Right on

Given the popularity of “occupation” at the moment, I have a few suggestions of my own. Wall Street and the Bank of England are so last year, therefore we proudly present ACM’s list of people and places to #occupy, for their generous and selfless contribution to the mess in which we presently find ourselves:

• The United Nations: has singlehandedly done more to damage wealth creation and the alleviation of poverty in the developing world than any other organisation in the history of the civilised world, thanks in no small part to its hysterical, dangerous and destructive climate policies (there are a thousand and one other reasons why the UN is a COMPLETE AND UTTER waste of space, but there simply isn’t time to go into them all…)
• The IPCC: high school students have more scientific integrity than this discredited bunch of environmental activists – just ask Donna Laframboise
• The Department of Climate Change: more spin than a launderette, the DCC happily lies and misrepresents the science behind Labor’s climate policy, to the extent that it calls CO2 “carbon pollution”, to deceive the Australian public into believing Labor’s climate policy will actually achieve something. Point blank refuses to acknowledge there may be uncertainties in the science, and shuts its ears to any contrary evidence.
• Tim Flannery: more failed predictions than Nostradamus, Flannery warns of catastrophic sea level rises… but has a house on the waterfront. Hmm.
• Anthony Albanese: narrowly wins the award for most obnoxious Labor front-bencher (in a very tough and hard fought field), having insulted a great many decent, hardworking Australians with his “Convoy of No Consequence” jibe,

and last but not least…

• Julia Gillard:  “No carbon tax under the government I lead.” Need I say more?

UPDATE 2: A number of commenters have drawn a distinction between capitalism and “corporatism” – I agree that this distinction has some merit. However, the socialist Left is attempting to blur that distinction in order to tar capitalism as an economic model with the brush of corporate malfeasance. Hence the predictable hijacking of the OWS demonstrations (which, had they been confined to a more legitimate protest at unacceptable corporate behaviour, would have a point) by the hard Left in order to use corporate excesses to justify an abandoning of capitalism as a “broken model”.

UPDATE: This post has generated a fair amount of criticism, so further explanation is required. Governments cannot create wealth. Corporations operating in a free market are the ONLY way of sustaining wealthy, vibrant economies – history has shown this many times over. The protesters comprising OWS aren’t simply complaining about the wage divide between CEOs and employees, they are primarily anti-capitalists – they wish to see the winding back of Western free-market capitalism and a return to the failed socialist, state-controlled industries of the past, where individual achievement and success is ignored and equality for all is the key.

And as for CEO salaries, no-one seems to complain when a star entertainer or footballer is paid millions of dollars a year (despite the fact that they too are generating many times that wealth, usually for a corporation – the movie studio or the football club), but take offence at a CEO of a finance corporation in a similar position. It’s all about what kind of money you earn, clearly.

This double standard exposes the true agenda behind OWS. “Corporate greed” is just code for envy.

If you need further proof that these protests are primarily organised by far Left groups, look no further than this article at Green Left Weekly, where spokespeople were interviewed from socialist groups “Solidarity”, “Socialist Alternative” and “Socialist Alliance”:

From the Sydney demonstration

Amusing how the great unwashed, protesting at corporate “greed”, rely so heavily on Facebook, Twitter, Apple and a bunch of other “corporates” to co-ordinate their activities. The protesters are comprised of all the usual suspects of course, Marxists, communists, socialists, extreme environmentalists (naturally), the hard Left, all using the demonstrations to advocate for “social change” – i.e. wholesale wealth redistribution, smashing the corporates that drive the economic benefits that make their lives so comfortable, global government, support for Palestine and hatred for the Jews (natch). If they get their way, we’ll all be back to knitting yoghurt in mud huts.

Emails uncovered by Big Government reveal a carefully constructed conspiracy to destabilise governments and global markets. As always, those protesting represent a tiny, tiny minority of the general population, and claims of majority (99%) support are delusional.

The eco-wackos have all but given up on climate change as an agent of social change, so they’re back to old fashioned protests. Good luck with that.

This image perfectly sums up the blatant hypocrisy, which they obviously haven’t worked out for themselves:

Busted. (click to enlarge)