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Argentina Revolts Against Government Push To Take Control Of Judicial System
The streets of Buenos Aires are full of revolting Argentinians this evening as they protest President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFdK) plans to 'increase' state control of the court system. CFdK's proposal looks to limit the judicial system's ability to bring actions against the state, as Bloomberg reports, leaving citizens and companies unprotected against state actions affecting their finance or assets (i.e. mass nationalization or confiscation). As the images below show, the people are angry, exclaiming "No to impunity." CFdK's actions follow previous attempts to take action against companies have failed or taken too long; but acting behind a facade of "increasing democracy and transparency," it appears her intent is clear as the bankrupt nation struggles on. "The reform will do great damage," warned one business leader, adding that limiting these injunctions, "undermines individual's rights and freedom."
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s proposals that would increase state control over courts are set to be approved by Congress as lawmakers ignore protests planned for later today.
Fernandez, 60, sent a bill to Congress on April 8 to limit injunctions against the state, which would only be applied in case of risk to someone’s life or health and would have a limit of six months. That would leave people and companies unprotected in attempts to seek an injunction against state actions if a law affects their finances or assets, said Gregorio Badeni, a professor of Constitutional Law at University of Buenos Aires.
... “This means a step back of 70 years.”
Fernandez’s proposal also seeks to expand the council of magistrates, a body that selects, monitors and evaluates the nation’s judges, to 19 from 13. The planned changes to the justice system come four months after the government failed to impose a deadline for Grupo Clarin SA, the country’s largest media group, to sell assets that exceed limits set in a 2009 media law. The opposition will protest in the streets of major cities today, the third nationwide protest against Fernandez’s government in eight months, to voice disapproval over the changes and what they see as the government’s increasing state control.
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“The reform is a serious threat to constitutional guarantees,” said the Argentine Business Association in a in an e-mailed statement. “It would do great damage to Argentina’s investment environment and the creation of new jobs.”
Anti-Government demonstrations begin around the country
Hundreds of people were gathering at the intersection of the Callao and Santa Fe avenues to protest against the National Government, in a demonstration that is expected to end in Plaza de Mayo.
Joined by opposition leaders, demonstrators are gathering in different areas of the city and await for more to join them while carrying a giant Argentine flag that reads “Country First”.
At the same time, people are gathering at the same time on the corners of Acoyte and Rivadavia, Cabildo and Juramento and Corrientes and Pueyrredon. They will later march towards the Plaza de Mayo and protest in front of the Government House.
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But aren't they missing DWTS?
Watch out for the pressure cookers.
This is most definitely related to thier inflation problems
Argentina will be fine. Somebody there invented the TORIAN III magnetic motor. They don't need money or banks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAIG0-lNSEs
/thread-drift
They read the manual written by Obama and Holder...
The Argentinian government tried to steal from Britain in the 80's. Theft is in their blood and they will steal from any citizen that they can, whether corporate or individual.
If these assholes would just finally realize that freedom results in the most productive work force ever.
This shit has been going on for what? 60 years with the Peronistas? The Argentinians are finally waking up? Good.
Americans are easily brainwashed with TV and Hollywood. If you watch it - you support your serfdom.
+ many more than one
Don't ever, ever invest anything in Argentina!
Argentina has been blessed with energetic and talented people, I would know, I visited. Too bad they keep electing such crappy governments. About 1920 or so, Argentina was about the 7th largest GDP / capita country. Now look at them, a real shame. Our future?
Argentina, like the US, has every opportunity to be a free market beacon of prosperity if only the people would put the right folks at the helm..
they/we keep screwing it up.
First trouble in France, then Venezuela, and now Argentina.
Damn they don't make socialist utopias like they used to!
comparing those three is like comparing Spartacus, Bernanke and kate Upton.
Who is which country in this comparison???
+100 for Freddie, you are the man. Like termites gnawing holes through wood, Hollywood does the same to the brain. Sheeple are comfortably numb.
Regrettably no. It's not over for the Peronismo. Part of the opposition is also Peronista.
Finally? They do this pretty often down there. Argentinians are much more politically active and politically knowledgable on the whole than Americans.
Hey, that was a US supported military Junta.
You mean Cloward & Piven.
Holder and Obama are just the faces....
@eatthebanksters,
That's obvious: "acting behind a facade of "increasing democracy and transparency," it appears her intent is clear as the bankrupt nation struggles on. "The reform will do great damage," warned one business leader, adding that limiting these injunctions, "undermines individual's rights and freedom."
Where have we heard the "transparency" claptrap before?????????
We already have one perpetual motion machine --- Bernanke's printing press --- and more would be simply redundant.
I'll check it out. Also the reason she is wanting more control is because once in her power she can rule on laws that at the time was ruled against her, you know her wanting to take more of the peoples financial money from their retirement and banks.
The issue was that the judiciary had some adverse rulings on issues dear to the Kirchnerista rethoric. And by that I mean its fight with Grupo Clarín and the Sociedad Rural. And as a good Kirchnerista, she can't have anyone telling her "no".
Man ten from right, twelve row back - he is backpack bomber, no?
No that is a Dept. of Justice representative handing out exploding easy bake ovens. It's all part of the Occupy Argentina movement............
"exploding easy bake ovens"
Like GE in Nukushima?
the hashtag is
#18ABangin' on 'em might not do much good this time...
control of the courts and judges?this has been going on for 50 years in the US.
would someone please just shoot that bitch already
Is probably Pelosi's long lost sister. hujel
but is she not the chick on seinfeld that looked hot in certain light but nasty as could be in other light....
you guys insist on comenting on shit you know nothing about.
This was no revolt.Just a quiet Protest walk.
Shit, if they did a third of what they do at football games the bitch would be out in a day.
People are just pissed off for two things. They have NO voting alternative or political force. Second, those who are demonstating are paying for everything for those who where not .
A non working family of four can get up to five different government plans
= free money...um where have i seen that?
the only revolution i see here is if Argentina gets ripped off in the world cup final next yeAR.
No more Governments !
everybody's fucked man
i'm fucked for sure !
People walking in the streets talking loudly. No accomplishment achieved.
People walking in the streets with guns, saying nothing, killing the opposition. Accomplishment.
Opposition is a relative term..............
So is "Accomplishment", apparently.
Governments have been thrown here by people walking and shouting on the streets. Even under gunfire. And they succeeded anyways, because there are more powerful things than guns in a society.
That's naive. It's obvious that you get further with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
They are protesting their state and yet they still carry the flag of their state.
They're protesting the government, not the state.
Protest both then.
Governments are just the mob in disguise.
No more governments is the only hope.
"increasing democracy and transparency"
Now where have I heard that before...?
keynesian kenian
Way ahead of Americans
Submitting to the crooked US courts run by the oligarchs
Supervising the world's biggest gulag with over 2 million Americans in jail
For all that is screwy about Europe, the euro currency and the EU
There is almost no one in jail here
1 out of 1000 Europeans in a jail cell ... 1 out of 140 Americans in prison
The difference between a cattle pen and a zoo. Domestication.
It's for the CHILDREN, Bank Guy. Think of the CHILDREN!
Yeah Doug Casey, I'm going to move here to protect my wealth and live more freely... /sarc
Idiot.
LOL. shades of Simon Black and his 'rabbits'
There is no escape from global insanity.
We are all retards now.
but...but.....he told me it was an anarchist dream!!!!!......and such a beautiful one bedroom home in the middle of the andes with fruit trees and mermaids in the swimming pool............all for the low low price of $799,000 with low monthly maintenance fees of $1000!!!!......i...i.....dont understand......he told me i could even pay in gold!!!!!..............and...now this!!!!!.........................
LOL!
Just waiting for Doug to come out and label Kirchner's attempt to suborn the Argentinian legal system as just another "conspiracy theory" (as he does regarding the official suppression of the prices of gold and silver), and then automatically castigate all those who disagree with him in his blind and cowardly inability and/or refusal to confront the obvious lies and criminality staring us straight in the face as "anti-libertarians".
Fuck you Doug. At least you chose the right place for your 'retreat'.
Have fun when the Peronists break down your door and steal your gold --- and eveything else. Let's just hope you "internationalized" some of your other assets in a slightly more stable nation (if such a place even exists).
Did someone feed Doug a stupid pill that resulted in his statement about gold price suppression? Or has he just sounded smart compared to the other gobbling turkeys. It was painful reading his latest turd on gold. It really is a shame, as most of what he has to say needs to be heard by so many people. When he shoots himself in the belly like he just did, it is really sad.
+100 Akak!
Doug really unnerves me with his nasally condescending as hell voice. The dude's old man made big money in real estate around the beltway of DC - ergo Doug and his family got very rich off fiat and teh growth off the corrupt USA govt post WW2.
Yeah the Peronista's ain't going to stop at the gates of Doug's Eldorado golf community because Doug pitched it to American gringoes who real his and Agora's newsletters.
Anyone who does not think that the Argentines are not nasty and brutal people who will not make you "disappear" like they did back in the early 1970s or so - can just take Doug's word that you are safe in Argie land.
+1 kito. You can run, but good luck in being able to hide for long.
Elections have consequences.......
Consequences For de Kommoners
Christina Fernandez comes from the left wing of Peronism. Is anyone surprised? They defend the little people against the evil capitalists! Until they take power then individual rights and freedoms go out the window.
Left/Right, international banking interests - with the help of a local traitorous, elected elite - have been fucking Argentina for a looooong time.
'Treason is the most powerful force in politics' comes from this documentary on their economic collapse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsqa-YHE36A
It's their country, let the Argentines sort it out.
Oh, and , hi Doug! It's Fall there, yes?
Spot on. Standard socialism.
Did someone elect Ms. Hitler?
She's going on a listening tour again...sometime in 2015 ;-)
miss Hitler? sure. Happy B-day this Saturday- AH-probably sitting back with a mojito right now in Bolivia having a laugh.
I don't think so. He'd be 124 yrs old this weekend.
Well, that, and he's in Hell..........
A Thousand Year Reich can seem like an eternity sometimes ;-)
haven't you ever read/seen "The Boys from Brazil"
Yes, I have.
But Hitler was a one-balled coward in the end. He had a lot of brave & courageous people around him though who made it to SA but he was not one of them. He was a psychotic douchebag riddled with Parkinsons at the end sending mere boys out to do mens work...to buy himself a few more hours on earth.
And he knew it.
Loyalty can be a fatal thing if not properly apportioned.
only the good die young
Argentina is doing what US' government has done long time ago.
Corzine, TBTF banks... immune to everything.
amateurs ...
I don't see any guillotines. It looks like a great facebook photo op.
The left in that country already gullotined any opposition a long time ago. This group is here to stay. Argentina is just a few years ahead of the US.
Wake me up when they take a gov building
Fascists always think law is some magical thing that people will submit to, just because its "the law". They get to call you "a law breaker" a "common criminal" even as they steal you blind, rape your wives & daughters or just murder your entire family & friends...all under the pretext of "law".
Despots and tyrants are incredibly naive.
Stop calling them Fascists; they're socialists! You're just deflecting from the truth.
They're the minions of Satan if you really want to be particular........
Respectfully, fascists ARE socialists. Karl Lueger was a christian socialist.
How in the hell can one be a Christian Socialist? So you escape the "greed" of Capitalism only to become a thief in the name of equality........lol.
I guess anyone can cloak themselves in a "higher purpose" and still take the low road. I don't know how they can live with the delusion either...but they did and still do.
Perón was a fascist, he was from the Mussolini brand. The juntas that toppled him and his 2nd wife were also fascist, but from the conservative right.
Who are you calling revolting?
you and your love of J.M. Keynes-Uncle Milty.
Seriously, has anyone ever SEEN the women at Callao and Santa Fe? The opposite of revolting!
I lived in Argentina for two years and found very few of them to be revolting. For the most part the Argentines were quite charming.
We have a socialist system being implemented worldwide with liberties being revoked, wealth being stripped from citizens, laws being ignored, constitutions being trampled, elections being rigged, yet I can't see Americans or western citizens doing anything like this, even in the distant future. We will have to sink to Argentinean levels before we rise up, unfortunately.
+100
All the major conflicts in the world at this time are either Muslim governments/dictatorships trying to suppress their people or Socialist governments/dicatorships trying to suppress their people.
No no, the conflicts of the world are caused by governments trying to suppress people. That is all.
No, No, No, the conflicts of the world are cause by people who are too selfish to give themselves over to the whims of benevolent dictators in exchange for a little comfort and safety.....
The sad part is that if Argentina throws out CFdK, they'll just replace her with another Socialist nightmare.
I don't see the problem here. It has been like that in Amerika for over 4 years. Welcome to the club of persecution. Nothing new for US>
if the argentines were smart they would hang that cunt today. they are about ready to go turbo nazi...
Who would have ever thought that Argentinians would have more balls than Americans???? We have been completely conditioned to believe that any type active protest is some anti-American lunatic fringe and that it is just fine when police and military come beat the shit out of everybody there.
Ever notice how the Left always derides the lunatic fringe but never the full fledged lunatics?
Yes ;-)
"According to Bloomberg, a couple hundred people have entered into the streets..."
VIVA LA REVUELTA!!!!!!
Argentina the so called paradise of Doug Casey.
Not just Doug. Constant emails from Simon Black or any of the Agora or Stansberry newsletter editors have coffee and Buenos Aries and the lilting breezes and lovely senoritas with plastic surgery. Argentina followed by Brazil are really big on plastic surgery.
I wonder how many of Doug's client bought homes there. Argentina is very pretty but it is a really FU society. Socialists and kleptomania with mafia/SS cruelty. They must have some weird strain of psychosis or evil pathology that runs through their DNA from leaving Germany, Italy, Spain et al. The criminal DNA like the Aussies supposedly had but worse.
I wish I lived in a country where people could protest.
It looks like a party to me. Protest, party. We party here, LOL. ;-)
I have resided in BsAs for over a year and a half on an off for a while basis This broad is as goffy as they get but the people are pretty good---and they will take to the streets,unlike mericans. Watch and get an education. Milestones
I lol'ed at the first sentence.
revolting Argentinians
"Sire, the pesants are revolting"
"You bet, they stink on ice"
but I love Puma rugby!
Interesting parallel, DC is full of revolting Americans...
It should be...
When the demos really get going, they'll bring out the panelas and start banging them.
When the president of a country signs into law that the politicians of the country are allowed to use insider information for their own personal advantage, you know the government is FUCKED.
Control of the judicial system is on a similar level.
Execution is too good for these bastards.
I like how they bank pots and pans. Americans will be making things go "bang" but it won't be pots and pans. hujel
it appears her intent is clear as the bankrupt nation struggles on
So Argentina is the bankrupt one in this hemisphere.
ALL governments are bankrupt - in the monetary sense, and the moral sense.
They can only function by robbing the people they claim to care about.
Simon Black is standing way in the back row looking for the exit.
Remember that Maj. Hassan killed more people on an Army base in Texas
than these bombers killed in Boston.
How many innocent civilians has Obama killed?
Start with Fast and Furious and work your way up from there.
The assassin-in-cheif...
A bit off-topic but the liberation of South Georgia island was interesting in that the Brits captured an Argie Capt. Astiz (?) wanted by Interpol for investigation into the torturing that went on at the Naval Mechanics school in Buenos Aires. Kissinger was good buddies with the Argie General Peroza,who headed the torture program during the dirty war. They also stole the babies from the Mothers that had been tossed out of choppers over the Rio Plata. What a great bunch of fellows. The real heroes were the Mothers of the disappeared who kept walking in circles everyday around the Plaza,with photos of their sons and daughters. All the murder and repression financed with US taxpayers dollars (and loads of defense equipment and support). When will we leave people alone?
Also,the roaming death squads in El Salvador used Ford Falcons but in Argentina they used Chevy Blazers. Territory carve up?
No, they used green falcons here. Ford was a big supporter of the Junta.
BTW, did anyone notice that those brave mothers of Plaza de Mayo never carried guns?
If they did have guns, perhaps their children wouldn't have been taken in the first place.
No of course. Having guns will allow you to avoid a green Falcon taking em up on the street, night raids taking em from their beds, APC's running inside houses taking everybody in, etc... Stop lying yourself. Besides, most gun crazies were, as they are in the US, the right wing kind. That's not who the Junta was after. In fact they loved the Junta, because they said they were fighting COMMUNISM... oohhh scaaaary.
Also off-topic but somewheres there is supposed to be an audio tape of an Argie Skyhawk pilot returning from a mission over the "Malvinas". His controller had fucked up his aerial refueling vector and the poor bugger was gonna have to eject over the cold South Atlantic. But first he had some rather off-color remarks to make about his controllers' family ancestry,his mothers' sex life,etc. Somedays ya just gotta laugh....
That pilot probably died. The poor sailors on the General Belgrano that the Brits sunk mainly froze to death. It was an old US Navy heavy cruiser we sold them. Thatcher did warn them. Sad how peopel died in mindless wars.
Argentina really had no ships or craft to save those sailors. The ocean is freezing and nasty. Argentina is a mega FU country run by sociopaths.
"It was an old US Navy heavy cruiser we sold them."
Specifically, I believe it was the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Phoenix. We had a picture of it in the wardroom mess onboard the U.S.S. Phoenix (SSN-702) when I was stationed aboard her. Oh yeah, we were "near" the scene of action during that time too. It was pretty eerie when the CO informed us that the "breaking up sounds" we recorded for "a NATO ally" were actually that of our old namesake.
Beautiful country and nice people...sad to see this happen to them.
Thanks but no, nothing wrong is happening to us.
The government isn't willing to take control of the Judicial System but is aiming to democratize it. Believe me, make just a little deeper research.
So far, The Judicial System is very conservative, elitist, fascist and most of the judges are payed by corporations. We call them the "Judicial Family". Sits go to judges families, "friends", people who "belong".
Legislators are trying to make it more democratic and most of us want it. Money is flowing against the Judicial reform but we expect it to pass.
Cheers, my friends. Do not believe everything you read, specially if it comes from corporate media controlled by GS, JPM, BlackRock's people.
Hah, bullshit. "Democratization" is the nice sounding smoke and mirrors. Destroying the actual capacity for cautelares on the state isn't that democratic. Making the Consejo de la Magistratura be done by voting from candidates coming from political parties, just submits the judicial branch to the executive of turn. Adding non legal proffessionals to the Consejo is also a joke, as much a joke as leaving the biggest responsibility of a citizen, i.e. voting, in the hands of people who by law aren't responsible for their actions (voto jóven). Being able to remove judges easier by such a Consejo only ties judges to the political power. And that's no good news. That no separation of powers. In the end, Cristina's project is one of turning a democratic republic into a plebiscitary autocracy. Are you up for that?
Tell the truth. We still have the Judicial System that comes from past dictatorship who allowed to build the orwellian corporative control of the media.
Tell the truth. Explain how the monopoly of press paper was obtained by corporative media during the de facto govt (Videla & Co,) making owners of Papel Prensa sign the papers under torture.
It is time to say the truth. Too many people is suffering and struggling around the World by the unsustainable, almost absolute power of the corporate èlite.
Have some respect for people who belives in freedom and fight for it. The real one.
Argentina has no socialist, no totalitarian, no corporative government. Argentina and most of the argentineans stand up for REAL freedom, human rights, free will, freedom of speech, religion... I'm proud of it. I wish americans, europeans, everybody would stand up for it as well. We would have a far different World if such.
No, the justice system was already changed during MeXem with the Consejo de Magistratura to avoid the automatic "yes".
Yes, there is, or was, a monopoly on press paper. The Papel Prensa issue is kinda fishy as the wife of it's former owner actually said it weren't the Junta who made him sell. And if there's something worse than Clarín and La Nación, is a monopoly of the genuflex press, those who always say what the political power says. Always distrust the political power, always. That's a tenet for freedom.
Don't talk to me about corporate elite, when the K's have their own corporate elite.
Yeah, argies stand for what you say. That's why they were protesting yesterday. Fighting against the destruction of a democratic republic towards the birth of a plebiscitary autocracy.
Guys, many of you have it all wrong.
The reform of the Judicial System is AGAINST the power of corporations.
But hey, we all know what's coming on these days.
(I live, work and save in Argentina, as an italo-argentina I am. Rather to be in Argentina than in Italy under the Troika tiranny).
As for the balls of argentinians to protest, that's correct. For the rest, we'll see.
Yeah, the power of corporations. How many employee trials end up favouring the corporations? None. If you are an employer and one employee starts a trial on you, you lose 100%. Cristina's project will deliver us to the whims of the Kirchnerismo friendly corporations, and damn there are many. The new monopolies.
Righy now, corporations practically CONTROL the Judicial System.
It's amazing the way this site reports taking information from corporate media.
Messy times, my friends.
Corporations don't control the Judicial. And even if they did, would you prefer the judiciary to be controlled by an absolute ruler?
Oh, Corporations do control it. As for the "absolute ruler", USA and UE's supported dictatorship ended up in 1983.
Since them we had different kinds of gvts, including the ultra-neo-liberist (also supported by the US and Europe) Menem's gvt for more than a decade; we had many financial troubles (we were subjects of some kind of Euro-like experiment with "convertibility" run by Chicago boys for ten years, which ended in 2001's default) but...
In Argentina, we enjoy remarkable freedom, individual, collective freedom.
In Argentina, as we suffered horrible dictatorships SUPPORTED by the USA and Europe, we remarkably enjoy full respect for our human rights, social rights, economic rights, political rights: that's a lot more than what european, american, chinese and many other citizens around the World actually have.
And believe me, my friends: Talking about broken countries, most of the Eurozone States, GB, USA, Japan, even Australia, Canada are in much worse shape than Argentina's financials and economics. Check the fundamentals.
Finally, we're peaceful people. We don't invade countries. We don't take other people's land. We don't run prisions in illegaly occupied, invaded territories abroad, we don't support warmongers, we respect every State's sovereignity, we don't interfiere other States internal affairs, we use to resist and stand up for our rights, we respect diversity, heterogeneity and WE DON'T FEEL or CONSIDER OURSELVES SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER PEOPLE in the World.
Also, we don't patronize our opponents from anywhere by looking down our noses at them. By torturing them. We don't use "false flag operations" methods to terrorize ourselves, our own people. We don't demolish our own buildings.
We don't build ultimate armies to destroy other's people land, lives, countries; we don't steal from other countries.
It is a lot more than many "first world" countries can show. We would like to keep living this way. Point is: US, UE corporate States, gvts run by corporate powers ARE GONNA ALLOW US TO???? Because US, UE men are actually ACTING inside free countries like ours.
The majority of commentors on ZH are "useful idiots" because they live and breath in the Matrix known as the private corporate mass media. It is this singular invisible cancer that puts the masses to sleep and allows their genocidal empire to go about killing and murdering millions of peoples around the world. A case in point of just how effective and deadly is the private corporate mass media is what's happening in Venezuela and how Hugo Chavez is painted and known in the western media and by the majority of their people verses how he is beloved in his country and throughout South America.
Judicial and media reform in Argentina are completely related. It is about breaking up the private corporate media stranglehold in Argentina lead by the Clarin group with its control approaching 50% of the mass media markets. The 7D and 18A protests are organized and instigated by the same traitors who are part and parcel of the "washington consensus" and who would dearly love for Argentina to go back to the days of Menem and the rape and pillage of Argentina's resources and national wealth.
TNTARG, I also live in Argentina and would like to chat or talk with you sometime. I sent you zchat request.
So my friend, if you live in Argentina, you know.
Thank's for your invitation, I'll be glad.
Sinccerely hope people around the World will find the way out of the outrageous tyranny they're into. US citizens included. My beloved italian "penisola" included.
Corporations do control it? Don't tell me it's because the Judiciary ruled against the govt on the Clarín and Sociedad Rural cases? Do you have any actual evidence or are you just repeating the "relato" from the official friendly press?
An absolute ruler is the one who has all powers under him. Right now Congress has a K majority in both chambers, an automatic "yes" for whatever the executive says. Like that stupidity of the "voto jóven", or these changes in the Judiciary which will render it as an automatic yes for the executive. That sounds like absolute ruler to me. Sorry.
And don't come giving me examples from other countries, I already know them. I'm an argie too.
I'm from Argentina too, and most of what you say is accurate. But I promise you one thing, this will make things worse for Argentina. ALOT WORSE!!
"The streets of Buenos Aires are full of revolting Argentinians this evening"
You know, taken in context - that statements isn't very polite. I have met some Argentinians before, and while loud and boisterous, they were far from revolting. Now the Brazilians?, don't get me started.......
Also, we live in a country which allows you to protest against the government without being bothered in any way, which is FAR from what happens if you try to protest against the gvt in the US, Europe, China, Russia and many other FAR LESS free countries around the World.
That's something, folks.
At least things are good in Greece:
Greece denounces 'shameful' shooting of Bangladeshi strawberry farm workers during pay protest"Before the shootings, there was an altercation between the foreign workers and the three foremen over six months' outstanding wages," police spokesman Christos Parthenis said. "After that the three fugitives left the spot, and returned shortly later holding two shotguns and a handgun, and opened fire on the crowd."
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/04/18/greece-denounces-shameful-shooti...
"We also condemn those who illegally employ illegal immigrants, taking the bread away from thousands of Greek families."
"All illegal immigrants must be immediately deported," it said.
Replace Greek with American... Coming soon to the USA...
I read somewhere's that during Argentinas' hyper-inflation that a customer in a restaurant would pay for the meal beforehand,because the price had gone up in an hour or so.
If you are in a country with galloping inflation and engage the services of fille de joie,do you pay her before to try and save money,or pay her the going rate afterwards? I know...DICKER! Gotcha!
Glad to see people standing up for themselves (or apparently at least trying to, at least for a while, but...).
Other than ZH, I have not seen a goddamned thing ANYWHERE in American media about this Argentinian meltdown. Socialists protecting their own?
That is why ZH first Drudge second and huffpost for laughs! If you like news on SA this is a nifty site. http://en.mercopress.com/
They do that world wide.
While conducting character assassinations (and real ones), propaganda and indoctrination truth murdering operations and promoting their people to higher authority, in order to retain every gain they make. So that what they do cannot easily be undone.
The smallest syllable of truth is so dangerous to them that they must kill it before it is heard and can spread.
I hadn't realized that up until now the Argentinians actually had a fairer judicial system than Americans.
Syndicalists are a bunch of hypocrites, 99.9999% of their protest are uniquely and solely for their personal well-being, it's just another egotistical parade.
Revolt is a harsh term. It was a very peaceful protest. Noisy. Don't think we managed to avoid the FPV from changing positions on their meddling of the judiciary. But fractures are appearing, and most probably, the new law will be challenged as soon as approved.
Revolt was 2001, with full blown violence from the people and the state. Burning the ministry of economy building and such. Today only some people climbed the fences of congress, but them lawmakers had already escaped before that.