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John Galt's avatar

So what you are saying is that they all (OWS) went Neo Pagan, got confused about their Genitals, and became Gender Migrants,

meanwhile

Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa continued their Marxist Government Benefits Orgy, placed me under 64 Trillion Dollars in Government Debt and Unfunded Liabilities, and shipped my job off to China, but I am the Deadbeat?

Kenaz Filan's avatar

We absolutely stopped talking about economic issues and started worrying about identity politics and cultural theory. And I'm still trying to figure out how that happened. I suspect at least one of the culprits was social media algorithms; they reward disagreement as engagement, and OWS was saying things that pretty much every American agreed with even if they disagreed about the encampments and protests.

Cultural theory spent decades in the shadows among urban intellectuals who kept the fire alive. They did a long march through the institutions and slowly but surely managed to bring those ideas into the mainstream. By contrast OWS was running a "leaderless resistance," and after the occupation ended there were no charismatic figureheads to keep the fire going. And as a result we've spent 15 years of oligarchs using our federal budget as a pig trough and are about to see the bill come due.

John Galt's avatar

And furthermore - how?

Well, when you look into:

A. the propensity of the political sphere since the rise of the Clintons in the 1990's to use Holyweird tools such as literal Tools in effect and substance, such as Crowd Strike, crowd sourcing, even crowd sourcing gigs offered through Labor Unions; and;

B. 2011 coinciding with the installation of the Acorn Kenyan Lawyer Barry who rose to prominence at the same time government employees became unionized through SEIU;

you can see how once that crowd at OWS became a protest gig, that the power of SM and the Internet would marshal them to the next objective and script them for the next cause.

Does that help any?

Kenaz Filan's avatar

Oh, things are going to get considerably worse going forward. We have been keeping our economy together with chewing gum and bandages, and we're fast running out of chewing gum.

John Galt's avatar

We are at something like 40000% inflation since my mother's time as a child. This is an eternal falling of hell. There is no moral bottom to an amoral money system, and thus next year 2Trillion Dollar Notes will be needed for a pound of chicken since we will all be infected to not be able to eat beef.

That is a Zimbabwe scene, and it will be worse medically.

You know what Zimbabwe used to be called Rhodesia, Before Rhodesia used candles to light their homes with, do you know what they used?

White Man's Electricity.

Tom Karnes's avatar

Great Recession ranks right up there with Pandemic, in plane English it was the largest open air daylight bank robbery in history, blamed on government efforts to make home owners out of lazy black people. Wasn't there a guy in Zuccotti Park day one shining a light on financial Maleficence, and for the privlage winds up dead as a door nail, kind of like Francis Boil scheduled to testify in a Dutch Court against Pfizer during the fake Pandemic???

Kenaz Filan's avatar

I appreciate your response, but am unclear on how this comment relates to the essay. I am open to the possibility that the Great Recession and COVID-19 were both staged to cover up a money transfer. But I also think it is possible, and more likely, that they were fueled respectively by greed and fear, not by a money-making conspiracy.

Could you give me a reference to the man in Zuccotti Park who ended up dead? A quick news search only reveals that in 2022 the body of a homeless woman who camped out at Occupy Wall Street was found in Cypress Hill, Brooklyn. If somebody was killed at the OWS protest for knowing too much, I would definitely be willing to incorporate that information into a future Substack piece.

Francis Boyle died in 2025, not long after he was scheduled to testify in a Dutch court. He was also 74; the death of a 74-year-old man could be the result of any number of things. And Grok points out:

"Francis Boyle was a professor of international law at the University of Illinois, known for drafting the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act and advocating on human rights issues. He died on January 30, 2025.

Claims that his death coincided with agreeing to testify against Gates and Bourla in a Dutch court appear unsubstantiated, as the lawsuit began in July 2025—months after his passing. No credible sources confirm such an agreement or link."

Again, I'd be interested in hearing evidence that this was part of an extended conspiracy. But without that evidence, I remain leery of Rube Goldberg theories. It could be that the Great Recession and COVID-19 were staged. But that would require a lot of moving parts to explain behavior that can more easily be explained as people reacting to a genuine crisis.

Tom Karnes's avatar

"Fueled by greed and fear"; I got wiped out in 2007, spent over 10,000 hours researching WTF happened, and if your still not sure what happened or how my comment relates, you have some catching up to do, I will be sitting on a hot rock in the lotus position, hurry time is short, we need you

John Galt's avatar

Without a doubt the 2008 was a criminal money transfer, just like the 10 Billion (which was pretty much the entire economy at the time) in the 1987 crash covered in Tim Metz's Black Monday October 19, 1987 and beyond.

Certainly it was a massive wealth transfer/currency depreciation same as 1987. It was like 7-9 of the 11 Trading Houses which sold the US Treasuries, which is the process of the money printing for the Congress were closed by Noon of October 20, so the scam was over until the following Monday Jerry Corrigan, NY Fed Chairman ordered the Printing/Crediting of all losses into those House Accounts. The Casino can never go bankrupt.

By 1992 when I was studying the Seven Laws of Noah with young Jared Kuchner's School Master Rabbi, I had a mentor who took Apple Computers from the Garage to the IPO who was telling me of what was happening with the Creation of the Derivatives/Credit Default Swap/Mortgage Insurance scam that would allow people to place bets against the Mortgages of people who could not pay them. Upon their default these observer speculators (as opposed to Party of the Contract Speculators) would be paid for the home multiple times through the Derivatives of AIG.

This was a BOON for the Insurance Company payout funds.

It was 1992 and I objected to the whole thing certain that it was going to devastate the economy even further than the then overvaluation of the NYSE at 11-14x (now it is beyond astoundingly ludicrous) and knew as I had just read about 1987 at the time, that a crash was building.

An Acorn Lawyer named Obama was on the paperwork on the lawsuit against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac regarding the Red Lining of Properties that it would loan for that could then be internationally marketed at AAA and AAAA Mortgage Trust Securities on international Pension Funds.

As the Frontline documentary "Meltdown" explained in the fall of 2008, Berneke and Paulson were pressuring the Congress to hand over control of the money printing to the National Banks for the 14 Trillion Dollar Bailout (which was secretly about 64 Trillion as they were bailing out Europe as well).

As Meltdown explained, it appears that the great impetus of motivation held over the head of the Congress, like 1987, was not just to bail out banks, and all of housing through Fannie Maw and Freddie Mac who were forced into this mess by the Courts, Acorn and Congress, and most firms except Shearson Lehman, but mostly the need to bailout AIG insurance which held control over the Congressional Pension Funds.

Then there was another bailout (TARP), and I believe yet another (still TARP), in order to reassure the receiving banks that their prior position on the rotting heap of bodies of debt would be returned.

When the Acorn Lawyer became President in the economic mess, the Told His FIRST LIE from Office, when he said, "Don't Look at me on this economy. I just got here!"