“I am not particularly interested in my story,
because like most peoples stories it is largely a lie,
it remains mostly a deception, whether I know it or not.
A true zero-point social ecology, a zero-point economy and
the zero-point within our awakening consciousness itself
demands that we release ideas of the past”
laurence brahm
new earth nation economics
dawn of a new earth consensus
COMPASSION AND PRAGMATISM MUST REPLACE A TIFFANY TWISTED WORLD ORDER
Enter the Decade of Protest
New York 2011: As New York City police evacuated peaceful demonstrators of Occupy Wall Street
(OWS), I reflected on events participated in over
the previous weeks. One of the most poignant was when protest leaders from Cairo’s Tahrir
Square joined us at Occupy Wall Street. The energy was exuberant. Their presence underscored
a historical crossroads that the western mainstream media simply missed in their reporting, yes
one of those surging trends that the starch-shirted
analysts failed to portend. The year 2011 marked
something that will be remembered by future generations as the decade of global protest.
Regardless of the political spectrum - left or
right - both sides have lost jobs. Protestors decry
unemployment and home foreclosures, unprecedented since the Great Depression. Within
span of a mere decade, America’s financial might
was exhausted by unnecessary wars and fiscal
stimulus wasted, rewarding bailouts to bankers
gone rogue. For Americans, the snuggly Wall
Street–Washington coterie has become as much
a symbol of incompetent government, politics of
oligarchy and economic squandering as Mubarak
and his military cronies had become to the Egyptian protestors.
Since 2011, from Tunis to Madrid, Athens to New
York, global protests have spread without regard
to region, race, religion or generation, as people
across our planet joined hands to express outrage at an unjust order that is blatantly hypocritical. Declining economies, lo 72