{"id":4697,"date":"2011-10-31T11:06:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T16:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2011-10-31T11:06:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T16:06:53","slug":"the-grass-roots-of-occupy-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=4697","title":{"rendered":"The &quot;Grass Roots&quot; of Occupy Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OWS crowd insists that their uprising is purely a grass roots one. While some of it was certainly spontaneous, it&#8217;s origins were clearly planned by anti-capitalists.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The man behind the movement is a radical Canadian leftist agitator by the name of <strong>Kalle Lasn<\/strong>.&#160; Lasn is founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adbusters.org\/\">Ad Busters<\/a>.&#160; A self-described group of anarchists and neo-Luddites, Adbusters are not merely environmentalists, animal-rights activists, anti-technology activists, or neo-Prohibitionists. They are all these things and more.&#160; In his book entitled Culture Jam, Lasn writes, \u201cwe will wreck this world.\u201d And that is ultimately the goal of the organization he founded and runs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.networksolutions.com\/whois-search\/occupywallstreet.org\">A little research<\/a> has uncovered the fact that the domain name <a href=\"http:\/\/www.occupywallstreet.org\/\">www.OccupyWallStreet.org<\/a> was registered by Lasn\u2019s organization in June 2011, several months BEFORE the first protests began in New York City.&#160; What is a Canadian citizen doing registering a domain for a grassroots movement months before the protests began?&#160; Its questions like this that are not being asked by our mainstream media.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Left criticize the Tea Party&#8217;s &quot;grass roots&quot; bona fides because guys with lots of money happen to agree with them. But I doubt you&#8217;ll find the Koch brothers&#8217; names on a central domain name used by any local Tea Party group months before the initial rallies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OWS crowd insists that their uprising is purely a grass roots one. While some of it was certainly spontaneous, it&#8217;s origins were clearly planned by anti-capitalists. The man behind the movement is a radical Canadian leftist agitator by the name of Kalle Lasn.&#160; Lasn is founder of Ad Busters.&#160; A self-described group of anarchists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}