I give thanks to the OWS movement and to the rebellious spirit that they have shown. Thank you, thank you, every one of you! You are the heroes that stand against tyranny! I give thanks to Thom and Louise Hartmann and to Bernie Sanders and to Michael Moore and to Michael Hudson and to so many others who shed light on the dark forces that surround us.

Happy Thanksgiving to Thom and Louise and everyone out there. Please send out your thanks to the occupiers everywhere and let them know they are making a difference.

As to the Republican agenda, of course they want the economy to continue it's downward spiral. They continually demonstrate through their votes how little regard they have for main street America. My message to Democrats this time around is to stand firm and not allow them to take anyone hostage to get what they want. They are the bullies in the school yard after our lunch money and it's time to stand up to them and say no more.

Thankful for Occupying the Thanksgiving table with determination to bring light, love, liberty, and laughter to the streets.

I am dismayed over the forceful removal of Occupy Wall Street protesters at UC Davis, Zuccotti Park and elsewhere. The right to assemble is integral to the freedom which the Constitution guarantees each and every citizen of our nation. The very act of peaceful assembly at the heart of the Occupy movement is testament to a growing awakening within our nation regarding responsible and active citizenship. To forcibly remove citizens who are exercising their rights peaceably is contrary to what our nation stands for.

Carry on and speak truth about the burden of unemployment, exorbitant student loans, the threat of foreclosure, or the inability to access affordable healthcare, a majority of our brothers and sisters struggle while a small minority benefit. The protesters who have occupied parks and other public spaces over the past two months have given voice to a rising dissatisfaction that many are experiencing in our country.

THANK ALL THE OCCUPIERS AND FAMILY, FRIENDS... and a wish for leaders to guide.

I am weary of both parties, all elected leaders, money has so corrupted our spirit. CARRY on, overcome nonviolently, occupy all spaces, all hearts.. Carry On

If you are not already on Michael Moore's mailing list then you might find this article by Michael Moore at his web site very interesting. It is titled:
Where Does Occupied Wall Street Go From Here? There is a suggested list of demands from a consensus of OWS groups that I found was absolutely right on the money.

The legal and prison system in the US is a farce and a total shame on us as a country. They have put children in prison for really minor (pardon the pun) things. Most of us are just lucky that we have never been caught up in this hellish nightmare. I thank my lucky stars that I was not sucked in to having to kill or be killed in some illegal and ridiculous war that had nothing to do with the real national security or well being of our country. I served in the military but was, luckily, never very close to battle. Of course, I could very well have been stationed on the USS Liberty right about the time it was attacked...(by Israel). I could very easily have been billeted for that duty station at that very time. And that is another very shameful episode in our history...the USS Liberty. Aw, I won't get into that now.

Yes, the prison system is a money making machine that rich people put their money into....buying bonds to build and run these private prisons...and expecting the tax payers to make good on the bonds with big returns on their investments. Most of the people in our prisons are poorer than many and have gotten the shaft from society and the socioeconomic cards that were stacked against them.

When we have institutions that break the law incessantly and even institutionally, it makes a total farce of any law-enforcement that they can dish out to those less fortunate. Guns for drugs (the CIA and other government bodies smuggling illegal and addictive drugs into the US so that they could use that money to meddle in other countries affairs because the Congress had stopped the funding.)..(also smuggling these drugs into the country in body bags from the war in Vietnam)...and now the Banking and Housing scandals and the Wall Street criminals are running amok with no institution even threatening to put these big time criminals in prison. Just goes to show that Crime does pay...if your crime is big enough and you have been able to bribe enough crooked politicians...judges.

I'd bet that those two turkeys that got the Presidential reprieve are being plucked for the roast right now...the cameras are gone...and Obama made his fallacious magnanimous gesture for the propaganda.

Obama was the trojan horse that the ruling elite slipped in to throw us off guard long enough to make great gains in their long held desire to trash social security and other social programs..."drown them in a bathtub". The turkeys that really need to be plucked, and perhaps roasted, are the ruling elite...the top 1%. If the masses get hungry enough...that may yet happen.....EAT THE RICH! Off with their 'eads, ducky! And let's do a dirty Donner on them! I hear humans taste just like chicken.

As it happened, I caught a little bit of the main stream media news (no, not from Fox...that's pure raving insanity) this evening. They were talking about 3 different terms that were being mentioned on the social network chatter recently concerning turkeys. Range Turkey, Natural Turkey, and one other with similar meanings. The only turkeys I buy now-a-days is Cheapest Turkey. But that's one term that will likely never roll off the tongue of some main stream manipulator.

I hope the turkeys I buy are not "made in china"!!! But, hey, it's a depression and food is food...even if it will kill us faster than "range turkey". There is so much marketing hype and outright lies in naming products anyway that one cannot really believe that the extra money they pay for something like "range turkey" is really "range turkey"!

Hey Thom if you read this I think you should also consider something I have not heard anybody mention or seem to reconize.. I am a Veteran and about the same age as you 55 I have done lots in my life but not like yours you are truely the Man I wish I could have been.When i was younger I had lots to say about politics and the way things were heading,When the first time they used the battering ram to go into Americans houses..And the T.V show cops began that our freedom was soon be gone.But with that said I stayed out of trouble my whole life.Until around 2002 is when in the State of Wash.After I moved down from S.E.Alaska I have been put through the ringer,I have a son 13 that I take care of and always have. And I have grandchildren older than my youngest son.I had 2 boys with my childhood love he was born in 1971 and my mid son in 1975 while in the Army but while I was in prison for breaking a no contact order that the judge put in place, they charged me $378 a month , $3500 child support bill plus the fines all together with other charges that are really petty in manys peoples eyes are over $10000 plus interest of more than the monthley payment and lawyer bills, and they have manage to give me 6mos of EHM for a reckless driving case (driving trk and had a carbon monixde leak) that I couldnt prove not enough $$ for a lawyer plead out, from 2004, which is $2700.00 or $15 aday. My point is I really havent done anything serious and luckily they got a late start on me I was 48 or so.But I owe my soul to various agencies and courts and for the kids today and the1's not been born yet, that get in any trouble at a early age they will be either be in prison or totally in debt.and on probation with no rights and really not much future.My question to you is did they abolish debtors prisons or can they lock you up and take away your money that you are trying to live and or raise a family.I really have now easily $30,000 in debt plus I'm a unemployed union Laborer and I have over 8000 hrs in my life as one and its taken its toll physically.I think the way its set up since this 9/11 middle income people are being fined and charged and prey upon to be set up to fail or they will be indebt to the Judicial System forever and this is not a accident.I seriously could write a book on the subject it has and is out of control I know the number of poor people that owe 1000's is in the Billions and raising at fast pace.That is there Idea of job creating is by privitizing the penal system and stealing the $$ from trumped up or petty charges, excessive fines, and chargeing interest.Billions is owed and I think its not fair, that there are people in prison for failing to PAY and you as a man of history should know that it was apolished at some sane time in our history.....Please give this issue some airtime maybe there is a way to get some kinda of relief ANYTHING would be a start this is a problem that cant be ignored..

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The Republicans act as though there is no electorate. Yes, they will continue on the same path...

Thom....

The payroll tax "holiday" is just Obama's backdoor way to REALLY defund Social Security. His masters want it and wan it gone. If you think that the little bit of that tax is going to help people as much as getting their SS when they;re old sick, you're wrong.

I think Obama was put in the WH to kill off the alst of the New Deal, Clinton started it with the repeal of Glass Steagal. When are we going to relaize that our govenmnet has been on the take for years and they wringing us dry like a washcloth? There ain't much juice left.

It's BOTH parties They just do kabuki for us to think theyr're different

With 7 billion competing -------- for limited resource, wasteful debauchery is at and beyond it's limit.

Enabling further population growth (more consumers yielding "endless" economic growth) with abundant cheap energy won't solve the problem.

Water , food, shelter, sanitation. The larger the population the less resource available. The less resource the more warfare, famine, poverty and disease.

Science and media (propaganda) provide solutions enough but failures of sentient cognizance continue to serve natures harsh and tragic methods in contrast to the potential for God given human sentience to deal with population in a far more sophisticated and humane manner.

Thom and Louise, I do not know if this post went on earlier or whether you took it off, for your own reasons, so I will repost it and if you do not wish it to remain on then I will not repost it again. This is, after all, your blogsite.

I was stating that history does repeat itself in seeing the U.S. freezing the bank accounts of nations whom the United States either does not like, or the freezing of accounts of nations whom do not wish to back the United States against other nations. It is important in any case senerio to look at both sides of the story before one draws one's final conclusion. If one is not allowed to view both sides of the story then one must assume that one side or the other has something to hide, not as yet revealed to the public. This is freedom of speech and freedom of choice, which RT has always maintained as a Constitutional Right. - Cygnus1

The Hitler Speech They Don't Want You To Hear

"Should Germany merchandise (?active dominant trading??) again in the next 50 years we have led this war (WW1) in vain." -- Winston Churchill in Times (1919)

"We will force this war upon Hitler, if he wants it or not." -- Winston Churchill (1936 broadcast)

"Germany becomes too powerful. We have to crush it." -- Winston Churchill (November 1936 speaking to US - General Robert E. Wood)

"This war is an English war and its goal is the destruction of Germany." -- Winston Churchill (- Autumn 1939 broadcast)

"The war wasn't only about abolishing fascism, but to conquer sales markets. We could have, if we had intended so, prevented this war from breaking out without doing one shot, but we didn't want to." -- Winston Churchill to Truman (Fultun, USA March 1946)

"Germany's unforgivable crime before WW2 was its attempt to loosen its economy out of the world trade system and to build up an independent exchange system from which the world-finance couldn't profit anymore. ...We butchered the wrong pig." -- Winston Churchill (The Second World War - Bern, 1960)

"We made a monster, a devil out of Hitler. Therefore we couldn't disavow it after the war. After all, we mobilized the masses against the devil himself. So we were forced to play our part in this diabolic scenario after the war. In no way we could have pointed out to our people that the war only was an economic preventive measure." -- US foreign minister James Baker (1992)

"Not the political doctrine of Hitler has hurled us into this war. The reason was the success of his increase in building a new economy. The roots of war were envy, greed and fear." -- Major General J.F.C. Fuller, historian, England

"We didn't go to war in 1939 to save Germany from Hitler...or the continent from fascism. Like in 1914, we went to war for the not lesser noble cause that we couldn't accept a German hegemony over Europe." -- Sunday Correspondent, London (17.9.1989)

"The enemy is the German Reich and not Nazism, and those who still haven't understood this, haven't understood anything." -- Churchill's chief counselor Robert Lord Vansittart (September 1940 to foreign minister Lord Halifax)

source www.whatreallyhappened.com