The defense of corporations softens in support of wall street protestors to different degrees for different candidates as they attempt to do some directing of their own, (includes Eric Cantor)...
Related:
Overview of the Republican Party
Overview of Socialism
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Added October 18, 2011
Jon Stewart's take on the Occupy Wall Street growth and Mitt Romney(from the above video)...
Friday, October 14, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Focusing On The Issues 2 - Well Researched Demands by Occupy Wall Street
LIST OF PROPOSED "DEMANDS FOR CONGRESS" by OCCUPY WALL STREET
- CONGRESS PASS HR 1489 ("RETURN TO PRUDENT BANKING ACT" http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-1489 ). THIS REINSTATES MANY PROVISIONS OF THE GLASS-STEAGALL ACT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass–Steagall_Act --- Wiki entry summary: The repeal of provisions of the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933 by the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act in 1999 effectively removed the separation that previously existed between investment banking which issued securities and commercial banks which accepted deposits. The deregulation also removed conflict of interest prohibitions between investment bankers serving as officers of commercial banks. Most economists believe this repeal directly contributed to the severity of the Financial crisis of 2007–2011 by allowing Wall Street investment banking firms to gamble with their depositors' money that was held in commercial banks owned or created by the investment firms. Here's detail on repeal in 1999 and how it happened: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass–Steagall_Act#Repeal .
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Vote Here #1
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- USE CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORITY AND OVERSIGHT TO ENSURE APPROPRIATE FEDERAL AGENCIES FULLY INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE THE WALL STREET CRIMINALS who clearly broke the law and helped cause the 2008 financial crisis in the following notable cases: (insert list of the most clear cut criminal actions). There is a pretty broad consensus that there is a clear group of people who got away with millions / billions illegally and haven't been brought to justice. Boy would this be long overdue and cathartic for millions of Americans. It would also be a shot across the bow for the financial industry. If you watch the solidly researched and awared winning documentary film "Inside Job" that was narrated by Matt Damon (pretty brave Matt!) and do other research, it wouldn't take long to develop the list.
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Vote Here #2
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- CONGRESS ENACT LEGISLATION TO PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY BY REVERSING THE EFFECTS OF THE CITIZENS UNITED SUPREME COURT DECISION which essentially said corporations can spend as much as they want on elections. The result is that corporations can pretty much buy elections. Corporations should be highly limited in ability to contribute to political campaigns no matter what the election and no matter what the form of media. This legislation should also RE-ESTABLISH THE PUBLIC AIRWAVES IN THE U.S. SO THAT POLITICAL CANDIDATES ARE GIVEN EQUAL TIME FOR FREE AT REASONABLE INTERVALS IN DAILY PROGRAMMING DURING CAMPAIGN SEASON. The same should extend to other media.
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Vote Here #3
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- CONGRESS PASS THE BUFFETT RULE ON FAIR TAXATION SO THE RICH AND CORPORATIONS PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE & CLOSE CORPORATE TAX LOOP HOLES AND ENACT A PROHIBITION ON HIDING FUNDS OFF SHORE. No more GE paying zero or negative taxes. Pass the Buffet Rule on fair taxation so the rich pay their fair share. (If we have a really had a good negotiating position and have the place surrounded, we could actually dial up taxes on millionaires, billionaires and corporations even higher...back to what they once were in the 50's and 60's.
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Vote Here #4
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- CONGRESS COMPLETELY REVAMP THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION and staff it at all levels with proven professionals who get the job done protecting the integrity of the marketplace so citizens and investors are both protected. This agency needs a large staff and needs to be well-funded. It's currently has a joke of a budget and is run by Wall St. insiders who often leave for high ticket cushy jobs with the corporations they were just regulating. Hmmm.
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Vote Here #5
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- CONGRESS PASS SPECIFIC AND EFFECTIVE LAWS LIMITING THE INFLUENCE OF LOBBYISTS AND ELIMINATING THE PRACTICE OF LOBBYISTS WRITING LEGISLATION THAT ENDS UP ON THE FLOOR OF CONGRESS.
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Vote Here #6
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- CONGRESS PASSING "Revolving Door Legislation" LEGISLATION ELIMINATING THE ABILITY OF FORMER GOVERNMENT REGULATORS GOING TO WORK FOR CORPORATIONS THAT THEY ONCE REGULATED. So, you don't get to work at the FDA for five years playing softball with Pfizer and then go to work for Pfizer making $195,000 a year. While they're at it, Congress should pass specific and effective laws to enforce strict judicial standards of conduct in matters concerning conflicts of interest. So long as judges are culled from the ranks of corporate attorneys the 1% will retain control.
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Vote Here #7
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- ELIMINATE "PERSONHOOD" LEGAL STATUS FOR CORPORATIONS. The film "The Corporation" has a great section on how corporations won "personhood status". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SuUzmqBewg . Fast-forward to 2:20(see below). It'll blow your mind. The 14th amendment was supposed to give equal rights to African Americans. It said you "can't deprive a person of life, liberty or property without due process of law". Corporation lawyers wanted corporations to have more power so they basically said "corporations are people." Amazingly, between 1890 and 1910 there were 307 cases brought before the court under the 14th amendment. 288 of these brought by corporations and only 19 by African Americans. 600,000 people were killed to get rights for people and then judges applied those rights to capital and property while stripping them from people. It's time to set this straight.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Focusing On The Issues 1 - With Senator Bernie Sanders (An Independant who sits with the Democrats)
This interview, with Senator Bernie Sanders, has several strategies that will work providing there is transparency and are all implemented together.
[Note: I see this as a economic stabilizing/transitional strategy - Ron Paul opposes all income taxes on principal, however his strategy, like the one below, will only work if it is implemented as a full strategy. Doing one thing at a time(as opposed to, 'all at once'), while filling each bill with inefficiencies because of corporate influence... with the only public exposure of these problems through comedy news shows, won't work. ]
The following are extracts from "Q&A: U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders welcomes Occupy Wall Street message":
Public outrage is well justified, he said; and cited two sobering statistics:
-- The nation’s six largest financial institutions now have assets worth more than $9.4 trillion — about 65 percent of our Gross Domestic Product.
-- Three of the four largest of those corporations have actually grown in size since they were bailed out two years ago with taxpayers’ money.
“If they are too big to fail, then they’re too big to exist,” Sanders said.
During an extended interview, the senator described parallels between the impulses driving Occupy Wall Street — and his own work to spur Congress and the White House to make systemic changes in how Americans create wealth.
Burlington Free Press: This has been a perennial concern of yours for years, hasn’t it?
Senator Bernie Sanders: Sure: I’ve been talking about it for many years, but it hasn’t been out there.
BFP: Explain how your aims — if not your methods — are similar.
SBS: I am very supportive of the protests because they are focusing attention on an issue that needs a lot of discussion: not only the greed of Wall Street and the reckless behavior that has caused this recession, but also the growing inequality in the United States.
It’s important for more people for understand that, both in terms of economics and in politics, there’s something very wrong when so few own so much and have so much political power — and when so many have so little political power and money. That’s what these protester are focusing on, and I think that’s a good thing to do.
BFP: How does Wall Street consolidate money and power?
SBS: One example from a political a perspective: when Wall Street wanted more deregulation, over a 10-year period, they spent $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to do away with Glass–Steagall (Act), to do away with the regulations that had prevented them from getting into this hyper-speculative mode. Five billion dollars to get what they wanted! That’s extraordinary power.
BFP: You mentioned the six largest financial firms in the U.S. controlling more than half of the country’s worth.
SBS: They also issue about two-thirds of the credit cards in this country, and about half of the mortgages. So, what we’re looking at is folks with tremendous economic power, and obviously with that economic power goes tremendous political power in terms of their ability to spend huge amounts of money on lobbying and campaign contributions. It was spent to make sure that the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Bill (passed in 2010, ostensibly to regulate financial markets) was as weak as possible.
BFP: What can we, as a country, do about the financial giants?
SBS: The answer has got to be that you’ve got to break them up. If they are too big to fail, then they’re too big to exist. They should be broken up so that we don’t have to bail them again when they collapse again.
And number two: because they have so much economic power, I think they’ve got to be broken up because that’s not what a competitive economy is about.
BFP: Are there lessons in history we need to re-learn?
SBS: Monopolies (in the early 20th century) were broken up by good Republicans like William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt. Standard Oil was broken up, the railroad trusts were broken up. So I think we can learn a lesson from Teddy Roosevelt who broke up the trusts: that should be one of our goals.
BFP: Then what?
SBS: When you have 25 million Americans today who are either unemployed or underemployed, and if you understand that real unemployment includes those people who have given up looking for work and are working part-time when they want to work full-time — that’s 16 percent of our population.
It goes without saying that we need a major, major jobs program. We need to put millions of people back to work. I agree with some of what the president is proposing; disagree with certain other aspects. But he is certainly talking about the need for a jobs program. I would go further.
BFP: What kind of jobs?
SBS: Rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, I think, is the fastest and best way to create jobs. Look at our roads, bridges, water systems — go down to Rutland and talk to the mayor there about his water system — wastewater plants, rail: We are falling behind much of the rest of the world in terms of high-speed rail.
A good jobs bill will address all of those things; it will make this country more productive, more internationally competitive and create, over a period of years, millions of decent paying jobs.
BFP: These are tough times. How can we afford to pay for a massive jobs program?
SBS: We need to ask the wealthiest people in this country to pay more taxes. I say use that money to invest in infrastructure and in the process, create jobs for working families.
BFP: Is this what you were talking about as a “tax surcharge” earlier this year?
SBS: In fact, I introduced that legislation in March — and it’s now being used, with some changes, by the Democrats. This is a a time when the people on top are doing phenomenally well — and their effective — i.e. their real — tax rates are the lowest in decades. It’s what Warren Buffet, a billionaire, is talking about when he says he ends up having an effective tax rate lower than a nurse or a police officer.
[Note: I see this as a economic stabilizing/transitional strategy - Ron Paul opposes all income taxes on principal, however his strategy, like the one below, will only work if it is implemented as a full strategy. Doing one thing at a time(as opposed to, 'all at once'), while filling each bill with inefficiencies because of corporate influence... with the only public exposure of these problems through comedy news shows, won't work. ]
The following are extracts from "Q&A: U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders welcomes Occupy Wall Street message":
Public outrage is well justified, he said; and cited two sobering statistics:
-- The nation’s six largest financial institutions now have assets worth more than $9.4 trillion — about 65 percent of our Gross Domestic Product.
-- Three of the four largest of those corporations have actually grown in size since they were bailed out two years ago with taxpayers’ money.
“If they are too big to fail, then they’re too big to exist,” Sanders said.
During an extended interview, the senator described parallels between the impulses driving Occupy Wall Street — and his own work to spur Congress and the White House to make systemic changes in how Americans create wealth.
Burlington Free Press: This has been a perennial concern of yours for years, hasn’t it?
Senator Bernie Sanders: Sure: I’ve been talking about it for many years, but it hasn’t been out there.
BFP: Explain how your aims — if not your methods — are similar.
SBS: I am very supportive of the protests because they are focusing attention on an issue that needs a lot of discussion: not only the greed of Wall Street and the reckless behavior that has caused this recession, but also the growing inequality in the United States.
It’s important for more people for understand that, both in terms of economics and in politics, there’s something very wrong when so few own so much and have so much political power — and when so many have so little political power and money. That’s what these protester are focusing on, and I think that’s a good thing to do.
BFP: How does Wall Street consolidate money and power?
SBS: One example from a political a perspective: when Wall Street wanted more deregulation, over a 10-year period, they spent $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to do away with Glass–Steagall (Act), to do away with the regulations that had prevented them from getting into this hyper-speculative mode. Five billion dollars to get what they wanted! That’s extraordinary power.
BFP: You mentioned the six largest financial firms in the U.S. controlling more than half of the country’s worth.
SBS: They also issue about two-thirds of the credit cards in this country, and about half of the mortgages. So, what we’re looking at is folks with tremendous economic power, and obviously with that economic power goes tremendous political power in terms of their ability to spend huge amounts of money on lobbying and campaign contributions. It was spent to make sure that the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Bill (passed in 2010, ostensibly to regulate financial markets) was as weak as possible.
BFP: What can we, as a country, do about the financial giants?
SBS: The answer has got to be that you’ve got to break them up. If they are too big to fail, then they’re too big to exist. They should be broken up so that we don’t have to bail them again when they collapse again.
And number two: because they have so much economic power, I think they’ve got to be broken up because that’s not what a competitive economy is about.
BFP: Are there lessons in history we need to re-learn?
SBS: Monopolies (in the early 20th century) were broken up by good Republicans like William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt. Standard Oil was broken up, the railroad trusts were broken up. So I think we can learn a lesson from Teddy Roosevelt who broke up the trusts: that should be one of our goals.
BFP: Then what?
SBS: When you have 25 million Americans today who are either unemployed or underemployed, and if you understand that real unemployment includes those people who have given up looking for work and are working part-time when they want to work full-time — that’s 16 percent of our population.
It goes without saying that we need a major, major jobs program. We need to put millions of people back to work. I agree with some of what the president is proposing; disagree with certain other aspects. But he is certainly talking about the need for a jobs program. I would go further.
BFP: What kind of jobs?
SBS: Rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, I think, is the fastest and best way to create jobs. Look at our roads, bridges, water systems — go down to Rutland and talk to the mayor there about his water system — wastewater plants, rail: We are falling behind much of the rest of the world in terms of high-speed rail.
A good jobs bill will address all of those things; it will make this country more productive, more internationally competitive and create, over a period of years, millions of decent paying jobs.
BFP: These are tough times. How can we afford to pay for a massive jobs program?
SBS: We need to ask the wealthiest people in this country to pay more taxes. I say use that money to invest in infrastructure and in the process, create jobs for working families.
BFP: Is this what you were talking about as a “tax surcharge” earlier this year?
SBS: In fact, I introduced that legislation in March — and it’s now being used, with some changes, by the Democrats. This is a a time when the people on top are doing phenomenally well — and their effective — i.e. their real — tax rates are the lowest in decades. It’s what Warren Buffet, a billionaire, is talking about when he says he ends up having an effective tax rate lower than a nurse or a police officer.
Understanding Your Opponents - Part 3 (Unions vs. Corporations)
Establishment Republicans are for corporations (linked to a few people who are often called the 'super rich') and they are against the poor/middle class such as the people represented by unions).
Applicable - Moment of Zen
Public Employee Union vs. Wall Street Bonus Contracts: According to Fox News, public employee union contracts bankrupt states, but the government cannot interfere with Wall Street bonuses
Outline:
There is strong pressure against unions yet general electric actually gets a subsidy! So, although the corporate tax is at 35% they don't pay anything they get paid. That is serious inefficiency...
Yet, unions help people who help people for a living, such as that shown in this story....
The 9/11 first responders (firefighters) had to actually create their own group to get help and had to fund their own studies...
Applicable - Moment of Zen
Public Employee Union vs. Wall Street Bonus Contracts: According to Fox News, public employee union contracts bankrupt states, but the government cannot interfere with Wall Street bonuses
Outline:
There is strong pressure against unions yet general electric actually gets a subsidy! So, although the corporate tax is at 35% they don't pay anything they get paid. That is serious inefficiency...
As greedy public workers bankrupt states, America makes it harder for honest corporate citizens to create jobs.
Yet, unions help people who help people for a living, such as that shown in this story....
[Above: Bill covers carpel tunnel (a hand problem generally caused by typing) but not cancer.]
The 9/11 first responders (firefighters) had to actually create their own group to get help and had to fund their own studies...
Understanding Your Opponents - Part 2 (Class Warfare)
As Hermain Cain said in his CNN interview (in the last post), by protesting against the rich, occupy wallstreet protestors are committing class warfare. In other words, something that is true, i.e. class warfare of a few rich people (leaders of establishment republicans) against the rest of the population, is turned on its head (i.e. it has been re-framed, as Frank Luntz explains here).
The real class warfare is by the people who control the establishment republicans. All rich people are not involved (obviously).
Class Warfare Perspectives;
1.
Note: Fox News/New Repubs talk of percentages for the minority group they protect but numerical figures with examples of piles of money when attacking majority interests.
2.
Note:
A. "We gotta start somewhere... that's a million dollars (that we could save) - in contrast to the 700 billion we could save to reduce the deficit from the rich and unfairly untaxed (i.e. there is class warfare but its from the ones who are trying to aggravate people by projecting what they are doing onto Buffet).
B . From fox news: Dont tax the rich but 'broaden the tax base' - ignore/cover over the realty of the tax codes (see these are not real republicans! more proof later). C. Taxing the majority (poor) instead of taxing the minority (super rich by comparison) this is the very definition of despotism.
D. Heritage institute (Koch Brother funded) are trying to create the image of poor being wealthy cause they have normal second world amenities. (i.e. this will lower standard of living).
E. Demonizing (irresponsible animals) the part of society that is suffering from the excess and scamming of certain individuals on wall street etc.
3.
1. Clear sign of hypocrisy - tax breaks for some people is 'focusing on one particular group of people' by this definition fox news/repubs just proved that they are waging classwarfare with thier policies (oil, unions vs wall street, unequal tax rates (so they pay more in terms on monetary value but less in terms of effect on income and standard of living)
4.
The ultimate loophole to get out of taxes is having too little income to tax - [another clear sign of class warfare (i.e. establishment republicans against everyone else ]
5.
So much fuss over a 2% tax increase! (Note: If someone say's 'its not fair', explain tax burden to them).
The real class warfare is by the people who control the establishment republicans. All rich people are not involved (obviously).
Class Warfare Perspectives;
1.
Note: Fox News/New Repubs talk of percentages for the minority group they protect but numerical figures with examples of piles of money when attacking majority interests.
2.
Note:
A. "We gotta start somewhere... that's a million dollars (that we could save) - in contrast to the 700 billion we could save to reduce the deficit from the rich and unfairly untaxed (i.e. there is class warfare but its from the ones who are trying to aggravate people by projecting what they are doing onto Buffet).
B . From fox news: Dont tax the rich but 'broaden the tax base' - ignore/cover over the realty of the tax codes (see these are not real republicans! more proof later). C. Taxing the majority (poor) instead of taxing the minority (super rich by comparison) this is the very definition of despotism.
D. Heritage institute (Koch Brother funded) are trying to create the image of poor being wealthy cause they have normal second world amenities. (i.e. this will lower standard of living).
E. Demonizing (irresponsible animals) the part of society that is suffering from the excess and scamming of certain individuals on wall street etc.
3.
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1. Clear sign of hypocrisy - tax breaks for some people is 'focusing on one particular group of people' by this definition fox news/repubs just proved that they are waging classwarfare with thier policies (oil, unions vs wall street, unequal tax rates (so they pay more in terms on monetary value but less in terms of effect on income and standard of living)
4.
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5.
So much fuss over a 2% tax increase! (Note: If someone say's 'its not fair', explain tax burden to them).
Understanding Your Opponents - Part 1 (Establishment Republicans)
Wall Street protestors have been labeled 'left of center' but both sides are looking to use the movement for their own purposes...
Willing to listen to people protesting can be trying on people who don't agree or are being paid to disagree. Problem is some people will agree and this will grow until it become something along lines of people fighting each other because they are in another party or protest group.
For example; the strong Republican (wall street related) response...
Cain is ignoring many realities in his statements...
In other words, people such as The Koch brothers (written about here) will be trying to turn sentiment against anyone who protests against discriminating against the rest of the people (i.e. the 99%). Making the locals angry would help them...
Samantha Bee heads to Wall Street to build a bridge between workers and protesters in America's rage-based economy.
Local restaurant concerns:I worked for years in the restaurant and diners in NY and can understand how the workers feel. Keep in mind that these people are working hard for a living they are not making the money the companies or chains that they work for make. (somebody should set up some 'pay for use' toilets on Wall Street...that's the free market working). Anyways, keep in mind that inconsiderate actions could work against the movement in the long run.
Reacting with anger at anyone perceived to be on the 'opposite side' is normal though...
Proof 1 - Democrats and Republicans at each others necks...
Proof 2 - Rhetoric on both sides (mostly Republican though)...
This interview is with the ex-GOP president, notice how different he is...
Notice Michael Steel's use of the word 'establishment republicans' and that there was a change in republican party from the 1850s (from individuals to institutions)... i.e. the official (or rather unofficial) party direction is to help business over the individual which, over time, naturally came to be corporations. That's how the republican party became what it is today (also read True Republicanism)
Willing to listen to people protesting can be trying on people who don't agree or are being paid to disagree. Problem is some people will agree and this will grow until it become something along lines of people fighting each other because they are in another party or protest group.
For example; the strong Republican (wall street related) response...
Cain is ignoring many realities in his statements...
In other words, people such as The Koch brothers (written about here) will be trying to turn sentiment against anyone who protests against discriminating against the rest of the people (i.e. the 99%). Making the locals angry would help them...
Samantha Bee heads to Wall Street to build a bridge between workers and protesters in America's rage-based economy.
Local restaurant concerns:I worked for years in the restaurant and diners in NY and can understand how the workers feel. Keep in mind that these people are working hard for a living they are not making the money the companies or chains that they work for make. (somebody should set up some 'pay for use' toilets on Wall Street...that's the free market working). Anyways, keep in mind that inconsiderate actions could work against the movement in the long run.
Reacting with anger at anyone perceived to be on the 'opposite side' is normal though...
Proof 1 - Democrats and Republicans at each others necks...
Proof 2 - Rhetoric on both sides (mostly Republican though)...
This interview is with the ex-GOP president, notice how different he is...
Notice Michael Steel's use of the word 'establishment republicans' and that there was a change in republican party from the 1850s (from individuals to institutions)... i.e. the official (or rather unofficial) party direction is to help business over the individual which, over time, naturally came to be corporations. That's how the republican party became what it is today (also read True Republicanism)
Monday, October 10, 2011
Occupy Wall Street vs. The Tea Party
Occupy Wall Street vs. The Tea Party on CNN
Here is a clip from Washington Week;
Notes:
1. Could this be the left's version of the tea party
2. They have a great slogan, "We are the 99%"
3. The movement is grassroots. Big money came into the tea party just as the unions are coming into the wall street protests now but the 'left is never as good as the right at this stuff'.
4. "What the tea party did was really big and really hard".
5. The tea party movement was aimed at the ballot box while this one is more about grievances so far.
Answer to 5. = See CNN clip above, people from the left are beginning to move in to take advantage of the movement.
Answer to 2. = Yes.
Answer to 1. = No. The Tea Party had Fox News support from the start while for the Wall Street protests there was a media blackout (i.e. it was ignored till it couldn't be ignored anymore)...
More evidence of Fox News being involved in the creation of The Tea Party...
Fox News/Republicans have started attacking the Wall Street protestors and this will probably increase, just take a look at the hypocrisy over violent rhetoric...
Answer to 3 and 4. = To do what the Tea Party did you must learn from them and use their techniques (to a degree, leave out the violent rhetoric)
In politics, messaging is everything
Note about 3 mins 20 seconds into above video: Frank Luntz - re-framed estate tax as death tax + Healthcare reform as 'government takeover of healthcare' - "Spin doctor who manipulates public emotion but Luntz would reframe that as Fox News Analyst" Stephen Colbert
One of the strategists of Fox News/GOP (see money trail here), Frank Luntz, explains...
Tips on the following topics from above video:
1. Body language tips,
2. Handling audience tips,
3. Creating a more positive phrase for 'drilling for oil' became 'energy exploration'. (inaccuracy doesn't matter as long as there is a sliver of fact - KISS principle, i.e'. keep it simple stupid),
4. 'climate change' as opposed to 'global warming' ,
5. 'simple truth' (not a lie as it contains a sliver of fact!),
6. 'you decide' to lock in the last manipulative phrase (most of the viewers decisions are based on the views of who they trust... even the books they read ), 7. 'buzz words' - words that people focus on opposed to facts,
8. Use 'simple truth' only once in a discussion or article ?,
9. A criminal getting caught should apologize 3 times, "I'm sorry, I made a mistake, forgive me'
10. Uses the sighing gesture in an interesting way... separating interview reality from fox news manipulations realities,
11. Frank Luntz is marketing a book, which is why he is exposing fox news/tea party secrets... we should get more fox news 'analysts' to write books! . [fox news interview is here - Learn from this book for political success.
Words like 'imagine' and 'real time' and other words/tactics used by Frank Luntz above, I first encountered when I started studying hypnosis about 13-14 years ago. Some further research links...
From Wikipedia "The Milton Model lists the key parts of speech and key patterns that are useful in directing another person's line of thinking by being "artfully vague", and in principle the model states that larger chunks (more general use of language) can lead to more rapport, while smaller chunks, (more specific language) is more limiting and has a greater chance of excluding concepts from a person's experience."
From my website "Hypnosis is one of the most misunderstood methods in the world. Hollywood movies have created an impression amongst most people that a hypnotist can control minds. That is simply not true." - [Note: controlling mind vs. manipulating minds using various social factors is a different phenomenon but studying hypnosis and NLP helps us understand them - about NLP].
Here is a clip from Washington Week;
Notes:
1. Could this be the left's version of the tea party
2. They have a great slogan, "We are the 99%"
3. The movement is grassroots. Big money came into the tea party just as the unions are coming into the wall street protests now but the 'left is never as good as the right at this stuff'.
4. "What the tea party did was really big and really hard".
5. The tea party movement was aimed at the ballot box while this one is more about grievances so far.
Answer to 5. = See CNN clip above, people from the left are beginning to move in to take advantage of the movement.
Answer to 2. = Yes.
Answer to 1. = No. The Tea Party had Fox News support from the start while for the Wall Street protests there was a media blackout (i.e. it was ignored till it couldn't be ignored anymore)...
More evidence of Fox News being involved in the creation of The Tea Party...
Fox News/Republicans have started attacking the Wall Street protestors and this will probably increase, just take a look at the hypocrisy over violent rhetoric...
Answer to 3 and 4. = To do what the Tea Party did you must learn from them and use their techniques (to a degree, leave out the violent rhetoric)
In politics, messaging is everything
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Note about 3 mins 20 seconds into above video: Frank Luntz - re-framed estate tax as death tax + Healthcare reform as 'government takeover of healthcare' - "Spin doctor who manipulates public emotion but Luntz would reframe that as Fox News Analyst" Stephen Colbert
One of the strategists of Fox News/GOP (see money trail here), Frank Luntz, explains...
The Colbert Report
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Tips on the following topics from above video:
1. Body language tips,
2. Handling audience tips,
3. Creating a more positive phrase for 'drilling for oil' became 'energy exploration'. (inaccuracy doesn't matter as long as there is a sliver of fact - KISS principle, i.e'. keep it simple stupid),
4. 'climate change' as opposed to 'global warming' ,
5. 'simple truth' (not a lie as it contains a sliver of fact!),
6. 'you decide' to lock in the last manipulative phrase (most of the viewers decisions are based on the views of who they trust... even the books they read ), 7. 'buzz words' - words that people focus on opposed to facts,
8. Use 'simple truth' only once in a discussion or article ?,
9. A criminal getting caught should apologize 3 times, "I'm sorry, I made a mistake, forgive me'
10. Uses the sighing gesture in an interesting way... separating interview reality from fox news manipulations realities,
11. Frank Luntz is marketing a book, which is why he is exposing fox news/tea party secrets... we should get more fox news 'analysts' to write books! . [fox news interview is here - Learn from this book for political success.
Words like 'imagine' and 'real time' and other words/tactics used by Frank Luntz above, I first encountered when I started studying hypnosis about 13-14 years ago. Some further research links...
From Wikipedia "The Milton Model lists the key parts of speech and key patterns that are useful in directing another person's line of thinking by being "artfully vague", and in principle the model states that larger chunks (more general use of language) can lead to more rapport, while smaller chunks, (more specific language) is more limiting and has a greater chance of excluding concepts from a person's experience."
From my website "Hypnosis is one of the most misunderstood methods in the world. Hollywood movies have created an impression amongst most people that a hypnotist can control minds. That is simply not true." - [Note: controlling mind vs. manipulating minds using various social factors is a different phenomenon but studying hypnosis and NLP helps us understand them - about NLP].
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Putting Eric Cantor's Comments in Perspective
Eric Cantor is a majority leader of the Republican Party and he had this to say...
Watch the first minute of the following video and you'll notice that Eric Cantor was only willing to help tornado victims in Missouri and Oklahoma once spending cuts are made (i.e. caring about the people is not on his agenda)...
Quote: Ugh. - "Actual elephants are more useful than the GOP." Jon Stewart
Majority Leader Eric Cantor today described the Occupy Wall Street protesters as “growing mobs,” in some of the sharpest criticism yet from a one of the highest-ranking Republican leaders in the House.
“I am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and other cities across our country,” the Virginia congressman said in Washington this morning.
The majority leader than chastised Democrats for supporting the protestors. “Believe it or not, some in this town have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans,” Cantor said. “But you sent us here to fight for you and for all Americans. You sent us here to bring about real change in Washington, real change to your federal government. And we’re committed to do that.”
Watch the first minute of the following video and you'll notice that Eric Cantor was only willing to help tornado victims in Missouri and Oklahoma once spending cuts are made (i.e. caring about the people is not on his agenda)...
Quote: Ugh. - "Actual elephants are more useful than the GOP." Jon Stewart
Introduction
When I first heard of these protests I was skeptical as there was only a picture of about 5 protestors, so I figured that a Fox News tactic was being used (i.e. make a small protest seem extra large by only focusing on closeups rather than full overview of the crowd). I saw nothing on mainstream media news channels so I thought it was nothing (CNN/BBC). Turns out some media channels were ignoring the protest to shut it out and then (or rather now) things are getting ugly...
[Notice: About 1 minute into the video 'Media moved from blackout to circus'.]
The best part is, this movement is actually growing.
Quick Overview of Protests: Here are the views of some of the protestors...
1. "Whitleblowers are being silenced"
2. "How a corporation can have more of a voice than the American public is just beyond me "
3. A Fox News interview that still hadn't been aired till several days after, but it came on The Daily Show so it might have shown up on Fox News by now...
[Note: A clip of this video is in The Daily Show video clip above at about 1 minute and 50 seconds into the video]
Earlier Stephen Colbert had made fun of the lack of focus on the much advertised 'one demand' from some group...
The media took Stephen's writers observations as a good point and questioning has begun...
Now the super rich who fund the establishment republicans have begun fighting back - beginning with Herman Cain, as he starts a rumor and blames individuals for the financial crisis (plus other contradictions) ...
[Notice: About 1 minute into the video 'Media moved from blackout to circus'.]
The best part is, this movement is actually growing.
Quick Overview of Protests: Here are the views of some of the protestors...
1. "Whitleblowers are being silenced"
2. "How a corporation can have more of a voice than the American public is just beyond me "
3. A Fox News interview that still hadn't been aired till several days after, but it came on The Daily Show so it might have shown up on Fox News by now...
[Note: A clip of this video is in The Daily Show video clip above at about 1 minute and 50 seconds into the video]
Earlier Stephen Colbert had made fun of the lack of focus on the much advertised 'one demand' from some group...
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The media took Stephen's writers observations as a good point and questioning has begun...
Now the super rich who fund the establishment republicans have begun fighting back - beginning with Herman Cain, as he starts a rumor and blames individuals for the financial crisis (plus other contradictions) ...
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