Monday, 24 October 2011

Sir Alex Ferguson feels the pain of his 'worst-ever day'

Sorry Acting Police Commissioner Ken Lay...

...there has been photographs here, here, here and video (@4:05) of police officers not wearing nametags at #OccupyMelbourne on Friday (and Saturday.)

Interview
Recap of what went down last Friday

♪♫ The Skatalites - Freedom Sound (Live '83)

Clinton on Gaddafi: We came, we saw, he died

Protip for Hillary: when trying to convince people we're bringing them democracy via bombs, don't quote a Roman Emperor
Via

Ad break # 31 (Miranda Kerr for Rag & Bone)

A Fluid Protest Movement Finds a Forum to Match

Herman Cain’s Numerology Fixation

Cain, Now Running as Outsider, Came to Washington as Lobbyist

SultanAlQassemi Sultan Al Qassemi
The Islamic Republic of Libya

Abdulkhaleq_UAE Abdulkhaleq Abdulla

@algergawi @sultanalqassemi That is a total misreading of what happened today. No one calling for an Islamic republic of Libya

NewtonMark Mark Newton
Purely advisory in Australia, of course. :-/ RT @nazzer: Thinking about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at un.org/en/documents/u…

What Occupy Wall Street isn't

Sunday, 23 October 2011

Robert Doyle is a fucking cunt

Think Outside the Box, but Don't Forget the Box Exists

Conflicted thoughts: on Occupy Melbourne

How do you describe your own conflict at witnessing a movement whose goals are sound enough to be reflected in populist actions globally, yet whose local expression and ‘methods’ for achieving them are so farcically flawed that you cringe to align yourself with their ideological braying? Even parochially?
Like just such an ass, Melbourne Lord Mayor, Robert Doyle (backed by Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu) outdid the stupidity of even the dumbest, least-informed Occupy Melbourne protestor by sending in a TRG police unit and mounted police to evict peaceful protestors from City Square early last Friday, 21/10/2011.
For righteous ranting specifically designed to entertain, you’re better off heading to Geoff Lemon’s Heathen Scripture blog entry, where Doyle gets the serve he certainly deserves, with the customary vitriolic verbal pyrotechnics. Subtle Geoff is not; entertaining, he is. /Yodacadence
I’ll get onto my thoughts about the City’s response in a bit, but first I want to look at the limitations of the Occupy movement in the Australian context and ask, like several others did, here and here: do we need to express the Occupy ideals in this country at all? (for the purposes of this discussion taking Wall Street as the prototypical case, even if Spain’s protest has been running longer).
Are we really the 99%..?