St Paul's protests - Who is fleecing us and how?
Robin Smith Institute | 17.10.2011 09:57 | Occupy Everywhere | Analysis | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles
Yesterday I went around the "village" hearing a lot and telling a lot with anyone that wanted to tell and hear.
No doubt there is a lot of peaceful passion. But there's still enormous confusion around what exactly is the problem.
1. We know we are being fleeced big time.
2. We know from which direction we are being fleeced.
3. But we don't know exactly who is fleecing us, nor how.
This makes our case very poor in the eyes of the sleeping majority and the media.
No doubt there is a lot of peaceful passion. But there's still enormous confusion around what exactly is the problem.
1. We know we are being fleeced big time.
2. We know from which direction we are being fleeced.
3. But we don't know exactly who is fleecing us, nor how.
This makes our case very poor in the eyes of the sleeping majority and the media.
There are too many incomplete agendas misdirecting us away from the deeper cause the people need to unite around to proceed with credibility and confidence.
The viewpoint I'm trying to gain dialogue and thought on is:
* That banks are the modern day aristocratic landlords
* They own most of our land through mortgage assets, 75%
* They do not collect mortgage interest, they collect RENT
* They did no work, nor created any wealth by doing it
* THIS is how we are being fleeced
When house prices fell they were all under water. They had to be bailed out by the people, who else was there to do it? This is the structural systemic fault.
Our problem then is to accept our own complicity in voting for higher house prices that fully supports this economic injustice. Dumb because your home belongs to the bank probably for ever if recently mortgaged. The people have chosen not to think.
I've been trying to eek this out of all of us there. I had a lot of success yesterday. But need to get an assembly into much wider dialogue somehow.
The church has been extremely graceful. Directing the police from their property. And allowing space for those devoting their time to the freedom of the sleeping majority. I spent an hour inside listening to the organ recital. Good meditation.
I'm going back tomorrow to pitch a tent to try more.
Originally posted on:
http://gco2e.blogspot.com/2011/10/st-pauls-protests-who-is-fleecing-us.html
The viewpoint I'm trying to gain dialogue and thought on is:
* That banks are the modern day aristocratic landlords
* They own most of our land through mortgage assets, 75%
* They do not collect mortgage interest, they collect RENT
* They did no work, nor created any wealth by doing it
* THIS is how we are being fleeced
When house prices fell they were all under water. They had to be bailed out by the people, who else was there to do it? This is the structural systemic fault.
Our problem then is to accept our own complicity in voting for higher house prices that fully supports this economic injustice. Dumb because your home belongs to the bank probably for ever if recently mortgaged. The people have chosen not to think.
I've been trying to eek this out of all of us there. I had a lot of success yesterday. But need to get an assembly into much wider dialogue somehow.
The church has been extremely graceful. Directing the police from their property. And allowing space for those devoting their time to the freedom of the sleeping majority. I spent an hour inside listening to the organ recital. Good meditation.
I'm going back tomorrow to pitch a tent to try more.
Originally posted on:
http://gco2e.blogspot.com/2011/10/st-pauls-protests-who-is-fleecing-us.html
Robin Smith Institute
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17.10.2011 10:22
BTW the C of E sits pretty on a lot of land including corporate investment portfolios through its property division the Church Commissioners.
The bottom line in all this is the global land grab ( it's already been grabbed in this country with the enclosure acts ) which keeps us dependent i.e non autonomous on the capitalist state, away from being able to grow our food, build houses, entertain each other without being policed at out expense, and in line with IMF policy have to chase jobs around the planet, away from our family and friends and the neighbors we get to know i.e our communities. It puts is in competition with each other for the scraps under the table...and gets one half of the country to police the other...(including the peace police).
Capitalism - to big to fail? Too twisted to reform...
mark
indeed the banks are aristractic landlords
17.10.2011 15:41
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