Sydney Australia: Seige in Martin Place (mid-Dec 2014; now over)

[Anchor]

The hostages are being forced to hold an black cloth sign with a slogan written in arabic.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/police-cle...14-127824.html

Where I am working, the media theatrics are working to create fear. Airspace has been closed!

Where I am now ( cant say where exactly but within a few blocks) there is a lot of fear and not much work getting done.

[Billy]

A hard call but I send my intentions that no one is harmed and for a peaceful outcome.

[Anchor]

Posted by Billy (here)
I send my intentions that no one is harmed and for a peaceful outcome.

Thankyou.

Easy call for me please do that.

The biggest problem I see at the moment is the fear being generated.

[Betty]

By looking at Google maps you can see that Reserve Bank of Australia is across the street from this Lindt Cafe. I was told that the Reserve Bank of Australia is just like our Federal Reserve.

[Ellisa]

Martin Place is a very important business centre in Sydney. The cafe is near the train station and there are many legal and banking offices all around. Many are now evacuated. Air space is apparently not completely closed down according to the latest news, though the Opera House (which is nowhere near Martin Place) is, and some other prominent places, as well as public transport, have been too. People still in the buildings have been told to stay in there and not to go outside, but some are being evacuated from the building which contains the cafe, and they are using ladders. Some reports suggested that 'devices' have been planted elsewhere, but it seems it may not be so.

It's a horrible thing to happen anywhere. I guess nowhere is safe--- very sad indeed.

[Gaia]

No prayers are adequate. In truth, there are no words for such a situation.

We can be clear that ISIS and their action is NOT the will of God. It is terror, it is hate, it is not love.

[Craig]

The media is in full circus mode - I am afraid for rational thought at the moment and am concerned about the mob mentality, I wonder what is behind this, what we can't see.

[Gaia]

Posted by Craig (here)
The media is in full circus mode - I am afraid for rational thought at the moment and am concerned about the mob mentality, I wonder what is behind this, what we can't see.

The terrorists all get welfare benefits and anyone who dares speak out against them is punished.

[justntime2learn]

Peace, Love and Light to everyone...

[Amanda]

I view what is happening in Martin Place as fitting the profile for the Heligian Theory - Problem/Reaction/Solution. I am not entering into the panic. I am in the awakened state as are many many many others. I wonder how many people will view this as a psy ops? I hope no one is harmed.

Much Peace - Amanda

[TigaHawk]

I don't understand why they did not respond quickly. As in as soon as the police understood what was going on throw tear gas in every window and storm in with SWAT. We all know how hostage situations go - hours to possibly day's of sitting around with nothing. That's what is expected. Storming in suddenly would catch them unprepared. People may die - but that's the same as what will happen if they leave it go. Govt has a no negotiating with terrorists policy so none of their demands should be met. Letting this continue is utter BS - unless there's something important going on behind our parliament door's which is why this is being allowed to continue and take up every news station's airtime to keep the focus there rather than somewhere else.

[Positive Vibe Merchant]

because it is right across the road from MSM station they had cameras rolling quickly. The TV and social media are all going nuts, and people speculating. Facebook is fuilled with hate messages already..

This is all a big false flag. unfortunately you can't do that without innocent people being mixed up in it...

[TigaHawk]

Am getting sick of this fairly quickly. Work has put it up on the TV screens around the office so we can all keep up to date on the situation.

I did ask if we could change the channel to cartoons but got some stern looks :|

There should be something in place that makes it against the law for news stations to broadcast anything about situations like this. Part of what they want is the publicity. Ensuring that if something like this does happen and there is not a peep of it on the media until the situation has been completely resolved would act as a deterrent (if they have been setup outside of the PTB's planned BS) as knowing they wont get any media coverage would be a deterrent as they want people to see/hear/know about why they are doing it.

[Tyy1907]

Posted by TigaHawk (here)
I don't understand why they did not respond quickly. As in as soon as the police understood what was going on throw tear gas in every window and storm in with SWAT. We all know how hostage situations go - hours to possibly day's of sitting around with nothing. That's what is expected. Storming in suddenly would catch them unprepared. People may die - but that's the same as what will happen if they leave it go. Govt has a no negotiating with terrorists policy so none of their demands should be met. Letting this continue is utter BS - unless there's something important going on behind our parliament door's which is why this is being allowed to continue and take up every news station's airtime to keep the focus there rather than somewhere else.

Exactly, could be diversionary!

[TigaHawk]

They're not doing the TPP vote at this second are they? As that would make a lot of sense. They've been setting up the framework for it (highlights on penalties for pirate downloaders..) recently....

[jerry]

unfortunately another failed argument for gun control as this may have ended most favorably if a concealed carry patron were amongst the hostages

[Debra]

Ironic that Treasurer Joe Hockey's budget review - bad news - update was due to be handed down about the same time.

Deflection comes to mind.

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-pol...14-126wdf.html

[Tesseract]

Posted by Zebra (here)
Ironic that Treasurer Joe Hockey's budget review - bad news - update was due to be handed down about the same time.

Deflection comes to mind.

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-pol...14-126wdf.html

I believe with $630M for national security spending, despite the deficit. I suppose this incident will be used to defend that..

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-1...illion/5967956

Military operations in Iraq to tackle the threat of terrorism are costing $306 million over the next four years.

This is in addition to the $630 million the Government had already announced to boost national security.

[markoid]

Live reports here
http://www.2gb.com/listen-live

[Shezbeth]

Wasn't there a recent thread about a comedian going on about gun control being so effective in Australia? Something about if one had the $30k they wouldn't want/need to become a criminal?

Where did THIS guy get his gun and how did he even make his way to Australia I wonder in a very suggestive manner, so as to implicitly suggest a very obvious set of conclusions including - but not limited to - false flags, diversion/distraction, and upcoming legislation and national/international "govt"(UN) resolutions,....

Mind control maybe?