Occupy.... Something
Monday, November 21, 2011 at 9:54PM As I write I am on a plane heading back from Montreal to Cabo San Lucas. While I managed to stay out of jail in Montreal I did get thrown out of two taxis - again for the heinous crime of having an electronic cigarette - and, as always in Canada, I had a few guys want to fight me. A fellow conference attendee was jumped in downtown Montreal and beat up fairly badly and robbed as well. That's fairly par for the course in Canada. The funny part is that the Canadian school and media propaganda keeps telling Canadians they are the nicest and friendliest people on Earth and, by rote, any Canadian will tell you that. But, my experience is mostly of being bossed around by the other slaves and regularly threatened with physical violence and constantly being the victim of numerous petty crimes such as car break-ins, home break-ins and the like.
But, having not been in the US or Canada since the iniciation of Occupy Wall Street (OWS), I was very happy to finally get my opportunity to go and check it out with my own eyes. I happened across Occupy Montreal, in a park across the street from the W hotel at about 11pm on Friday night. Thrilled, I rushed over. There were about 50 tents pitched... and not one person to be found.
By 11pm they had all retired to their tents. I can't blame them too much, really, it was freezing cold. But, it was certainly a let-down from my viewpoint. Really, all that it looked like to me was a public campground. And, that appears to be mostly the case across Canada. In fact, from what I am told, it's mostly just homeless people (Canada probably has more homeless people per capita than almost anywhere in the world).
The funny part of that is, as David Galland of the Casey Daily Dispatch pointed out, that the OWS crowd has begun to get angry about the homeless moving in on the occupation. Here was David's comments on it:
Personally, I am appalled that the Occupiers would even consider not welcoming the homeless into their collectivist arms. After all, those poor unfortunates...
1) Are part of the 99%.
2) Have been cast aside by the capitalist society.
3) Often have health problems and no money to afford a good doctor.
4) Are unable, or unwilling, to work to support themselves.
5) Are human beings, and as such have inalienable rights to wholesome food and non-cardboard shelters.
Yet, when the poor downtrodden tried to get a break by joining in the society of the Occupy crowd, those heartless bastards tried to make them work or even tried to throw them out on the streets!
I think it is time, therefore, to Occupy the Occupiers, demanding that they stop their callous mistreatment of the 0.09% of the 99% and instead uncomplainingly give half of their daily food rations to the homeless, and open their tents to these most unfortunate of unfortunates.
I'll be in San Francisco later this week and am expecting to see quite a bit more action at Occupy San Francisco. And we'll have more on OWS mañana. In the meantime, I did an interview with Al Korelin on the Korelin Economic Report recently that you may find of interest:
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That said, although my city just won another World Series a few weeks ago (which I did enjoy watching, as much as I used to enjoy playing ball), for decades now this Gateway to the West has had to deal with it's reputation as one of, if not the most violent / deadly cities, inside one of the most violent / deadly countries in the World. Our crime stats for years have pushed us way past L.A., New York, Chicago, New Orleans and even the only one to go head to head for the crown Detroit.
It's amazing how few really notice the subtleties of a society shifting before their very eyes.
This gave these firms unprecedented access to this wealth by artificially sucking everyone into the market, due to the fabricated Tech Bubble. They then crashed the market in order to transfer this wealth in a very short time period. As I said, several market makers went on record at the time to reveal all, out of guilt and remorse.
And that was my introduction to UN Agenda 21, though I had no idea what it was at the time.
Side note: illegal naked shorting was rampant back then. Market makers would solicit the Berlin and Frankfurt exchanges in order to have penny stocks listed for trading. These penny stocks could then be legally shorted on those exchanges. In addition, market makers in the US could trade via brokerage accounts in Vancouver (Canada), which would route those trades through the Xetra ETN (in Germany). Xetra also allowed the shorting of penny stocks, and anonymous trading.
Food for thought: George Soros co-owns part of the US Federal Reserve, called the DTC (aka, Cede & Co.). The DTC earns a small profit on every existent and also non-existent naked shorted share routed through the DTC.
The same Mr. Soros who funds both sides of every argument, playing the Hegelian dialectic to the hilt. Fabian socialist God-less, unethical scum. Corrupt DNA.
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Maybe not.
Maybe the tents were empty.
There is some evidence pointing in that direction.
Over in Toronto, Ezra Levant, commentator for the Toronto Sun newspaper, suspected the tents of "Occupy Toronto" might be empty.
So he took a film crew, with an _Infra-Red_ video camera -- Clever, eh? -- and went to see for himself.
Mr. Levant found that the vast majority of tents were empty.
No warm bodies inside most tents.
He looked into some of the tents that came up empty on the Infra-Red.
Indeed, empty.
Confirming video at this link:
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/11/18/ezra-debunks-occupy-toronto
-- Peter
Thailand
Peter4@allmail.NET
It was a pleasure to watch!
Thank you, Jeff!