Occupy

The Morning Glories just do their thing every morning, oblivious to sit-ins, marches and occupiers.

"There's something happening here,

What it is ain't exactly clear" from "For What It's Worth" by Jefferson Airplane. (1969)

The 'Occupy' movement is growing and is moving to Vancouver this weekend. If you are not aware of what this is, I would advise you to get acquainted with it. The economic crash of 2008 laid bare the corruption in our system, and anybody who is feeling hard done by is joining the movement or is very sympathetic toward it. There is a feeling 'out there' that the rich are to blame, but that is painting too many with the same brush. "More equity, tax the rich" is one of the mantras. This has the odour of revolution behind it, if you know anything of history.

There has been no overt violence so far, but there is an attempt to start a dialogue on how to fix the system. Of course, anyone who has an education and plenty of student loans with no job prospect will want to change the system. The three criteria for revolution as taught to us by the history books are: huge discrepancy between rich and poor, a disappearing middle class, and a lot of people with a grudge.

  The US fits each of these criteria. And then some others the spooks hadn’t thought about. The U6 broad measure of unemployment is going up...with 16.5% of the population without work. There are 6.2 million people who have been looking for a job for more than 6 months.

Americans are $7 trillion poorer, according to David Rosenberg, than they were 4 years ago — and property prices are still going down.
More than 45 million are on food stamps. (From "The Daily Reckoning")

If you don't think this protest will have legs, think again. But, sadly, few of them will do the homework to connect the dots that lead back to the source of the problem. Yes, Wall Street got rich, the rest of us got poorer, but can you blame the banks and brokers? They were handed trillions when they should have been left to the ravages of bankruptcy. The blame lies in the ignorant economic policies of the big governments of the world. And all governments are self serving. It is only power that they are after and they will give their voters anything they want, whether it is good for them or not, and they will borrow from future generations to do that. Well, the leading edge of that future generation are out on the streets right now, occupying. It will be fascinating to see where this will lead.