(Part 3) Best products from r/occupywallstreet

Another great one is Down and Out in London and Paris by George Orwell. Its really a gripping story of just what is is like for those who live in poverty on a day to day basis.

T. Harry Williams's Huey Long is the best biography on him there is. I just realized it looks like I'm shit talking it in my above post when I'm actually praising it, it'll change your mind if you think he was a boogeyman.

amazon link, unfortunately no ebook yet :(

I just finished reading Program or be Programmed and it blew my mind. This book has honestly changed how I look at the Internet & modern culture.

A good book on the same subject is Griftopia - http://www.amazon.com/Griftopia-Machines-Vampire-Breaking-America/dp/0385529953

• http://www.mediafire.com/?8bz3y2orybgqle5

Maybe Amazon removed all such reviews for Defense Technology brand pepper sprays.

"Be the first to review this item" is what Amazon actually says.


http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Technologies-Stream-Solution-3-0-Ounce/dp/B001TOP524/ref=sr_1_7?s=sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1322144840&sr=1-7

I read Coercion back in college and it was good. Rushkoff has done a couple of Nova specials too.

Recommended:

Books

The Web of Debt

The Creature from Jekyll Island

Videos

Money as Debt

The Money Masters

The Secret of Oz

The American Dream

Tents like these are spectacular.

Here's what I would recommend, speaking as an individual only: http://www.amazon.com/Global-Slump-Economics-Politics-Resistance/dp/1604863323

This article needs to back up its sources. Or we should just read the book http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446 and scrutinize these details.

Otherwise please don't succumb to hyperbolic language and sites

How Nonviolence Protects the State

Hi De,

Sorry, I'm not positive I understand why the answer was unsatisfactory to you.

They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.

Who is they?

There are the voice of corporate money -- finance in particular -- which has overwhelmed the power of people's votes. See Food inc, Omnivore Dilema, In Defence of Food, Supersize Me.

One theme that recurs through out these four works on the politics of food is that the will of the people gets overruled by corporate money once it gets to Washington. That money, in turn, is required to be this amoral by the atmosphere in Wall St.

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It's possible that you are asking for a simple answer to a complicated question. I can understand that, to someone who hasn't invested a fair amount of effort educating themselves on the issue, the one-liners used in the manifesto might seem trite. But they refer to very specific organizational behaviors that are well documented.

I'm happy to continue the conversation, though at one point you will have to read a long-form book or watch a documentary or two, in order to understand the conversation on the ground at Liberty Square.

Yeah, I did notice that.

http://www.amazon.com/Things-Youre-Not-Supposed-Know/dp/1932857028/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1319530771&sr=8-1

If you would allow me... I would suggest first learning macroeconomics and the purpose of central banking.

(I recommend this but that's only because that's the book I first learned econ from. YMMV. )

If I could magically bring back three people to aid us in our time of trouble it would be (in no particular order):

George Carlin

Abbie Hoffman

Sam Kinison

With George telling the story, Sam providing inspiration, and Abbie showing us the way, we'd roll these rich cocksuckers up like a flophouse blanket.

What an incredibly cost-effective tool. These cost less than $200.

http://www.amazon.com/GoPro-HD-Helmet-HERO-Camera/dp/B002VA56I8

Get ten people on the front lines wearing them. (Helmets unnecessary.) Occupy Oakland was transformed after recent videos. Occupy Wall Street didn't receive nearly as much sympathy before those women were pepper sprayed and recorded.


Can anyone think of a better use of money? Until we saturate the media with hundreds of hi-definition, clear cut cases of uncalled-for police brutality, let's buy as many of these as we can.

This reminds me a book review I just did (We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805094369/ossnet-20), he has a line in there about "We were the ones who famously helped past together feathers year after year, hoping for a duck." That is OWS in a nut-shell. They mean well but have no strategy, no financial plan (I could raise $50 million for them tomorrow if they would all just use IndieGoGo where I have paved the way, that ends embezzlement such as Oakland is experiencing, and connects money to minds to policy to voting--IndieGoGo is ready to build the BigBatUSA (unlike Dean's that was just a cluster, this would be a virtual self-government at all levels) but I cannot FIND someone to communicate with at EACH of the Occupy groups, much less get the various Occupy folks to listen.

I think morality is objective. E.g.

http://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Morality-Virtuous-Robots-Virtual/dp/0415076919

Tit for Tat works very well in iterated prisoner's dilemma. In fact it beats much more cunning but less moral strategies.