Category Archives: Fascism
Political system used by Mussolini, Hitler, Pol Pot, And Obama among others.
Occupy Melbourne 2.0- What Goes Around Comes Around
And so it begins. A few days after what may have been the largest protest in Melbourne history (estimates run from between 75000 to 100 000) against the Andrews government and their horrendous and insane “Pandemic Bill” we now find ourselves occupying Parliament. Exactly 10 years and one month to the day after the Occupy movement took over the world in 2011.
Many may not even remember the Occupy movement or Occupy Melbourne, which inspired the creation of this website one year after it’s inception. But the Occupy movement was a worldwide protest against bank bailouts ,corporate theft and political corruption – in other words a protest against fascism.
While the New York protest Occupy Wall Street originally gained some decent numbers for several weeks, the Occupy movement itself slowly faded after weeks or months or police evictions that wanted to prevent protesters from “camping”. Here in Melbourne we had a massive eviction from what used to be City Square and then we played cat and mouse with the police , the council and various groups of drug addicted homeless people (who were welcome in the movement but also had a somewhat disruptive influence at times).
The far left (represented by Socialist Alternative) tried to take over the movement initially, but were shouted down fairly quickly, leaving a motley crew of protesters from all persuasions and a small group of thinkers who were too far ahead of their time to be believed by the mainstream population who largely ignored them.
Despite those obstacles, Occupy Melbourne was one of the longest running “Occupy’s” in the world, running for 2 months and culminating in the famous tent monster parade where tents became clothes and could therefore not be moved on. Later the movement morphed into a Free Shop in 2012 and a Free Kitchen, which ran until 2014.
Then we were asked what we were protesting about and now , here today, the answer has finally occurred to tens of thousands of people : Something is wrong when ordinary people are not allowed to have control over their lives due to massive corporate and political interference.
Then it was the bank bailouts that governments supported with taxpayers money (mainly in the US and Europe) and the fallout from the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) which came about through corporate greed , now it is a pandemic of which many are not too sure that it actually is a pandemic, where the only winners appear to be huge corporations and the political class and democracy has gone out the window , possibly for good.
Not only does Occupymelbourne.net wish all the luck in the world to the brave souls who are now venturing on this very tricky path of occupying, we also wish that you have the numbers this time and that this time we the people can actually win, because this time it actually seems possible.
How does it feel to be on the right side of history ?
Thanks VICPOL, You Rock !
After watching the video of Zoe Buhler’s arrest I have to sincerely thank VicPol for doing what no protest could ever accomplish:
By arresting and cuffing a pregnant mother in her pjs for making a post (about organizing a protest) on Facebook, they have shown the rest of Australia and the world, what is really going on in the people’s republic of Victoria: It’s a dictatorship and a police state.
The optics betray the true situation, in which Zoe was only cuffed briefly and not shipped off to the Gulag. But it looks bad, so bad.
By livestreaming this video, she singlehandely beat the government and the media at their own game.
We will spend years, nay, decades trying to come to terms with the fact that we allowed our freedoms to slip away like this and much will be written. But yesterday was the day it all turned around.
Good job!
Privacy under threat proposed encryption laws
Sign the petition here, act before 5pm Monday September 10.
https://digitalrightswatch.org.au/2018/08/19/defend-encryption/
In case the YouTube video is disappeared in a giant black maria, and sent off to a digital gulag, we have another copy right here:
The reason the Australian government will abuse this legislation is the lack of a bill of right here, its time to start lobbying for a bill of rights.
Meta data slippery slope begins
We are all suspected terrorists now, you, me, and the Nana down the road. The government has now opened up meta data (stored for 2 years) searches to 85 different agencies.
So what exactly is meta data, and why should you care?
Meta data is everything except the content of the information exchange. Lets just say you rang a friend and said
“Hey, lets get a coffee at the place we always go to”
So that line is the content, everything else is the context (meta data).
Time of call
from whom to whom
was it SMS/voice call/skype/instant message/email.
location of each participant in the message. (GPS/reverse IP)
personal identifier IP address/ IMEI/MAC address/SIM
device type, phone, mobile phone, PC,tablet, payphone.
Then there is the meta-meta data. This is the information that can be derived from a history of stored meta data
Frequency and pattern of communications.
Network of contacts
Times at which you frequently communicate
Places where you are frequently (GPS/MAC address/SIM)
And all of this applies to your contacts as well.
This may seem like an unweildly mess of information to sort through, but massive banks of supercomputers are ready and waiting to pass judgement on you.
When you consider the complete picture that can be obtained the content of the call seems like the least sensitive part of the picture, and to some extent you are right, but that will be the next thing they want in this ever more comprehensive surveillance picture.
If we consider that 340,000 requests were made last year for meta data, and we assume each request was for a different resident, that means that 1.5% of the population had their meta data searched just last year.
Google has huge amounts of internet data and meta data and has recently purchased from DARPA/Boston Dynamics PETMAN and other robotics technology
Billions wasted on job search fraud
ABC 4 corners investigation has uncovered the amoral gamification of government contracts purported to offer job seeker assistance.
http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/four-corners/NC1504H004S00
This video may not be available after march 9 2015 so get in fast.
Forging and falsifying documents seemed to be industry standard practice.
Specific rorts uncovered were:
Categorizing people into more at risk categories in order to get more funding.
Claiming payments for assisting job seekers into work even when the job seeker was not assisted.
Funneling job seekers into in-house training courses order to claim a training payment, often the training was low quality, inappropriate or never actually provided.
What is more shocking was successive governments were aware of the widespread fraud and waste but did nothing to punish the fraudsters.
So a total of 18 billion dollars was spent on this program, conservative estimates are that about half was fraud by the contracted agencies.
18 billion dollars spent over a 16 year period is a lot of money, what else could be done with such a sum.
In November 1960 President Kennedy was elected and quite quickly promised to have a man on the moon before 1970.
In the period of 1961 and 1969, 34 billion dollars was spend on getting man on the moon.
So effectively we could have had half a moon landing for the price of the wacky ideologically driven ‘be mean to the battlers’ program.
The original NASA moon landing from 1961 to 1969 cost 34 billion dollars. Australia wasted about half this amount harassing unemployed people in the early 21 century and has not landed a man on the moon.
So who is behind all of this, who else Tony Abbott,
Minister for employment when the program was announced,
under John Howard.
Abbott 39pc spilled
Even four out of every ten ‘Liberal’ party member want Tony Abbott Gone. The count down begins until it is 51% and then time for a new puppet.
Je suis Lindt cafe siege
More than a month on and still no real answers, maybe the next tag line will be ‘lest we forget’.
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