After yet another example of the Israeli governments outrageous and arrogant behaviour yesterday, protests have been global. Australia has a large Eastern European and Middle Eastern community, particularly Turkish and Palestinian so the backlash was inevitable.

Having not seen the news all day, I was cutting through the CBD after work when all the traffic ahead came to a complete stand still. I boosted up to the front to find the 6 lane junction full of hundreds and hundreds of protesters and police engaged in a testy stand off. The unsanctioned protests had caused police to close all the roads around me so I parked up the bike and took a wander. Various loud hailers were being used to work up the crowd and the down with/death to… chants rang out. Then I came across about 50-60 men in lines facing in the same direction within the crowd, all with shoes off. As they made their prostrations they just happened to have lined up facing a squad of sheepish looking policemen, giving the surreal impression that they were bowing to them…

I’m a little late on this as it was released in 2008 but just watched this profoundly important movie.
I imagine one of the reasons I had never heard of it is that it was probably denied publicity by pressure from the likes of Monsanto and other vested interests…

It is quite graphic at times, but it is hugely important to gain awareness of where our food comes from…

One of the biggest impressions I was left with was the massive centralisation of power and control in the food industry and the ineffectiveness of the bodies charged with regulating it. It seems that this process is systematic in many of the industries (banking comes to mind!) in the US in particular but also elsewhere in the world.

Doesnt it all just seem a bit too good to be true? According to the media we just dodged the biggest economic crisis since the 1920′s. Wrong. So wrong. The worst is yet to come. Of that I have no doubt at all.

“The people have been lulled into a false sense of safety under the rouse of a perceived “economic recovery.” Unfortunately, what the majority of people think does not make it so, especially when the people making the key decisions think and act to the contrary. The sovereign debt crises that have been unfolding in the past couple years and more recently in Greece, are canaries in the coal mine for the rest of Western “civilization.” The crisis threatens to spread to Spain, Portugal and Ireland; like dominoes, one country after another will collapse into a debt and currency crisis, all the way to America.

In October 2008, the mainstream media and politicians of the Western world were warning of an impending depression if actions were not taken to quickly prevent this. The problem was that this crisis had been a long-time coming, and what’s worse, is that the actions governments took did not address any of the core, systemic issues and problems with the global economy; they merely set out to save the banking industry from collapse. To do this, governments around the world implemented massive “stimulus” and “bailout” packages, plunging their countries deeper into debt to save the banks from themselves, while charging it to people of the world.

Then an uproar of stock market speculation followed, as money was pumped into the stocks, but not the real economy. This recovery has been nothing but a complete and utter illusion, and within the next two years, the illusion will likely come to a complete collapse.

The governments gave the banks a blank check, charged it to the public, and now it’s time to pay; through drastic tax increases, social spending cuts, privatization of state industries and services, dismantling of any protective tariffs and trade regulations, and raising interest rates. The effect that this will have is to rapidly accelerate, both in the speed and volume, the unemployment rate, globally. The stock market would crash to record lows, where governments would be forced to freeze them altogether.

When the crisis is over, the middle classes of the western world will have been liquidated of their economic, political and social status. The global economy will have gone through the greatest consolidation of industry and banking in world history leading to a system in which only a few corporations and banks control the global economy and its resources; governments will have lost that right. The people of the western world will be treated by the financial oligarchs as they have treated the ‘global South’ and in particular, Africa; they will remove our social structures and foundations so that we become entirely subservient to their dominance over the economic and political structures of our society.

This is where we stand today, and is the road on which we travel.”

More of this very worrying article here.

Respect to my brov for reposting this from Evil Speculator and maybe other sites.

Shocking, just shocking…

Appearing at a bookstore in the downtown Loop, Gore was confronted by a team of demonstrators from a grass roots group called “We Are Change,” as he was signing his latest fascist screed on the global warming swindle. Gore bolted from the bookstore, raced down an alley, jumped into a waiting car, and tried to speed off, with protesters chasing after him and banging on the car.

Full article here.

Could it be that people are actually beginning to pay attention?

Not if you read the MSM though or listen to politicians as there is precious little coverage of anything contrary to the standard GW theories…or is there:

Australia is leading the revolt against Al Gore’s great big AGW conspiracy – just as the Aussie geologist and AGW sceptic Professor Ian Plimer predicted it would.

ABC news reports that five frontbenchers from Australia’s opposition Liberal party have resigned their portfolios rather than follow their leader Malcolm Turnbull in voting with Kevin Rudd’s Government on a new Emissions Trading Scheme.

Rest of the article here.

A particular favourite quote would have to be the bloggers description of Australia’s urban community as

“pinko, libtard metropolitan fleshpots.”

Meanwhile Gordon Brown continues to bumble along, throwing money at things in his usual style in an attempt to hide the problems…

WAKE UP!

What is with the “news” these days??

Tony Blair and George Bush knew there were no WMD’s but, having run out of reasons to attack Iraq, just went ahead anyway!

As if it hadnt been obvious from the start, this is now being reported as “NEWS”

Global Warming (renamed Climate Change) has been clearly shown to be a sham, intended to allow Governments endless reasons to tax and control their minions…

Dubai finally admits that actually it cant afford to build a ludicrously overbudget supercity from scratch….and most all bubble asset classes go over the cliff again…

9/11 Texts released on WikiLeaks show some extraordinary inconsistencies, suggesting that perhaps the Bush regime wasnt entirely honest about things? Surely not more lies?

Is it just me or are things really starting to unravel, just as the MSM would have us all belive that things are getting back to normal and pfffew we managed to avoid a massive depression. Double dip anyone?

Modern historians will look back at the defining events in this period in history and marvel at the disgraceful behaviour that went entirely unchecked for so long…

For a more eloquently written version of this outrage and other things you can check my brothers site here, as I just noticed that we posted about the same topics at about the same time…does combined outrage make any difference?

A refreshing amount of sense from a rapper:

Not content with having over 4 million CCTV cameras in the UK (one for every 12 people), the government has now decided they need to know even more about their sheeple like population:

“All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer’s personal communications, showing who they have contacted, when and where, as well as the websites they have visited.”

Full article here.

I am not paranoid and have absolutely nothing to hide, but totally object to this in principle.

Luckily I have no plans to live there but if they can do it there, they can do it anywhere…

[Update - apparently the geniuses in charge have decided to wait until after the next election, so they can claim to have a mandate to do what they like for the next 5 years]

Another great idea that the powers that be have come up with is this monstrosity:

Police launch ‘Flying Saucer’ CCTV camera

Full article here.

Outrageous.