I am back from an evening so uneventful and otherwise pleasant that I can't shake this nagging feeling that there's something important that I've forgotten to say or do. Anyway it gives me time (20:40) to talk about the latest from Occupied London.
In a questionable use of time and resources the Metropolitan Police's helicopter has been filming the occupiers while they sleep. The infra-red camera showed that only 1 in 10 the tents at the site are actually occupied. Having been handed this information by the police the City of London Corporation used it to dub Occupied London a "phantom protest." The only problem is that even before the occupation began promoters have been calling on people to donate tents. The idea being that if people were unable to afford a tent or didn't feel they could commit to the protest and it's silly hand signals full time they could just pop down for the day and still have somewhere to sleep at night.
Elsewhere the Melbourne Occupation has already been forcibly cleared by the police in order to make way for the Queen of England - surely the original 1%'r. The Rome occupation sadly only lasted for a day after the uber-macho Italian black bloc gave the police the perfect excuse to clear the occupation before it got started. Berlusconi remains as Prime Minister despite significant domestic pressure.
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