There is something going on. I am going to be a part of it. I was at the WTO protests in Seattle when a bunch of anarchists started busting windows with crowbars. We surrounded them and they got in a circle with their crowbars. I tried to get the Seattle police to come arrest these people that were thirty feet away and threatening violence and breaking windows... The Seattle police would not budge from their "police line", making all of us the enemy. The Corporate Occupation of the United States Our corporate controlled government (through corporate lobbying and election funding ) is out of the peoples control. People want government control back. Makes sense to me... I feel US corporate capitalism (corporatism) is a type of economic fascism: To have a corporate being where the chain of command eventually muddles all responsibility to any human being. These corporate beings are running your life and controlling your government. (Enough to really make an individual mad and protest.) The corporate being does not exist, and when it comes to face it's corporate responsibility, it is a piece of paper. That is plain and simply wrong. Restore capitalism to individual responsible chains of command, or this struggle will be lost. (This also includes corporate lobbying and corporate election funding, being outlawed; and a new form closer to individual control is established.) Please Sign the petition to amend the Constitution for revoking corporate personhood at: movetoamend.org I feel this will be a bigger day in history for the US than WTO in Seattle: January 20, 2012 – Move to Amend Occupies the Courts! Move To Amend is planning bold action to mark this
date — Occupy the Courts — a one day occupation
on Friday January 20, 2012, of the Federal Courts, including
the Supreme Court of the United States and as many of the
89 U.S. District Court Buildings as we can. Inspired by Dr. Cornell
West, who was arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court last
month, Move to Amend will lead the charge on the judiciary which
created — and continues to expand — corporate personhood rights. http://open.salon.com/blog/kennspace/2011/10/...

There is something going on. I am going to be a part of it.

I was at the WTO protests in Seattle when a bunch of anarchists started busting windows with crowbars. We surrounded them and they got in a circle with their crowbars. I tried to get the Seattle police to come arrest these people that were thirty feet away and threatening violence and breaking windows... The Seattle police would not budge from their "police line", making all of us the enemy. The Corporate Occupation of the United States
Our corporate controlled government (through corporate lobbying and election funding ) is out of the peoples control. People want government control back. Makes sense to me... I feel US corporate capitalism (corporatism) is a type of economic fascism: To have a corporate being where the chain of command eventually muddles all responsibility to any human being. These corporate beings are running your life and controlling your government. (Enough to really make an individual mad and protest.) The corporate being does not exist, and when it comes to face it's corporate responsibility, it is a piece of paper. That is plain and simply wrong. Restore capitalism to individual responsible chains of command, or this struggle will be lost. (This also includes corporate lobbying and corporate election funding, being outlawed; and a new form closer to individual control is established.) Please Sign the petition to amend the Constitution for revoking corporate personhood at: movetoamend.org I feel this will be a bigger day in history for the US than WTO in Seattle:
January 20, 2012 – Move to Amend Occupies the Courts! Move To Amend is planning bold action to mark this
date — Occupy the Courts — a one day occupation
on Friday January 20, 2012, of the Federal Courts, including
the Supreme Court of the United States and as many of the
89 U.S. District Court Buildings as we can. Inspired by Dr. Cornell
West, who was arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court last
month, Move to Amend will lead the charge on the judiciary which
created — and continues to expand — corporate personhood rights. http://open.salon.com/blog/kennspace/2011/10/...

Well, Cynus1, that is quite a story! Very interesting! But I was kind of getting to like the giant grey ant-like creatures with big black eyes..at least you "know" that they are not one of us. Barney and Betty had quite a time with them too. If "they" really look like us then I suppose they could be anywhere..neighbors...bloggers...although one cannot really "see" the person on the other side of the of the inter-network of "pipes" unless video devices are used which I tend to stay away from anyway.

But here is an interesting interview of Donald M. Ware that I found pretty interesting:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ohioexopolitics/2011/08/09/col-donald-m-ware

Palindromedary, very interesting. We are affiliated with no groups whatsoever upon the face of this earth. What we are proposing has nothing to do with religion, nor any religious order known to man and womankind on this earth today.

The new (yet universally-honored) system, is merely a matter of taking the peoples of this world into a paradisiacal order which will give them freedom from political and economical bondage, and take them back into the universal order which is known and practiced upon other planets.

This system of paradisiacal economics and societal structure is not something new to other cultures upon other worlds, or planets, and wherein upon this world races and their cultures differ, under the paradisiacal system these differences will no longer translate into problems of any kind. Why is this?

Because the paradisiacal system works in oneness with all other creation throughout the galaxies and universes.

We have two paradisiacal systems: one is for the non-tribal regions whilst the other is for tribal regions, yet both, when in place, compliment one another and similiarities are evident.

Just as there are various cultures and peoples throughout the universes inhabiting other worlds, so do they all work in coordination one with the other, and this is exactly what the 1% do not want the peoples of this earth to be aware of - that there indeed is a much better way of existence with peace among the human races.

The fact that you believe that when one dies, so-to-speak, and then turns into dust and that is that, is only due to the fact that you see no further. In fact, when one leaves the body, one goes to a "place of the waiting" which can be likened to a place right outside ones back door, if you live in the country, for example, or a place you might find anywhere upon this earth, usually where the soul is able to rest and think yet interact with others if he or she desires.

He or she will be then provided with a house, co-habiting either with others or by he or herself, and when the time comes where that one is called to appear before the Akashic Council, which is a Council of Elders of much experience and wisdom, then it will be decided among all of them (the Elders and the one appearing before the Elders) what the next course of action shall be which he or she must take.

These wise ones are compassionate, understanding, and will be just and firm. Kindness shines out of their loving eyes. They are there to assist the one in question, at the time, into a future incarnation, which will provide lessons which will also assist the individual into a higher evolution of life. Up the rung of the ladder, so to speak, or to see that the individual repeats the lessons which he or she has refused or failed to learn in order to progress or evolve, to live upon a world which is technically, socially, and economically more evolved.

Many of our brothers and sisters from other worlds (they look like ourselves, but the governments of this world wish to frighten the people with pictures of "strange aliens" so the people will turn away from the message when that message is put forth to the people in order to assist the people in rebuilding their paradise) have been tortured and hidden away by the militaries and secret services of this world, but continue in coming directly to this earth in order to bring the time honored message of how to build paradise.

The message that paradise exists is given to the people by religions, yet how to build the paradise, has been taken out of the writings so the religions and governments as run by the 1% will continue in having full control over the peoples of this world.

This same message we are giving you, the people, has been given century following century.

With the message of paradise the governments and the people have historically touted their own message with man-made concepts taking place of truth so that eventually all you have is a garbled self-serving message which in short time becomes "religion." That is why all the religions have a smattering of truth and a lot of falsehoods and confusion.

And it is for this reason that we must be careful by not letting this message of how to set up the paradisiacal system for the people get out too early, for self-serving ones will take it and manipulate it away from the people for their own greed-filled agenda as they have done in ages past.

Palindromedary, I hope I have explained myself well enough. We want neither money nor prestige nor power. We do not want to be your President, nor one of the Council of Twenty-Four. After the peoples of this world are well on their way to rebuilding paradise, assisted at that time by others, plus the Council of Twenty-Four, we will depart. Where we are going, paradise already exists. - Cygnus1

We joined our credit union over 20 years ago, and also moved all retirement savings to it, much to the dismay of Smith Barney, just before the 2008 bubble burst. The timing of the retirement savings move was no coincidence. It was made right after a conversation with a retired small town Bank President at a friend's birthday party. He clued me in on what was about to happen and because of this we refuse to even consider wall street equities for investment anymore. Safe FDIC insured accounts beat the organized crime on wall street anyday. Besides I love the word UNION!

Joining a credit union is one of the things the 99% can still do to fight back. We're also fortunate to own a fair amount of land and enjoy cutting firewood to spite big oil.... it's like a cross training workout!

I've thought for sometime that an organized effort to move money in unison, away from the corp. banksters would make for a great political statement, after all, these scoundrels have played a major part in the overthrow of our Democracy. Glad to see the move finally happening!

Transferring your money out of banks is one form of rebellion but if you really want to add to that rebellion you should strongly consider not voting for Obama in 2012. Not voting for the guy who now, more than anyone, is beholding to the bankster and Wall Street. Obama, and many Democrats think you have no other choice but to vote for them because the idea of a Republican in office is repugnant. And I agree it would be repugnant. But it is also repugnant that we have been shafted by someone who pretended to be on our side. Let's show the Republicans and the Democrats (but most specially..the ruling elite) that we are no longer going to play their two party corrupt voting system any more. Vote anyone but Republican, or Democrat (unless they Primary Obama out of running), or anyone Americans Elect (a fake "for the people" organization) puts up. Vote Green or Peace and Freedom or don't vote at all. If you really want to be serious about demonstrating then don't play their crooked game.

I am not a bankster!
Wouldn't that be a great bumper sticker or T-shirt?

Just trying to be a "devil's advocate" here. And these statements may, or may not, be true or even important to anyone..and may be bankster misinformation...I don't know...but:

“Credit unions were granted a tax exemption almost 70 years ago so that they could serve low-income people who had little access to financial services. Now credit unions are growing by leaps and bounds, serving middle- and high-income people. Why should the (tax)exemption continue?”

"Though these institutions look and act like community banks, they do not pay taxes or abide by the same rules as banks, depriving taxpayers out of millions of dollars"

"As credit union membership expands, so does the cost to American taxpayers who underwrite the credit union industry’s tax subsidy."

"The credit unions’ regulator – the National Credit Union Administration – has steadily adopted policies that have expanded credit union membership beyond limits prescribed by Congress, yet Congress and local policy makers have done nothing about it."

"Federal- and state-chartered credit unions are not required to meet the credit needs of low- and moderate-income people — with the exception of Massachusetts-based state-chartered credit unions — as banks are required to do. They have no Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) requirements, despite a huge taxpayer subsidy."

"You would think that as tax-subsidized institutions, credit unions would be more transparent. In fact, much of their business is hidden from view. While the deposits of any bank branch are readily available from the FDIC, no such information is available from any regulator about credit union branches. Consumers are thus disadvantaged because the competitiveness and growth of credit union branches is not clear. Moreover, unlike bank branches, federally chartered credit unions can arbitrarily open or close branches without regulatory approval to the detriment of their members."

"Large credit unions are misleading when they say they are not-for-profit. Most large credit unions have loads of profit (what they call retained earnings) which have not been taxed. They simply hold on to it, pay executive salaries, conduct branch expansion, and spend millions on marketing with the tax savings. For example, Massachusetts-based Digital Federal Credit Union spent $5.2 million for the naming rights to the Worcester Centrum, a sports and entertainment arena. This is a not-for-profit? Given it effectively receives a 35 percent tax break, individual tax payers are paying for almost $2 million of those naming rights. (By the way, Digital Equipment, the company for which the credit union was named, no longer exists, yet this credit union with $3.8 billion in assets continues to expand in four states. See the Digital profile on this web site.) "

http://www.creditunionruse.com/

I moved my money to a local credit union many years ago when Keybank and the local bank supported Nascar building a race track in town. Lots of us took our money out and said, "No!". Moving money speaks loudly! It stopped Nascar!

Just like cygnus1 explains, my little credit union never did sub-prime loans either and has been solvent and growing all these years. Maybe the local credit union structure is smarter than banks. It is the real banking system we thought we were getting.

I am constantly amazed at how many people STILL have their money in the likes of BofA, Wells Fargo, Chase, Citi and the like. As someone who went through MANY bank changes as a youger man to avoid getting snagged back into the big banks, as they bought out the smaller, more customer-friendly banks - I just don't get it.

There are myriad local options to avoid the large banksters, and I personally know no one at risk of losing more than the FDIC guarantees. Maybe that says somethign about me, and my associates, but we simply do not have over $100,000 (per account, nor in aggregate) after the roller-coaster ride of our 401K-type accounts over the last 10-15 years. I really do feel like I have lost more money than I ever out into those accounts! And none of them were in banks anyway!

The whole 401K scam was one of the FIRST ways Ray-Gun-Omics devised to redistribute the minimal wealth of the middle class, to the oh-so-needy upper class. Now those dolts, having been rebuffed at privatizing Social Security and Health Care, are working diligently on dismantling Medicare, Social Security and any other program that they can find with value to redistribute to that same oh-so-needy upper class.

Someone said that either the Iraq or Afghan war was the longest in U.S. history- but I submit to you that the war on the middle- and lower- classes is by far the longest-running war in U.S. History. 32 years and counting! And guess who is losing THAT war...

Leighmf, you would see an abrupt increase in crime. Break-ins and theft, and perhaps even murders would occur overnight as the people shoot the thieves in order to protect their homes and their cash, and the theives, themselves, would be armed and would also use those arms to rob the people of their cash. - Cygnus1.

I think we should hide our dough from financial managers and just use banks like bill-paying stations.