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The Evolution of the Butterfly



Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent economic collapse and gives a backdrop of hope to sometimes bleak reality.

For more information on the caterpillar and butterfly, humanity and society, see Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future And A Way To Get There From Here.

After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, Occupier Tries to Reason With Police

This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:

Fault Lines: History of an Occupation

Wall Street Pirates – Shepard Fairey & Jamie Reid


Shepard Fairey and Jamie Reid print collaboration.

The JOBS Act Is A Fraud-Enhancing Gift To Wall Street Criminals

By William K. Black, Henry N. Pontell, Gilbert Geis, Janet Tavakoli, Barry Ritholtz & Lynn A. Stout
As white-collar criminologists (and a former financial regulator and enforcement head) and experts in ferreting out sophisticated financial frauds, our careers and research focus on financial fraud by the world’s most elite private sector criminals and their political cronies. Therefore, we write to thank Congress and the President for preparing to adopt a JOBS Act that will provide us with job security for life.

Cenk: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Aren’t The Violent Ones – The Police Are

Cenk: “No cops ever get punished, no mayors ever get punished. If you go out there to exercise your First Amendment rights, should you expect an ass-kicking by your own police that you paid for?”

OWS Re-Occupation Arrests: Protester Has Seizure in Handcuffs

DeGraw & Papantonio: The 99% Movement, Anonymous & Get Money Out (Ring of Fire Radio)

Is Occupy Wall Street the offline version of Anonymous?

$h!t Lobbyists $ay

Lobbyists write legislation, they take your representatives out to lunch, they throw fundraisers, they abide by absurdly specific rules to avoid appearance of graft and bribery, but nonetheless, Lobbyists influence your government for the benefit of corporate interests.

Ben Harper and Tom Morello: There’s A Better Way

Performed live at an InterOccupy meetup hosted by Occupy LA in MacArthur Park:

Greedy Bastards Antidote: Lawrence Lessig on “One Way Forward”

In a discussion on money, politics, and the growth of organic political reform movements in America over the last few years, Dylan Ratigan talks with Lawrence Lessig about his new book, One Way Forward: An Outsiders Guide to Fixing the Republic.


You can read Lessig's book here.

Obama’s Lobbying Ban Leads To More Corruption

When Republic Report launched Sell Out Of The Week, our initial winner was President Obama, who earned the prize for embracing his super PAC, essentially endorsing unlimited corporate cash invading the democratic process, after having failed to take some critical steps to clean up the system. We’ve chosen him again this week, but for a different money in politics offense.

Obama campaigned on a promise of reform and transparency, pledging as a candidate that lobbyists “will not run my White House… and will not drown out the voices of the American people.” But three years into his presidency, Obama’s lobby reform is broken. The rules once seen as revolutionary are counterproductive, meaningless, and frankly ridiculous.

This Is NOT What Democracy Looks Like! Criminalizing First Amendment Rights


If laws like the new Trespass Bill (HR 347) had been in effect during the Civil Rights movement, there would have been no March on Washington. Martin Luther King Jr. and his fellow activists would have been rendered criminals. And King's call for "militant nonviolent resistance" would have been silenced by police in riot gear.

Decentralized Global Rebellion: G8 On The Run; Occupy News Roundup; American Police State; Move To Amend

Facing Global Protest, G8 Retreats | #Occupy News Roundup | How to Fund an American Police State | Thousands Protest Soaring Education Cuts | "This Is Our Land:" Lakota Form Human Blockade to Stop Tar Sands Trucks | Tech Firms Help Arab Dictators | Vermont Town Meetings Will Move to Amend

Hot List: Richest 1% Swipe 93% of All Income Gains; Robber Barons Continue to Rake in Billions; Market Recovery Is Illusion


Richest 1% Swipe 93% of All Income Gains | Wall Street speculators continue to rake in billions | SEC Dropped the Ball on $7 Billion Ponzi Scheme | Goldman's Massive Conflicts of Interest | Gaming the Greek bailout | Market Recovery Is an Illusion | BP to Pay $7.8 Billion | Legality of Targeted Killings of US Citizens Overseas

#GetMoneyOut News Roundup: Abolish Corporate Personhood; It’s Not Just Citizens United; Super Tuesday’s Big Winner; Will Lawmakers Return Stolen Money?

Voters Back Grassroots Campaign to Abolish Corporate Personhood | It’s Not Just Citizens United | FEC’s bad rap getting worse | Super Tuesday’s winner: Big-money politics | Most Former Members Of Congress Work In Lobbying | Stanford's been convicted, will lawmakers return stolen money? | Super PAC aims to wrest grip of incumbents

LulzSec Cyber Activists Arrested With Help of Hacking Group’s Former Leader – Is Julian Assange Next? (Full Indictments)


Full LulzSec Indictments Here

Wall Street Whistleblowers Get the Silent Treatment From Washington

What’s worse: to be persecuted and indicted for trying to expose an act of wrongdoing -- or to be ignored for doing so? The Obama administration has set a record by accusing no fewer than six government employees, who allegedly leaked classified information to reporters, of violating the Espionage Act, a draconian law dating back to 1917. Yet when it comes to workers who have risked their careers to expose misconduct in the corporate and financial arena, the government has often left whistleblowers feeling isolated and discouraged.

Mic Check! The People Speak – Part 1: Tom Morello, Nomi Prins, Shepard Fairey, Miles Mogulescu, Margaret Flowers, Danny Goldberg, Stephen Marshall, Glen Ford and Lee Camp

Editor's Note: The following is the first of a new seven-part series featuring statements from occupiers, organizers and supporters of the 99% Movement. The statements are excerpted from the new book, "The Economic Elite Vs. The People: 99% Movement Call to Action." In this installment, we feature comments from Tom Morello, Nomi Prins, Shepard Fairey, Miles Mogulescu, Margaret Flowers, Danny Goldberg, Stephen Marshall, Glen Ford and Lee Camp.

Hot List: Wall Street Plunder Continues, Extreme Weather Hits US & War With Iran

AIG Still Robbing US Taxpayers; Fed Lets Banks Pay Shareholders Billions; Costs of Extreme Weather; War with Iran; Global Insurrection Roundup; Occupy the SEC; Occupy Food Justice; More

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Complete List of David DeGraw’s Reports

September 14th, 2010 | Filed under Activism, Economy, Feature, Hot List, Media, News, Politics & Government, War . Follow comments through RSS 2.0 feed. Click here to comment, or trackback.

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Complete List of David DeGraw's ReportsHere we are presenting a list of links to most of David DeGraw’s previous work.

“DeGraw does his homework. In his expanded “reports” he piles on (amply footnoted) data with a relentless fury that makes a reader want to cry uncle. Then he connects the dots, building a narrative that makes clear “uncle” is not an option. He calls on us to give up our political labels, parties, and prejudices and get deadly serious about saving ourselves. DeGraw’s challenge: Will we the people come together to take on our common enemies – the economic elites who have stolen our money, our media, and our democracy — before they steal our future?” — Terrence McNally, Host Free Forum, KPFK & WBAI

David DeGraw’s Reports: 3/23/09 – Present

  • The “War On Drugs” Is A $2.5 Trillion Racket: How Big Banks, Private Military Companies And The Prison Industry Cash In
  • The “War On Terror” Is A $6 Trillion Racket, With $1 Trillion In Interest Alone, Exceeding The Total Cost Of World War II
  • Don’t Believe The Hype: Obama’s Af-Pak Troop Withdrawal Is A Propaganda Stunt
  • Economic Rebellion Update – This Is What Decentralized Resistance Looks Like
  • Acts of Resistance: What Are You Going To Do To Rebel Against Economic Tyranny?
  • Divided and Conquered America: How “Independent” Media Undermines Mass Movements For Meaningful Change
  • Common Sense 2.0: How to Save America – First Steps
  • If We Can’t Unite To Topple Fed Dictator Ben Bernanke, Our Complete Collapse Into Neo-Feudalism Is Assured
  • Prepare For Revolution: The Empire State Rebellion Begins on June 14th
  • UPDATED WITH TRANSCRIPT – Empire State Rebellion: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (A99 Video)
  • Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion – We Are Egypt [Revolution Roundup #3]
  • Obama Renews Commitment to Complete Destruction of the Middle Class – Meet the New Economic Death Squad
  • I Will Not Participate In the Journalism of Appeasement
  • The Wall Street Pentagon Papers: Biggest Scam In World History Exposed – Are The Federal Reserve’s Crimes Too Big To Comprehend?
  • Ben Bernanke: Public Enemy #1 – Mr. Big Shot (((Music Video)))
  • Revolution Roundup #2: As Mass Rebellion Spreads Throughout Europe, Americans Dance With The Stars
  • The Two-Party Oligarchy Vs. The People
  • Revolution Roundup #1: Silver Bullets, Bank Runs and Bomb Threats
  • WTF! Are Progressives Seriously Defending the Federal Reserve?
  • Time to Fight Back: Crash JP Morgan, Buy Silver!
  • We Need A Rally To Restore The Rule Of Law And/Or The Constitution
  • Dear America, Your Taxes Are Going Up 20%, Food and Gas Prices Will Skyrocket, The Federal Reserve Just Dropped An Economic Nuclear Bomb On Us, TIME TO RISE! – David DeGraw On Quantitative Easing, The Hidden Tax
  • Midterm Election Further Demonstrates Need for Revolution
  • The Road to Revolution: 99% Uprising (Video)
  • The Covert Origins of the Af-Pak War – The Road to World War III
  • Inside the Global Banking Intelligence Complex, BCCI Operations
  • The Road to World War III – The Global Banking Cartel Has One Card Left to Play
  • Census Bureau Poverty Rate Drastically Undercounts Severity of Poverty in America
  • Word from the Watchtower: A Hard Rain is Going to Fall — Introduction to “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III”
  • Full Report: The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States of America
  • Casualties of Economic Terrorism, Surveying the Damage
  • The Rise of the Economic Elite
  • Exposing Our Enemy – Meet the Economic Elite
  • The Financial Coup d’Etat
  • Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategy
  • How to Fight Back and Win: Common Ground Issues That Must Be Won
  • Is It Time for Law Abiding American Citizens to Stop Paying Their Taxes and Start a New Government?
  • Global War Racket Exposed: Trillions in Resources & Funding Our Enemies
  • Will Americans passively accept the slow death of debt slavery?
  • Take Action! How We Can Save OUR Economy
  • The Financial Oligarchy Reigns: Democracy’s Death Spiral From Greece to the United States
  • High Frequency Terrorism: How the Big Banks and Federal Reserve Maintained Their Death Grip Over the United States
  • How the SEC and Congress Can Bring Down Goldman Sachs and Expose the Financial Coup
  • Financial Reform Report Card: Banksters 37, People 10, Partisans 53
  • Shocking Censorship at Google News and the Future of Net Neutrality
  • Speech: As the Middle Class Collapses and the American Poverty Rate Soars, the Economic Elite Have Never Had It Better [Audio & Transcript]
  • Af-Pak War Racket: The Obama Illusion Comes Crashing Down
  • Max Keiser Interviews David DeGraw — The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the USA [video]
  • WAKE UP MEDIA! Lehman Report is Further Evidence of the Financial Coup [Video & Audio Roundup]
  • Bill Moyers on The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States [Video & Audio]
  • The Critical Unraveling of U.S. Society
  • Declare Yourself, It’s Time to Confront the Financial Coup
  • The New Wall Street Psychological Operation: “Crackdowns, Clawbacks, Regulatory Rules, Reining In Pay”
  • One Person in the Mainstream Media Who Gets It: “The Greatest Theft in History!” (Videos)
  • George Carlin’s Message from Beyond: Wall Street Criminals Own the Fuckin’ Place (Video)
  • The Wall Street Economic Death Squad
  • News Reports from Inside the Financial Coup
  • How Much Longer Will You Remain Passive?
  • US Forces STAY in Iraq – Don’t Believe the Hype (Roundup)
  • What If Fox “News” Covered Other Protests The Way They Covered The Tea Parties?
  • Baitullah Mehsud: US Military’s #1 Enemy
  • Af-Pak Battlefield Report 3/26 – 4/6
  • Iraq Battlefield Report: 3/26 – 4/6
  • Battlefield Report: US Soldier News 3/26 – 4/6
  • Battlefield Death Toll Report: 3/26 – 4/6
  • Afghanistan 2.0: ‘AfPak Contingency Operation’
  • Geithner’s Toxic Bailout Basher Roundup
  • Top Ten: AIG Scandal Coverage
  • “DeGraw puts it all together, connecting dots you may not have known existed and explaining what our news media misses every day. He deserves our thanks and help in getting his timely messages out.” — Danny Schechter, News Dissector, Director, Plunder: The Crime of Our Time

    “David DeGraw does the heavy lifting, making a profound case that America’s economic elite have looted our country and committed, essentially, a crime against humanity. No one digs harder for the facts than David.” — Don Hazen, Executive Editor, AlterNet.org

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    1. Cathy said:

      As someone who has read all of David’s reports, I am Amped to hear more are about to come out! It’s been too long since we last heard from him!

    2. Ben said:

      Unleash the new reports!! Bring it on brother!!

    3. Jay said:

      This is an impressive body of work over a short period of time. the first piece i read was The Wall Street Economic Death Squad. been a huge fan ever since. a refreshing voice, brutality honest without the Republican versus Democrat bullshit. Looking forward to the new reports,

      JM

    4. Simon said:

    5. Lisa said:

      I was asleep until I read The Critical Unraveling of U.S. Society. I gave out about 50 copies of the Economic Elite vs. The People to friends and family. Impossible to read that and not have your view of politics change.

      Thanks for all the hard work! It is making a difference!

    6. Rob said:

      other than Chris Hedges i don’t see anyone who understands our current crisis better than Degraw. Chomsky is always great, but try getting a friend to read a Chomsky article, yawn.

    7. Freedom Fighter said:

      the best thing about David is that i’ve watched friends of mine that are progressive fight with tea party friends over whether he is a progressive or tea party guy. they’re still fighting over it, and that’s the best argument i’ve heard in a long time, his common ground platform is brilliant.

    8. Aaron said:

      I never heard the speech before. That was intense. Hope the new stuff is as great as the old…

    9. Derek said:

      I have some advice. Most of these reports are very long and very detailed, which is great if you are making a case before academics or in a court of law, but when it comes to the average person, the people we really need to wake up, they get board and confused real quick. This is why people like Limbaugh and Beck do so well. They just rant and pissed off people can get into that. Everyone knows we’ve been robbed and they’re pissed off. They don’t want someone explaining all the details, they want someone ranting and giving out emotion that they can follow. These reports usually end with some powerful emotion, some have it at the beginning as well. So my advice is just put out one page rants and save all the gory details for the do-nothing academic liberals. if you do this, you will become much more popular, i know it’s a dumbing down of the material, but this is the world we live in, if you really want to change it, short and powerful is the way to go.

    10. Frank said:

      DeGraw knows the Score!

    11. Joost said:

      I wanted to leave a comment to thank you for the service you provide. Amped is the best source for news, real news, PERIOD. For a news junkie like myself, you guys blow away any other news source. As someone who spends a tremendous amount of time researching, I very much appreciate all the work that goes into all of this.

      Thank you!

    12. Majia said:

      I visit Ampedstatus every day, read all the reports, and urge friends and students to read as well!

      Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    13. Jake said:

      Fucking AWESOME list of reports! Love how it all started with Iraq, Af-Pak and Wall Street Battlefield reports.

      DeGraw fights a hard core information war!

    14. Debra said:

      I tried to leave a comment yesterday about 5 times and it wouldn’t show on the web site. Wonder how many other people had this problem?

      Just wanted to also thank David for all of his hard work. I have been coming to this site most every day for the past year and it is the most informative source for news that I have come across.

      So thank you and please keep it up. :)

      Debra

    15. Claude said:

      had a problem posting a comment yesterday too. probably the “anti-terrorism” task force trying to keep us down. truth = terror for the true terrorists.

      riddle me riddle ;-)

    16. dmay1 said:

      I love Davids report. Sometimes I use information contained in them to write a letter to the editor at our local newspaper. Keeps me and my readers informed about what is really going on in America.

    17. T said:

      First time I heard of David he was on Max Keiser’s show and completely kicked ass! Then I started reading his work, a true revolutionary, modern day Tom Paine.

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    22. Richard M said:

      This is all fine and dandy, but it seems to me that the Economic Elite along with the Progressive Commies have their structure in place. The best judges, politicians, CEOs, et. al. that money can buy. Yes, we are the public (the 99%) but what good is it when the economic elite hold all the cards. Who does the public go to for justice?? You think these so-called judges will do their job??!! NOT. The only hope we have is to elect third party candidates, get away from Democrats and Republicans (they’ve been co-opted by the Left anyway). This is why Tea Partiers are on everyone’s hit list. They are a direct threat to the status quo. Once enough third party candidates are elected into office, then, there can be investigations into all of this crap, including the judges, who all take an oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. They are traitors and subverters of our American way of life. They are either Communist plants and/or on the take. They’ve sold out their country and their countrymen — and we definitely need to get rid of those awful electronic voting machines. We need a paper trail.

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