Thank you so much for posting this. I had never heard of The Venus Project and after looking at the website I am VERY interested in learning more about. I was a strong supporter of Obama in the last election. The grass roots movement that was generated during his campaign, and the idea of radical change which is so clearly needed appealed to me. However, I am disappointed and left wondering where we go from here. The occupation movement is exciting to me too that people en masses across the Globe are rallying together. This is an interesting time to be alive!

In Europe, broadcast licenses require a tv or radio stations to donate equal air time to all registered candidates,at no cost as a condition of licensure. In the US, broadcast media can assuredly count on 100s of millions in ad revenue from a presidential election and even more from the lesser elections beyond that. Get the cash out of elections or we are doomed as a republic, and not only because with all the guns and ammo in general circulation in America, the doom won't end well.**This president is pwned** by his donors and an electoral system with rules that require huge amounts of cash to get in and win the game and all but sells the candidate's soul out from under them (assuming they had one to begin with) to whatever the donor wants. Its the root of the problem and anything less than radical restructure of the electoral process is closing the barn door after the horses have run off.

We are frustrated, Mr. President. And one of the biggest sources of our frustration is YOU. But your being a weak, ineffectual, craven toady of Wall Street is one of the factors that gave birth to this movement, so, in a sense, I guess you can be counted as one of its "fathers".

PETITIONS ON WHITEHOUS.GOV NEEDING promised to get a White House response with 5,000 or more SIGNATURES by the 23rd of Oct. 2011, Occupy Wall Street already had over 8,000 (likely a reason for response already) but they seemed to have ignored all of those that were not theirs. Bad move. Most of them I signed while registered voiced the same issues. Make them all viral to get multiple responses and dominate the petition conversation.
1. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/reverse-scotus-ruling-citizens-united-v-fec-constitutional-amendment-supporting-hjres78/vWTGSMJX 3630 signatures needed
2. http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwwws.whitehouse.gov%2Fpeti... needs 3630 signatures needed
3. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/stop-death-penality-now-memory-troy-davis/jXgRx4bt NEEDS signatures needed
4. MOVE TO AMMEND – Best Citizens United vs FEC petition http://movetoamend.org/motion-to-amend
5. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/make-bribing-politicians-illegal/jkWvjLnr needs 2000 signatures needed
6. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/investigate-and-announce-national-economic-and-stability-reformation-act-nesara-american-people/V5k9mXhn
7. http://www.getmoneyout.com/
8. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/fb/petition/petition/reject-keysto...
9. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/help-families-avoid-foreclosure-stabilize-housing-market-and-boost-economy-adopt-principal-paydown/Yj4rq2l8
10. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/require-all-genetically-modified-foods-be-labeled-such/yZCBVVz0
11. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/enact-and-enforce-legislation-recognize-bullying-punishable-hate-crime/nlklS23v 3573 signatures needed

to Zagnut: How entrenched you are, and how you cannot see the handwriting on the wall. Died in the wool Dem, I bet.
He got in through Wall Street money; why did i expect more than Geithner, Summers et al?
Bernie Sanders, Dennis Kucinich understand and are speaking out. I'll vote for either. How about for Pres and VP?
2010 was all about Obama selling out. He had not one, but two Dem houses, and decided to turn Republican. WHAT did you want people to do?
The army is taking to the streets, and they do not support our current president.
To Maya:
Did he take the time when he decided to eliminate two American citizens with NO charges against them last week? Did he take the time when he decided it's OK to fund governments that hire child soldiers? To throw 30,000 more soldiers into Afghanistan? To keep Guantanamo open? ETC.
We can't create him; he is his own creation. How often have you seen him negotiate? How often capitulate?.
I don't feel 'most of us' react out of uninformed emotion. Many of us see what is blatantly wrong; there comes a time when you can't deny your gut. Should we wait it out while he perpetrates policies against the people? Like plenty of Germans waited it out with Hitler?
I have no problem declaring myself a detractor. I would bring in a leader with better qualities who WOULD work for us, AND defeat Obama at the same time.
I am not childish, selfish or short-sighted. I have children. I have grandchildren.
My hope is in a candidate like Bernie Sanders or Dennis Kucinich. I cannot hope in someone who has purposefully supported the ultra-wealthy when millions are suffering as I write? Is that what you call intelligent?
We cannot create Obama; we don't want him destroyed.
We do want new, effective leadership.
To AP News Guy:
And yes, Obama has and does support the oppressors on Wall Street. Have we seen him crack down on abusive practices? Who are his appointees but from the Street?
But aren't our public pension funds still buying in? Maybe you're an investor yourself. Where do you store your money that it doesn't support Wall Street? It even sounds like you're apologizing for the corrupt financial markets who caused the world to fall.
An inordinate 50% + of the U.S. budget goes to the military and wars, past and present.
Obama continues the public theft of the people's money that began in earnest 30 years ago, and that burgeoned astronomically under the darling of the right, George W. Bush, who initiated extravagant, deadly, devastating oil wars. Why can't anyone tea party speak to that travesty?
We, the people, finance the hugest of polluting companies, the oil oligarchies, the arms manufacturers, and you point out measly Solyndra, that failed because China undercut them. Where is your thinking?
The people's money is of, by and for them. But few speak up to demand that government fulfill its first and foremost obligation: the welfare of the people.
Why not try just that?
To Charlotte:
You begin by saying, "at least he is listening". OMG. Some of us are reduced to that, in free fall after believing in the guy who promised 'change'.

But you segue to hoping for someone in gov. who won't be bought. We have those people: Senator Bernie Sanders of VT, Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Indiana, former rep Russ Feingold of WI, others. Tune in on-line. Keep reading Nation of Change. You will find answers. We, the people, don't have to settle for the horror story we have, of one choice: right or more right.
As it stands, fascism is at the gate, and it's by and large the young, who have not lived through fascism, who are carrying the flag against it.
Read, and begin to speak and act. They can't do it alone.

In Europe, broadcast licenses require a tv or radio stations to donate equal air time to all registered candidates,at no cost as a condition of licensure. In the US, broadcast media can assuredly count on 100s of millions in ad revenue from a presidential election and even more from the lesser elections beyond that. Get the cash out of elections or we are doomed as a republic, and not only because with all the guns and ammo in general circulation in America, the doom won't end well.**This president is pwned** by his donors and an electoral system with rules that require huge amounts of cash to get in and win the game and all but sells the candidate's soul out from under them (assuming they had one to begin with) to whatever the donor wants. Its the root of the problem and anything less than radical restructure of the electoral process is closing the barn door after the horses have run off.

Why do some people who claim to understand the Federal Reserve's role in this persist in believing that Bernanke and Geithner were "Obama's choices?"

Who would that person be who you would have replace Obama, and how exactly would he make things better? Neither Obama nor your fantasy quarterback can be a firebrand without an army. In 2010 we had the opportunity to give him one, and stayed home from the poles instead. Quit complaining that he cannot achieve the impossible. Just another bad meme that works against your own best interest.

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You might like to comment on the President’s comments found in this article by the AP News wire:

"It expresses the frustrations that the American people feel that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country, all across Main Street,” the president said.

“And yet you’re still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this problem in the first place.”

Yes, you might like to comment on this, but Yahoo has taken away it's message boxes for people to comment on their articles. Your voice has been taken out of the social, global news by the idea bandits at Yahoo.

The frustration of conservatives expressed by the Tea Party’s non-violent, law abiding protests is that the “same folks who acted irresponsibly” towards efforts to crack down on abusive financial practices was the government itself and expressly Mr. Obama over the last three years.

The unwillingness of Congress to limit spending over the last half a century to the tune of 16 trillion dollars was the key factor in America not being able to take a 100 billion dollar hit in the financial markets. Mr. Obama’s spending above, beyond and escaping the utmost imaginations of our national debt ceiling has continued the downward economic cycle. To top that off he has expanded American war efforts in three countries, given billions away to foreign countries and financed irresponsible companies like Solyndra.

But remember, your observations are not welcome on Yahoo.

Yip.

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President Obama is not the problem. The problem is that our elected officials are being bought/controlled by Big business who in a sense are truly running our government. What has to be done is that a clean sweep of our present government must be undertaken now, and a replacement government must be put in place. The only thing that stands in the way of that happening, is that there are no people out there who cannot be tempted by money, etc. Meanwhile, I'm hoping that if there's truly a "Second Coming", then let it take place now!

Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.

Only during the election cycle does this man tell us what we want to hear.