twitter:OccupyLondon twitterde op zaterdag 18-10-2014 om 22:54:26Cops just left parliament square. Occupation going. Square open. Come and join us #olsx #occupydemocracy reageer retweet
quote:Breaking: London police attempting to violently and illegally evict peaceful #OccupyDemocracy protestors from Parliament Square
As the #OccupyDemocracy protest in London heads towards the end of its second day, police are attempting to violently close down the peaceful occupation of Parliament Square. [1]
The violent turn of events follows thousands of people marching in London as part of the TUC march against austerity and for a living wage. With around 100 protestors currently kettled and at least 150 around the square, police have tried a number of tactics throughout the protest to remove the protestors, progressively becoming more violent and oppressive in their actions. A number of protestors have already been assaulted and police have confiscated banners and personal items.
Currently the protestors remain determined and resolved, and demand that their right to protest and democratic assembly is facilitated – the very purpose of Parliament Square.
Dan hebben de HK Chinezen dus niet door op welke manier zij werkelijk worden belazerd, want dan zouden zij in de gaten hebben dat je door tirannie (propaganda) massaal de straat op wordt gedirigeerd.quote:Op maandag 29 september 2014 19:53 schreef controlaltdelete het volgende:
zelfs in China- Hong Kong hebben mensen ook al door dat ze belazerd worden en gaan de straat op. Maar de Nederlander doet liever niks en kijkt ondertussen naar Boer zoekt Vrw ofzo.
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quote:Protesters from "Occupy Democracy" managed to occupy Parliament Square today, during day 2 of their proposed 9 day occupancy. A police presence overlook proceedings which appears peaceful.
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quote:Overnight in Parliament Square, #OccupyDemocracy protestors aiming to draw attention to the growing democratic deficit in the UK, have been enduring systematic torment from the Metropolitan Police and Heritage Wardens, who have been zealously enforcing new restrictions on the right to protest and assembly in the Square (Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011).
The reaction of the Police and the State to the #OccupyDemocracy protest is in complete juxtaposition to David Cameron’s recent comments regarding the Occupy Central pro-democracy demonstrations in Kong Kong, when he said that “rights and freedoms, including those of person, of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of travel, of movement, and, indeed, of strike … These are important freedoms … which, most of all, we should stand up for.” [1]
quote:The protest, organised by #OccupyDemocracy – a group that grew out of Occupy London – is demanding reforms to our democratic process so that it serves the public interest, rather than the interests of corporations, banks and a tiny wealthy elite.
Alison Playford from #OccupyDemocracy said: “The way the State has responded to our protest with this political policing just shows how frightened the elite are of a new movement pushing for radical democratic reform.”
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quote:In an interview on Tuesday, Leung said that while Beijing would not back down on vetting his successor, the committee tasked with selecting those candidates could become more democratic.
“There is room for discussion there; there’s room to make the nominating committee more democratic and this is one of the things we’d very much like to talk to not just the students but the community at large about,” he said.
The offer is still a long way from meeting the core demands of protesters who say anything other than public nomination of candidates is unacceptable.
But Leung’s comments are the first indication of a potential negotiating point as talks began between senior government officials and student leaders at a nearby medical college.
Het artikel gaat verder.quote:Occupy protesters forced to hand over pizza boxes and tarpaulin
Occupy Democracy protest in Parliament Square clashes with police over bylaw which bans sleeping equipment
When is a pizza box a pillow? Or an umbrella a ‘structure’? In Parliament Square Occupy Democracy protesters have spent their seventh night sleeping on the ground on top of piles of newspapers. According to the 2011 Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act, the local authority for the City of Westminster has the power to confiscate items that count as sleeping equipment or a structure, so mattresses and tents are forbidden.
But protesters say the police are getting creative with their interpretation of the bylaw, confiscating backpacks and pizza boxes, claiming that they count as sleeping equipment. Umbrellas have similarly been confiscated because they count as a structure. Some have been told that sleeping bags are allowed to keep them warm while they’re awake, but not when they’re asleep.
Occupy Democracy protesters have been camping out in Parliament Square since 17 October and they plan to leave on Sunday. Organisers say they are campaigning for a more representative democracy. “Parliament is supposed to represent the interests of the people, but it appears to us that they do not represent us. Rather, they represent the interests of big business and the wealthy,” says John Sinha, one of the organisers.
Last Sunday evening a group of protesters were forcibly removed from a sheet of tarpaulin laid out on the square, which was deemed by the police to count as sleeping equipment. The removals were live streamed on Bambuser and #tarpaulinrevolution began trending on Twitter. Matilda Wnek, who was there that night, says that police outnumbered protesters three to one and were accompanied by ten police vans. Her and other protesters accuse police of using unnecessarily violent tactics on a peaceful protest.
On Tuesday around 30 people were arrested for breaking the 2011 zct, including the Green Party’s Jenny Jones, who was later de-arrested. That afternoon the Greater London Authority erected fencing around the square with the stated purpose of doing maintenance work. The GLA’s heritage wardens, who are employed by private security company AOS to guard the square, told protesters that the space needs to be kept clear for the grass to grow back.
“They’ve basically privatised the space,” says Wnek. “They keep saying the grass needs to regrow as if it trumps our right to protest.” Wnek stresses that Parliament Square has historically been maintained as a space for the public to protest on.
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quote:GroenLinks wil de allerrijksten meer gaan belasten. 'Het is tijd voor een nieuwe nivelleringspolitiek', stelt Tweede Kamerlid Jesse Klaver in een vandaag gepresenteerd pamflet.
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quote:De spraakmakende Tsjechische econoom Tomas Sedlacek hield gisteren de 32ste Van der Leeuwlezing. Hier de ingekorte versie van zijn lezing.
quote:Uiteraard heeft elk ideologisch systeem zijn eigen ethiek. Ik gebruik het woord 'ethiek' hier als aanduiding van een verzameling algemeen aanvaarde regels volgens welke degenen die onder invloed van een specifieke ideologie staan, in de praktijk abstracte waarden beschermen die van groot belang worden geacht voor een bepaalde ideologie. Je had dus nazi-ethiek en racistische ethiek om de hogere belangen van die ideologie (een beter ras) te beschermen, net zoals je een communistische ethiek had. Het feit dat een systeem een bepaalde ethiek heeft, betekent niet dat die ethiek, beoordeeld vanuit een kader buiten die ideologie, moreel of te rechtvaardigen is.
Het is dus niet zo dat we waarden moeten toevoegen aan de economie. 'Economische ethiek' bestaat al, is zeer sterk en bij sommige implicaties ervan voelen we ons niet prettig. Mijn doel is het deconstrueren van economische beeldvorming, van overtuigingen, verhalen en mythes die we gebruiken om het hele veld in zijn huidige vorm mogelijk te maken. Een tweede doelstelling is dat ik me wil richten op hoe het heeft kunnen gebeuren dat de economie stilletjes is veranderd in een bron van ethiek, hoe de discipline tot een soort religieus en ethisch baken is geworden. Economie staat immers niet los van ethiek, los van vraagstukken van goed en kwaad, al wordt die indruk dikwijls gewekt. Integendeel, economie schept ethiek - een heel eigen ethiek.
quote:Sjoemelende bankiers worden niet oneerlijk geboren
Sjoemelende bankiers worden niet oneerlijk geboren, maar mogelijk oneerlijk gemaakt door de bankcultuur. Dat is de strekking van een Zwitserse studie naar 'De bedrijfscultuur en eerlijkheid in het bankwezen' die vandaag in Nature wordt gepubliceerd.
De uitkomst suggereert dat werken in het bankwezen eerlijk gedrag ondermijnt. Dat de bankcultuur de oorzaak is van alle ellende, is nooit wetenschappelijk aangetoond. In dat gat sprongen drie Zwitserse economen.
Ze lieten 128 zeer ervaren bankemployees van een internationale bank achter de computer een kop-of-munt-spelletje doen, waarbij ze 200 dollar konden winnen. De ene helft van de groep werd aangesproken als privépersoon, de andere helft werd juist voortdurend herinnerd aan hun beroep van bankmedewerker.
Oneerlijker bij bewustzijn van professie
Ze werden niet individueel geobserveerd en konden dus sjoemelen. De eerste groep deed dat niet of nauwelijks. De tweede groep wel: een kwart overdreef de prestaties. Conclusie: bankpersoneel is wel eerlijk, maar dat stopt zodra ze zich bewust worden van hun professie. Het onderzoek werd herhaald met werknemers uit de telecom- en ict-sector, maar daar werden proefpersonen niet oneerlijker.
De Leidse hoogleraar psychologie, Eric van Dijk, is nog niet overtuigd door de studie. 'Het gevonden effect is interessant, maar zwak en wellicht toeval.' Van Dijk vindt het juist opvallend dat degenen die aangesproken werden als privépersoon niet of nauwelijks knoeiden met de prestaties. 'Dat lijkt in strijd met wat je meestal in dit soort onderzoek ziet. Normaal gesproken gaat een belangrijk deel van mensen (een beetje) smokkelen. Verregaande conclusies over een perverse bankcultuur zijn voorbarig.'
quote:Protesters using tech to run rings around cops
Tech-savvy anarchists ran rings around the NYPD during last week’s Ferguson-related protests — and cops are now on edge over what the renegades may be able to pull off after a ruling in the Eric Garner case.
The NYPD is “very concerned, more because of recent events,” a law enforcement source said.
Last week, activists armed with untraceable “burner phones” used social media and online bulletin boards to stay one step ahead of city cops and create mayhem after a grand jury cleared Officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
The anarchists clearly won the game of “Whac-A-Mole’’ — shutting down major roads including the FDR Drive, Lincoln Tunnel and West Side Highway and frustrating the NYPD, sources said.
“They wore me out,” said one counterterror expert who monitored the protests. “Their ability to strategize on the fly is something we haven’t dealt with before to this degree.”
While the NYPD actively monitors Twitter, Facebook and other social media for intelligence, sources said the official chain of command keeps squadrons of cops from moving around as quickly as protesters.
A “technology gap” also favors the activists, many of whom have the newest electronic gear, sources said.
“A lot of these anarchists are from the Occupy Wall Street group. They are little rich kids, little techie brats,’’ a source said.
“They get their money from Mommy and Daddy. And they travel from the West Coast to the East Coast and everywhere in between to disrupt events that involve corporate America, world summits, civil rights and especially those that involve law enforcement.”
“They have their little MacBook Air computers, their Wi-Fi, their smartphones, and they’re off to the races. We’re reacting to these situations, which means we are not fully in control of them,” the source said.
Authorities suspect “a few hundred” of the estimated 4,000 protesters who took to New York City’s streets after the Ferguson decision used their knack for mobile technology to send out real-time advisories on where cops were located and where they were headed.
“They were giving instantaneous commands to their followers, and this enabled them to stay one step ahead of us,” a source noted.
As a result, cops were left to race around the city to try to stem the disruptions.
The developments now have cops “very worried” about the upcoming ruling by a grand jury investigating Garner’s death, sources said.
The Staten Island dad died in August after being put in a police chokehold while being busted for allegedly peddling loose cigarettes.
NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo — who was recorded putting Garner into the chokehold — testified before the panel Nov. 21, and a ruling on whether to indict him could be announced as soon as Monday.
“We’re expecting strong reaction and demonstrations when the decision comes down,” one source said.
Another source said: “The cops on standby will be in riot gear. That means helmets and sticks.”
Since the success of Twitter and Facebook in fueling the Arab Spring uprisings that toppled regimes in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, US activists have increasingly used the Web to organize and mobilize protests.
Last week, hundreds of tweets directed protesters to Union Square to await the Ferguson ruling.
After the verdict, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton was splattered with fake blood, allegedly by “professional agitator’’ Diego Ibañez, 26.
Plans to disrupt the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade included the Twitter hashtag #StopTheParade.
And activist Ben Norton — busted in July during a protest in DC with the CODEPINK anti-war group — tweeted out a parade map.
“This is the route,” he wrote. “Be the change you want to see in the world. Make history. #IndictTheSystem.”
#STOPTHEPARADE This is the route. Be the change you want to see in the world. Make history. #IndictTheSystem pic.twitter.com/x8xziyC0Wq
"“They wore me out,” said one counterterror expert who monitored the protests. “Their ability to strategize on the fly is something we haven’t dealt with before to this degree.”"quote:Op dinsdag 2 december 2014 01:33 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:
“They wore me out,” said one counterterror expert who monitored the protests. “Their ability to strategize on the fly is something we haven’t dealt with before to this degree.”
Hoe autoriteitsgeil kun je zijn.quote:“A lot of these anarchists are from the Occupy Wall Street group. They are little rich kids, little techie brats,’’ a source said.
“They get their money from Mommy and Daddy. And they travel from the West Coast to the East Coast and everywhere in between to disrupt events that involve corporate America, world summits, civil rights and especially those that involve law enforcement.”
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quote:The west’s leading economic thinktank on Tuesday dismissed the concept of trickle-down economics as it found that the UK economy would have been more than 20% bigger had the gap between rich and poor not widened since the 1980s.
Publishing its first clear evidence of the strong link between inequality and growth, the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development proposed higher taxes on the rich and policies aimed at improving the lot of the bottom 40% of the population, identified by Ed Miliband as the “squeezed middle”.
Trickle-down economics was a central policy for Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, with the Conservatives in the UK and the Republicans in the US confident that all groups would benefit from policies designed to weaken trade unions and encourage wealth creation.
The OECD said that the richest 10% of the population now earned 9.5 times the income of the poorest 10%, up from seven times in the 1980s. However, the result had been slower, not faster, growth.
It concluded that “income inequality has a sizeable and statistically negative impact on growth, and that redistributive policies achieving greater equality in disposable income has no adverse growth consequences.
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