USA And The Future Of The World -II

[Husky]

1. A revolution brewing in AmeriKKKa. Apparently the beginnings of a discontent. Can it be hijacked for a meaningful cause, I wonder... Like say getting Assange, Manning etc released?

Ooooh, ooh oooh, maybe the cause can be the best one of all: the (Settlers) Quit America movement, where people finally decide the land ought to be returned to the native Americans. Now there's an idea.





a. news.yahoo.com/does-occupy-wall-street-leaders-does-205700459.html

Unfortunately, via christian "science" monitor - still:

Does 'Occupy Wall Street' have leaders? Does it need any?



[color="#0000FF"]As politicians and the media scramble to identify 'Occupy Wall Street' leaders, members of the protest movement are not playing along.[/color] But do they really need any? There are pros and cons to leaderless movements.



As “Occupy Wall Street” spreads around the world – now in more than 185 locales, and counting – everyone from politicians to media pundits is scrambling to identify the protest movement’s leadership.



ABC’s “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” put protester and blogger Jesse LaGreca in its roundtable spotlight Sunday even as he prefaced his answers with the words, “I’m only speaking for myself.”



On NBC’s “The Chris Matthews Show” former CBS anchor Dan Rather – now with HDnet – tagged Priscilla Grim – a woman who launched a Tumblr page online – as “the real moving force behind this,” only to have the website mediate.com tartly observe that “Dan Rather probably has no idea what Tumblr is.”



IN PICTURES: Wall Street protests multiply



At the same time, everyone from President Obama to several US senators to the Federal reserve chairman have tipped their hats to the power of the movement, which Monday staged [color="#0000FF"]demonstration from Washington to New York and Jacksonville, Fla., Mobile, Ala., and Portland, Ore.[/color]



But, say media and political pundits, efforts to locate the leader or leaders of this movement begs the ever more pressing questions: Does it have any? If it doesn’t will it fizzle? Who speaks for these vocal masses and do they have a unified voice? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the leaderless approach? What does “leadership” even mean in the social media era?

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b. news.yahoo.com/100-arrested-occupy-boston-protest-104637490.html

100 Arrested at Occupy Boston Protest



to the question in the first news item "does the movement have any leaders/is it organised", there seems to be an answer in the placard of the photo:

"We're not disorganised, America just has too many issues."

[color="#800080"](Grossly understated.)[/color]

Since beginning the “Occupy Boston protests have not led to the violence or mass arrests similar to what was seen in New York last week, with police swinging batons and acting aggressively toward the protesters.

Is this for real (or manufactured)? These protests are starting to remind me of a contagious mass-psychology syndrome, where everyone wants to have a revolution/protest and everyone wants to be a part of one. Even when they don't all have an aligned, well-defined purpose.





2. On another matter, here's AmeriKKKa dousing a far more serious fire -



x-posting headline from #154 of Wikileaks thread.

www.truth-out.org/getting-assange-and-smearing-revolution/1317922597

found via VijayVaani

The "Getting" of Assange and the Smearing of a Revolution

Friday 7 October 2011

by: John Pilger, Truthout | News Analysis

US is sending out a message to all who won't play by its rules.





(Tangentially related. Perhaps Wikileaks' spin-off and rival "Openleaks" is manufactured and is the US-govt-approved future-version of Wikileaks? Who knows. I never even knew whether Wikileaks was serious/for real or whether it was created as a tool for manipulation.)