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Cities' Occupy Evictions A 'Set-Up'?

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"Jakob von Uexkull, founder of both the British-based World Future Council and Sweden's Right Livelihood Award (also known as the 'alternative' Nobel Prize), argues that banking interests have become so powerful that they have been effectively able to 'take over governments to get the kind of legislation they needed.'

Referring to the megabanks, Mr. von Uexkull adds, 'They need to be dismantled.... If an economic entity is too big that it threatens the state, it threatens democracy.'"

Occupy Wall Street is right, corporate power and greed are indeed a problem, and that's why the dirty tricks will continue, and why our support for Occupy's selfless valor must too.   The only things that remain are for people to finish waking up to what's actually happened, then join Occupy in acting upon it.

 


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