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The government-induced economic and debt crises have put the United States in jeopardy. Because if (when) the system blows, there's now way to know what direction the country will take.

In the mean time, as "We the People" continue lying to ourselves about the enormity of the situation, the oligarchs and other power players like the SEIU, are busy making moves to gain control over our future.

Listen to former SEIU official Stephen Lerner discuss destabilizing capitalism during a closed session at a Pace University just last weekend. Don't underestimate the SEIU either, they swing a big stick.

Left's Key Operator Caught on Tape Discussing Plans to Destabilize Capitalism

There are no officials from any non-government organization that visit President Obama at the White House more often than those from SEIU. The power elite, from all angles, are attempting to co-opt the dissatisfaction in the country for their own power grabs. They are all using the unhappiness with government to bring the control of government onto their platform.

In the case of Lerner, he is attempting to use the anger created by the mortgage crisis and redirect it to an anger against capitalism, i.e., anger against free markets. The mortgage crisis, as many warned in advance, was not created by free markets, but by the activities of the Federal Reserve in manipulating interest rates and the money supply.

The answer is not in politicians who promise change, or those who seek to replace government with themselves, the answer is, and always will be liberty. Learn as much as you can about it.

Liberty is the only answer my friends.

Please read "For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto."

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"Towards a Politics of Solidarity"

The theme of this year’s Left Forum was “Towards a Politics of Solidarity,” and among the speakers was former SEIU official Stephen Lerner.

"We need to figure out . . . through direct action . . . how we are really trying to disrupt and create uncertainty for capital, for how corporations operate," Lerner said. "There are actually extraordinary things we could do right now to start to destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement."

"We have to think about how, together, we are building something that really has the capacity to disrupt how the system operates," Lerner said, describing "a very simple strategy" for such a disruption: "How do we bring down the stock market? How do we bring down their bonuses? How do we interfere with their ability to be rich? And that means we have to politically isolate them, economically isolate them and disrupt them."

Cloward-Piven 2.0

What we’re witnessing is an organized attempt at initiating a soft coup in the United States by way of a socialist cabal.

The time for burying our heads in the sand, or playing the kind of political game that has the GOP backing candidates like Mike Castle, has long passed.

It’s put up or shut up time.

The Federal Reserve ACORN Racket

The Federal Reserve Board has been ACORN’s "partner" in this endeavor ever since 1977, when the Fed was given responsibility (along with the Comptroller of the Currency) for enforcing the CRA. For those who are not yet familiar with the CRA, which was significantly strengthened during the Clinton administration, it works like this: The ostensible purpose of the Act is to get banks to make more mortgage loans in "minority and low-income" neighborhoods. These loans have been defined by the government as "sub-prime" loans, implying that the borrowers have credit ratings just a tiny, tiny smidgen below the "prime" or highest-credit-rating borrowers. This of course is a farce, as nearly everyone now knows. The Fed keeps track of such loans, and gives each lender a CRA ranking. A poor ranking can destroy a bank’s plans for branch expansions, mergers, and other activities.

So-called "community groups" like ACORN, which is one of the biggest, are empowered by the law to "protest" proposed bank expansions or mergers. This is the main "business" that ACORN has been in for the past thirty years. They file a protest with the Fed, while demanding that the bank that is proposing the expansion or merger give it – ACORN – millions or sometimes billions of dollars, to be lent to sub-prime borrowers by ACORN, which keeps for itself some of the loot. (WaMu bank, which is now defunct, once boasted of having made $375 billion in CRA loans; the Fed gave Countrywide Bank an award after it made $600 billion in such loans. It, too, was bankrupted by the loans.)

SEIU Plan to Destablize America: Bring Down Stock Market, Redistribute Wealth

You’ll remember the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) created by Congress to force lenders to give loans without down payment and no regard for credit reports. The practice brought about the housing meltdown. People could buy homes they could have never afforded with the help of Congress. As the demand for more homes raged across America, homeowners sold their homes at prices far above market value. It was one of, if not the worst scam perpetrated on us and our economy. These creditless people eventually could not afford their payments on their hyper-valued homes and the defaults began. We were in a heap of trouble, and we are still suffering through it, and because of it, today.

In this article about the Union invasion of a Pennsylvania bank (see details below video), blame is placed on ACORN and the SEIU for forcing local banks to make unworthy loans. Neither organization could have accomplished much without the backing of Congress. ACORN and SEIU can be see as the precursor to Steve Lerner latest.

Steve Lerner’s plan is well underway, dating back to July 2009, with ACORN and SEIU the precursor. BigGovernment mentions this:

Lerner also says explicitly that, although the attack will benefit labor unions, it cannot be seen as being organized by them. It must therefore be run by community organizations.