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How They Plan To Destroy the Occupy Movement

A well-known Washington lobbying firm with links to the financial industry has proposed an $850,000 plan to take on Occupy Wall Street and politicians who might express sympathy for the protests, according to a memo obtained by the MSNBC program “Up w/ Chris Hayes.”

The proposal was written on the letterhead of the lobbying firm Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford and addressed to one of CLGC’s clients, the American Bankers Association.

CLGC’s memo proposes that the ABA pay CLGC $850,000 to conduct “opposition research” on Occupy Wall Street in order to construct “negative narratives” about the protests and allied politicians. The memo also asserts that Democratic victories in 2012 would be detrimental for Wall Street and targets specific races in which it says Wall Street would benefit by electing Republicans instead.

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In case you missed it last Friday, I posted a few new pieces of art--two rattles, including the one above, and two totem dance costumes, one wolf and one KITSUNE! Go take a peek if ya haven't already!

Also, on Saturday evening I did my first podcast interview in a couple of years. The very gracious hosts of Pagan Musings were kind enough to bring me on as a "ssurprise" guest on their show on Otherkin, and we ended up having a really, really good discussion with a promise for more! I enter the show about 45 minutes into it, though their first guest does a good job of summing up what Otherkin are. All in all, a good experience!

And I wrote a post on Therioshamanism that's a bit of a departure from my usual fare. This stemmed from a comment on someone else's LJ last week, and in short it's a bit of information on why knowing basic research methodology is important to magical knowledge, especially if you're trying to prove that magic exists outside of your own internal headspace. (Same thing goes for Otherkin, etc.) Unverified personal or collective gnosis is fine for subjective, personal belief systems, but it doesn't prove that your gnosis exists as solidly as, say, gravity or taxes. Let me know how I did on this post!


Aaaaaaand finally, as we get into the week of Black Friday (and me making more artwork!) don't forget:

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