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We knew distrust of government was high. But a new poll shows that suspicion reaching new levels. According to a survey from Fairleigh Dickinson University, nearly a third of registered voters -- 29 percent -- believe an "armed revolution" might be necessary in the next few years in order to protect liberties.
Poll shows 29% of voters think 'armed revolution' might be needed, 5/2/13

Can the state do better..
What Would We Do Without the State?, 3/31/13

3D printers manufacture three-dimensional products by laying down a series of thin plastic or metal in one layer at a time. The 3D printing technology is stunning in its potential to empower individuals. Unfortunately the state knows its power as well. The race is on.
Print Me A Revolution, 2/15/13

The FBI is once again conducting itself with no regard for American citizens’ constitutional rights. That is according to the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF), which has just obtained FBI documents revealing that from the inception of the Occupy movement, an anti-corporate greed and anti-war movement, the agency treated it as a potential criminal and terrorist threat.
Documents Show Mass FBI Infiltration Of OWS, Movement Treated As Criminal, Terrorist Threat, 12/26/12

“… the most formidable military machine depends ultimately on the obedience of its soldiers, … the most powerful corporation becomes helpless when its workers stop working, when its customers refuse to buy its products. The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure–these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.” — Howard Zinn in The Progressive magazine, January 2000, p20
This Revolution Is Personal, 12/7/12

Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com. Doherty is author of the books This is Burning Man (2004, Little, Brown; paperback BenBella, 2006), Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (PublicAffairs, 2007) and Gun Control on Trial (Cato, 2008). From 1994 to 2003, Doherty worked as associate editor and reporter for Reason, writing a variety of stories on topics ranging from the Americans with Disabilities Act to pollution-credit trading to the independent rock scene. Doherty's work has appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines. He has been a commentator on hundreds of radio and TV shows and was the Warren Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 1999. He served as managing editor at Regulation magazine from 1993-94.
Brian Doherty on the Trouble With Governments and Benefits of Anarchism, 10/21/12

A few weeks ago, I was lounging on the edge of a beautiful corn field in Eastern Colorado having one of the most interesting conversations of my entire life, although I didn’t realize it at the time. My friends and I were in the field that day in the hope of doing some dove hunting, but there were virtually no birds flying. As a consequence, I was sprawled out in the hot grass with my shotgun tossed out in the dirt. My friends and their shotguns were similarly situated, which left us completely unprepared for the two or three birds that did show up.
If Two Men Go Into the Woods Without a Police Officer, How Many Will Come Out Alive?, 10/15/12

The much vaunted libertarian journalist and commentator H.L. Mencken once wrote: “I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.”
Can Voluntaryism Fix the Machine?, 10/10/12

Day after day we read that cops or other minions of the ruling class never suffer any legal consequences for various and sundry vile actions on their part. No doubt you can find an example today and every day among the Strike The Root articles.
A Proof of Anarchy: The Rulers Themselves, 10/1/12

Anarchy is about attitude as much as philosophy. Below is a contrast between a conservative attitude toward government and the anarchist’s attitude toward government. Do you have the attitude of an anarchist?
Attitude of an Anarchist, 9/8/12

This is good. This is someone waking up. This is someone – and there are many of them – who has put a real effort into changing things for the better through the political system. Many have been doing it since 2007, some even longer. And while some will continue the fight, continue working to get “good people” into bad offices, others are starting to look a little deeper, are starting to recognize that it is the system itself that is broken, not the particular individuals who happen to be heading it up at the moment.
The Revolution is Over – Long Live the Revolution!, 8/30/12

Boy, I have a lot to say today. Ten or twenty years ago there'd be just one or two stupid things to comment upon every month or two... like the war on drugs or whatnot. Today? I see 10 or 15 things per day that almost make my blood boil. It's a good thing I live in a relatively free place on the beach surrounded by beautiful, smiling, dancing women and good food and good times or I'd get stressed out.
If you don't have a snifter of scotch at the ready or a nice glass of wine... or whatever drink you prefer, I advise you to grab one now. You're going to need it by the time I am done.
Jeff Berwick: Peace, Love & Anarchy, 8/6/12

Around 150 of the world’s elite approached the grounds of a suburban Virginia hotel on Thursday for the first day of the 2012 Bilderberg Conference, but also on hand were throngs of protesters who gathered to opposed the top-secret gathering.
Occupy Bilderberg faces off with secretive gathering, 6/1/12

On Memorial Day - Support Our Troops - Tell them to go AWOL, 5/28/12
"Our Troops":
Our Troops do NOT Protect Our Freedom and We Should Stop Thanking Them for Doing So, 8/7/11
Support Our Troops?, 11/1/11
Oo-rah, 11/1/11
What It Really Means To Support the Troops, 11/11/11
Thank You for Your Service?, 4/21/12
Veterans Day:
Thank a Vet?, 11/11/10
A Veteran Worth Celebrating, 11/11/10
State Does Not 'Support Its Troops', 4/18/11
My Time in the US Navy: 'Service' to Whom?, 7/4/11
Thank You, Soldiers, for Your Service?, 7/19/11
No Honor Justified On Veterans Day, 11/10/11
Thanks but No Thanks, 11/11/11
Memorial Day:
Remember, 5/27/11
Remember the Victims of War & "war", 5/29/11
Dr. Dahlia Wasfi: Truth Hurts - Lies Kill - Real Truth Behind the Phony Wars, 5/29/11
Memorial Day Musings, 5/30/11
Sicko Memorial Sunday Church Services, 5/30/11
Memorial and Veterans Day Hypocrisy, 6/1/11
An Open Letter to the Troops: You’re Not Defending Our Freedoms, 6/1/11
Larken Rose: Dying for a Lie, 7/14/11
They Died in Vain, 8/9/11
Dying for Nothing, 11/3/11
THOUGHTS, VIDEO & QUOTES ON MEMORIAL DAY 2012, 5/26/12

Alex Jones’ call for Infowarriors to ‘Occupy Bilderberg’ during their upcoming meeting in Chantilly Virginia is gathering steam, with activists heeding the call to protest the clandestine annual confab involving the globe’s top powerbrokers.
Occupy Bilderberg Gathers Steam, 5/8/12

Conventional civil disobedience usually engages localized agencies and domestic government. Redress of grievances, constitutionally protected under law is a myth in practice. The courts operate as protectors of state authority, while crushing the safeguards of individual natural rights. Petition to elected officials for recourse resembles begging for sustenance. Allegiance to country is confused with deference to decadent dictates. Conscience and moral imperatives draw sincere and aware citizens to resort to necessary measures of dissent. The question is what kind of civil disobedience is appropriate and effective?
A Different Philosophy of Civil Disobedience, 4/29/12

There is nothing civilized about using force to satisfy desires. There is everything civilized about a society where voluntary relationships define the society. I avoid for now the concern of "you are dreaming of utopia, it will never work." This isn't the point. The issue is to confront what we consider as civilized, and what we consider as barbaric. The accepted wisdom is that without the state, society would collapse into lawlessness and crime. In fact, lawlessness and crime define the very nature of the state and the society organized by it.
Anarchy: the unknown ideal - The Art of Not Being Governed, 3/26/12

Adam Kokesh: The Message of Liberty in One Minute, 2/28/12

The international private prison corporation, GEO Group, Inc., was targeted today by the hacktivist group Anonymous.
Anonymous used the takeover of GEO's website to post a statement saying its hack was part of the group's "ongoing efforts to dismantle the prison industrial complex."
'Anonymous' Targets Private Prison System in Latest Hack, 2/24/12

I am not a color. I am not a race. I'm not a religion.
I am an individual, 1/29/12

Hacktivists with the collective Anonymous are waging an attack on the website for the White House after successfully breaking the sites for the FBI, Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America.
In response to today’s federal raid on the file sharing service Megaupload, hackers with the online collective Anonymous have broken the websites for the FBI, Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA, Motion Picture Association of America and Warner Music Group.
Anonymous downs government, music industry sites in largest attack ever, 1/20/12

In protest of a pending anti-piracy measure currently before the U.S. Congress, the hacker group “Anonymous” has posted personal information about two of the most powerful men in media, Time Warner Chief Executive Jeffrey L. Bewkes and Sumner M. Redstone, head of Viacom and CBS.
Anonymous posts media moguls information online, 1/14/12

Whereas, on the 14th of December, 2011, the House of Representatives of these United States voted, in the form of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, in favor of indefinite military detention, without charges, of American citizens on American soil, without due process of law, at the discretion of the government alone;
Whereas, on the 15th of December, 2011, the Senate of these United States voted in favor of the same bill;
Whereas, on the 31st of December, the President of these United States signed the same bill into law;
Whereas, the proscription against the use of military force to police the populous has been an essential feature of American civic life and civic liberty since the arrival of our civilization upon this continent;
Whereas, the wanton violation of this proscription was one of the chief causes of the separation of the American people from their government in Great Britain;
Whereas, the Constitution so chartering the government of these United States, in Article III Section III, states that “No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.”
Whereas, the Constitution so chartering the government of these United States, in the Fifth Amendment, states that no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”;
Whereas, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the President of these United States have disregarded the plain text of the Constitution;
Whereas, in openly disregarding its founding document, the government of these United States has lost any semblance of legitimacy;
Whereas, the use of such draconian measures has been an essential feature of the enforcement of tyranny by every totalitarian governments of the 20th century;
Whereas, the use of such draconian measures is carefully calculated to quash all political dissent amongst a captive people;
Whereas, the codification of such draconian measures effectively nullifies all civil liberties the people may hope to hold; And whereas, the codification of such draconian measures is an act of war against the populous at large;
Therefore, be it declared that a STATE OF WAR formally exists between the Government of these United States and the People of these United States, perpetrated by that Government against the People.
We, the People of these United States, declare any and all attempts to enforce the provisions of the NDAA to be unlawful, void, and of no force.
We declare ALL WHO voted in favor of the NDAA, and ALL WHO attempt to enforce the NDAA to be traitors to these United States, punishable under law.
We SHALL DISOBEY, APPREHEND, OR RESIST WITH FORCE, at our discretion, any person who attempts to enforce the provisions of the NDAA.
We SHALL NOT aggress against any Federal, State or local government employee who shall not attempt to enforce or aid and abet the enforcement of the NDAA, they being as trapped as the rest of the populous.
Such STATE OF WAR shall continue until the NDAA is stricken from the code of law, and all who had hand in the NDAA are removed from positions of power.
A Declaration, 1/6/12
Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration, 2/2/10

By this act of secession, I do not make the arrogant assumption of speaking for other sovereign, free-born individuals. This declaration is relevant only to me and not to any other sovereign individuals known personally to me or related by birth. However, I encourage other like minded individuals to do the same. I encourage and even implore them to stand up for their lives, liberties and property. I passionately advise they throw off the yoke of bondage that inhibits, strangles, and even kills them, destroys and steals their wealth and property, and poisons the futures of all who seek to live unchained. No shedding of blood or violent extremism is necessary. Just take the time to officially declare withdrawal of your consent.
I Hereby Secede, 12/30/11

Online “hacktivist” group Anonymous claimed Sunday it had stolen a trove of emails and credit card information from US-based security firm Stratfor’s clients, and vowed additional attacks.
Security firm Stratfor suffers Anonymous hack, 12/25/11

Think about it. The more people who lose their homes and material wealth in this manipulated downturn, the more people who stop, think and re-evalute. The more people who realize the financial and political situation is engineered for the good of a very few and not the people, the more wake up. The more people who are directly offended by these draconian new anti-freedom laws and intrusive surveillance methods, the more startled, questioning and activated they will become.
And the more people who become aware it's this way because that's the way someone wants it, the more come to some alarming yet empowering conclusions.
This is what the New World Order is unwittingly precipitating, and they're seeing it and they're afraid.
Why The Globalist Agenda Is Backfiring, 12/20/11

The revolution has not only been televised; it has also been tweeted, Tumblred and streamed. The Occupiers, mostly in their 20s, have been heavy users of social media to get their message to friends and the rest of the world. By November the group's Twitter account had more than 125,000 followers.
OWS, Re-energized: A Leaderless Movement Plots a Comeback, 12/8/11

The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement in New York City's Zuccotti Park recently came to a halt when Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered a massive sweep to evict all protesters and their belongings from park grounds. But rather than relocate the protesters' possessions to a holding facility in Manhattan as was promised, New York City police instead destroyed tents, personal laptops and computer equipment, and even medical devices and medicine.
Police confiscate and destroy medical equipment, vitamins from OWS protesters, 12/7/11

Our police state at its finest. Officers last name is Escamilla from the L.A.P.D. I believe. Here he is shown pointing a gun at a peaceful reporter.
I'm not sure of the specific legalities of this but it sure isn't an example of what a public servant should be doing; point the gun foolishly or even participating in pro-police state idiocy. Be sure to like/share to get this information out.
LA Police Officer Escamilla Leveled His Weapon At A Reporter This Morning, 11/30/11

A woman who was pepper sprayed during during a raid on Occupy Seattle last week is blaming police after she miscarried Sunday.
Jennifer Fox, 19, told The Stranger that she had been with the Occupy protests since they started in Westlake Park. She said she was homeless and three months pregnant, but felt the need to join activists during their march last Tuesday.
Pregnant Seattle protester miscarries after being kicked, pepper sprayed, 11/22/11

Retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis, who was arrested last week alongside others in the Occupy movement, calls the ordeal “the proudest moment of my life.”
“I saw all of you sleeping out here,” Lewis recalled to a videographer in New York City’s Zuccotti Park. “The cause, you were for justice. It’s not like you guys were putting up with this so you could get jobs on Wall Street. You were doing this for justice. All over the world, in fact. And that inspired me. I had to come down here an join you.”
Ret. police captain Ray Lewis: To be arrested in solidarity 'was the proudest moment of my life', 11/20/11
Retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis arrested after joining 'Occupy' protests
Police Capt Ray Lewis Joins Protest - Says Police Are Corporate Mercenaries!, 11/17/11

Americans are pushing back all over the country. It's very clear that a revolution is in full swing. Tea Parties have been organizing to fight the bailouts and taxation. Occupy Movements have be springing up to fight against Wall St corruption at the hands of the Federal Reserve. Americans are pulling their cash out of Big Banks and supporting local Credit unions, as we move into a heated election season where it looks like it's anyone's game. In today's exclusive special report Gary Franchi is joined by Former Graham County Sheriff Richard Mack. They discuss the County Sheriff Project, a movement that will compound the effort to push back against an over reaching Federal Government, a movement that needs your support.
County Sheriffs Push Back Against Feds, 11/20/11

Notice that the general theme accepted by most of the protesters is that government power is always necessary to correct the free market choices that consumers and businessmen make every day. I say: Get some historical perspective. Nations have tried those sort of regimes for centuries and they have proven both illiberal and inefficient. Real capitalism, is the newest and freest and most productive economic system ever tried and we must salvage, not wreck, what's left of it. Perhaps a field trip to Greece (or Cuba) for the Wall Street protesters is in order.
Capitalism and the Wall Street Protesters, 11/19/11

Protesters march on New York Stock Exchange on two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Outnumbered police are surrounded. Motorcycle cops retreat with nowhere else to go.
NYPD Overwhelmed by Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Motorcycle Cops Retreat, 11/18/11

Tens of thousands took action Thursday, November 17 to demand that our political system serve all of us — not just the wealthy and powerful. The NYPD estimated tonight’s crowd at 32,500 people, at the culmination of the day of action. Thousands more also mobilized in at least 30 cities across the United States. Demonstrations were also held in cities around the world.
November 17: Historic Day of Action for the 99%, 11/18/11

We are increasingly believers in "directed history" – history that's coordinated by a power elite intent on creating one-world government. We've written a good deal about the directed history we're seeing as regards Occupy Wall Street. We think that the movement has been set up to be divisive and ultimately to reinforce the power of the state. Out of chaos ... order.
What About the French Revolution?, 11/18/11

Police Capt Ray Lewis Joins Protest - Says Police Are Corporate Mercenaries!, 11/17/11
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The principle of freedom cannot be compromised.
While minarchists say they reject big government, they often condone the police, courts, and prisons – thus saying the collective “good” of those justifies the evil coercive/violent authority of government.
The simple truth is you either have faith in freedom or faith in government.
youtube, 11/16/11
Difference Between (libertarian) minarchists and anarchists, 11/17/11

During protests in Warsaw last weekend, one crafty activist deployed a flying drone to spy on riot police.
YouTube user latajacakamera — or “flying camera” in Polish — uploaded the amazing video that the drone effortlessly captured as it hovered over teargas-filled streets.
In another video, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) floats in front of a formation of police in riot gear as they rush towards demonstrators. None of them appear to notice.
Warsaw protester launches drone to spy on police, 11/17/11

Popular Hawaiian musician Makana was invited to sing for President Obama, Chinese leader Hu Jintao of China, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and more than a dozen other heads of state as part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation gala in Hawaii.
Makana was only supposed to provide quiet Hawaiian background music.
Instead, he played – for 45 minutes straight – the “Occupy” song he had just written – “We Are the Many” – forcefully telling the 1% to their face that the 99% will keep protesting and occupying until we win.
Singing good background music for the President and his friends, 11/14/11

Anti-Wall Street protesters hoping to commandeer a worldwide television audience to air their grievances said on Thursday they would peacefully “occupy” this year’s Rose Parade in Pasadena, California.
Calling on Occupy demonstrators from across the country to join them, organizers said they would set up encampments along the parade route and unfurl a 250-foot banner demanding an end to corporate influence on politics.
Protesters vow to 'occupy' Rose Parade, 11/11/11

In a video published to YouTube, an unidentified protester holding a video camera, filming a police line during the early hours of Thursday, Nov. 3, is apparently shot with a rubber bullet even after repeatedly asking officers, “Is this okay?”
Rubber bullets, though considered non-lethal, have killed people before. They can also cause serious internal injuries and even break bones. Despite their name, rubber bullets are small metal cylinders merely coated with a layer of rubber, and can be launched from traditional firearms. (Update: There’s been some speculation that this person may have been shot by a beanbag round instead, but it remains unclear.)
Watch: 'Occupy Oakland' protester shot by rubber bullet while filming cops, 11/7/11

A revolution against the controlling elite that thrusts off the tyranny of their central banking, the indoctrination in their schools, the lies of their media, and the brainwashing of their entertainment, would be a welcome development.
But a revolution that appears to free the oppressed masses from the ultra-rich, while it is manipulated behind the scenes by the globalist elite will only lead to more enslavement.
Neo-Marxist Globalist Engineers of 'Leaderless Occupy Wall St.', 11/2/11

A revolution is underway – one that will topple the existing order.
It’s not the sort of revolution that decapitates monarchs or murders czars. But a revolution is underway, and it is the kind that’s going to overthrow faith in government.
But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it might be a very helpful thing.
I think it is time now to begin investing as if there were no government guarantees…or at least no reliable government guarantees.
Anarchy - An Investor’s Best Friend, 11/2/11

First off, Occupy Wall Street protesters are older than you think. On average, for every college 'kid' there's a 40-something in mid-career. And while 60 percent voted for Obama, 73 percent are unhappy with him.
Who is Occupy Wall Street? After six weeks, a profile finally emerges, 11/1/11

George Orwell once wrote that if you want a vision of the future, "imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever." Governments have suppressed citizen dissent for as long as there have been governments and citizens to dissent against them. But over the last decade, it has become increasingly likely that someone will be there to document Orwell's predicted face-stamping with a cellphone and then post it to YouTube for the world to see. It's getting increasingly difficult for governments to get away with suppressing dissent.
Tech-Savvy Occupy Protesters Use Cellphone Video, Social Networking To Publicize Police Abuse, 10/29/11

The state’s attempts to rein in the Occupy Nashville protests that have called Legislative Plaza home for three weeks may have served only to fan the flames, observers said Friday.
If nothing else, the protesters have a new chant to add to their repertoire.
“Remember the Nashville 29” is a reference to the protesters who were arrested at 3:10 a.m. Friday when they refused to vacate the plaza. It was among the rallying cries as the group defiantly marched back toward the Capitol upon their release from the Criminal Justice Center shortly before 9 a.m. Their arrests gained them publicity and new supporters, as well as lawyers promising to file lawsuits on their behalf.
Occupy Nashville arrests could backfire, 10/29/11

The only practical strategy for combating the tyranny of centralized systems has been and always will be decentralization. Individuals must stop relying on the rules of a rigged game to see them through to the truth. This means that while mass protests are certainly a powerful tactic for voicing concerns on an international stage, they accomplish little to nothing in the way of meaningful change in the long run unless they are backed by individual actions to break away from dependency upon a poisoned political and economic framework.
Want To Defeat The Banks? Stop Participating In The System!, 10/28/11

A fast, easy, free, and non-violent way to drive the big banks out of their greedy little minds is sitting in your mailbox right now.
Keep Wall Street Occupied, 10/27/11

For One Day - October 28th, 2011 - We Shut The System Down!
Occupy Yourself: For One Day We Shut The System Down, 10/24/11

In a video statement carried recently by several official channels maintained by members of the hacker activist group “Anonymous,” a digitally generated voice explains that the online collective has decided to take down the Fox News website on Nov. 5th of this year.
The date, Nov. 5, is significant for its dramatic placement in the film and comic book “V for Vendetta,” about a freedom-loving terrorist who destroys an authoritarian government that’s come to power in the U.K. “Remember, remember the 5th of November,” is his saying, hearkening back to the “Gunpowder plot” of 1604, in which the terrorist Guy Fawkes was captured and executed for his attempt to blow up Parliament.
'Anonymous' vows to ‘destroy’ Fox News website on Nov. 5th, 10/24/11

Our situation is worsening by the day, and the state apparatus is preparing to fight against its own citizens here at home. This is a precarious situation that could spiral out of control, and we are terribly close in my opinion, to being in an uncontrollable police state environment.
When this happens, the obvious next step will be Martial Law. Once that stage is reached, it may be too late to stop the coming onslaught of the totalitarian state. This is a serious threat, and one that could result in violence and chaos in the streets of America. All need to be aware of this progression, and all need to prepare to stop it. Anything less will result in a complete loss of what little freedom we have left, and our lives may be forever harmed.
The state is always and forever the enemy of the people. It has nothing, it creates nothing, it produces nothing, and it lives and survives by looting, stealing, beating, and murdering. It is time to remove the power the state holds over us, and to try liberty instead of slavery. I say its time to abolish the state!
Police State Fascism Is Rampant; Martial Law Is Next - Abolish the state!, 10/24/11

It began as "peaceful protests" on the 17th day of September - the month of the Autumn Equinox (Sept. 21 Mabron - a very special ritual day ordained by WICCA, Kaballa, and Pagan practitioners of Lucifer as the day of atonement and the "releasing of prisoners" both political and economic.) The protest began at a specific city which was the financial heart of THE pre-eminent global capitalist "Republic" - a world-power center of wealth and influence unequalled in the entire world at that specific time. The nation, however, had been in a Great Recession for three years. Factories were closing their doors, and unemployment had reached 36%. The national debt to the world central bank was crippling in every way. Inflation had successful eroded the wages of the people by 50%. The future of this once great nation was bleak in every way.
The message of the "protesters" was a simple one the "working people" were the unwitting slaves of BIG BUSINESS and COPORATE GREED a mere 1% (the "ruling class) were robbing the "people" (the remaining 99%) of their wealth and property. It was not just a single day of protests, but was scheduled to last for many months. Eventually, the "movement" spread to every other major city in the country as well as other foreign nations.
If you think I am describing the 2011 OWS (Occupy Wall Street) and America the Beautiful, you are wrong. I am reciting the exact history of the Bolshevik Revolution (Red October) that eventually dismantled the Russian Republic of Czar Nicholas.
Red October, 10/22/11

Hopefully OWS protesters understand dark forces want to co-opt and subvert them. Hopefully they'll focus on what matters most.
Key is getting money power in public hands and making banking a regulated public utility. Achieving that makes social justice and other vital goals possible.
Millions of Americans and others globally are committed for change. Hopefully they know they're in the mother of all struggles and will stay the course. It's how all great victories are won.
Class war rages in America, 10/22/11

From New York, to London, to Sydney, to Cologne, to Bucharest, there has been a wave of protests against politicians, banks and financial institutions.
Anybody watching coverage of the demonstrations may have been struck by a repeated motif - a strangely stylised mask of Guy Fawkes with a moustache and pointy beard.
V for Vendetta masks: Who's behind them?, 10/20/11

From Egypt to London to Wall Street, people everywhere have been banding together and taking to the streets (and the internet) to make their discontentments heard. But as we've seen, protesting can be risky, as peaceful protests can turn violent in an instant. Furthermore, certain behaviors can unexpectedly land even the most benign citizens behind bars. Being informed is key, which is why we've put together this Wired guide to protesting, which includes virtually everything you need to know about exercising your free speech rights.
Protest Guide, 10/18/11

“Obama! Hey, hey! How many kids did you kill today!?”
That was the chant of many among the 200-300 anti-war protesters on October 8th, including myself. This was right in front of President Barack Obama’s national 2012 campaign headquarters, overlooking that most eye-catching of public boondoggles, Millennium Park, in Chicago, Illinois, right in the very heart of Obama Country.
Liberals, commies, socialists, infowarriors, 9/11 Truthers and yes, fellow pro-free market/pro-peace libertarians, gathered together at Michigan Avenue and the Congress Parkway to vent their frustrations and express their anger at the fact that the U.S. armed forces have now been occupying Afghanistan for an entire decade and Iraq for over eight and a half years. Several people stood up at the podium to express their outrage at the ongoing U.S.-supported Israeli occupation of Palestine and the merciless U.S. drone bombings and clandestine wars in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia. These included military veterans of the Terror Wars as well as local political activists.
What I Saw and Heard at the Anti-War Protest, 10/18/11

America's Multi-Headed Monster - It combines and represents:
• money power in private hands to make more of it at the public's expense;
• super-wealth and privilege;
• one-party rule - corrupted money party duopoly power; and
• major media managed news, not real information and analysis.
Angry street protesters nationwide must understand and focus on these above other issues. Achieving social justice depends on it.
Vitally needed change in America, 10/18/11

After triumphing in a standoff with the city over the continued protest of Wall Street at Liberty Square in Manhattan's financial district, the Occupy Wall Street movement has spread world wide today with demonstrations in over 1,500 cities globally and over 100 US cities from coast to coast. In New York, thousands marched in various protests by trade unions, students, environmentalists, and community groups. As occupiers flocked to Washington Square Park, two dozen participants were arrested at a nearby Citibank while attempting to withdraw their accounts from the global banking giant.
From Tahrir Square to Times Square: Protests Erupt in Over 1,500 Cities Worldwide, 10/16/11

For an October revolution, dress warm. That's the word going out - politely - on the Web to rally street protests on Saturday around the globe from New Zealand to Alaska via London, Frankfurt, Washington and, of course, New York, where the past month's Occupy Wall Street movement has inspired a worldwide yell of anger at banks and financiers.
Wall Street Sit-In Goes Global Saturday, 10/14/11

Happily there's no shortage of accounts of the devastation governments cause, and Lew Rockwell's own The Fascist Threat is one of the strongest and most recent. However I've not read many that suggest what can be done to fix it. Given then that government is so utterly destructive of civilized society that it clearly has to be eliminated, how can that be done?
I suggest the first essential step is to recognize that nothing else will cut it. Partial pregnancy is not an option; "limited government" is an oxymoron and two and a quarter centuries of malignant growth confirm that even in America, it's impossible. Government will always use such power as it has, to acquire more power; as fast as it can without provoking the fatal question "Government – who needs it?"
So that must be the aim: total abolition.
The Fix, 10/14/11

The US is probably getting ready for a revolution. Back in the Cold War days, the CIA was asked to do a portrait of a country that might have a revolution. It decided that such a country would have three characteristics:
A big gap between rich and poor.
A middle class that was disappearing…or one that never existed in the first place.
A lot of people with a grudge.
The US fits each of these criteria.
Vive La Revolution!, 10/14/11

The Occupy Wall Street lunacy drones on around the country while the scent, the arrests and piles of garbage continues to grow! And now the hunt is on to find the "rich" people of New York City where they sleep (Map below)!
But should you be one of the attendees protesting free enterprise and capitalism while calling for government handouts from cradle to grave?
Should you join the ranks of the rich and hypocritical liberal-left who are supporting this cause and calling for a redistribution of wealth while enjoying wealth's rewards at the same time?
OWS: Foolproof flowchart for whether you belong there or not!, 10/12/11

Several thousand demonstrators marched through downtown Chicago on Monday to protest against economic inequality, the lack of good jobs and the influence of corporations in politics.
The “Take Back Chicago” demonstration was organized by Stand Up Chicago, a coalition of some 20 community groups and organizations. Protesters from the ongoing “Occupy Chicago” demonstration also participated in the protest.
1000s of protesters flood streets of Chicago, 10/11/11

My personal hope is that they go down with all the force and ignominy that can come upon them now. They have sealed the window through which mercy can leak. They have blackened and barred the aperture. They have done it to themselves and are fully deserving of what may follow in the wake of their indifference to the needs of their fellows and their utter and callous disregard for the effects of their actions. All of the finer sentiments of the human heart; they don’t see it that way. They don’t have it in them. They are an emptiness and a terrible vacancy where nothing good can reside. They are worse than we imagine them to be and it is my fervent hope that they find nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
Busking at the Corner of Shit and Go Blind, 10/10/11

Videos are springing up across the internet showing uniformed members of the New York Police Department in white shirts (as opposed to the typical NYPD blue uniforms) pepper spraying and brutalizing peaceful, nonthreatening protestors attempting to take part in the Occupy Wall Street marches. Corporate media are reporting that these white shirts are police supervisors as opposed to rank and file. Recently discovered documents suggest something else may be at work.
If you’re a Wall Street behemoth, there are endless opportunities to privatize profits and socialize losses beyond collecting trillions of dollars in bailouts from taxpayers. One of the ingenious methods that has remained below the public’s radar was started by the Rudy Giuliani administration in New York City in 1998. It’s called the Paid Detail Unit and it allows the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street corporations, including those repeatedly charged with crimes, to order up a flank of New York’s finest with the ease of dialing the deli for a pastrami on rye.
Financial Giants Put New York City Cops On Their Payroll, 10/10/11

You are right to be outraged at those who have caused the financial mess the world is in right now. But please please please take a few moments to understand precisely who those people are and how they did it. You can go on hating capitalism and rich people all you want. But as long as you think they are the source of the problem, the problem will just get worse, while the real bad guys will be off in some back room laughing their asses off.
Bankster Flier (which can be handed out at protests)

Geraldo Driven Out Of Occupy Wall Street Protest!, 10/9/11

If you cannot go to occupy Wall Street or a Federal Reserve Branch near you in one of the 12 districts or satellite locations. Well what about the zombie banks that are the share holders of the Federal Reserve who got so much bailout money at our expense. These are the too big to fail financial institutions that is a parasite on our economy. So who are these Zombie Banks? These banks might have a branch in walking or a short driving distance form your front door.These Zombie Banks would have went under long ago if it had not been for the bailouts and Uncle Ben and his printing press.
If You Cannot Make it to Occupy Wall Street or the Federal Reserve? Occupy the Zombie Banks in Your City, 10/7/11

Familiar lies. We all live with them. These are the lies that we were brought up with. The ones that we rely on to be true in our corner of the universe. The ones that comfort us with their familiarity and social acceptance. That is, until that moment when we learn that just one of those “truths” was indeed, a lie.
Then we begin to question… everything. And that is not comforting in the least. In fact, it is the loneliest place in the world, because every comfort is fleeting – remaining only until the light of truth shines on it. Until the mere knowledge of the truth becomes the only real comfort. Until the love of truth outweighs any dalliance from reality and fleeting comfort generated from the bed of lies that encircle us and attempt to ensnare. These are the lies generated by the media machine that intend to mold us into perfect little consumer and social batteries fueling the ever-increasing beast that is our current government system.
Fleeting Comfort of Familiar Lies, 10/5/11

Right now in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, and a growing number of other cities, tens of thousands of protestors of all stripes and political persuasions are marching in protest of the corporate corruption that has infiltrated and taken control of the US government -- and the mainstream media (MSM), of course, has been virtually absent in covering this massive and escalating demonstration against the current state of US politics.
The ongoing demonstrations, which are part of a new movement called Occupy Wall Street (OWS), have already resulted in numerous cases of violent police abuses, the shutting down of the Brooklyn Bridge, and even the voluntary arrival of members of the US armed forces who have reportedly come to help protest and protect protestors from attacks by local law enforcement.
Most Americans still have no idea that the protests, which officially began on September 17, 2011, are even taking place, though, because the MSM has been too busy focusing on the next presidential election cycle and other safe, pre-planned news segments. But the events are getting so large and disruptive that the media will be unable to ignore them for too much longer.
Occupy Wall Street, the American revolution that the mainstream media is ignoring, 10/3/11

Watch organizers live from New York’s Liberty Square, courtesy of Global Revolution and Livestream:
'Occupy Wall Street' Live from Liberty Square, 10/2/11

As has been the case throughout history, and most certainly in recent protests and riots around the world, the powers that be will likely utilize agent Provocateurs to wreck havoc in an attempt to discredit the message of the people. Because of the differing backgrounds and world views at any given rally (especially one like Occupy Wall Street), it wouldn’t take much to create conflicts and clashes. Many of those who will be out in force on October 5th and at the many coming assemblies, rallies, and riots that we’ll see in America’s future will be myrmidons taking orders from their respective political, union or organization leaders. Thus, these engagements will not come without risk. There is always the danger that people will be misguided, misinformed, and misdirected, eventually turning on themselves.
It’s great that Americans are taking to the streets to effect real change. One million people is a big number, despite the media feigning ignorance to the fact the Wall Street protests are even happening. This is how it starts. It is our hope that the people carry through with the original intent of the movement and focus their energy on the problem – unregulated greed and corruption on Wall Street and within the halls of Congress – rather than each other.
One Million Protesters To Occupy Wall Street, 10/1/11

Property Rights + the Non-Aggression Principle = No Government (Anarchy)
Stefan Molyneux: Liberty 101: An Introduction to Freedom, 9/29/11

It’s long since known that the media has completely lost touch with humanity, and that’s to say it was ever once connected at all. Instead of talking about the thousands protesting corruption in our nation’s financial sector, in an attempt to gather more citizen support, not even one ‘top story’ spot could be saved in online news for them…nope they’d rather tell you about Kindle’s newly unveiled competition to Apple’s iPad and what kind of music John Huntsman likes (mind you the news about the deadly cantaloupes should be there!)
One Wall St. protestor mentioned a direct correlation between the #Occupy protests and the Tea Party protests, both of which had similar motives and goals, but were directed towards different sectors: Private vs. Public (which is debatable). Like the Tea Party, the #OccupyWallStreet agenda is somewhat unclear, most likely because of the decentralization of its protestors; those of which are coming from all different walks of life and schools of thought. What everyone seems to want is less money in the hands of people in control and more in their own.
Revolution: If the Media Won’t Cover it the Bloggers Will, 9/29/11

Today we received unconfirmed reports that over one hundred blue collar police refused to come into work in solidarity with our movement. These numbers will grow. We are the 99 percent. You will not silence us.
100 New York Police Officers Boycott In Solidarity with Wall Street Protesters, 9/27/11

The protesters began arriving Saturday, September 17th; anywhere between 500 to 2,000 activists depending whom you believe, swarming Manhattan’s financial sector in an operation they called Occupy Wall Street.
Their goal, to put it simply, was to bring reform to the country’s financial structure - to end corporate greed and reduce the gap between the rich and the poor – things that every president has failed to do in the last several decades.
Inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings, they had vowed to occupy Wall Street for weeks, even months.
Despite accusations of a media blackout, there were a handful of mainstream news reports that emerged in the beginning, but not much after that. CNN even provided a preview the day before.
And when the media finally did bother to report on it again after the fifth day of occupation, it took on a very condescending tone, especially the New York Times piece.
No Need For Media To Cover Wall Street Protests When Every Citizen Has A Camera, 9/26/11

Tensions are rising at the Occupy Wall Street protest, currently in its eighth day, as organizers for the protest claim that 80 have been arrested. Eyewitness accounts report that "dozens" have been arrested. Police would not confirm the exact number. Videos and eyewitness accounts show violent clashing between protesters and the police.
WNYC reports that "of the dozens arrested, most were for disorderly conduct, obstructing vehicular and pedestrian traffic, resisting arrest and, in one case, assaulting a police officer, the police said."
The skirmish escalated in Union Square Saturday afternoon, as Twitter users report a huge influx of police officers.
Occupy Wall Street Protest Escalates On Eighth Day, 9/25/11

It is time to take back the neighborhood we call USA. It is time to haul the thieves and swindlers responsible for the mother of all economic clusterfucks before the court of public justice.
Let them call us populists. Whatever. I'll gladly wear that badge if that is what it takes to set things right.
I know you are busy so I won't take more of your time. All I ask is you consider what I have said and how it relates to you, your friends family and loved ones.
If you agree with what I am saying, but wondering what to do, perhaps one way to start is to take this letter, pass it along to the next person and ask them to do the same.
The sooner we all stand up and openly say enough is finally enough, the better we will all be.
Dear Fellow American..., 8/20/11

You should let the video footage of the wild violence that just took place in London burn into your memory because the same things are going to be happening all over the United States as the economy continues to crumble. We have raised an entire generation of young people with an "entitlement mentality", but now the economy is producing very few good jobs that will actually enable our young people to work for what they feel they are entitled to. If you are under 30 in America today, things look really bleak. The vast majority of the good jobs are held by people that are older, and they aren't about to give them up if they can help it. It is easy for the rest of us to tell young Americans to "take whatever they can", but the reality is that there is intense competition for even the most basic jobs. For instance, McDonald's recently held a "National Hiring Day" during which a million Americans applied for jobs. Only 6.2% of the applicants were hired. In the old days you could walk down to McDonald's and get a job whenever you wanted to, but now any job is precious. The frustration among our young people is palpable. Most of them feel entitled to "the American Dream" and they feel like the system has failed them. Unfortunately, many of them are already turning to violence. But the economic riots and the civil unrest that we have already seen are nothing compared to what is coming. Americans are angry, and as the economy continues to collapse that anger is going to reach unprecedented heights.
10 Signs that Economic Riots and Civil Unrest Inside the United States are now more likely than ever, 8/18/11

Western culture has seen a great evolution of advancements since the Enlightenment and the American Revolution, but because of the intrusions of the State and compulsory State apparatus (taxation, regulatory trespasses, central banks, wars of aggression, etc.), and because of decades of immediate-gratification selfishness, materialism and indebtedness, the West has been on a steady decline – a devolution.
The irresponsible oinkers in Washington have raised the debt ceiling once again, and the Federal Reserve will go on to print more money and cause more price inflation that will lead to more impoverishment, crime and civil unrest. The criminal mob violence that some have predicted has begun at the Wisconsin State fair, and in England – those of the lower economic scale are committing wanton acts of violence because they can. That will be followed by an increasingly hungry and desperate middle class doing the same. Statism has caused the devolution of Western civilization.
The statism sickness is de-civilizing our society, our culture, our world. And it is statism that will have been the main cause of the possible impending economic collapse.
Besides Dr. Miller’s prescription of Austrian Economics as the cure for economic illness, the cures for the statism that has caused so much suffering for America (and the world) are decentralization and a voluntary society of private property, total freedom of association and contract, and a return to common sense.
We know that the statists of the ruling class will never let go of their powers. But can the cures be implemented solely by withdrawing consent and participation from the current compulsory State?
How Statism Is a Sickness, and Not Just a Destructive Political System, 8/13/11

Anarchists are, in fact, just people who believe in the free market without a violent, coercive ruler (government).
And as the world comes unglued, with daily riots in London now, the collapsing financial system and protests, riots and revolutions in dozens of disparate countries it is becoming clear that we are reaching the end of the road for this political and communist/fascist-style financial system (which many actually believe is a capitalist system) – and perhaps the end of democracy and the nation-state as we know it.
Thanks mostly to the internet (because governments and the state-controlled media try to make sure you never find out about this), people around the world are slowly awakening to what a corrupt, terrible and dying system we live in and are, on a daily basis, discovering anarchy/libertarianism/free-markets/voluntaryism as being the answer.
It is a revolution. The world over. It's just beginning. And it will be televised – on Anarchast.
Anarchast – The Revolution Will Be Televised, 8/11/11

Each of the young rioters who clogged Britain's courthouses painted a bleak picture of a lost generation: a 15-year-old Ukrainian whose mother died, a 17-year-old who followed his cousin into the mayhem, an 11-year-old arrested for stealing a garbage can.
Britain is bitterly divided on the reasons behind the riots. Some blame the unrest on opportunistic criminality, while others say conflicting economic policies and punishing government spending cuts have deepened inequalities in the country's most deprived areas.
Many of the youths themselves struggle to find any plausible answer, but a widespread sense of alienation emerges from their tales.
Britain's rioters: young, poor and disillusioned, 8/11/11

The group claims that Facebook has been providing information to governments, and describes it as 'the opposite of the Antisec cause'.
"Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from all around the world," says the group in an associated YouTube video.
Anonymous vows to take down Facebook, 8/10/11

When you have the corporate media and members of government openly calling for military in the streets that is martial law. It remains to be soon whether or not the army actually does up making arrests.
“There are growing calls now for the military to be brought in the bring these protests under control.”
Officials have apparently decided to send in an enormous amount of police instead. This could change at any moment.
London set to be under Martial Law in next 24 hrs – Troops to deploy against 'teenage' population, 8/8/11

Accepting the idea of sovereignty of the individual brings much responsibility, but that responsibility leads to a freer society. A freer society leads to a society based upon voluntary cooperation. Voluntary cooperation is the basis for free markets. Voluntary cooperation and free markets leads directly to prosperity.
It is time to break the chains of government and try freedom. It is time to throw off rule by the few for rule by self. Government has failed and failed miserably every time it has been tried. Why then continue along this path of failure? Why continue to allow rule over of the many by the few?
A stateless society has not the power to destroy the individual. I say abolish the State!
Peaceful Anarchy: Imagine A Society Without the State, 8/1/11

In the most visible law enforcement response to a recent spate of online attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday announced the arrests of 16 people across the country in connection with strikes carried out by a loose, secretive federation of hackers called Anonymous.
16 Arrested as F.B.I. Hits the Hacking Group Anonymous, 7/19/11

Infamous hacker group Anonymous launched Monday its own social network after being rejected by Google's freshly-launched online community.
"Today we welcome you to begin anew," the hacker alliance said at the website anonplus.com, which it described as a platform to distribute information.
"Welcome to the Revolution - a new social network where there is no fear...of censorship...of blackout...nor of holding back."
The drive to build a social network came after the Anonymous account was suspended at the Google+ online community, which was launched last month by the Internet giant as a challenge to Facebook.
'Anonymous' launches social networking website AnonPlus, 7/18/11

The hackers’ collective Anonymous may have obtained “literally explosive” information concerning Bohemian Grove, an annual gathering of power brokers from the US and Europe set to meet this week in California, which many see as a nefarious avenue through which elitists secretly manipulate world affairs.
Bohemian Grove is a privately owned 2,700 acre compound in Monte Rio, California surrounded by giant old-growth redwood trees. Once a year it plays host to a bizarre confab attended by some of the most powerful people in the world, including many US politicians and government officials, during which participants embroil themselves in a heady mixture of plutocratic plotting and occult pagan ritual ceremonies.
The Anonymous hacking group, which has already announced its intention to occupy the entrance to the Bohemian Grove compound as a protest against the group’s secrecy, may also be about to leak a whole treasure trove of information about the organization as part of what has been dubbed “the biggest day in Anonymous’s history”.
Anonymous Could Unleash “Literally Explosive” Material on Bohemian Grove, 7/12/11; Operation Onslaught, 7/9/11; We-All-Have-A-Choice, 7/8/11; What Are We Capable Of?, 7/7/11

Despite the Obama administration’s best efforts to characterize Operation Fast and Furious, a recently revealed ATF program that sought to put U.S.-based firearms into the hands of Mexican drug smugglers, as little more than a ‘screw up’, the most damning evidence strongly indicates that the whole operation was in fact an attempt to launch a false flag assault on the second amendment rights of the American people.
Obama Administration Caught Running False Flag Against 2nd Amendment, 6/24/11

Pulitzer-winning author and former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges has a revolutionary worldview. In the video below, his recent “Endgame Strategy” piece for AdBusters is read aloud by George Atherton.
His conclusions are chilling, but not entirely hopeless.
“We will have to take care of ourselves,” he wrote. “We will have to rapidly create small, monastic communities where we can sustain and feed ourselves. It will be up to us to keep alive the intellectual, moral and cultural values the corporate state has attempted to snuff out. It is either that or become drones and serfs in a global corporate dystopia. It is not much of a choice. But at least we still have one.”
Chris Hedges: Global revolution must begin in America, 6/23/11

We have also learned that despots prefer timid subjects. In the USA the imperial government desecrates the memory of Thomas Jefferson by insisting that all behave timidly in said place. Words like “solemn” and “reverent” flow from them to describe the atmosphere and behavior they expect at the memorial. Thomas Jefferson would have objected to this. He knew better than to call that liberty.
Thus, when we tried to protest their violently arresting people the week before for silently dancing at the memorial they moved in to stop us. Ultimately, the police prevailed by pushing everyone out of the memorial. Fortunately, no one was hurt or arrested.
While they did allow the demonstration to continue on the steps of the memorial it seemed to this observer that the results were mixed. There was dancing at the memorial and that was a victory for our side, the side of liberty. On the other hand, the government was able to shut down the dancing after a short time and that was a victory for their side, the side of tyranny. No doubt Thomas Jefferson would have been honored at our celebrating liberty as we did at his memorial and dismayed by the police state that caused us to have to do so.
Closing of the Jefferson Memorial, 6/4/11
Dance Party at Thomas Jefferson's Memorial, 6/5/11

Note that in the United States you have constitutional protections both against unreasonable searches and seizures and against compelled self-incrimination. Although the authorities may search anywhere within your reach without a search warrant after a valid stop, they may not open and search closed luggage without probable cause to believe evidence of a crime will be found, particularly when it is in a locked storage area or trunk of a vehicle, unless you consent. You have a right not to consent. Furthermore, although you may be required to identify yourself and produce a driver’s license, vehicle registration, and proof of automobile insurance, you have a right to remain silent.
Guide to the Interstate Transportation of Firearms, 6/4/11

Organized by Adam Kokesh, the host of Adam vs. the Man on RT America, a dance protest last Saturday attracted dozens of people who engaged in silent dancing inside the hall of the Jefferson Memorial. But even as they swayed in silence, the D.C. police viciously assaulted them, choking Adam Kokesh around the throat, then picking him up and violently slamming his body to the ground.
This is the new standard of violent government oppression in America: The mere fact that your body is moving rhythmically is now enough to get you violently assaulted by law enforcement. That this is taking place inside the memorial of Thomas Jefferson is, all by itself, an insult to what the memorial itself stands for: Freedom. If anything, Jefferson would have welcomed the idea of people dancing, singing, speaking and even dissenting in the hall of his memorial. Thomas Jefferson, after all, was the most famous anti-government revolutionary in U.S. history. And it was he who warned about the rise of corporate fascism and runaway government power.
Join the massive dance protest that's now forming up for Saturday, June 4th.
In response to the violent arrest of dancers last Saturday, Adam Kokesh is organizing this repeat dance protest this Saturday, which aims to attract hundreds of people to come dance at the Jefferson Memorial.
It's called the Dance Party at TJ's!
Join massive dance protest this Saturday, June 4th, at the Jefferson Memorial, Washington D.C., 5/31/11
If We Just Stop Obeying - Hitler Finds Out about Kokesh Dance Party, 5/31/11

Tens of thousands of Greeks vented their anger at the nation's political classes in Athens on Sunday, staging the biggest in a week of protests as the government seeks backing for yet more austerity. The huge crowd packed Syntagma Square in front of the Greek parliament, booing, whistling and chanting "Thieves! Thieves" as they pointed at the assembly building. "We've had enough. Politicians are making fools of us. If things stay as they are, our future will be very bleak," said a 22-year-old student who gave his name as Nikos.
Greeks vent anger at entire political class, 5/29/11

What hasn't been in the news is what has happened in Spain, and that's the big news. Young people have wised up. They know the score. Those are the people that are ahead of all of these revolutions. They know that voting for either of the major parties in Spain means more of the same. It's like voting for the Gambino crime family or the Bananno crime family. And they want a third way. And they're picking up where the Egyptians left off. They're going out into the streets and they're not leaving the streets, because again, when you lose everything and have nothing left to lose, you lose it. These are young people, as I said, with university degrees in worthlessness, they're internet connected, it's journalism 2.0, they're getting everyone out to join them, because they know now that if they don't fight against the machine, the machine is going to grind them up. These revolutions are going to spread over the summer throughout Europe. By the winter it's going to go global.
Gerald Celente: By Winter The Revolution Will Be Global, 5/27/11

It would be easy to dismiss the “gun boom” as an irrelevant cultural curiosity…if it wasn’t so seemingly relevant. Investors are also “arming themselves” in record numbers. They are buying gold and silver and oil and almost any other commodity under the sun. At the same time, they are also unloading US dollars in exchange for almost any other currency under the sun. The Norwegian kroner, Swiss franc, Aussie dollar and Canadian dollar are all trading near all-time highs against the US dollar.
Something serious is going on here. America’s economic recovery may be much weaker than advertised, while her economic vulnerability may be much greater than widely believed.
Confident citizens do not usually buy record amounts of guns and gold.
Consumers and Investors Seek Protection With Guns and Gold, 5/10/11

When a Toronto police officer made the off-the-cuff remark that women shouldn’t ‘dress like sluts’ to avoid being sexually victimized, he probably didn’t expect the worldwide wave of indignation his comment would unleash. From Canada to Australia, an international series of marches known as “SlutWalks” are being organised by women protesting for the right to wear what they like and behave how they choose without facing sexual harassment.
‘SlutWalk’ goes global after policeman’s rape insult, 5/10/11

Checking our gauges for oil, food, water, topsoil, clean air, climate stability, ethical business practices, and democracy - we're running on empty. Economic depression, nuclear meltdown, extreme weather, catastrophic oil spills, crop failures, contamination of aquifers through natural gas fracking and oil sands extraction, dirty coal and mountaintop removal, genetically engineered "Frankenfoods" and agrofuels, endless wars for oil and strategic resources, and deteriorating public health - welcome to the New World Order of 2011. Bend down for the New Global Lords, our planetary Board of Directors: 1200 billionaires, 10 million millionaires, and 1000 giant multinational corporations.
Xtremes: Subversive recipes for catastrophic times, 5/9/11

If one wanted to summarize in one word the decisive difference and advantage of a competitive security industry as compared to the current statist practice, it would be: contract. The state, as ultimate decision-maker and judge, operates in a contract-less legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens. It is not contractually fixed, what is actually owned by whom, and what, accordingly, is to be protected. It is not fixed, what service the state is to provide, what is to happen if the state fails in its duty, nor what the price is that the "customer" of such "service" must pay. Rather, the state unilaterally fixes the rules of the game and can change them, per legislation, during the game. Obviously, such behavior is inconceivable for freely financed security providers. Just imagine a security provider, whether police, insurer or arbitrator, whose offer consisted in something like this: I will not contractually guarantee you anything. I will not tell you what specific things I will regard as your to-be-protected property, nor will I tell you what I oblige myself to do if, according to your opinion, I do not fulfill my service to you – but in any case, I reserve the right to unilaterally determine the price that you must pay me for such undefined service. Any such security provider would immediately disappear from the market due to a complete lack of customers. Each private, freely financed security producer instead must offer its prospective clients a contract. And these contracts must, in order to appear acceptable to voluntarily paying consumers, contain clear property descriptions as well as clearly defined mutual services and obligations. Moreover, each party to a contract, for the duration or until the fulfillment of the contract, would be bound by its terms and conditions; and every change of terms or conditions would require the unanimous consent of all parties concerned.
State or Private Law Society - Isn't It Time We Overthrew the State?, 5/6/11

So though U.S. housing continues losing value--U.S. home prices declined in January, continuing a downward trend that began in August, with average U.S. home prices retreating to summer 2003 levels, according to the S&P Case-Shiller home-price indexes--property tax revenues continue their inexorable rise.
Could Declining House Values Spark the Next Taxpayer Rebellion?, 3/30/11

Inspirational video about living from our hearts and not from what society and govermnet tells us to live by and be.
rEVOLution is here, 3/16/11

Hundreds of protesters stormed a courtroom and attempted to make a citizens' arrest on a judge in support of a man challenging his council tax bill. In chaotic scenes, police rescued Judge Michael Peake from the clutches of a mob and escorted him safely from the County Court in Birkenhead, Merseyside. Officers were force to scramble over court benches to control the near riot as one protester shouted to 'seal the court'. Another sat in the judge's chair at the head of the court and declared the defendant be released.
Hundreds of council tax protesters storm courtroom in attempt to make citizens' arrest of judge, 3/8/11

In previous Revolution Roundups, before we were knocked offline, we featured mass protests by the people of Ireland, Italy, Britain, Austria, Greece, France and Portugal, as the Global Insurrection contagion spread throughout Europe. And now, as we have seen over the past month, North African and Middle Eastern nations have joined the movement as the people of Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Morocco, Gabon, Mauritania, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, Palestine, Iraq, Sudan and Algeria have taken to the streets en masse.
The connection between this latest round of uprisings and the prior protests throughout Europe is one the mainstream media is not making. We are witnessing a decentralized global rebellion against Neo-Liberal economic imperialism. While each national uprising has its own internal characteristics, each one, at its core, is about the rising costs of living and lack of financial opportunity and security. Throughout the world the situation is the same: increasing levels of unemployment and poverty, as price inflation on food and basic necessities is soaring.
Whether national populations realize it or not, these uprisings are against systemic global economic policies that are strategically designed to exploit the working class, reduce living standards, increase personal debt and create severe inequalities of wealth. These global uprising, which have only just begun, are the first wave of the inevitable reaction to the implementation of a centralized worldwide Neo-Feudal economic order.
Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against World Banking Elite and the Coming American Rebellion, 2/26/11

Membership in anti-government extremist groups continues to explode in the United States amid frustration over the lagging economy and the "mainstreaming of conspiracy theories," a study released Wednesday found.
Anti-government extremist groups on rise in US: study, 2/23/11

The protests that have rocked the Middle East have found their way to the Midwest, as problems from a bad global economy has sparked these demonstrations. Radio Host Alex Jones believes the economic situation has been orchestrated by the New World Order and that the fury in the streets is being used to roll in another layer to the police state.
Globalist Manipulation of Mass Protests, 2/19/11

At first glance, the “leaderless revolution” in Egypt has nothing in common with the recent closing of Allyson’s, a local deli here in our small Oregon town. Until you hear why the bank called the note. “… the balance and payments are due.” Quoting from a CommonDreams.org article by David Porter on Egypt, “It is the slowly-accumulating momentum of hundreds of thousands of confrontations with local officials and elites… that slowly develop the courage, confidence and essential horizontal networks bubbling below the surface…” [Allyson's Kitchen - Ashland, Oregon] How many Allyson’s stories are accumulating throughout America? How many business owners and employees, home owners and credit card users have had their lives turned upside down by banker’s decisions like this one, so utterly devoid of humanity?
Invisible, Growing Leaderless Revolution in America, 2/13/11

Why don’t Egyptians seize the moment and create freedom for themselves – their Persons – now? By freedom for Persons, I don’t mean democracy or a so-called free society or a society under some government, be it democratic or democratic-socialist or theocratic or autocratic or whatever. I don’t mean elections, coalitions, parties, votes, leaders, taxes, and so on. I mean freedom of each and every person. And I do not mean to single out Egyptians. I raise the same question for Americans. Why not freedom for all Americans now? Why not freedom for any People anywhere now?
Why Not Freedom of All Persons Everywhere Now?, 2/2/11

One of the foundations of modern society is the belief that governments’ legitimacy is derived from the consent of the governed — a concept championed by political philosophers of the 18th century European Enlightenment, such as John Locke. It was Locke’s treatises on government that inspired the Declaration of Independence by the thirteen American colonies in 1776, as well as the Constitution that established the United States of America as the first modern republic in 1787.
The exact nature of the consent, however, has been a point of contention ever since. Today, the prevalent position among the governments is that any government whose country is not in a state of active rebellion is presumed to have at least the tacit consent of the populace. Furthermore, as a demonstration of that consent, just about every government in the world organizes elections and pays lip service to democracy.
What happens, however, when the governed begin to believe that the government no longer cares about their consent, or lack thereof?
Mediterranean Revolutions - Withdrawing Consent, 1/29/11

You Are The Resistance Against The DHS Occupation Of America "Resistance V's appeared all over the country....The V campaign meant ordinary people could feel they were doing something, however symbolic, to protest against the Occupation." -The Resistance, by Matthew Cobb.
America is in peril, the United States is being occupied as Homeland Security launches a total takeover of society and attempts to indoctrinate an army of citizen spies as the country accelerates its slide into banana republic despotism. Americans who can see what is unfolding feel helpless, powerless and overawed by the clear evisceration of their freedoms. The time has come for a massive campaign of powerful, symbolic, peaceful resistance.
V for Victory Resistance Campaign Launched, 1/23/11

V for Victory sample mix
You Are the Resistance Mix, 1/21/11

An American trends analyst told a Russian news service recently that in 2011, young people from industrial societies around the world will unite on the Internet to overthrow increasingly ineffective elements of globalism that have driven their economies into depression. In a wide-ranging interview with Russia Today (RT) on Monday, Gerald Celente made the bold prediction along with a raft of other prognostications on humanity's growing trends.
Trends analyst predicts global youth uprising, ‘progressive libertarians’ in 2011, 1/11/11

As the United States edges closer to becoming a third world country; anger, frustration, and cynicism continue to mount in the minds of the American population. In fact, a recent Pew Research poll showed that 80% of baby boomers are pessimistic about America’s future. This pessimism seems warranted as authentic political solutions appear to be in short supply in our corporate state.
The democratic political system is now clearly run by crony cartelism. The multinational banks have hijacked the economy and are openly looting the public. Mounting and impossible-to-pay off debt is crippling local governments. The entire spectrum of our rights continues to degrade. Crimes that would land regular citizens in jail are now openly being committed by the elite and their organizations with no justice. And perhaps most telling, the power structure is establishing a control grid to eliminate due process for the Internet and beyond to stifle any dissent.
10 New Year’s Re-Solutions For Non-Violent Rebellion, 12/28/10

Perhaps it is unseemly for someone such as I to make a recommendation to a Harvard professor, yet I cannot resist the urge to suggest that Glaeser read, say, Murray Rothbard’s Power and Market. Expositions of that sort would help him to gain a clearer vision of the distinction between individual freedom and state domination in economic affairs. Glaeser quotes Milton Friedman to good effect in his article, but Friedman’s writings ought to be the beginning, rather than the end of wisdom in this area. In regard to freedom, Friedman’s arguments were good as far as they went, but they did not go nearly far enough. Like Glaser, Friedman was prepared to make many concessions to state power, and his focus on utilitarian arguments, as opposed to moral principles, diminished the intellectual force of his laudable efforts to enlarge the scope of liberty in economic affairs.
Freedom Means Anarchism - Is Not Compatible with Government’s Initiation of Force Against Innocent People, 1/27/11

There are reasons to expect the allure of anarchism to grow in the coming year. The blatant looting of society by corporate and government elites who fail to satisfy basic expectations, the wars that succeed only in bringing power and profit into certain hands, the crimes of governments revealed though WikiLeaks and social media — all these strain the tolerance of a populace developing a social outlook of live and let live, an awareness of privilege and equality, and the technical and economic ability to create spaces for previously suppressed ideas to grow and satisfy human needs.
In contrast to the state, which rests on domination through violence, terror, deception, and conformity, anarchists encourage a future where individuals flourish in freedom and consensual cooperation.
An American Experiment in Anarcho- Capitalism: The Not So Wild, Wild West; Anarchists in America, 1/3/11

We claim the right to exist, and we will defend it.
We do not seek to overthrow anything. We do not seek to control anything. We merely wish to be left alone.
All we ever wanted was to live in peace with our friends and neighbors. For a long, long time we bore insults to our liberty; we took blows, we did what we could to avoid injury and we worked through the system to get the offenses to stop. That has now changed.
We no longer see any benefit in working through the world’s systems. At some point, working within a system becomes cowardly and immoral; for us, that point has arrived. Regardless of the parties in power, their governments have continued to restrict, restrain and punish us. We hereby reject them all. We hereby withdraw from them all. We hold the ruling states of this world and all that appertains to them to be self-serving and opposed to humanity.
We now withdraw our obedience and reclaim the right to strike back when struck. We will not initiate force, but we do reserve the right to answer it. We did not choose this – it was forced upon us.
Mike Gogulski: A Declaration of Separation, 4/8/9

"Anarchy" is an expression of social behavior that reflects the individualized nature of life. Only as living beings are free to pursue their particular interests in the unique circumstances in which they find themselves, can conditions for the well-being of all be attained. Anarchy presumes decentralized and cooperative systems that serve the mutual interests of the individuals comprising them, without the systems ever becoming their own reasons for being. It is this thinking, and the practices that result therefrom, that is alone responsible for whatever peace and order exists in society.
Political thinking, by contrast, presumes the supremacy of the systems (i.e., the state) and reduces individuals to the status of resources for the accomplishment of their ends. Such systems are grounded in the mass-minded conditioning and behavior that has produced the deadly wars, economic dislocations, genocides, and police-state oppressions that comprise the essence of political history.
Men and women need nothing so much right now as to rediscover and reenergize their own souls. They will never be able to accomplish such purposes in the dehumanizing and dispirited state systems that insist upon controlling their lives and property. In the sentiments underlying anarchistic thinking, men and women may be able to find the individualized sense of being and self-direction that they long ago abandoned in marbled halls and citadels.
Butler Shaffer: What Is Anarchy?, 1/13/4

Can any state have a “right to exist”? The question has been raised anew by Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe, in his book Democracy: The God That Failed. He answers it with a resounding No.
Hoppe is only the latest thinker in the tradition of philosophical anarchism. His mentor, the late Murray Rothbard, was another. Both owe their ideas to a great but little-known nineteenth-century American, Lysander Spooner.
Spooner’s position was simple. There is a moral law, which in essence we all learn in early childhood, even before we know our math tables. Basically it is this: Don’t harm other people. The principle is simple, even if its applications may occasionally be difficult.
From this, Spooner reasoned, it follows that no state should exist. Nobody can claim the power to change the moral law or a monopoly of the authority to enforce it. But the state claims the right to do both. It tries to change the moral law by legislation, which is falsely thought to add to the moral duties of its subjects; and it insists that only it may define, outlaw, and punish wrongs.
The results of the state’s claims include war, tyranny, slavery, and taxation. Human society would be better off without the state.
Anarchism, Reason, and History, 1/24/2

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