by Charles Augustine and the El Reportero’s staff

­ The U.S. Constitution guarantees “Occupy Wall Street” their right to assembly. WHY THE POLICE DOESN’T RESPECT IT?  Occupy Wall Street protests continue expanding around the United States, as it is happening now in San Francisoc (as in the photo).(PHOTO BY LUKE HAUSER (AKA GEORGE FRANKLIN))­­­
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As the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement gains momentum and makes its way westward, San Franciscans too are being caught up in its spirit and to this avail, they are now rallying to Tax “Wall Street of the West.”

In this vein, more than 500 people protested in front of banks and investment firms in SF’s Financial District during rush hour Sept. 30. To this date, more people continue arriving despite police intervention.

To date, OWS actions are taking place in San Jose and Sac, with 19 people having been arrested after a rally Sept. 7 where about 500 protesters encompassed the Capital.

The same day the San Jose Mercury News reported SJ city officials scratching their heads in bewilderment, as to what to do about the ever growing Occupy Wall Street movement encampments that are springing up around their City Hall. They were contemplating making arrests. That city’s attorney Rick Doyle pointed out that SJ “prohibits staying overnight.”

The same night one Occupy protester found himself in cuffs at a SF Wall Street rally.

Democrats and Republicans are having to take a stance, as to the legitimacy of OWS; and L.A. Times reporter Paul West reported that at a “Values Voter Summit” in Washintong, D.C., House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who is a Republican, called OWS protesters a “mob,” suggesting the Obama administration is behind adthem. On the other hand, the Obama Administration has expressed solidarity with Occupy protesters.

However, it should be noted OWS is upset with the President because of his advocating for bailing out Wall Street bankers during what has come to be known as “the 2008 financial meltdown bailouts.”

The President is on record stating to not bail them out would result in a catastrophe.

By the same token, Obama acknowledged the frustration of common working people who felt – and many Americans are saying justifiably so – because at a time when American bankruptcy and foreclosures were at their highest in recorded U.S. history, CEO’s of these Fortune 500 films were giving themselves unprecedented (in the tens of millions of dollars per year) bonuses! So, many Americans, felt jolted, asking, why?

“I think people are frustrated, and the protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works,” Obama said.

Another common theme voiced at many of these rallies is “student loans,” which Occupy protesters feel are just another example of how speculative financial lending institutions like Wall Street – enslave poor working class Americans – and in this case on those who are just embarking upon their careers by saddling them with debts they will never be able to pay back in their lifetime.

National Review writer Josh Barro points out that: “educational inflation has been running far ahead of general inflation, without improvements in quality.”

In short, a quality education from a four-year college does not guarantee one a good job as it used to, and many Americans, not being able to find a job in the field they graduated in, are saying – it’s unfair – because they are drowning in student loan debt which is constantly incurring more debt, due to lending institutions selling their loans for a profit as though they were commodities, with the loan recipient picking up the tab.

For this reason many Americans facing similar student loan debt are lobbying for bankruptcy relief. However, it should be noted that currently student loans cannot be bankrupted.

It is not uncommon to hear horror stories of a student loan that started out as a $8,000 debt that is now a $50,000 one, with the borrower making less than $24,000 a year and in all likelihood, never ever going to make much more than that – who finds themselves with destroyed credit and constantly hounded by collection agencies.

Then this new Occupy Wall Street movement brings about the question of First Amendment rights, i.e., are these actions protected within the Constitution’s right for Americans to engage in the public free speech and assembly? Here in SF, there have been clashes with police that resulted in protesters being arrested.

In an alleged informal notice from the City and County of San Francisco and SFPD, protestors were warned that while the City honors their right to engage in free speech and assembly – their makeshift “encampment is in violation of the law.”

In other words, does the constitution guarantees these growing movement of people dissatisfied with their government inaction to protest their inconformity? If not, have we abandoned the Constitution all together and fell under a dictatorial government as many are already claiming?

The allege police document then goes on to cite what city and police officials consider to be infringements by the protesters upon SF businesses and private citizens. disorderly conduct, health code violations (including camping on a city street or sidewalk without permission from the city and food serving without a permit).

In an anonymous written retort, allegedly from the protesters, calling themselves occupysanfrancisco@gmail.com, they point out that: “This is a free speech assembly. It cannot be crashed by the police under any city ordinance, state code or statutes. This is not Cuba, the Soviet Union or China. People do not have to solicit permit to exercise (our rights).”

Occupy Wall Street is currently encouraging minorities who they ­worry might feel excluded from the movement to come and join, and pitch in, to the fight.

A group calling itself People of Color Working Group, said, “Let’s be real. The economic crisis did not begin with the collapse of the Lehman Brothers in 2008. Indeed, people of color and poor people have been in a state of crisis since the founding of this country, and for indigenous communities, since before the founding of the nation.

Black and brown folks have long known that whenever economic troubles ‘necessitate’ austerity measures and the people are asked to tighten their belts, we are the first to lose our jobs, our children’s schools are the first to lose funding, and our bodies are the first to be brutalized and caged. Only we can speak this truth to power. We must not miss the chance to put the needs of people of color—upon whose backs this country was built—at the forefront of this struggle.”

Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Article 20.

European Convention on Human Rights – Article 11.

American Convention on Human Rights – Article 15.

Examples of the national and regional constitutions recognizing the freedom of assembly are: United States – First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

by Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) The nation of Finland has now openly admitted that the swine flu vaccine “conclusively” causes narcolepsy, a chronic nervous system disorder that makes people uncontrollably fall asleep. The Finnish government, in acknowledging this link, says it will pay for “lifetime medical care” for 79 children who have been irreparably damaged by the swine flu vaccine. (http://news.yahoo.com/finland-vows-…)

Narcolepsy isn’t the only side effect now admitted to be caused by swine flu vaccines: 76 of the 79 children also sufferedhallucinationsand “paralyzing physical collapses,” say Finnish researchers.

Remarkably, even though the link between swine flu vaccines andpermanent neurological damage in childrenis now openly admitted by the Finnish government, there is absolutely no talk about halting the utterly unscientific ritual of injecting children with flu vaccines in the first place. Not only are flu vaccines harmful to children (as is now admitted), butflu vaccines don’t even work!A simple daily dose of vitamin D would do far more to halt influenza than any vaccine (http://www.naturalnews.com/029760_v...).

U.S. refuses to admit vaccines harm anyone

The U.S. government, of course, still refuses to admit vaccines cause any harm whatsoever. Both the government and the vaccine industry continue to push the fabricated fairy tale that “vaccines are safe and effective,” meaning they harm no one but help everyone. Yet the truth is practically the polar opposite: Vaccines harm countless millions of children each year in ways that are usually never linked to vaccines (mild mental retardation, suppressed immune function, learning disabilities, etc.). At the same time, vaccines are all but worthless at preventing infections. Even the vaccine industry’s own research shows that flu shots only work on 1 out of 100 people, meaning they’recompletely uselessfor 99 percent of those who take them (http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_v…).

Instead of admitting the truth that vaccines cause autism, the U.S. government has conspired with vaccine manufacturers to create aVaccine Injury Compensation Programwhich essentially pays “hush money” to parents of permanently harmed children to make sure they cannot bring their claims of harm to federal courts (http://www.naturalnews.com/033635_v...).

Even worse, the medical establishment — which is heavily influenced if not downright dominated by pharmaceutical interests — absolutely refuses to advocate vitamin D as a flu prevention nutrient. Vitamin D is safe, effective and affordable. It’s available without a prescription and could save literally billions of dollars in national health care costs for just pennies per day per person. So why won’t the medical establishment promote vitamin D? Preciselybecauseit would cost the industry billions of dollars in lost profits from all the sickness and degenerative disease that is prevented by vitamin D.

Of course vaccines cause autism!

There is absolutely no question in the mind of any reasonably informed person thatvaccines cause neurological damage, including (but not limited to) autism. Only the corporate-whore scientists around the world continue their charade that vaccines are not linked to autism; or that vaccines even work in the first place. Most Americans haven’t yet heard the secret interview withMerck vaccine scientist Dr. Maurice Hillemanwhere he openly admits vaccines carry dozens of strains of cancer-causing “stealth” viruses. Read the transcript here: http://www.naturalnews.com/033584_Dr_Marice_Hilleman_SV40.html.

Listen to the interview at:

http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=13EAAF22CDA367BB3C2F94D2CD90EF7B.

Similarly, most people still don’t know thatDr. Jonas Salk, the celebrated “grandfather” of vaccines who is credited with creating the polio vaccine, was anunindicted medical criminalwho committed heinous crimes against humanity in the name of “medical science.” (http://www.naturalnews.com/031564_Jonas_Salk_medical_experiments.html.

In fact, the whole history of vaccines and medicine has been utterly distorted by the medical establishment to paint vaccines in a glorified light of public health. But the real story is that vaccines are now — and have always been — tools forcausing diseaseand promoting sickness so that the pharmaceutical industry can benefit as a result.

The horrifying truth about the vaccine industry and medical establishment

Remember, this is the same industry that got caught conducting outrageous medical experiments on Guatemalan prisoners (http://www.naturalnews.com/033483_Guatemalan_prisoners_medical_experiments.html.

These are the same people who ran Tuskegee experiments on African Americans, too (http://www.naturalnews.com/029924_medical_experiments_Guatemalan.html).

Do you honestly think these same vaccine criminals would not also use innocent children for their own mass inoculation medical experiments? Remember: These are hard-core, Nazi-style criminals we’re talking about here. This is who runs the pharmaceutical industry. The former chairperson of Bayer, for example, was a convicted Nazi war criminal who was indicted and sentenced at the Nuremburg trials:

Don’t believe me? R e a d y o u r h i s t o r y : “Dr. Fritz ter Meer, a director of IG Farben who was directly involved in developing the nerve gas, Zyklon-B, which killed millions of Jews, was sentenced to seven years in prison but was released after four years through the intervention of Rockefeller and J.J. McCloy, then U.S. High Commissioner for Germany.

An unrepentant Fritz ter Meer, guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity, returned to work in Bayer where he served as Chairman for more than 10 years, until 1961. This same ter Meer, a convicted Nazi war criminal, went on to become oneof the initiators of the Codex Alimentarius Commission in 1962, an organization that was nurtured by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and latterly the World Trade Organization (WTO).” (­http://www.naturalnews.com/024534_Eurape_health_WHO.html.

by Zero Hedge

From Mike Krieger of KAM LP: The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn’t say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a ‘compelling interest’ in censoring the In2011ternet. The Second Amendment doesn’t say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn’t say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances. – Harry Browne

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government. – Daniel Webster

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds. –Samuel Adams

Rebellion Has Arrived in America

As most of you know, I spend almost as much time studying social changes and geopolitics happening around the world as I do studying markets. While carefully observing those areas are always important to a macro investor such as myself, when you are smack in the middle of a Fourth Turning they take on an increased level of importance.

What has shielded the U.S. from a lot of the social strife sweeping the rest of the globe at the moment has been the U.S. dollar’s reserve status since this allows us to print seemingly infinite amounts of paper dollars and shove them down the throats of the rest of the world for their resources. This keeps the populace fat, happy and most importantly asleep and apathetic. Well I am pleased to announce that those days are OVER. The American populace is now in the very beginnings of a state of open peaceful rebellion against the criminal oligarchic mafia that runs the nation through fraud and corruption. The status quo is likely to become increasingly defensive as a result and may lash out aggressively like a cornered rat, but they cannot and will not win. They can only really win when they own your mind and that battle has already been lost. Six months from now the state of rebellion will have moved from just beneath to the surface to the forefront of everyone’s mind. It will be a peaceful and constitutional rebellion and it will end with new ways of doing things, more freedoms and a very long road toward rebuilding a safe, fair, free and localized society once TPTB’s prison planet grid of control has been torn down forever.

Occupy Wall Street

I will be the first to admit that I faded the whole idea of this “Occupy Wall Street” protest. I had already seen several failed attempts at protest in NYC come and go and I just sadly assumed the spirit of that once great city had died forever. I am extraordinarily happy to report that I was wrong. When I watched some video of police brutality at NYC protests this weekend I was stunned. Not because the cops acted like some mercenary storm trooper thugs, but because this protest that has started the week before still had momentum! Check out this link regarding what is going on. It has two must watch videos. http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=194965. The first one already has over 400k watches on youtube. This is the spark I have been waiting for and I am pleased beyond belief that it happened in Manhattan right where it should. How about this appearance of Cornel West at the protest on Tuesday. http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/cornel-west-at-occupy-wall-str… I am proud of my old home today. This is a big deal. The serfs are coming together. Keep it up.

Most of you reading this right now are thinking that this is interesting but he is exaggerating and this will blow over. I am here to assure you that it is not and this whole thing is about to grow exponentially as the economy continues to stagnate and people climb the learning curve.

Are you aware that the founder of Salon.com, David Talbot, is publicly calling for an “American Spring?” This of course is a reference to the Arab Spring, in which revolution swept across North Africa earlier this year and led to the collapse of the Tunisian and Egyptian governments and then major government bribes to the people living in the oil rich kingdoms. Mr. Talbot writes “In these increasingly hard times, Salon is dedicating itself to an American revival. Our editorial mission will become more explicitly and aggressively populist. We will be publishing more investigative pieces, exposing the shadow dance of power. And both Democratic and Republican targets will be fair game, since both parties are increasingly under the control of the same corporate forces.” His full piece is here http://www.salon.com/about/american_spring/index.html?story=/about/insid… You need to read it if you want to understand where all of this is headed. How about journalist Chris Hedges talking about “Occupy Wall Street” http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/chris-hedges-occupy-wall-stree… We the people now understand it is not “rich vs. poor,” businessperson vs. teacher.” It is serf vs. oligarch. They are 0.1 percent and we know what they are up to. GAME ON.

Jaime Dimon Proves he is a Complete and Total Psychopath

I am not even going to write my own thought paragraph about how delusional and insane this man’s statements were the other day on banking regulations. Rather I will provide links to articles by people that have done a great job of exposing the absurdity of this parasitic oligarch’s comments. My favorite line by far on this is from fellow ex-Wall Streeter Nomi Prins who writes:

“There are few things more cringe-inducing than a government-subsidized bank CEO spouting self-serving, entitlement-laden idiocy to the world just because he and his bank might be subject to some extra constraints. That hasn’t stopped JPM Chase CEO Jamie Dimon from acting like a spoiled, sociopathic brat while characterizing proposed Basel III capital requirements and regulations as ‘anti-American’ at every opportunity. They are not ‘anti-American’ but globally risk-mitigating in a time of widespread economic Depression, a point lost in the haze of Dimon’s megalomania.”

Her full article is here http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-jamie-dimon percentE2percent80percent99s-shameful-…. Precious metals hero and money manager Eric Sprott chimed in with this letter to the Globe and Mail. http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-sprott-jamie-dimon-letter-2011-9.

Jaime Dimon is a real piece of work. It is as if he is asking for a custom made guillotine (metaphorically speaking of course as I do not condone violence in any way shape or form). At least Lloyd Blankfein had the sense to read the writing on the wall, shut up and hire an attorney.

So in conclusion, rebellion has arrived on America’s shores and it is about time. The moment is here for each of us to make important decisions. Save freedom and liberty or allow the oligarchs to enslave us and your children for generations. Peter Orzag recently wrote that “We need Less Democracy.” ­http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/94940/peter-orszag-democrac… This is what these guys are gunning for. Just think about who this “WE” he is talking about is.

And don’t kid yourself. Pretty much everyone on this list is a serf no matter how rich you are. Don’t kid yourself.

por Charles Augustine

For the first time in history the Federal Reserve was audited. This unprecedented action occurred yesterday and comes as a result of Ron Paul’s “Alan Grayson Amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill” (GAO), which passed last year. And while it should be noted that the Fed’s chairman Ben Bernanke and previous chair Alan opposed it because they alleged an audit might serve to undermine the public’s trust in the 100 year-old institution, the audit was carried out Sept 20.

However, the audit conducted over the last two months was a “watered down” version of the original one, house bill HR1207, which called for a complete audit. And now the public can access the results at: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9e2a4ea8-6e73-4be2-a753-62060dcbb3c3.

As might be expected the results were really shocking, with the amount doled out to banks, a whopping – $16,000,000,000,000.00 – that’s right $16 trillion of taxpayers money that has been doled out to humongous Wall Street financial institutions to bail them out of their own corporative mess. And citizens opposed to the bailouts point out that the money loaned out to these corps was at 0% interest. Proponents of the GAO believe that Fed has been hush-hush about this because of the public outrage that would have ensued had it been made known to the public.

It should be noted that the entire gross domestic product (gdp), or money that was made on U.S. investments for last year was only $14.12 trillion, compared to $16 trillion.

Corporations, most of them investments firms, which received the most money from the Federal Reserve’s bailout, spending spree, were:

Citigroup: $2.5 trillion ($2,500,000,000,000).

Morgan Stanley: $2.04 trillion ($2,040,000,000,000).

Merrill Lynch: $1.949 trillion ($1,949,000,000,000).

Bank of America: $1.344 trillion ($1,344,000,000,000).

Barclays PLC (United Kingdom): $868 billion* ($868,000,000,000).

Bear Sterns: $853 billion ($853,000,000,000).

Goldman Sachs: $814 billion ($814,000,000,000).

Royal Bank of Scotland (UK): $541 billion ($541,000,000,000).

JP Morgan Chase: $391 billion ($391,000,000,000).

Deutsche Bank (Germany): $354 billion ($354,000,000,000).

UBS (Switzerland): $287 billion ($287,000,000,000).

Credit Suisse (Switzerland): $262 billion ($262,000,000,000).

Lehman Brothers: $183 billion ($183,000,000,000).

Bank of Scotland (United Kingdom): $181 billion ($181,000,000,000).

BNP Paribas (France): $175 billion ($175,000,000,000).

FAIR Action Alert alleges NYPD police brutality

FAIR Action Alert, a citizen watchdog group critical of the way Wall Street banking and investment/lending institutions do business, and who are in agreement with the current “Occupy Wall Street” protests, alleges New York City Police (NYPD) brutality of protesters and a “virtual media blackout,” on its Sept. 27 blogs.

It should be noted though that opinions in major news circles like CNN, NBC and NPR vary. For instance, while NBC and CNN aired stories that show “some” police abuse; NPR refused to cover the Occupy Wall Street protest, because as its Dick Meyer stated, in a response to Fair questioninghim about why NPR refused to run a story, “The recent protests on Wall Street did not involve large numbers of people, prominent people, a great disruption or an especially clear objective.”

Footage of alleged police misbehaving can be seen at: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4406.

Free Fast Passes for SF elementary, middle and high-school students

In April, May and June of this year, the City and County of San Francisco tried a temporary three-month program that allowed low-income high school students to ride MUNI for free. This action came as a response to SF Unified School District possibly cutting its “yellow bus” fleet by as much as 43 percent over the next two years.

This trial program was so much of a success that the Board of Supervisors has introduced a similar one that allows all SF students, regardless of financial status, to have free Fast Passes.

In addition the new pilot program introduced at the Board’s Sept. 20 meeting would be for three-years.

­Funding for this project would come from private contributions and public funding, among them, MUNI and SF.

Supporters of the measure point out that it would have little impact upon burdening existing MUNI services, pointing out that MUNI ridership would only increase significantly during school commute hours and when schools are open.

If this pilot program is as successful as the three month one the Board and Unified would go back to the drawing board and has out a plan for long-term funding.

The previous program was such an achievement that there were not enough Fast Passes for those needing them.

At the forefront of advocates supporting the adoption of this resolution are: SF Unified Superintendent Carlos Garcia and MUNI Transportation Agency Board member Joel Ramos.