Who's going? My friend is going, I might go as well. it's this weekend Saturday 15th October. 2pm at Martin Place outside Reserve Bank of Australia. http://indymedia.org.au/occupy-sydney-reserve-bankmartin-place-occupation there was even a mainstream article about it: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/time-to-occupy-our-financial-hubs-20111010-1lgq9.html
lol - i believe Dan Denning said it best: Is the great crisis of capitalism over yet? Well no. It's not. And come to think of it, it's not really a crisis of capitalism either. It can't be. Why? Because a system where Big Business and Big Government make a Big Mess is not capitalism. It's something else entirely. http://forums.silverstackers.com/topic-16416-the-new-big-bang.html
i cant go.. but, I will call dominos and order pizza for anyone want can. i only say that after seeing kids sleeping in plastic bags, so they stayed warm and dry (smart kids) in Sydney, a block for the ASX with a bunch of suits just sneering at them
I am too lazy to protest, I am happy to be a slave as long as they feed me and clothe me. Any less and I will revolt.
Yesterday in Sydney, Steve Keen let the protestors know what the root of their problems were. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1aN8oe_sCY[/youtube]
8 days and it's over already? I wonder what their next move will be? http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/police-de...n-occupy-sydney-raid-20111023-1me59.html#poll
Im very thankful that there are people who dont mind looking like freaks and hippies to the rest of Australia and protest anyway. It means I dont have to. They have all my respect though.
And they're back. This time it's Hyde Park. I may pop along tomorrow in my lunch break to see what they're all about. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8370285/protesters-to-occupy-space-in-sydney-cbd?mode=preview
the irony of these leftwing do-gooders protesting capitalism is that capitalism is all but dead. corporations are quite obviously socialism with a capitalism label. centralisation of industry, corporations came about not through the natural evolution of the free market but through rigging of laws. tarrifs, pulling the carpet out from local businesses and farms in one way or another. in the whitlam , hawke, keating governments in particular i saw this happen. so we have a bizzare situation where left wing socialists are pulling their dreadlocks out in angst over world socialism because its oppressive. Some folks just can't see past labels. You try running or creating a corporation without being in the boy's club. Or selling a bag of tomatoes you grew in the backyard , in open competition with the Coles New World Order Occupy a Library or a Occupy a Barber might be a better cause
Where have all the lunatics gone? It used to be that when something this bad was happening(finance), there would be some nutter with a high powered rifle and a good scope, to level the playing field Unfortunatly these unwashed hippys don't have any power, the ones that do have the power will not let go, so they just relese the hounds(police) to sort out the issue. The only thing these sorts of protests do is make the general population hate you, as the Media will NOT be unbiased in the reporting, so they will only show some dread locked hippy smoking a scoob, so an every day person goes "damn hippys get a job ya low life and stop making it harder for me to get home of an evening", alls this does is breed contempt in the population. Nothing is going to change untill there is a major problem for the population, like Food, THEN we will see some proper action, i'm a bit of a realist when it comes to this issue, there is fuck all i can do exept look after my family as best as i can, so that means keeping my debt level extremely low(no Credit here), and being prepared to do what it takes to keep some sort of money comming in, if it was to get as bad as some of the Tin foilers would have you belive, then i would move my family back to the Country, where there is some hope of atleast riding out the storm.
i don't think theyre all leftwingers protesting. But its clearly an orchestrated worldwide "movement" and in my opinion controlled by the very same folks who control the police and created banks. Its all a theatrical display. the fruits may be new laws to stop public gathering/ more power for police or maybe the sheep will be herded towards violence one day. but whatever the results may be, it wont serve the people protesting. It will serve the pope and his world socialist state. these people have been brainwashed by the gandhi story of conquering an empire through peaceful protest. they truly believe an historical fiction. when gandhi was just a very good opportunity for britain to modernise from an age where you needed soldiers in redcoats to soldiers in suits and ties to run an empire. if i ran the world thru a veil of deception i would love peaceful protests. no risk to my person plus i get to see which ruses the peasants have seen through and change tack. in this particular case though , i believe it to be jesuit orchestrated. i'm sure if you went there you'd find alot of pseudo-communist guys with Irish surnames bullying and cajolling with loudspeakers and rhetoric (my caps button is unreliable , sorry)
Couch sitting is the political action of the masses. This political action is so vast, that no one dare 'put in the boot'.
A person doesn't have to show up at a centralised location to affect a protest stance. Most of us are already part of the machine that these guys are protesting against. In the same way that all it would take is for the people sorrounding; Alan Joyce, Julia Gillard, Your local Mayor, insert-name-of-head-of-evil-corporation, to stand up and say "NO", or surupticiously sabotage their plans or simply push them down the stairs when no one is watching, we can all do the same in our situation. These evil/greedy people don't commit these acts by themselves. They get others to do their bidding for them ...US. Stop it. Slow down the process... organise your workmates so that if you know something wrong is being committed you all work together to stop it from occurring. Put every obstacle in it's way without being caught. That's far more effective than getting on TV for sleeping rough or getting your head caved in by a uniformed thug!
I like your idea clawhammer but i don't agree with it. Because as far as I'm concerned our current financial world is a socialist world takeover. Trying to bring all free enterprise onto an electronic web controlled by the spider in Rome. I realise that seems odd, since alot of wealthy people have and will make money from it, but communism was only sharing the wealth in theory. In practice it was all about who you know , and how high placed you are in the central system. Its a system designed to enslave( some say by thomas Moore, from memory, I think it was designed around the late 1500s/1600s by Jesuits) So if the last 100 years or so of bringing all world industry under centralised control is a socialist scheme, upsetting the day to day running of the economy will only facillitate the need for tighter controls, more governement and so on. Rather than moving us back towards freedom. The Occupy "movement" is engineered by the very same folks it opposes. Playing both ends against the middle. If you have seen these guy fawkes masks they wear in utter ignorance of their own history , you will see the screaming clue. It represents a Jesuit plot of insurrection on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church. In my opinion the best way to oppose them would be with arms directly, or by creating a black market for all goods and serrvices. And living completely out of their financial web, like our great grandparents did. Oh, and another thing I keep hearing is "the greatest transfer of wealth in history". Pretty sure I've heard similar words from communists, inspiring revolution. In my house we call that theft
Best way for this protest to work & make every Australian equally poor would be to give Bob Brown & the Greens complete power over the Government & force the Government to introduce a Carbon Tax......oops, that's already been done. There will be no 1% & 99%...... just 100% of us will be poor.
