coup

 Saturday 14 June - 10.30am to 12.30pm. The future of Planning Democracy. Majorca Room, City Library (not the State Library!), 253 Flinders Lane Melbourne. Click on the image to read Report No. 46. 

As I understand it, fundamentally, all coups and all revolutions - left and right - are based on changes to land-tenure systems.  It seems to me, based on my observation and experience in Victoria, not on what anyone says, that the State here is trying to make massive changes to the land-tenure system.  It is engineering those changes by removing power at local level and refusing to represent people at any level.

France prints colonial money for Burkina Faso, which is one of the poorest nations in the world, although it has gold and uranium. In return France demands 50% of everything Burkina Faso exports.  Burkina Faso's uranium supplies 30% of French nuclear plant needs, but 80% of Burkina Fasoans have no electricity. Gold mined by child-labour mostly ends up in French state coffers.  The French government wants the deposed president reinstated. So, is this a coup or a revolution?