Shawn

Sixteen years ago, one man stood alone on a grassy hill at a music festival in Washington State, USA, and started dancing by himself. People glanced over and looked away. Some laughed. His roommate leaned in and warned him people were filming him. He did not stop. Then one stranger got up and joined him. Then another. Then the hillside tipped. Within minutes, hundreds of people were sprinting from across the field to be part of something that, thirty seconds earlier, had been one man being laughed at in a field. Someone filming from higher up the hill said quietly: "See what one man can do. One man can change the world." The clip spread across the internet in 2009. Entrepreneur Derek Sivers played it at a TED conference to explain how movements actually begin. Not with the first person brave enough to start, he argued, but with the first person willing to join them. Collin Wynter, the man dancing alone, later said he had no idea he had done anything special. He was just tired of watching everyone sit still.

BREAKING: Spot gold extends its selloff to -$400/oz on the day, now trading at $4,500/oz for the first time since February 2nd.

Apparently 43% of all BHP $BHP.AX staff today are female Good or a bad thing ? Does it matter and do the shareholder returns care ?

Hard times create strong men because the Great Men of history step out of the shadows to kick the incompetent, lying thieves to the curb and regain control. Not through democracy, but through something more akin to benevolent dictatorship. Patriotism. A call to Greatness. This time period will be no different. The government isn't coming to save you. You will have to save yourself. But eventually you will want to save 'it' - not the government itself, but the notion of what it means to be an Australian, to raise children in this country, to live a fulfilling and meaningful life. Eventually none of these things become possible if you simply allow the status quo of woeful incompetence, wilful blindness and corruption to continue. Australians deserve better.