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A Final Comment
Whenever potentially significant social change movements emerge, powerful behind the scenes manipulators try to subvert them.
Occupy Wall Street is no exception. On October 7, Webster Tarpley asked who's behind wanting to hijack the movement, saying:
General Assemblies appear to be diversions. About "20 mysterious and anonymous individuals (comprising) a kind of steering committee (are) pull(ing) the strings" behind the scenes."Many....appear to be active duty or recently retired military (taking orders from higher-ups)....If OWS leaders want to be transparent, let them" disclose their names forthrightly.
General Assemblies (GA) focus mostly on "trivia while the really big decisions are being made someplace else" behind closed doors.
Notably key figures like Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, Mike Myers and Joseph Stiglitz have appeared prominently. Regular GA participants "were never consulted about whether to invite" them.
At issue is subverting money power change, manipulating consensus, and co-opting OWS fervor "to get Obama reelected."
"The consensus method provides immense comfort to predatory speculators on Wall Street, since it virtually guarantees that no potent and controversial strategy to break the power of finance capital can emerge."
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