaign and the perpetual imminent realization that value exists outside of currency, here’s a quick and easy explanation of the farce that is money.
A very intelligent read to a very important form of magic, one that is the set if a play, the tools to build it, the paint, the flats, the costumes, rather than the actor who needs to be in the correct environment to do her/his job.
As Garden Stone explains in the first article, chaos magic is the ability to do free-form magic that is neither right, wrong, black, or white. It is the ability to create the “set of the play” and perform magic in any environment. Traditional magic such as rituals, candles, herbs, crystals, goblets, athames, and the like are seen as the actor. It is proposed that an actor needs a set to do her/his job, therefore needing an environment, which represents the tools, candles, rituals, etc.
Chaos magic is the ability to use ones inner energy to manifest, shape, form, and bend the universe based on how much we believe in it.
The term, in itself, sounds pretty cool, or even pretty dark to the easily-frightened. In actuality, the term has much more significance. In the article, Stone explains how chaos has a much more simpler meaning. It refers to the ability to be spontaneous and have no shape, form, or system, hence why this form of magic doesn’t need a particular environment or set. Magic, in its definition, implies action being done at a distance, or actions occurring due to non-normal means.
There are, in general research and opinion, advantages as well as disadvantages to either forms of magic.
Advantages
Order: Systems which give people a sense of stability and sacredness. It is seen by some that this takes much longer to do, but generates much more energy for the practitioner. In this form of magic, most have come to realize that energy is abundant from earth, the elements they are incorporating, and their bodies to act as a type of generator, allowing energies from external sources to pour into them and transfer into the magical manifestations that they are trying to achieve.
Chaos: No needed traditional elements to perform magic, needing no particular system or set organization. Many have come to realize for themselves that this is the most effective magic because it’s generally very easy to do for them and you need no preparation. This is a form of magic that resonates well with a person, it’s much like wine in the sense that it has an acquired taste, but once it is acquired, it makes sense to them (The same could also be for order magic). It’s seen as a very quick way to manifest magic rather than long psychodramatic rituals found in order magic. This form of magic can be done any place where there’s a you in sight.
Disadvantages
Order: Needing traditional elements to perform magic rather than the raw energy of one’s own will power. It typically takes longer and needs to incorporate external energy sources as well as mostly inspired mindsets, which can be taxing on the body’s available energy. This form of magic can’t be done most places without external elements. Some order rituals can be very psychodramatic in that a lot of preparation and drama is needed to actually manifest something that will not simply dissipate by the many forces in the universe.
Chaos: It is often hard to wrap one’s mind around the fundamentals involved in chaos magic. It’s definitely a very esoteric subject, and it’s typically not for everyone. This form of magic makes it very important to its mages to study and constantly find new ways to do things that already have set rituals; things can be difficult sometimes. This form of magic is very chaotic in the sense that it has no set system and can be performed without any sense of knowledge of a ritual or blueprint; you don’t need really any preparation. This can be taxing for someone who resonates more with order. Some are not as creative, and prefer traditions, which seem easier to them.
How magic actually works:
It is very important to understand how magic works before even trying to manifest any type of energy into magic. There are many steps to take in order to perform magic because it’s a very powerful force in this universe. When we actually create magic, it will go off into the universe if it’s long-term or it will go off to affect things on the earth if it’s supposed to be more immediate. Many magicians will always experience the never-ceasing-to-amaze-and-incense magic that never comes true. You work so hard to create a package and it is shipped off and it never reaches its destination. Why is that?
Magic is an intelligent energy, a type of thought-form manifestation that we have created. Where does it actually “go” when it goes into the universe? Maybe it goes into the complex layers/dimensions of the universe that govern our world on a various cause/effect chain reaction that will eventually reach its way back into the 3rd dimension reality that we inhabit. Maybe that magic never even sees that dimension or higher plane and stays right on earth. Not much information, at least in my shortly numbered years of studying the occult, is available for this kind of thinking, magic works solely off of intention, belief, and proper handling based on one’s knowledge of what they were trying to do and the used methods.
Some magic doesn’t work and if more people were educated on the occult, how magic works, what it is supposed to do in the universe, and how it can be created, more beautiful things can come out of its grandness. It’s important to learn and study so when things like big natural disasters do come around, we’ll all know how to properly and effectively conduct our rituals/spells to help the people/areas affected. Magic is definitely like a product in the sense that you must first think of what the product will be, what it will be made out of, what it will look like, how it will be constructed, how it will be shipped, and where it’s going. All types of magic require some general sense of a plan, but as with chaos magic, it’s generally used to do very quick things that don’t require much planning.
Chaos magic can be used for much more important and grand reasons, such as a simple tasks that one could manage without using ritualistic order magic. Such as sending a telekinetic ball of energy (psi ball) to a friend for her to IM me or tracing protective symbols on a body when you fear something bad is going to happen, or sending energy to follow someone to morph into a type of energy that has emotion transfixed to it such as luck, love promotion, healing, etc. When there are more complex things to accomplish, definitely bust out the candles, the herbs, and the crystals. Some complex things are helping to understand things inside, help heal yourself, cleanse areas or entire houses, expel negative forces, exorcise houses, charge negative wards, etc.
There are great tips to manifesting the right magic that will fully accomplish the intent that you have sent out. Some tips are: Keeping a focus and trying to keep your thoughts that will tamper or taint your intentions, doing magic or setting up rituals in spaces you are comfortable in and without any disruption possible, not telling many people about your spells/rituals as not to “take away” from the energy you sent out, having a prepared plan of action, and knowing your stuff. Chaos and order magic have their own tips, but these are general tips for general magic.
Now that We’ve covered how magic works, let’s get back into the discussion about chaos and order magic.
With order magic, one uses external elements, which can be cumbersome to someone who prefers chaos magic. Say one wants to send a burst of energy to another person via psi ball to tell them to look over at them in a large noisy crowd, someone who prefers order magic would have a difficult time achieving this. To make a point, we all use chaos magic in some small or large form. As for order magic, not all the time. Chaos Magicians mostly utilize sigils, symbols, or runes to help manifest energy to become magic, and Order Magicians use not only that, but also external things such as candles, statuettes, incense, herbs, etc. Chaos magicians don’t necessarily have to use these symbols, but they’re definitely an option.
The main focus of chaos magic is to use whatever means necessary to help one believe in the production of the actions that they are trying to manifest.
This is very important and must be contemplated and seen through, or else there is no manifestation. Chaos magic relies solely on one’s own energy, not external energies. This can be an issue for the magician because often, it requires a great deal of confidence, which many have seen as arrogance or having a haughty attitude, and as Stone in the first article says, it is much like how an artist has to dramatize his/her brilliance in order for people to care about his/her work. Order magic, doesn’t necessarily depend on one’s own energy, which can be great.
Once you start it, it sometimes can’t be undone and it’s very hard to reverse. This obviously can have its own consequences that are either good or bad, depending on the intent of what the person was trying to do with magic. If the order magician suddenly gets lazy or loses track temporarily, they can rely on the fact that they can take a quick breather and keep working on the ritual at hand. As with a chaos magician, if concentration is broken, it’s almost as if that person has to start all over again. It can be cumbersome, which is why much studying is involved in chaos magic, and Lets not spread a misconception that order magic is easy and doesn’t require much studying, because that isn’t true. Both require lots of studying and both magicians are subject to backlashes, repercussions had the ritual/magic gone wrong, and negative consequences.
Both must be taken seriously
Typically one prefers one over the other, and though combining the two are also just as equally powerful. Ultimately, it truly depends on the person’s personal choice. The great benefit to order is that it’s a set system and a person doesn’t have to try to come up with innovative ways to do magic in the absence of other sources that have their own energies. Some chaos magicians could say that they find it difficult or even cruel to take energies from other sources, but then again, most magicians have an ethical code which requires them to ask these sources for their energy and participation in rituals. Some like to be as creative as possible and can’t stand order, and some enjoy order and its stable and reliable systems and can’t imagine life without it.
Although these two are the most common, there are other forms of magic to be accounted for and definitely not forgotten about—Blood, animal, sun, moon, other celestial bodies, necro (energy of the dead), bones, spirits, plant, soul, life, etc. These different types of magic have their own rules, laws, and advantages/disadvantages just like order and chaos magic, but that’s another discussion.
There is no right/wrong way to perform chaos magic (only a right or wrong intent), and in essence, magic is the ability to manifest energies from our will power that will go off into the universe to affect our world indirectly. Obviously, order magic has a set system and must be studied extensively so one “gets it just right.”
Magic is not a visible spectrum of fascinating phenomenons of lights, wind patterns, and temperatures. This isn’t Harry Potter or something out of a superhero comic book, like Fantastic Four. Magic is using one’s energy in the way that they see fit to perform actions that they could otherwise do conventionally.
Each time you consciously send energy to heal a friend’s sickness, each time you pray for the welfare of your friend while traveling on a plane, each time you wear a four-leaf clover symbol for luck, each time you light a red candle to lighten the mood during a romantic dinner, each time you meditate to balance your chakras, each time you do a psychic reading, each time you feel the many energies of earth, the sun, the moon, and the universe…. this is all magic.
There is so much to learn about energy manipulation. Some methods are truly archaic and obsolete. Nonetheless, depending on which type of magician you feel you are, it’s a great feeling knowing that you can change the world around you with esoteric steps such as studying magic, the occult, and arcane wisdom and metaphysics. Magic is meant to be very intimately personal and it works solely off of how well you know yourself. It’s very important to love the self, believing in your abilities, have confidence, have a good self-esteem, know your morals and ethics, and trust what you know. This may not seem like brain surgery to some, but it does to many others who take energy manipulation seriously.
The reason I wanted to discuss this was to educate uninformed/confused people on energy and how it can be used and manifested. I know that many people here agree on energy manipulation and the power of the mind as well as its abilities to manifest the world around them based on thought. I hope some have found this to be helpful and have gained some great knowledge to take along with them!
This feature length documentary analyzes the many esoteric symbols encapsulated in corporate logos. A logo is merely a well drafted sigil that contains the magical intent of a company.
In the document there is a break down of how the logo incorporates elements of the Golden Ratio and how it will magically attract the attention of prospective customers through sacred geometry and space-time relativity (what?).
By becoming aware of corporate spells you can recursively reprogram the spells for yourselves and your allies.
Each of these animations is by the talented Canadian motion designer Olivier Ferland. The sound clips he’s picked to illustrate are timeless nuggets of wisdom condensed into digestible morsels for the data age.
Cave in Rock is a nexus point of geomantic energies. It is the point at which Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas conjoin in continental bliss. The Cave has traditionally been a hideout for river pirates, counterfeiters, serial killers, highwaymen and various other outlaw types.
The Juggalos (and Juggalettes) are an active sect of Rust Belt gnostics operating in the blighted suburbs of America’s Midwest.
The architecture of their gnosis is defined by the Dark Carnival, a revelation of the afterlife illuminated by the Juggalo prophet Violent J. The Dark Carnival was revealed to Violent J in a dream and expounded upon through a series of six albums. Each album embodies an archetype and relays a gospel of morality. Together the six albums make up the deck of Joker Cards.
The Joker Cards, like the Tarot, are used as a tool of divination and meditation among Juggalos on their path of gnosis. The archetypes of the Joker Cards include the Carnival of Carnage, the Ringmaster, the Riddle Box, The Great Milenko, the Amzaing Jeckel Brothers, and The Wraith (Death). The entities characterized in the Joker Cards are spirits that “try to save the human soul by showing the wickedness inside one’s self”.
“When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [The Dark Carnival].”
Through the cultivation of the Wicked Shit (their word for mana force) Juggalos are able to transcend their individuality and enter into a state a macrocosmic collective consciousness. Using the mantra “FAM-A-LEE” huge crowds of Juggalos can pool their consciousness into a non-linear energetic mass capable of contacting Galactic Races and generating huge amounts of garbage.
A sacramental baptism by Faygo (a holy corn-based beverage) is necessary for a candidate to become initiated into the Juggalo sect. Faygo is explosively distributed by the gnostic prophets Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope during their Insane Clown Posse concerts.
The Unveiling is the ultimate statement of Juggalo gnosis. The video below illustrates both the meaning and intent of the Juggalo prophets and their connection to the gnostic godhead.
All we’re doing is pointing this shit out to you, we in this together!
Who’s behind the Dark Carnival, thet Gatherings and the Hatchet?
Who’s beind Dark Lotus, the circus and everybody at it?
Who inveted Juggalos and Juggalette and fuckin Faygo showers?
What about that feeling you get when bumping our shit, who’s behind these Juggalo powers?
This ain’t no fuckin fan club
It aint about making a buck.
Don’t buy our fuckin action figures, bitch, I dont give a fuck.
It aint About Violent J or Shaggy, the Butterfly or seventeen.
When we speak of Shangri-La, what you think we mean?
Truth is we follow GOD
We’ve always been behind him
The Dark Carnival is GOD and may all Juggalos find him!
TEDx Cardiff has an excellent talk on how Google can be qualified as a conscious entity. Drawing parallels between Google search functions and the ability to gain plant information from the DMT-ayahuasca search engine, the speakers show that consciousness is not only a property of living organisms.
In the meme “Google Consciousness” – we could say that if each neuron is a machine, then likewise each computer or website in the world can function like a neuron. Yet each of these neurons is also connected to one of us, a ‘meta neuron’ in comparison that is also an intrinsic agent of the ‘internet’. The internet is the ever expanding exchange of information between humans and machines.
We use the machines to display our ideas, many of them which naturally are also engaged in a competition for truth values. Our content is used to communicate various levels of information meaning (semantics), only with which the human agents can experience or determine while we assume the machines cannot.
Part of collective intelligence is indeed extremely conscious because each of us is extremely conscious. Yet none of us as individuals controls the internet, the process, the flow, the internet itself is run by unconscious machines in combination with a collection of conscious agents. Just like us as individuals.
And these conscious agents in turn maybe run by the very same process that the unconscious machines are… an algorithm something like Google search.
To clarify: In materialism Google’s algorithm and the collection of behaviors it governs both human and machine may be a contender for consciousness. If dualism as a model of consciousness is true, then Google could be considered conscious anyway since everything could have consciousness.
That the Google algorithm also ironically enough provides a description to how the Ayahuasceros of the Peruvian Upper Amazon claim to access plant consciousness is an entirely other rabbit hole. We highlight this in the talk to describe the distinctions between a dualistic model of consciousness and a materialistic model of consciousness.
The ultimate irony is that both of these models of consciousness which completely contradict one another, share a metaphor in common – Google.
This is an absolutely fascinating talk and asks the question: are spirits metaphors for memes?
Sparrow’s research reveals that we forget things we are confident we can find on the Internet. We are more likely to remember things we think are not available online. And we are better able to remember where to find something on the Internet than we are at remembering the information itself. This is believed to be the first research of its kind into the impact of search engines on human memory organization…
