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Italy's "Pitchfork Movement" Mapped
From Stratfor
Since Dec. 9, the Pitchforks Movement has been staging rallies across Italy, blocking highways and rail and subway stations and protesting in front of public buildings. The protests are relatively small, comprising a few thousand people in each city, but they are widespread, stretching from Italy's poor south to its wealthy north. The Pitchforks Movement first gained notoriety in Sicily in January 2012 when a group of agricultural producers and trucking companies blocked highways on the island for nine days to protest rising fuel and fertilizer prices, a result of austerity measures instituted by the government of Prime Minister Mario Monti.
Originally, the Pitchforks Movement had a heavy Sicilian element; it criticized the central government in Rome and sought greater autonomy for the island. Over the past year and a half and for various reasons, the movement has expanded beyond Sicily. The Pitchforks Movement is part of a growing trend in Europe. As the unemployment crisis lingers, the traditional representative institutions -- political parties and trade unions -- are proving incapable of channeling social unrest. In turn, groups that originally represented specific sectors are increasingly receiving support from other parts of the population. In several European countries, such as France and Spain, these groups are gaining popular support and participation from already disgruntled youths, workers, retirees and the unemployed. The emergence of groups like the Pitchforks Movement will likely become more common, since the economic crisis in Italy is unlikely to go away anytime soon. Their biggest challenge is becoming coherent enough to produce a lasting impact.
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Every country with a central bank needs a pitchfork movement...
With pairs of lawmakers testicles hanging from said "pitchfork".
Pitchfork vs Pitchforks
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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/12/21872811-health-director-who-
approved-obama-birth-certificate-dies-in-plane-crash
......while in a Jacuzzi with hands tied behind her back in an apparent suicide with gunshot wound to back of head while riding in Cessna in a fit of depression while hanging herself.
Don't know if Box Cutters were involved.
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What a "coincidence"
Under Clinton was known as "Arkancide".
Those that think they can dance along the event horizon soon find themselves face to face with the singularity.
I wonder who mapped this, NSA's drone dept?
If only "Paul Wellstone, Mel Carnahan, Mike Connell" and (too many others to even count within the last 5 Presidents alone) could have gotten it to the "Free Press"?
Where is Michael Hastings these days?
Eventually when the empire no longer needs you.....
The murder of Darth PlagueisWish I could give this a +100
Yes, I noted the Argentinians failed with the banging pot approach. Apparently banksters aren't dissuaded by load noises. A pitchfork stuck in your ribs is hard to ignore.
Miffed;-)
So the Argentinians then voted in Fernandez-kirchner, an even more leftist socialist than they had before. Maybe they need to bang the pots on their heads.
Or at least turn the heat up to see if the water has started boiling yet.
the only thing we need is guillottine
ominous name
The pitchfork movement is an anti-establishment movement. In the US the anti-establishment movements are label hjackers and terrsts. We don't have the stomach or balls for disagreement and conflict here, we prefer bi-partisan compromise.
I want to start the "Bayonet Movement".
If there's any movement after they're shot.. Then bayonet..
You see, like in the rest of the southern european countries, in Italy, specially in the south, social life happens in the streets and on the squares - people in towns and villages actually *do* talk to each other on a daily basis, be it during the aperitivo in the evening after work, be it Saturday mornings at the market or be it Sunday afternoons just strolling up and down the crowded shopping streets in the town center. Basically everybody of any age and social standing, just to enjoy the company, to see and be seen.
These people are intelligent, aware and proud of their roots and their history predicting those of the "usurping" Rome. Add a side of economic crisis, and pretty soon you have a social movement with an interesting potential going.
They also value a traditional family structure and their men haven't been completely neutered by political correctness. Same for Georgians and others who haven't suffered the progressive plague of the west.
uh?
you dont follow italy news very well
their monkey minister Cecile Kyenge, is preparing to pass a bill that will change this concept very deeply.
before it was: father, mother system.
after it will be: parent 1 & parent 2 system.
Stratfor? Hmm...where have I heard that one before? o_0
Have you traveled to Ukraine recently, I hear they're famous there...
We need a guillotine movement.
Italy...get ready for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lega_Nord
That's exactly what came to mind when I read the headline.
I then scrolled down, to see if anyone (besides LoP) had already commented on that, and yup, there you are. :-)
... "We need a guillotine movement"...
Hey-hey-hey, I have 20 units ready to be shipped ;-)
Looney
We need an extreme recircumcison movement for the Banking cartel members
It's like the queen of spades instead of the queen of hearts.
"OFF WITH THEIR DICKS!"
(Yellen's too)
A Priest and Rabbi are neighbors. The Rabbi sees the Priest getting a new car and sprinkling holy water on it.
Not to be outdone, the Rabbi buys a new car at the higher Trim Level, and cuts an inch off the tail pipe. ;-)
I thought those red dots might be Italian T-shirt retailers that accept bitcoin.
Pitchforks and torches and lotsa strong rope.
The devil's pitchforks 'The Menorahs' have already been out and about doing their damage for quite some time. Too late for these Italian pitchforks to restore order.
The Menorah is Yahweh's Pitchfork.
That jewish God of War and Oppression is always trying to make the Devil look bad.
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Very succinct.
/s
More police club fodder of people walking in the street talking loudly.
When there is a Scoped Sniper Rifle Movement that can target elite heads from a mile away, then something significant exists.
I certainly think a good sniper will be in demand at some point. An invaluable skill to have. Having shot a weapon used by a sniper, I can appreciate the difficulty and admire those who have skills as Master Marksmen.
Miffed;-)
I know that I can hit a man sized target at 600 yards with my M1, and that's iron sights. I also got to see what the M1 when loaded with 155gr hollow point boat tails does to flesh this weekend. There was a lot of mush and liquid in that elk's chest cavity from the shock, and she folded instantly.
Judging by 2013's all time record gun and ammo sales, that might be just around the corner.
Probably not in Rome where 4 ice cream cones can run tourists 75 bucks.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2321181/British-tourists-charged-54-ice-creams-receive-apology-invited-Rome-mayor.html
Scanned that article. They had the option of not forking over their money. It really comes down to that. My Aspie brother gets gouged all the time because people take advantage people like him who are too timid to tell scammers to fuck off.
Francesco Rosi and Roberto Rossellini made such tales indestructible in the mid 1940s and early 1950s.....not made-for-TV movies. The neo-realism is still fresh, the neo- is unnecessary, said Roberto.
Second attempt...
"Interior Minister Angelino Alfano told parliament the unrest could "lead to a spiral of rebellion against national and European institutions."
The protesters' precise aims remain vague beyond demanding the government be replaced and parliament dissolved."
- Sure, behead the parasitic crime syndicate, and basically half of the job is done.
"We intend to defend the freedom of our citizens to live in safety and of our shopkeepers to do business," he said."
- as in: "Man, don't scare my cows, they won't give milk anymore"?
"He said the government had tried to open talks with the protesters but it was difficult because there were so many different groups and no clear leaders."
- Yeah, you sure wish for a single leader that can be bribed, jailed or killed, do you?
May constant and omnipresent fear sit on your neck and those of your national and international associates in crime like a rabid cat for the rest of your lives
A unused pitchfork should be viewed as a wasted pitchfork
This "movement" is just a few hoodies throwing rocks at police.
Quit typical for Europe actually.
The police in Europe are not as trigger happy as police in "other" areas of the World.
So the hoodies feel safe to dig up the sidewalk and throw it around.
So they do.
It wouldn't hurt to hang Effigies of Mussolini (hanging upside down) and Bankers, for bankers & politicians to take note.
The sheeple in the US don't have the stones/balls to do this, but will happily "chat" about it.
O.T. but related, regarding "Protests" in wider Europe...
Note that when such events happen in the US, EU or even in Turkey, they are labeled as Rebels, Vigilantes or Mobs, and the LEAs are "keeping Law & Order". But when it happens in a place like Kiev, they are called Freedom Marchers or Protesters, and the LEAs are "Oppressing the People". Fucking two-faced hypocrites!
http://rt.com/news/us-eu-ukraine-protest-062/
http://rt.com/op-edge/crisis-ukraine-instigated-west-026/
http://rt.com/op-edge/ukraine-protest-russia-usa-124/
Ain't it so - the chuzpe of our purported leaders truly is brazen.
Earlier today Spiegel Online, the (affiliated) online-service of Europe's most important news magazine came out with the following title and subtitle:
"Primary surplus - Greece announces surplus of 2.7 billion Euros
In the first eleven months of the year the government in Athens has taken in more money than it spent. The primary surplus - without taking into consideration the enormous interest payments - was 2.7 billion Euro".
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/primaerueberschuss-griechenlan...
As in saying "If I wasn't so deep in debt I'd be rich"???
"We belong to a generation that lives very well in this fiction. That has never counted on either a pension or the right to work, let alone rights at work. That isn’t even “precarious,” as the most advanced factions of the militant left like to theorize, because to be precarious is still to define oneself in relation to the sphere of work, that is, to its decomposition. We accept the necessity of finding money, by whatever means, because it is currently impossible to do without it, but we reject the necessity of working. Besides, we don’t work anymore: we do our time. Business is not a place where we exist, it’s a place we pass through. We aren’t cynical, we are just reluctant to be deceived. All these discourses on motivation, quality and personal investment pass us by, to the great dismay of human resources managers. They say we are disappointed by business, that it failed to honor our parents’ loyalty, that it let them go too quickly. They are lying. To be disappointed, one must have hoped for something. And we have never hoped for anything from business: we see it for what it is and for what it has always been, a fool’s game of varying degrees of comfort. On behalf of our parents, our only regret is that they fell into the trap, at least the ones who believed."
cool. who was that masked man?
Guess what would have happened if the OCCUPY clan had brought their pitchforks. The US Police State would have turned violent...and then called in the Drones if necessary. Uprisings will have a difficult go of it in the USSA. The USSA has not been spending all that money on Military and Homeland Security only for international terrorists.