Video: Occupy Wall Street guy says NYPD sent Rapists and criminals to Zuccoti Park

You will honestly not believe this exchange. From start to finish, your mouth may just be agape at the completely dysfunctional mind of OWSr Harrison Schultz. His claim that the NYPD is responsible for the Zuccoti Park crime at the protests is just a small portion of his insane mindset. One of Schultz's other candid admissions is that he lives off of student loans and doesn't know where the money comes from. He also thinks everything should be free and that capitalism has failed.

Just watch. Wow.

Via MediaIte:

Video: Occupy Phoenix calling for Capitalists to be Re-educated through "Manual Labor"

If you thought the OWS crowd was gone after its nationwide protests fizzled late last year, it did not. They went dormant and have spent the majority of the winter festering inside their warm worm holes, thinking of ways to hit back harder this spring. Here is one example in Phoenix.

As is the case in all Alinsky-style movements, targets need to be specific and ever changing because, as Rule number 7 States:

A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

Translation: You can only pick on the Koch brothers for so long before you have to go after someone else.

Enter another target; it's called ALEC or the American Legislative Exchange Council. It is a group made up of capitalist-minded state legislators and policy advocates.

Note what this useful idiot is calling for here. He wants all ALEC officials to be tried and sentenced to "manual labor" that is intended to fix all the damage that such officials are allegedly responsible for. In essence, what OWS in Phoenix is calling for here is the re-education of Capitalists

Via Verum Serum:



I apologize in advance for being redundant but in light of what OWS Phoenix, which is ironically located in the "American southwest" is advocating, I give you (again) the video of Larry Grathwohl in 1982. This video needs to be watched as many times as it takes to get the reality of what we're facing to sink in.

Grathwohl was the only man to successfully infiltrate the Weather Underground, founded by none other than Barack Obama friend and colleague, Bill Ayers. In this clip, he explains exactly what Ayers' group intended to do after taking down the United States government. Notice how many "capitalists" the Weather Underground intended to "eliminate" if they couldn't be "re-educated" in "centers located in the American southwest."

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Bill Ayers support the Occupy movement? Ditto Obama?

Video: Michael Moore Trumps his own Hypocrisy

Nicholas Ballasy of the Daily Caller, caught up with Michael Moore inside Union Station and interviewed him about things like taxes, capitalism, and various other related topics.

Find out why Moore thinks the wealthy should pay more taxes but why he is not willing to donate to the Treasury himself. My personal favorite is his response to the question about him engaging in Capitalism by selling tickets to his movies.

Have a glass of water handy because you just might choke on this level of hypocrisy.

The only question I wish Ballasy would have asked involved finding out what Moore has in the plastic bag he had slung over his shoulder. Twinkies, perhaps?

Video: Bain Capital Documentary now available

This is from Newt's Super PAC and despite the attempts of talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to denounce the attacks on Bain as attacks on capitalism, this could be quite damaging to the presumptive Republican nominee.

Via King of Bain:

Top 25 Richest Celebrities who Support OWS

There's hypocrisy and then hypocrisy on steroids, laced with a level of self-loathing that involves aligning with those who hate you. Enter the segment of the richest 1% of Americans who happen to be both liberal and on the side of the 99% who wants to steal their wealth.

First, there's the laughable hypocrisy of the likes of Alec Baldwin, who makes the list of the top 25 richest celebrities who hate capitalism in general, banks in particular. Baldwin does commercials for Capital One.

Or how about Miley Cyrus and Jay Z? Both of them have capitalized on OWS while not sharing their wealth. In the case of Jay Z, his 'Occupy All Streets' t-Shirts have made him a pretty capitalist penny. Ditto for Miley's OWS song.

Via NewsBusters:

Here is a list of the 25 richest celebrities supporting the Occupy Movement (Source: Celebrity Net Worth)

1. Yoko Ono - $500 million

2. Jay-Z - $450 million

3. David Letterman - $400 million

(tie) Stephen King - $400 million

5. Russell Simmons - $325 million

6. Sean Lennon - $200 million

7. Mike Myers - $175 million

8. George Clooney - $160 million

9. Brad Pitt - $150 million

(tie) Don King - $150 million

11. Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) - $145 million

12. Jane Fonda - $120 million

(tie) Miley Cyrus - 120 million

14. Al Gore - $100 million

15. Roseanne Barr - $80 million

(tie) Deepak Chopra - $80 million

17. Kanye West - $70 million

(tie) Dan Rather - $70 million

19. Alec Baldwin - $65 million

(tie) Matt Damon - $65 million

21. Tom Morello - $60 million

(tie) Mia Farrow - $60 million

23. Katy Perry - $55 million

24. Michael Moore - $50 million

(tie) Susan Sarandon - $50 million

Total: $4.1 billion

No wonder liberals are so angry. They have defective wiring.

OWS: Freudian Slip, Schizophrenic, or Change of Heart?

Sent in by Barrackaid #34. Now that the OWS encampments are being shut down, the OWS crowd is attempting to re-constitute in another form but I had no idea they are going to fight against their own movement.

Via Yahoo News, it looks like the OWS movement's newly announced "Global Day of Action," is going to be all about fighting against the oppression of the 1%.

Here's a screen shot because the verbiage is likely to change, that is unless they've switched sides.

Video: Michael Moore Refuses Questions about his $50 Million

What does Michael Moore do when a heaping helping of his own hypocrisy is shoved in front of his face? Well, he runs away, actually. Apparently, he doesn't find it as appetizing as practically everything else. While at Occupy Portland, Moore responds to a question from some dude in the crowd by calling on the richest 400 people to each give back $1 Million. Then, when asked how much of his $50 Million he's going to give back, Moore pretends the question wasn't asked. I'm sure Moore likes pickles but I'm equally sure he doesn't like being in one. The left has decided to pit the richest 1% of Americans against the other 99%. Putting aside the fact that the richest 1% pay the lion's share of the taxes, Moore is part of that 1% and the guy in this video calls him on it.

Perhaps even more amazing is the crowd's defense of Moore. It proves once again that this class warfare business is not about 1% vs. 99%. It's about common sense vs. some twisted ideology that's completely devoid of logic.

Once again, the Occupy crowd simply cannot see how utterly foolish it is.



h/t Weasel Zippers

Video: Successful Wall Street Businessman Peter Schiff Confronts Protesters, Wins hands down

Successful businessman and CEO, Peter Schiff took to the streets and spoke with Occupy Wall Street protesters at Zuccotti Park and challenged them on their positions, which were once again nonsensical and not the least bit cogent. Once again, if you have any doubt that these people are not pawns for big government, this will help to erase it. When Schiff asks what percentage of his income should be taxed, the response is to rescind the Bush tax cuts. Schiff rightly points out that he would then pay more than 50% in taxes to the government. The logical leap these people just seem incapable of making is that government is truly the entity onto which they should direct their anger.

It's really amazing to behold.

Via The Blaze:



Consider the Alinsky model that is really at the root of all these protesters. Let's not kid ourselves; it's where all this is coming from. The Obama administration is employing community organizing tactics it reveres so well. Obama's support for the protesters and silence in the face of lawlessness demonstrates this without question but let's look at a few of Alinsky's rules that are so important to the success of any movement. OWS appears to be losing some steam all across the US, whether through police crackdowns, decreasing public perception, angry tenants, lack of sanitation, or incoherent arguments when they are confronted (like in the video above).

Here are some of Uncle Saul's rules that could very well be failing:

Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

This is exactly what Schiff did when he confronted the protesters. Instead of being allowed to live in their insanely non-sensical paradigms about how bankers are destroying the country, they are confronted with some very powerful facts. Though they're not likely to ingest them, they may be de-engergized by them.

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”

Clearly, these protesters enjoyed camping out in tents in various cities across the country; they loved the attention and welcomed the new environment as an elementary school kid would welcome a field trip. However, as the day wears on, children want to go home. That could be taking place with OWS right now. They're having to deal with an increasingly agitated public. As if that weren't bad enough, the supposed "99%" doesn't even know what they'r protesting.

Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

Very closely related to previous rule. If OWS fails, Alinsky could be close to jumping the shark.

Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”

The problem here is that the opposition doesn't seem to be feeling pressure, just agitation that appears to be having the effect of motivating it to push back. As for different tactics, how many arrows can the Alinsky-ites have in their quiver after OWS?

Uncle Saul's Rules.

Video: Former Soviet Citizen Smacks Down Occupy Wall Street Protesters

This video is flat-out amazing. If you want to know how truly and thoroughly brainwashed these protesters are, this one should sum it up. The heard (but unseen) former Soviet citizen (fSc) confronts a couple of people about socialism vs. capitalism. He should have known it was a hopeless cause when the woman said North Korea was better off than South Korea and the guy next to her said North Korea is in such bad shape because of imperialism. Then fSc points to the picture of Che Guevara on the woman's poster and tells her the guy was a mass murderer. Her response? She shook her head.

These lunatics might deserve sympathy if they weren't so dangerous.

Via Real Scoop:



h/t TrevorLoudon

Video: Whacko Michael Moore Responds to Question about Supporting #OccupyWallStreet while being part of 1%

Ah, a peek inside the twisted liberal mind of Michael Moore. Gotta give Piers Morgan credit here for not letting Moore off the hook. In essence, Morgan wanted to know why Moore so despises capitalism when he has benefited so greatly from it. Morgan also pressed Moore about the latter being part of the 1% the Occupy Wall Streeters are protesting yet support them. For a while, Moore rejected the premise that said he IS part of the 1% but ultimately relented when Morgan wouldn't let him off the hook. The twisted logic of Moore when it came to capitalism was amazing to behold.

Moore quite clumsily attempted to turn hypocrisy into some form of righteousness by saying that, yes, he's done very well but he has been fighting the system while doing it. He's fighting for the 99% even though he's not part of them.

Via MediaIte:

Chilling Video: Steve Wynn gives Cavuto look behind Curtain of 'Politics in America'

Look for this to get significant play over the next couple of days. It's not often (perhaps never) that a wealthy businessman is this frank about his dealings with national politicians but Las Vegas hotel magnate, Steve Wynn does just that and it is more than just a little chilling. The fact that Wynn is this frank is trumped only by his charges which, in turn, are made all the more disturbing by the fact that he's so forthright about delivering them.

Here, Wynn tells what looks like an increasingly shell-shocked Neil Cavuto that politicians know they're doing wrong but do it anyway. He makes reference to Harry Reid hanging up on him and then his Congresswoman telling him during the Obamacare debate that while she didn't agree with the legislation, she voted for it for fear of being 'punished' by Nancy Pelosi. Watch the entire 1:30 of video. If you're not awake before watching this, you should be afterward.



A relevant follow-up clip comes from none other than Obama himself, who said these words while in Las Vegas. In light of what you heard Wynn say about Pelosi's tactics, consider the implications of Obama's words here when he says he is going to act 'with or without Congress.' It is long past time for the legislative branch to stand up for itself against this president.



h/t Hapblog

Video: Chris Matthews says 'FDR saved Capitalism'

The 'thrill' is obviously not gone. Just when you thought Chris Matthews couldn't get any loopier, he puts forth the premise that one of America's most socialist presidents - FDR - saved capitalism. If you extrapolate that logic, you can apparently say that socialism must be implemented to save capitalism. The truth is just the opposite. Socialism DESTROYS capitalism. Didn't FDR preside over the ushering in of Social Security? Isn't it a bankrupt entitlement? Uh, yes.

It might be time to check the vents over at MSNBC. Someone might be pumping glue fumes through them. In fairness to Matthews, this isn't a far cry from what George W. Bush said about having to abandon free market principles to save the free market as justification for all those bailouts.

Via NewsBusters:

Proof Positive the Left Fears Atlas Shrugged Author

On its face, this is a clever tactic by a liberal Christian group to use guilt by association to paint Christians who find value in Ayn Rand's work as hypocrites. Obviously, these folks haven't heard phrases like, 'Through God, all things are possible' or 'God works in mysterious ways.' Christians the world over have seen how God has used evil to further His will. It's one of His infinite number paradoxes. For example, the holocaust gave birth to the State of Israel. It's true; Ayn Rand was an atheist but Jesus was a Capitalist (Parable of the Talents). Does that make Jesus an atheist? Absolutely not, but it confirms the desperation of the people who are doing this. In fact, God may actually be using them right now in the form of this campaign. If so, such a scenario would actually speak to why Ayn Rand may have been successful AS an atheist.

This is a good sign. The left has decided to enter the Atlas Shrugged ring by giving Ayn Rand the Sarah Palin treatment. We all know what that means.

They're afraid of her.

Via The Blaze:

Video: Socialist Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Confronted about Selling Book (Capitalism)

Jason Mattera of Human Events decided to confront avowed socialist and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders - a man who has railed against capitalism for years - at the Senator's book signing in a Barnes & Noble. The premise is simple. When someone writes a book and wants to sell as many copies as possible, the quintessential example of capitalism would be going to a place where there is a vast supply of those books for sale and offering sign them as an enticement to sell them.

So how does an avowed socialist engage in such capitalism? Mattera confronted Sanders and asked him that very question.

Via Human Events:

Video: Was Jeremiah Wright Right About how MLK Viewed Capitalism as a Demon

The video of Jeremiah Wright that is making the rounds shows the former Obama pastor in his racist light but there are parts of it that don't seem to be getting any attention. Aside from pointing to Micah 4:3 as evidence the Bible promotes Black Liberation Theology, he says Martin Luther King Jr. identified a three-headed dragon - Racism, Militarism, and Capitalism.

If Wright lied about MLK believing Capitalism is a 'demon,' he lied about his interpretation of Micah. But what if MLK DID believe capitalism was a demon? HERE is a link to one of King's speeches in which capitalism was demonized. In this regard, if Wright is correct about MLK, when will conservatives confront the reality of who MLK really was, especially in his later years?

Via The Blaze:

VIDEO: BLUMENTHAL CLUELESS ON JOB CREATION

This was truly a Smackdown on the part of Linda McMahon, wife of WWE head Vince McMahon. This one's been floating around for a couple of days but definitely worth posting. The Senate race is for one of the two Connecticut seats. The candidates are Democrat Dick 'I lied about my service in Vietnam' Blumenthal and the Republican, McMahon. McMahon asks Blumenthal how to create a job and he wallows in his own incoherence for about a solid minute.

McMahon then explains it perfectly in about ten seconds.

h/t to Michelle Malkin

VAN JONES IS BACK WITH MORE ABSURD RHETORIC

Talk about a different perspective. As the Obama administration continues to attack the private sector, former White House Green Jobs czar, Van Jones is publicly advocating an increased dose. Under Obama, the United States is seeing record deficits. Van Jones's solution? Take the money from big companies. Jones is no longer in the Obama administration but he is still over at John Podesta's Center for American Progress, which seems to be a primary source for policy ideas at the White House.

Via the Daily Caller:

“This is a rich country. We have plenty of money, and if you don’t believe me, ask Haliburton,” Jones told a group of progressive bloggers and activists at the Netroots Nation convention Friday. “There’s plenty of money out there; don’t fall into the trap of this whole deficit argument.”

“The only question is how to spend it,” he added.

I found this particular quote rather interesting as well...

“I can’t stand it,” Jones said of criticism of Obama from the Left. “President Obama volunteered to be the captain of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg.”

They're really getting all the mileage they can out of that "Blame Bush" strategy, aren't they.

Read it all.

VIDEO: JUDAS ISCARIOT IN CHARGE OF MEDICARE AND MEDICAID

Actually, it's Obama's recess appointment Donald Berwick who's in charge of Medicare and Medicaid but in watching these video clips of him, I was reminded of Judas Iscariot, who in the Gospel of John, was identified as a 'thief' before he was outed as a betrayer. Take note of what Berwick is saying here. He's trashing the notion of competition because it allegedly shows no regard for the patient. In Berwick's view, he concedes that market forces would birth more doctors, more hospitals, more pharmaceutical companies, etc; it's just that in his twisted world, those entities go through all that trouble not to offer the best care but to disregard the patients.

That logic is beyond flawed because the entities that show disregard for giving the best possible care are the ones trampled by market forces, not the patients. Berwick's paradigm is the same one you see with youth sports. No one keeps score and everybody wins. It breeds entitlement and apathy. I believe people like Berwick know this but have self-interests at the top of their priority lists.

Be sure to watch all three clips below, courtesy of Verum Serum but first....

John 12: 1-6. Verse 6 really says it all. Providing even further ironically powerful Scriptural truth is that Lazarus, whom Yaushua raised from the dead - a health care issue if there ever was one - is involved in this passage as well.

1 SO SIX days before the Passover Feast, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had died and whom He had raised from the dead.

2 So they made Him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those at the table with Him.

3 Mary took a pound of ointment of pure liquid nard [a rare perfume] that was very expensive, and she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped them with her hair. And the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

4 But Judas Iscariot, the one of His disciples who was about to betray Him, said,

5 Why was this perfume not sold for 300 denarii [a year's wages for an ordinary workman] and that [money] given to the poor (the destitute)?

6 Now he did not say this because he cared for the poor but because he was a thief; and having the bag (the money box, the purse of the Twelve), he took for himself what was put into it [pilfering the collections].

Berwick is a guy put in charge by recess appointment. Unlike other recess appointments, he never even went in front of congress or was filibustered. Obama did this because of how ugly the confirmation process would have been - and rightfully so. This guy is flat out evil.



These two clips are from a film called, Money Driven Medicine. The title is obviously referring to capitalism and market forces but just like all things socialist, the term "projection" is not referring to film in this instance. It's referring to the bureaucrats themselves being the ones driven by money - bureaucrats who project their own shortcomings onto others in order to deceive.

Don Berwick #5: Markets Mean Competition from Century Foundation on Vimeo.

Don Berwick #9: "Health Care is More about Love" from Century Foundation on Vimeo.

h/t to Verum Serum

VIDEO: REP. PAUL RYAN ON GREECE / ECONOMICS

While the countries all across Europe are coming face to face with an economic black hole, the Barack Obama administration seems intent on hitching America's economic future onto their wagon. Enter conservative up and comer, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) who has as good a grasp on economic principles as anyone - a reality that may catapult him into a field of future presidential candidates.

Ryan is young but his economic expertise may more than compensate for any experience concerns the former may illicit. Perhaps no one in congress may be able to more clearly enunciate the differences between capitalism and socialism which is always doomed to fail, whether viewed through a societal or economic lens.

Can you say, Ryan 2012? Yes, it's a stretch but in light of where we're headed economically, he may be the best possible candidate when the time comes.