by Jonathan Larsen and Ken Olshansky
(crossposted from MSNBC's "Open Channel" blog)
A well-known Washington lobbying firm with links to the financial industry has proposed an $850,000 plan to take on Occupy Wall Street and politicians who might express sympathy for the protests, according to a memo obtained by the MSNBC program “Up w/ Chris Hayes.”
The proposal was written on the letterhead of the lobbying firm Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford and addressed to one of CLGC’s clients, the American Bankers Association.
CLGC’s memo proposes that the ABA pay CLGC $850,000 to conduct “opposition research” on Occupy Wall Street in order to construct “negative narratives” about the protests and allied politicians. The memo also asserts that Democratic victories in 2012 would be detrimental for Wall Street and targets specific races in which it says Wall Street would benefit by electing Republicans instead.
According to the memo, if Democrats embrace OWS, “This would mean more than just short-term political discomfort for Wall Street. … It has the potential to have very long-lasting political, policy and financial impacts on the companies in the center of the bullseye.”
The memo also suggests that Democratic victories in 2012 should not be the ABA’s biggest concern. “… (T)he bigger concern,” the memo says, “should be that Republicans will no longer defend Wall Street companies.”
Two of the memo’s authors, partners Sam Geduldig and Jay Cranford, previously worked for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. Geduldig joined CLGC before Boehner became speaker; Cranford joined CLGC this year after serving as the speaker’s assistant for policy. A third partner, Steve Clark, is reportedly “tight” with Boehner, according to a story by Roll Call that CLGC features on its website.
Jeff Sigmund, an ABA spokesperson, confirmed that the association got the memo. “Our Government Relations staff did receive the proposal – it was unsolicited and we chose not to act on it in any way,” he said in a statement to "Up."
CLGC did not return calls seeking comment.
Boehner spokesman Michael Steel declined to comment on the memo. But he responded to its characterization of Republicans as defenders of Wall Street by saying, “My understanding is that President Obama is the single largest recipient of donations from Wall Street.”
On “Up” Saturday, Anita Dunn, Obama campaign adviser, responded by saying that the majority of the president’s re-election campaign is fueled by small donors. She rejected the suggestion that the president himself is too close to Wall Street, saying “If that’s the case, why were tough financial reforms passed over party line Republican opposition?”
The CLGC memo raises another issue that it says should be of concern to the financial industry -- that OWS might find common cause with the Tea Party. “Well-known Wall Street companies stand at the nexus of where OWS protestors and the Tea Party overlap on angered populism,” the memo says. “…This combination has the potential to be explosive later in the year when media reports cover the next round of bonuses and contrast it with stories of millions of Americans making do with less this holiday season.”
The memo outlines a 60-day plan to conduct surveys and research on OWS and its supporters so that Wall Street companies will be prepared to conduct a media campaign in response to OWS. Wall Street companies “likely will not be the best spokespeople for their own cause,” according to the memo. “A big challenge is to demonstrate that these companies still have political strength and that making them a political target will carry a severe political cost.”
Part of the plan CLGC proposes is to do “statewide surveys in at least eight states that are shaping up to be the most important of the 2012 cycle.”
Specific races listed in the memo are U.S. Senate races in Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin, Ohio, New Mexico and Nevada as well as the gubernatorial race in North Carolina.
The memo indicates that CLGC would research who has contributed financial backing to OWS, noting that, “Media reports have speculated about associations with George Soros and others.”
"It will be vital,” the memo says, “to understand who is funding it and what their backgrounds and motives are. If we can show that they have the same cynical motivation as a political opponent it will undermine their credibility in a profound way.”
Jonathan Larsen (@jtlarsen) is executive producer of "Up w/ Chris Hayes"; Ken Olshansky (@kenolshansky) is a producer for the show.
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Great journalism, Chris! Hopefully, you'll be an inspiration to other reporters - although I doubt it! You belong in prime time and I hope that happens soon!
Thanks for some courageous reporting. Is it OK to point to the actual memo?
If the Banksters can't get this back in the can and shut down that pesky Internet then-
The American People MIGHT JUST learn that The Federal Reserve, a private banking cartel, lent $16 TRILLION interest free to the world's "Too big to fail" banks. Put into perspective that amount would buy a home and a new car for every American household.
The Banks have stolen the wealth of a Once Great Nation. They will certainly use a bit of the loot to keep us from tarring and feathering them.
The Federal Reserve has a chairman appointed by the president, traffics in a state monopoly currency, and exists to finance government expansion by buying government debt. It is a government created entity that would cease to exists in weeks if not protected by government regulation.
This lobbying group is out to fill it's coffers. It doesn't where it comes from. I think the grand plan is to make the USA into another China. Who are the 1% going after? The workers. Break the American worker, you break the whole nation.
You got it in ONE. You are exactly right. From proud world power and democracy to scum sucking third world police state in one lifetime.
The Occupy Movement is the only chance I see for us to avoid this.
Yup. If Occupy goes down, we all go down. It's imperative that we support the movement every step of the way.
Thanks, Radio Rahim!!!
I will do this!! I hope everyone here and those who watch Chris will join the idea. If we can tie up their emails, faxes and phones offering our information, it should take them through the election to function again!! I encourage everyone to not only send your bio once, keep sending it. Like once every three days - then they can concentrate on the triplicates.
Excellent scoop, Chris! It ironically syncs in time with the UC Davis pepper spraying today. Both are the talk of the net.
Good reporting, but it won't last, not if he wants to stay on at Obama TV/MSNBC. True liberals don't last very long there if they're not willing to toe the company line/sell their soul for the big bucks. Donahue, Olbermann, Uygur. Time will tell.
well there is always Current TV and PBS lol
keep up the great work Chris-hope ur baby comes soon, one of the proud #uppers...here's a very interesting equation...
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Time to push back...you can't stop this movement...you say get a job....hell, create them and keep them in America, stupid lol.
I was so happy to see this show and I'm posting your link on as many places as I can in Charleston, SC as I can. THANK YOU.
This is such a nothing story -- it didn't happen. It's a pitch by some over-eager lobbyists in a climate where they thought they could trawl for some business. That's ok to do.
I'm also not getting why it's not perfectly fine to have a lobbying firm plan to undermine OWS through a media campaign. That's legal, protected, First Amendment activity -- and necessary activity, given the violence and extremity of OWS.
In fact, it's really no different than the same kind of media campaign that the rogue ad agency Ad-Busters started to disrupt society by occupying Wall Street -- also protected First Amendment activity.
It would all be a public service to find out more about the funding, networks, and backgrounds of this fake "leaderless" movement.
Catherine..it's the leaderless part that is so fantastic. You don't seem to get it, or deliberately are not getting it. It's ordinary people standing up and saying no to a system they see is bankrupting the country, both financially and morally. 'Fake' movement. Oh, sweetpea, calling it fake doesn't make it any less real. Call it pink or call it cantaloupe, the movement speaks for itself and brings out the worst in the now militarized police forces, thereby showing their true colors, and the people who profess to care about our citizens out of one side of their mouths while shmoozing with those who would destroy our democracy.
In the first Great Depression, people stood quietly in soup lines and quietly watched their children die of hunger. In this Great Depression, the people will not stand quietly, they will fight back and take back our country from the people who would destroy it.
But you don't want to know the truth, you just want to spread doubt among those who read your comments. Uh-uh, ain't agonna work, babycakes.
This lobbying firm and these former politicians are engaging in legitimate First Amendment activity, and necessary activity.
This story is pretty shabby as it's about something that...didn't happen. (A lot like that HPGary memo, remember?)
People in this thread who are inciting others to spam this firm with junk in order to harass them because you don't like their views which are expressed in *legitimate* fashion under the First Amendment are lawless thugs -- like OWS.
And indeed the OWS movement does need to have its financial sources and networks and leaders researched much more than the gullible and adoring media has found itself able to do.
In fact, the well-funded Ad-busters which began the whole OWS campaign behaved no differently than this lobbying firm, and attracted politicians to its cause as well. That's what democracy is about. What it's not about is violence, coercion, and trying to shut down the very institutions of democracy.
Ratf*cking by any other name is still ratf*cking.
True.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjnR7xET7Uo
And here’s something that should go viral—
From day one, reactionaries and their representatives, e.g. their lobbyists, have tried to wage a smear campaign against the Occupy movement. The battle for public opinion has been ongoing and will continue.
Last night Newt Gingrich (situated between Rick the P and H. the Cain) said something so outrageous, and so contemptuous – really of the entire 99%-- it should stir up a hornet’s nest.
In reference to Occupy – Newt (Mr. Freddie Mac/Tiffany’s)—
“They should go out and get a job, but first take a bath.”
He might as well have said, “Let them eat cake,” ala Marie Antoinette, and we all know what happened to her.
And FYI Newt (and to all your cohorts): This 66 year-old retiree, who paid into Social Security (which you would also like to destroy) since I was 15 yrs. old, grandmother of five (whose future you are out to wreck), ad infinitum, has been a proud participant and supporter of the Occupy Together movement since day one. The likes of you and your system have awakened a sleeping giant. Oh, and BTW, I’ll continue to scrub behind my ears as long as I can afford a bar of soap.
I agree with you Linda Donovan.
The comment of gingRICH was a vile outrage.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 20TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
IN AND FOR LEE COUNTY FLORIDA
WELLS FARGO BANKplaintiffv.PATRICK LORNE FARRELL©defendantcase no.07-CA-16767JUDGE KEITH KYLE
NON-DEFENDANT'S "CROSS-COMPLAINT" ADDENDUM IN SUPPORT OF HIS MOTION TO DISMISS AND REQUEST FOR JUDICIAL NOTICE OF CASE 07-CA-14942
1.Plaintiff filed 3 Fraudulent documents to support their false claim herein.
2.LOST NOTE AFFIDAVIT- the note is not "lost", all notes were destroyed as per attorney Virginia Townes representing 300 FBA banks, speaking before the Fl. Supreme Court on 09/29/2009. All notes and mortgages were electronically scanned into MERS, in violation of U.E.T.A. [Uniform Electronic Transaction Act -1999] to avoid "double dipping" but this is what happened anyway, when MERS bifurcated the note from the mortgage. One bank used the note for payoff through insurance and TARP funds, and plaintiffs are using the mortgage to collect again, which is Money Laundering and Racketeering as per FS 895 and 896.
3.Take Judicial notice that when WELLS FARGO got TARP, it included the 30 years of interest $300,000 along with the principal of $283,000. All based on MY credit and signature.
4.ASSIGNMENT OF MORTGAGE-The subject mortgage was NOT in the MERS system according to MERS website, so plaintiff could legally assign something they did not have.
5.Assigned on 04/01/2009 to IMPAC SECURED ASSETS-2005-2 who filed a Form 15-D with the SEC on January 23,2006, which means they were out of business, and can't assign anything.
6.Farrell received a Default Judgment Order against PINNACLE FINANCIAL on July 15,2008, in related case 07-CA-14942. This assignment was filed in this case on January 13,2009.
7.THEREFORE, The judgment against PINNACLE accrues to WELLS FARGO as liability, for the amount of $283,000, pursuant to the GAAP and FEDERAL RESERVE policies.
8.WELLS FARGO assumed the rights of the contract, which includes my benefits.
9.On August 6,2007, American Home Mortgage filed for bankruptcy, case 07-11049, in Delaware, and the plaintiff herein were listed as creditors, and IMPAC SECURED ASSETS 2005-2 was an asset that was discharged. Herein mortgage is Un-secured, as a discharged asset.
10.On the IRS website Publication 938 lists all REMIC's. In early 2008 IMPAC 2005-2 was listed therein, but in 2009 it no longer existed, the alleged debt was dissolved by the IRS.
11.This Assignment was Robo signed by JEFFREY STEPHAN, a known felon, on April 1, 2008, Done 28 months AFTER the cut off date of the mortgage backed security, so it is Void.
12."Assigned" from PINNACLE FINANCIAL, d.b.a. TRI-STAR LENDING, to IMPAC SECURED ASSETS, all companies are NOT members of MERS, and were out of business.
13.The address listed thereon is actually the address of GMAC, not WELLS FARGO as it purports.
14.GMAC simply used it's MERS membership, the name of WELLS FARGO, and a felon named JEFFREY STEPHAN to fabricate Farrell's mortgage in their system. THAT IS FRAUD.
15.See Fl. 6th Circuit- U.S.BANK as Trustee, vs. Ernest Harper, #51-2007-CA-6684ES.
16.Assignment and case dismissed WITH prejudice, attorney's fee's granted.
17.The assignment here is a Fraud Upon the Court, warranting Sanctions against GMAC.
18.AFFIDAVIT OF AMOUNTS DUE- ROBO signed by Jeffrey Stephan, who ignored the $18,000 and $7,000 theft by plaintiff, that is the subject of related case 07-CA-14942.
19.GMAC was sanctioned for this on May 1st of 2006 from a case filed in 2004.
20.FL. 4TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT-Case 16-2004-CA-4835; TCIF REO2,LLC plaintiff vs. MARTIN LEIBOWITZ defendant –ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR SANCTIONS.
21.Despite a Court Order to stop submitting false testimony in AFFIDAVITS OF INDEBTEDNESS,
22.And resulting Monetary Sanctions, GMAC continued ROBO-SIGNING, and to a larger degree.
23.ORDERED AND ADJUDGED
24.Motion for sanction granted; Affidavits stricken; Plaintiff to pay attorney's fee's, but ALSO;
25.GMAC required to confirm that Affidavits filed in future foreclosure actions in Florida accurately memorialize the actions and conduct of the Affiants.
26.So here we are today, with the knowledge that GMAC's employee signed false documents, in violation of a Fl. Court order, not just here, but 10,000 times a month for 5 years, according to his own sworn testimony in depositions in 2010, that amounts to 500,000 false Affidavits.
27.SECURITIZATION FRAUD
28.Plaintiff's acting jointly and severally, devised a scheme whereby MERSÓ, could obscure that fact that Farrell's note would ultimately become a Investment into a Collateralized asset, in Mortgage backed Securities, hypothecated for Trust Certificates, issued by the DTC [Depository Trust Corp.], sold by CEDE and Co., to un-known, un-named investors for an instant gain.
29.There was no loan, Farrell was steered into an Investment Contract as an undisclosed investor, 3rd party beneficiary, using Farrell's Note, same as money, to finance said Investment Co. who is the Plaintiff, IMPAC SECURED ASSETS 2005-2, who is out of business since 2006, and debt was discharged in Bankruptcy in 2007, so they can't "Assign" a Mortgage in 2008.
30.As a beneficiary, I AM entitled to my portion of the insurance and TARP of $400,000.
31.UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE, section 3-302. HOLDER IN DUE COURSE.
32.Subject to subsection (c) and Section 3-106(d), "holder in due course" means the holder of an instrument if the holder took the instrument (i) for value, …and (vi) without notice that any party has a defense or claim in recoupment described in Section 3-305(a).
33.On November 14,2007,FARRELLÓ filed suit, describing numerous counts of Fraud against GMAC and other defendants who produced the loan and the subject property.
34.On December 7,2007,WELLS FARGO responded by filing case 07-CA-16767, knowing of the inherent claims of Fraud and Conspiracy, without any evidence that they "held" anything.
35.On January 22, 2008, I am the holder who took the instrument for value BEFORE plaintiff, as evidenced by Farrell's UCC-1 financing statement filed into the Lee Co. public records on 01/22/2008; #2008000018000, NOTICE OF LIEN AND DEMAND FOR $400,000.
36.My January 22, 2008 BILL OF EXCHANGE and CHARGEBACK, discharged the debt, stands as a claim, against the Fraud in the Note of $18,000 and the $7,000 GMAC escrow Fraud.
37.My 10 AFFIDAVITS, all un-rebutted, SECURITY AGREEMENT, 5 UCC-1 FINANCING STATEMENTS, was BEFORE Wells Fargo got TARP funds, and filed their bogus documents.
38.WELLS FARGO used my Bill of Exchange as evidence to receive TARP funds from the US Congress, and owes Farrell $400,000, In Oct.2008 The TARP funds paid off WELLS FARGO for the note, using my claim of $400,000, that is due to me. Foreclosure is a Fraud, Money Laundering and Racketeering, by using a Mortgage to collect on a note already paid off.
39.IMPAC accepted my bank note from PINNACLE and created an asset of $283,000 in their account, and on a second set of books is a liability to me for $283,000, which has yet to be paid.
40.UCC 9-105 states: "'Security agreement' means an agreement which creates or provides for a security interest." Black's 6th states: "An agreement granting a creditor[ME] a security interest in personal property[THE HOUSE], which security interest is normally perfected either by the creditor taking possession of the collateral or by filing financing statements in the proper public records."
41.My SECURITY AGREEMENT was filed in this case on JANUARY 9,2008, three months before the Assignment was drafted, and one year before it was filed publicly in this case.
42.The Security Agreement filed in the Commercial Registry is a binding, sealed contract between DEBTOR and Secured Party [ME] which includes, an itemization of the property/collateral the DEBTOR has pledged to the Secured Party. All the property belongs to the DEBTOR but the Secured Party holds all interest in it. Since the DEBTOR has pledged all of DEBTOR'S property/collateral to the Secured Party, and a binding contract is filed registering and recording that agreement and the Fidelity Bond posted by the DEBTOR to indemnify the Secured Party against loss, no third party is able to state a claim upon which relief can be granted against DEBTOR or any of the property pledged by DEBTOR to Secured Party.
43."All commercial affairs are the province of and interactions of commercial entities with, the DEBTOR, as per the text in one's UCC-1 "All proceeds, products, accounts, and fixtures, and the Orders there from, are released to DEBTOR."
44.NOTE SECURITIZATION INTO STOCK VOIDS MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE
45.Take Judicial Notice that defendants are claiming my note was in an MBS, not Me.
46.I, the homeowner, without consent or knowledge, was converted from a borrower to a securities issuer; and the investor was converted from being a part owner in a valid REMIC pool, to being the alleged buyer of the security issued by the homeowner. The Note was pre-sold.
47.The defendant knew before-hand this Note would be sold, securitized. Once executed the Borrower is actually entering into an undisclosed investment agreement, not a loan.
48.Once the REMIC [IMPAC SECURED ASSETS 2005-2] containing Plaintiff's note was formed, the note was converted into a security owned by thousands of investors of Wall Street.
49.At that point, the state of the note changed and was converted forevermore into a stock.
50.A negotiable instrument can only be in one of two states after undergoing securitization, not both at the same time. It can either be a loan or a stock. Once the instrument is traded as a stock, it is forever a stock and therefore regulated, as this loan was, by the SEC as a stock.
51.Since the note was sold and securitized into stock, WELLS FARGO can no longer claim that it is a real party in interest, or that the note stills exists since double dipping is securities fraud.
52.The Promissory Note, by conversion into stock, was extinguished as a collateralized asset and therefore the Trust secures absolutely nothing and the Bank of WELLS FARGO, not being the real party in interest, has no standing to foreclose on Farrell.
53.Since PINNACLE allegedly sold the note to IMPAC FUNDING, then to a REMIC, they lost the ability to assign the Mortgage or endorse the Note. It was no longer the party of interest.
54.Because of IRS code 860, the Bank of WELLS FARGO Trustee is not the real and beneficial party in interest because the REMIC does not own the Note, the shareholders do. By distributing the tax liabilities to the shareholders, the REMIC has also distributed the parties in interest.
55.Since a Promissory Note is only enforceable in its whole entirety and thousands of shareholders own the subject Note, no one of them can foreclose on this home.
56.Since the note went into default, it was written off by the REMIC and received tax credits from the IRS, was therefore discharged, and settled, destroying the Note forever.
57.After securitization, the Note cannot be re-attached to the Mortgage through adhesion.
58.The original Note had to be destroyed upon securitization because the Note and the stock cannot exist at the same time. As I stated before, Atty. Virginia Townes TESTIFIED to the Fl. Supreme Court, that notes were destroyed, to avoid "double Dipping". Using the mortgage to foreclose is "double dipping" since collecting TARP funds and insurance on the note satisfies the debt.
59.Under the terms of the Pooling and Servicing Agreement, GMAC the servicer can buy back the Note as a non-performing non-secured debt like collection agencies that buy credit card debts.
60.This purchase is of a discharged asset and cannot be re-adhered to the original Mortgage.
61.The purchaser of the discharged asset, plaintiff, can never be the holder-in-due-course.
62.The proper parties to this action would be the investors of the mortgage-backed securities to which Plaintiff's loan was securitized; but these parties have no recorded interest in the Mortgage, which were never delivered to the Trustee for the mortgage backed security pool; therefore the note itself is, at best, unsecured rights to payment.
63.WHEREFORE, I move the Court to;
64.Dismiss this case with Prejudice and sanction plaintiff for my attorney fees and costs;
65.ORDER WELLS FARGO to pay Farrell $400,000 for his UCC claim and lien;
66.Order IMPAC FUNDING to repay Farrell $283,000 for his note;
67.Grant Judgment and relief by way of release of the lien of WELLS FARGO, Quiet the Title to the home that is the subject matter of this case, and further;
68.ORDER that the Note in the amount of $ 283,000.00 dated October 11,2005 made by PATRICK FARRELL in favor of PINNACLE FINANCIAL,then IMPAC FUNDING,then WELLS FARGO BANK, shall be and the same is hereby cancelled, voided, nullified, set aside and is of no further force and effect; and further;
69.ORDER that the Mortgage in the amount of $ 283,0000.00 which secures said Note given by PATRICK FARRELL to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. As Nominee For IMPAC and WELLS FARGO dated October 11,2005 and recorded with the Clerk of Lee County on November 9,2005 INSTRU # 2005000110952 page 16, as assigned to WELLS FARGO by Assignment , with the Clerk of Lee County, shall be and the same is hereby vacated, cancelled, released and discharged of record; and further;
70.ORDER that IMPAC and WELLS FARGO, its successors and assigns are hereby barred, prohibited and foreclosed from attempting, in any manner, directly or indirectly, to enforce any provision of the aforesaid Note and Mortgage or any portion thereof as against Patrick Farrell, his heirs or successors; and further;
71.ORDER that the Clerk of Lee County shall cause a copy of this Order & Judgment to be filed in the Land Records so as to effectuate of record each and every one of the provisions hereinabove
set forth with respect to cancellation of the instruments and items of record; and further;
72.ORDER that WELLS FARGO shall pay to the Clerk within ten (10) days from the date of entry hereof, any and all fees and costs required to effect cancellation of record of the Note and Mortgage, and any other fees so levied; and further,
73.ORDER that within ten (10) days of the date of entry hereof, WELLS FARGO's counsel shall serve a copy of the Order upon the Clerk of Lee County and Patrick Farrell.
74.ORDER that the Certificate of Title of the subject property to be given to Farrell, free and clear of any and all liens and encumberances.
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY WAS SENT BY MAIL TO DEFENSE COUNSEL
__________________________________
Patrick Lorne Farrell in Propria Persona
Attorney In Fact/ Sovereign/Secured Party Creditor
signed "without the united states" and without prejudice/UCC 1-308
UCC-1 Filing # 2007-356-2344-8 [12/22/07]-Wash. St. -DOL
2904 NW14th Terrace-Cape Coral,Fl.33993
NOVEMBER 17,2011
NICE!!! Don't stop!
Distasteful as it may seem, it's time for OWS, the 99%, and the TP to bury the hatchets that divide them against the corporatist enemies of our social-democratic republic and embrace the points on which we agree; primarily that government should be for, of and by the people and not a quasi-fascist state directed by the will of an elite few. As a people, there's more that unites than divides us, and we need to assert that will positively for all Americans.
From what I've seen, the Tea Party was born out of the machinations of wealthy and powerful individuals who had a stake in disrupting town hall meetings regarding health care reform. Certainly early on they were co-opted to the point that they represent the interests and agendas of the anti-democratic wealthy and powerful to the injury of even their own interests. The are politically useful idiots who do not understand even rudimentary economics or American history.
Two words. SCREW THEM!
Everything wrong with our economy can be extracted from me and my complaints.
One case, one MBS, one big Fraud. Bifurcation of note from mortgage allowed for "double dipping", or collecting twice on one bank note, PLUS the interest in the contract. Give me an e mail address and i will share a document that describes how each "citizen" is valued at $1,000,000, and can take control of the bond and discharge all their debts through inherent Power of Attorney.
As of now bank lawyers are simply using POA to control your life, assets and money.
Talk to me Chris, I dare you.
what do you expect them to do, this is a non story.
I've read that the first large scale media campaign to discredit activists was conceived and funded by the Rockefellers after the Ludlow Massacre in 1914 when they hired a Public Relations firm to help them with their image.
Obviously somebody is buying the strategy. Not to mention the concerted national effort to make Occupy America disappear locally. Assembly is a very old American tactic.
IMO the only reason there aren't riots in the streets already is because Food Stamps are keeping the populace from starving. FDR transformed food riots into food lines during the Depression of 1929. He also initiated the Works Project Administration that put all kinds of Americans to work from laborers to artists. It worked then. It worked again during the 70s under Pres. Carter. It could work today.
Thanks for your reporting.
Thank you so much for this story. This is real reporting and I am so proud of you for being brave and upholding the truth. Keep us informed and let's keep fighting this corruption. They can't hide from the truth if we don't let them
What's at stake for all, is the issues of CORRUPTION OF GREED, and if to RETURN TOWARD THE FAIRNESS OF A BALANCE OF POWER, that is of a TRUE DEMOCRACY FOR ALL.
what's at stake for all, is the issues of the CORRUPTION OF GREED, and if TO RETURN TOWARD THE FAIRNESS OF A BALANCE OF POWER, that is of a TRUE DEMOCRACY FOR ALL.
If you think this is the first effort by special interests to go active with their anti Occupy propaganda, you haven't been following all the Occupy news reports and the comments readers are encouraged to leave in response to these stories. It is obvious from many of these posts, especially those in reply to positive comments, that there already is a significant effort to discredit the Occupy movement. The same posters repeatedly comment in each thread. While there certainly are those who's "expertise" needs to be repeatedly expressed to the point of ad nauseum, the frequency and obnoxiousness of many of these anti Occupy posts are being motivated by more than opinion; paid posters comes to mind. JMHO.
I feel the one thing that will hold back OWS will be the weather,not a lobbyist.Excellent show Chris .
They should report tyhe repsecitve conspiritors with Active Licences to Practyice Law to The American Bar Association to have them DIS BARED on the Grounds of Conspiricy to Undermine Justice and Attempts to Increase Public Mayhem and For Not Being of Good Charater/ Moral Fiber, befitting A Public Advocate/ Attorney. The should at the very least be Centured By The ABA!
Unless I'm reading this wrong, CLCG recommends expensive research to launch a smear campaign against OWS and our political supporters. Is Occupy really concerned about losing a smear campaign? Personally, I'd pit Anonymous against CLGC any day of the week when it comes to "opposition research". Then they seem to conclude that both parties might end up campaigning against corporate Wall Street due to the overlap of Tea Partiers and OWS'ers. To this I say, "Exactly! and It's Working!!"