Tee hee, I love how all these educated, well researched people can't grasp the difference between a blog and an article. Also - it is half arsed - lets just write a big list of all the worlds ills and yell loudly until someone else comes up with a solution.

On the otherhand, the "Clean and Green" NZ Inc. is a well established cosy plutocracy (1%) that's run as a monopoly and, as an example, this is why housing for the 99% is unaffordable. Where the monopoly disempowers people of their sovereign rights by imposing average incomes of $528/wk; resulting from a 33% decline in real 'purchasing power' over the last 20-years. The greed of the NZ Inc. corporate monopoly will not allow its competitive business/profit model to suffer loss, which is the reason why the basic wage in 2011 is not at $20/hour!

"I can get behind a protest against, for example, preferential supermarket shelving for white bread...But I can’t get behind a protest which is against the amorphous, menacing and rather generic spectre of Corporate Greed." That about sums up the erudition of this writer. If Occupy Aotearoa is half asrsed then this article has to be 100% arse!

Bum buddies! Heh. To paraphrase this guy bit.ly/rdicvg who is more eloquent than I, Occupy a soup kitchen and do something for the homeless. Occupy your local members office and ask her what she's doing for the mentally ill. Get off Ally's perfectly pleasant blog and go and effing DO something with a point, a purpose and a plan. You bunch of whining look-at-me muppets!

hmmm, saying this article is half arsed is probably too much of a compliment. Rubbish. way to go 3 'news' its almost as bad as reading the Herald

Wow. These comments are terrible. Lighten up f**ktards.

Troolllls. There should be some sort of test to check for sense of humour before people are allowed to read this article.

How genuinely embarrassing for you Ally. My condolences to your family as well.

Sir Josiah Stamp - former director of The Bank of England. "The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and with a flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again. However take away their power to make money, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought disappear for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money".

Typical brain-dead self-absorbed flake of a comfortable middle class kiwi. No idea what is going on so indulge in lame attempts at taking the mick thinking it's super clever. No one would want your support, that WOULD be proof that it is half-arsed. I can't wait for the next instalment of your wit; we'll be rolling on the floor to your next post 'Lighten up Bay of Plenty, it's just a bit of oil.'