This is my belief. A bit of straight talk and rampant outrage in a direction that you may not quite expect…. but it may just make some sense once you read it.

SOPA and PIPA were a diversion, so that ACTA could be passed through quietly, with little to no resistance. Do you really think that the RIAA and MPAA, and large supporting corporations hadn’t done their homework on this? It is such an easy thing to make the public look the other way. And the public falls for it every time. SOPA and PIPA had hard written rules, so that it would naturally cause outrage and online protest. While all the attention was on that, it was easy pickins to run the ACT Agreement through the global channels undisturbed. If you want a little more detail on ACTA, it is best to get the sources here… as there is a lot of confusion in regards to what it actually does. For a little more clarity, check out this link.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/internet-awash-in-inaccurate-anti-acta-arguments.ars

ACTA is NOT as bad as SOPA or PIPA on the surface, because while it may weigh a little heavier on the sole issue of piracy, it does not change much otherwise. Not immediately at least. But the scary part comes later. One of the things this agreement does is leave open the ability for further restrictions to be passed through without having to go through all the normal channels, reviews and red tape. And believe me, this is a BAD thing. Though this agreement looks pretty benign on the surface, what it really is is a gateway to the further loss of internet freedom for the public. It is important to protest this just as vehemently as SOPA PIPA.

So…. while all this fuels my outrage, and by all means it is significant. See, I’m a musician who long ago stopped believing that I could get anywhere with my songs. Not because of SOPA, PIPA, ACTA or similar. Not because I didn’t have the talent or confidence to pull it off… not becaus pirates were stealing my stuff… but because the large labels, the music industry clamped down so hard on anything they couldn’t control that it squeezed the lifeblood out of all the truly talented artists, and left only those who had little talent, a bland commercial product and were willing to completely sell their soul to the industry. Anyone with talent who didn’t already have an “in”, sucked it up and went independent.

The ultimate reality is this, (and I’m sure many other musicians with some talent feel the same way I do)…. I would rather give my music away or have it downloaded illegally, than give a cent to the corrupt companies that rule the entertainment industry. I truly hope, that when the time to settle with our karma comes around, these people are picking trash off the streets.

Crime is rarely perpetrated without a need. Get used to this thought. It will become more and more prevalent in our minds as the gap between the rich and middle-lower classes become greater. The crime of the upper trickles down to the crime of the lower. It has always been that way. The people who believe law is on their side are ignorant sheep.

What will happen when you can’t afford the simple necessities needed to live? I’ll leave it in your capable hands to decide.

The internet is the last bastion of free information. Other sources of news have already been usurped by large corporations, and feed news that they deem is permissable. Lately, that leaves a lot to be desired, and it will get much much worse. Fighting back is a no-brainer to me. The need to eventually break the law to survive is also a no-brainer (to me).

I say these things at the risk of ridicule. Truthfully, I don’t really care who if affects and who it doesn’t. I don’t have the time to be worried over things like that. But part of my mission is at least getting the truth out there.

I was talking with a client of mine today. Someone who had some very interesting internal knowledge. Basically it comes down to this. When it comes to the country, its activities and movements, the flow of money and government… etc… no matter how believable it seems. No matter how “real” it looks… even if right in front of your eyes. You would be better off only taking it at face value.

Neither my client nor I have any power to change what is happening. As cogs in the system, we can only churn along and hope that the larger gears that we depend on… won’t quit working.

So here’s the information. If you can wrap your mind around the gravity of the situation, you won’t like it very much. Let us start with the occupy movement. Have you ever wondered why the occupy movement targets large corporations, world banks, wall street and high profile people that control the flow of money? Have you ever wondered why the White House, the government, the political system… while in the mix, don’t seem to be the primary target. This system seems to be almost secondary in the passion, far behind the resentment of large corporations taking all their money.

• The “Occupy” movement is an engineered revolution.
• The masters pulling the string is none other than our own government.
• The movement was a ploy to remove the largest and most powerful corporations, financial and otherwise, from the ability to control the interests of the country and the world.

It makes a lot of sense one you think about it. The government itself is so far in debt that at some point, it will be unable to pay its own bills. The only entities that are truly financially “free” are the most lucrative. The can only be brought down by a full scale revolution, when the people of the world steadfastly refuse to invest in them. If that happens, they will take their money and run, leaving the world to fend on its own.

It is not an ideal outcome, but it is better for the people of the world than the current situation. Truthfull, I’m not sure what to think. Maybe I’ll just leave it that way. I’m convinced as one of the “sheeple”, that I will never gain access to the real truth. Nor will I be able to prove (even to my own mind), that either method is actually what is happening. Whether the protests are the real thing, and a revolution is happening, or this whole thing is engineered.

Luckily, personally, I never needed someone “here” on the inside to feed me this information. What good does it do? It’s seeded information. Corrupt… poison.

This is a time where you have to rely on your inner vision. That inner voice that discerns how to move, how to act, what to believe in and what to set aside for further consideration. The time has come, my friends. We need to adapt, we need to listen and be confident for that which our inner voice tells us. Train yourselves, be active and be smart. Otherwise, we won’t come through this as free beings.

So I’ve been writing about this movement for about a month now (well with a technical glitch that costs me about 4 posts… due to drunkenness).

As cool as this revolution is, there are factors that disturb me. It shouldn’t surprise me though, these things are going to happen with a free movement, and this much anger finally being expressed… In this case, there are two things I want to bring attention to.

• An occupier who got a job on Wall Street.
• The upcoming action to shut down the west coast ports.

This protest is all about getting jobs. It is about bringing success once again to the middle class. One person in the protest realized this, and made a sign that she wanted a job. She made up a few applications and GOT a job on wall street. For that, some have called her a traitor, an insider working to discredit the reputation of the movement. For sure, a protest (revolution) like this is always going to have a vagrant tinge. Free means, anyone can join.

But remember, for every actual vagrant in the movement, there are 1/2 dozen people actually trying to improve their life, to get a job, to support their families. So, if you are narrow minded and stupid enough to compartmentalize the entire protest into this “vagrant” category, then I will call you narrow minded and stupid. View this as it is, a massive discontent regarding the upper tier of the financial industry, politics and the government. A movement that is working. So get your head out of your ass and broaden your scope.

So on to the port shutdown. This is scheduled  for December 12th. This is something that will potentially cost the economy billions of dollars. It has the immediate effect of costing time and money for the legit port workers. Ok, so this leaves me a little uncomfortable. But this is a revolution! Not all things are going to be spot on. There are going to be mistakes and wrong calls. But the one thing to understand is that it is evolving and growing. It will move towards things that specifically target these large corporations with less and less of a direct effect on the majority / middle class. This is long term. It is a moving and changing event, and will grow and learn its lessons along the way.

We are viewing a worldwide event. Something historical to the likes of what we’ve never seen before, even in the history books. You might see a million man march, or a protest in a single location, but nothing where thousands of people in thousands of location and hundreds of countries, all connected to the occupy movement.

This is going to be a difficult one. Not only because of the current status of the occupy movement, but of the resistance to it that is growing. The movement wants to be peaceful and lawful, but that is also the biggest problem. You see, all the laws put in place also restrict the movement from being truly effective and influential.

This occupy movement can’t hope to evolve and grow beyond a certain point if it doesn’t start to break these laws. It needs to happen, because we really need that drastic of a change in the worlds economy. The word “escalate”, is shortly going to come into play. I’m betting after the advance on the west coast ports.

I’m not sure how I feel about the blocking of the ports, but I do know how I feel about the current system. Simply put? Well… I want it to be crushed. I want the 99% movement to completely overwhelm the system and destroy it, completely and unequivocally. I would like to see the perpetrators of this system trampled underfoot by the overwhelming anger, ruined in the rubble of its collapse and I’d like to see them suffer under the conditions we see as normal (making barely enough money to get by). I am truly angry by the unfairness of the system, and I’ve only been angry 3 times in my life. I mean a true anger… where people around me back away. It is my will while I am alive to support the fall of the current system by any means that I have available (mainly through my intelligence and computer abilities). Lawful or beyond, my efforts will support it to its completion.

The authorities tried to dismantle a couple of the protestors “base camp” locations in the last couple of days. Mainstream media coverage of the protests is now muted. You see, there is a reason for this.

Many of the media companies are owned by the large corporations that the protestors are targeting. Though the anchors of some of the more liberal media (Ie… MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, Ed Shultz, Lawrence O’Donnel, etc…) still seem to be on the protestors side…. pay attention to the advertisements. Many are big oil. So we have a conflict of interest. Mainstream media could cover the protest without restriction when the big companies thought it to be more or less a joke, but now they are beginning to realize the seriousness and the massive scope of this discontent. They are getting nervous, and slowly starting to put the squeeze on everyone involved in media. They are getting nervous, and one can no longer rely on any local media to truthfully broadcast the scope and effectiveness of this movement.

We are at the beginning stages of an effective revolution, and will soon be moving into the first stages of a war of idea and intelligence, fought both online, and (as peacefully as possible) in person. I can give you some insight as to the movements of the larger companies, the political system and the financial sector. I’ve been keeping away from their influence while remaining keyed into their machinations. They are predictable, while the protest is not.

The revolution will win because of a single reason. They can change. Those in power have backed themselves into a corner and have no recourse except to repeat the same things over and over. The more they do, the less effective they will be.

Let me explain some of these tactics.

• Mainstream media will be squeezed. The stories will target some of the less influential (and less intelligent) of the protestors. Camera angles will be edited to show only small groups of people and / or empty camps, etc…
• Behind the scenes, this will continue to attempt to represent the movement as being less and less effective as time goes on.
• Political groups in the cities which have the larger movements will form committees focused specifically on discrediting these groups. They will form think tanks to come up with new and unique ideas… but they won’t come up with much simply because they are stuck in the aforementioned “hole”.
• The will try to dismantle the movement with force as we have already seen. But this only adds fuel to the fire at this point.
• They will use any excuse, and use any method, such as cutting services and power to the parks that house the occupy movements.
• The will use sympathetic networks to further discredit and condemn the movements and make it look like a futile effort, motivated by the homeless and jobless only.
• Some latter steps they will take will be to hire programming professionals to hack into and either modify or take down Occupy or Solidarity websites and networks.
• They may even keywork-pack these sites to get them automatically banned by the search engines, which have auto-shutdowns in place when their poicies are violated.
• They will put up alternate websites to steal the traffic from the current occupy sites.
• More of the latter steps they may use would be to pursue and arrest those unable to pay their bills / mortgage.

There are more tactics in place, and remember that they have an unlimited amount of money to spend… and they will. I will end by giving you something to think about.

Let us compare for a moment the occupy movement as a whole to the police, politicians and government as one entity. How much actual violence have you seen on the side of the protestors (combined). A handful here and there. Now… how much have you seen by the police, how much has been planned and executed by the cities mayoral systems, acted out by the police. Quite a lot, acually. The protestors are being treated like bugs to be cleared out. I would personally like to see the protestors get more aggressive, surrounding the police forces and driving them out of these areas with planned tactics. The can, and eventually will do this. Let us hope that the numbers grow so great, that the system itself breaks under the strain. I have no sympathy for the authorities nor politics at this point.They deserve what is coming to them.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, and even though I have a clear picture in my head, it is hard to put into words. I believe in duality on this plane… as it applies to the human race. But good and evil can’t be relegated to totally black and white. There are many colors, and many adjectives that can be assigned to further open up this particular use of the idea.

Words like devious and manipulation come to mind, words like greed and avarice, uncaring and emotionless as well. It is hard to define the mental and emotional state of the privileged few. Thankfully, there are a few like Mr. Abrams, who are coming out with an explanation as to just how corrupt modern politics and finance is. The sheer scope of the entire system and how corrupt it is, is hard to put into words. Refusal to participate in the system by the sheer numbers of the occupiers is the only method we have to stand against something like this.

The occupation has to grow, it has to evolve and transform into a complete and total refusal to participate in the current system. This means… refusing to pay taxes. Getting in the way of the people at the top at every opportunity… even if it means the occupiers themselves have to suffer. The advantage of this is that the occupy movement are already suffering, and ultimately will not worry about it since they are used to it.

Good and evil are not always black and white. But if one were to truly understand the scope of what has been done to this country, they would see the system itself as almost black, tinged with crimson from the blood, old and new, of the masses.

There are many things you can say about the OWS movement. But how are they planning it, what gives them an advantage or disadvantage…? How can you make sweeping changes without violence… without war? Actually, there are a lot of ways. These are peaceful methods which have the greatest impact.

The first are external tactics. These are designed to break down the opposition with maximum effect over a period of time.

1. Make noise…. lots of it. Like a kid constantly saying “are we there yet?”, noise can be exasperating and can eventually break peoples resolve.
2. Be in the way. Get in the way of every and all trafficking done by the 1%. It is like throwing a monkey-wrench into the machine. Over the long term, this is one of the most effective tactics.
3. Stay invisible (with your goals). Keep everyone confused as much as you can, for as long as you can. The opposition can’t form a good defense if they can’t figure out the battle plans.
4. Prepare for the short term, but keep planning for the long term. Having a long term string of actions on the table keeps the movement alive and interesting to all parties involved.
5. Make it as public as you can. Saturate the media and internet with sites, activities and input from support. But also keep it transparent… be truthful about it, so no one can put together enough to discredit you (remember to keep your goals invisible as well).

These are internal tactics. Internal tactics are needed for continued support, motivation and interest by the public. For if the 99% lose interest in their own protest, all is lost.

1. Arts and entertainment. Make sure there is a good “festive” atmosphere around the movement in general. Bands, talks by celebrities, etc… will go a long way to maintain this interest and motivation.
2. Highly efficient organization. Think tanks, meetings of the mind, councils or tribunals for (internally) officializing plans.
3. Sanitary conditions. Hard to do, but necessary.
4. Anger. This is a hard one to explain, but there is a term I like to use called “Righteous Anger”. This is a deep seated anger, something that sits within your soul and can’t be expelled until whatever is causing it is completely broken down and rebuilt. A hard workout or a bar fight won’t remove those feelings. This kind of anger can lower ones quality of life if it is allowed to sit for too long. But, when action is being taken to resolve this anger, there is… for lack of a better term, a calm and clear mind, and a subtle excitement that starts to take shape. This is the first sign of the balance being restored, it starts as a realization and evolves into a mission. When actions are taken to resolve Righteous Anger, there is little to no mercy to the opposition. Violence doesn’t do anything to appease Righteous Anger… it is about extracting the control of large industry and politics, and redistribution to the people who have been suffering.

You’ll notice that quite a few of these steps are already in process… or they can currently be matched to OWS. Welcome to the revolution.

There are a lot of things I want to say… especially since my blog has been down for a week or so…. but now that I’m rolling again….

First, I’ll be calling OWS a global revolution from now on, because, err… that’s what it is. But this time around, I want to focus on a couple of specific things. First, we need to talk about a lobby, financed to the tune of $850,000, organized specifically to discredit and destroy the integrity of OWS and the revolution. Here is a link to one of the many articles. http://www.indyposted.com/174097/washington-lobbyist-firm-promises-to-discredit-occupy-wall-street/

This, my friends is a shining example of how large corporations are so out of touch with the working class. This kind of thing does nothing but re-enforce the motivation of the movement to rebel and get stronger with its message. You, mr corporation, mr politician, and mr 1% are what could be called eco-terrorists. Not ecology (though you’re fucking that up pretty damn well too), but economy. The motivation for this movement that you instill is an outstanding job. As I sit here writing this, I’m laughing at the stupidity of it all.

These guys have had it so easy, that they have no sense of self preservation any more. What they are doing is digging their own graves. The really sad part is they probably think they are putting in a swimming pool. Let us put this in perspective for a moment. $850,000 given to a group solely to research a way to discredit the movement. I’d love to have 50,000 of that. I could personally make that last 2 years, easily. This would pay 17 workers a years salary. It is a prime example of how money is being blatantly wasted by the rich.

I think the strongest message that comes out of this, is that the revolution is gearing up and getting stronger. So bring it on. I can’t wait to see the action this generates!

Ok, so on to the next thing. This is definitely a revolution. It’s not going to be pretty. The 99% have numbers and a similar goal, which is a huge thing. But the 1%, corporations and financial districts have the accumulated power of the economy and very deep pockets to draw from. OWS can represent themselves as the 99%, but until the support (and it IS growing) reaches something closer to those numbers, peaceful protests and imaginative tactical events are the best move forward. They have played this well so far. Not to mention playing it well against the media.

But when true majority numbers start rallying in  support, then I think we’ll see something different. The vast majority of a country can effectively shut down the country. It takes numbers and resolve, that’s all. The revolutions action days are going to be more expansive and disrupt larger and larger systems as it moves forward.

This is where we have to talk about violence. It is going to happen. But the movement will use it in defense. It is the same premise with martial arts. Don’t be weak. That never gets you anywhere, but only fight when you have no other recourse. This is where it will eventually go. The authorities will enforce laws made up specifically to remove these protestors and the protestors will not budge, because they simply know better. They are not weak, and they won’t fight until there is no other recourse. But the drive for freedom is stronger. I’ve felt it before. I feel it now. I’d fight for it, and this movement will, too.