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Violent Clashes Break Out Next To New ECB Headquarters In Frankfurt As Thousands Protest Austerity: Live Webcast
It's not just Greece which is protesting the utter lack of reforms enabled by the ECB known as "austerity" - as of today so is Germany itself with the so-called #Blockupy movement. According to local media reports, the start of anti-austerity rallies in Frankfurt coincided with the European Central Bank opening its new headquarters, whose occupants are now besieged by tens of thousands of protesters, so perhaps #OccupyQ€ would have been more appropriate. Police said they expect around 10,000 anti-capitalist protesters, marching under the banner of leftist alliance Blockupy, to attend the rally, with a march through the city planned for later in the evening. The result is what according to a police spokesman "is one of the biggest deployments ever in the city."
As the photos below shows, several police cars have been set on fire, with windows being smashed and demonstrators throwing stones at police ahead of the massive demonstration on Wednesday, and as riots break out across Frankfurt even as thousands of police respond with water cannon, pepper spray and mass arrests.
Anarchist BBQ in Frankfurt celebrating opening of European Central Bank HQ #Blockupy pic.twitter.com/WtKX6MEEYa
— Kingslayer (@squig_) March 18, 2015
1.Polizeirevier in #Frankfurt / #EZB #18m #Blockupy #18nulldrei pic.twitter.com/enDKoLBFBd
— Polizei Frankfurt (@Polizei_Ffm) March 18, 2015
Zusammenstoss. Pfefferspray. Hanauer ecke uhland. #Blockupy #ezb #18M pic.twitter.com/ovHRc9zGnV
— Journal Frankfurt (@journalffm) March 18, 2015
Ausschreitungen machten den Wasserwerfereinsatz erforderlich . #18nulldrei #18M #Frankfurt pic.twitter.com/AeaHvdoLhL
— Polizei Frankfurt (@Polizei_Ffm) March 18, 2015
Wasserwerfer bei Löscharbeiten an der Flößerbrücke #18M #18nulldrei #Frankfurt pic.twitter.com/fvh9WlUG8v
— Polizei Frankfurt (@Polizei_Ffm) March 18, 2015
Einige DemoTeilnehmer jetzt allerdings in der #Distanzzone #EZB : Bitte geht wieder raus #blockupy #18M #18nulldrei pic.twitter.com/kebuoMpO9R
— Polizei Frankfurt (@Polizei_Ffm) March 18, 2015
(0702) Löscharbeiten am Ernst-Achilles-Platz. #Blockupy pic.twitter.com/O1QALpzkdj
— Hanning Voigts (@hanvoi) March 18, 2015
Bunter Protest in der Uhlandstraße?
#18M #18nulldrei #18null3 #blockupy pic.twitter.com/lzik4aCTZd
— Polizei Frankfurt (@Polizei_Ffm) March 18, 2015
Authorities say at least one officer has been injured by a stone hurled by an activist, near the city's opera house.
Organizers have accused the police of sparking the violence, saying they set up a "civil war type scenario" to provoke demonstrators. "This is not what Blockupy planned," spokesman Hendrik Wester told German news agency DPA.
Video footage has shown riot police running through the city, with at least one protester being dragged away.
Chairman of the German police union (GdP), Oliver Malchow, says the violence has gone far enough.
"We're talking about serious crimes here," he told broadcaster n-tv.
"The term 'protest' doesn't fit in this case," he said.
Activists are targeting the European Central Bank (ECB) as a symbol of capitalism, as well as over its part in restrictive austerity measures in financially-troubled countries such as Greece.
Meanwhile, around 100 guests, including ECB President Mario Draghi, are expected to attend the opening of the ECB's new headquarters.
Authorities had erected a security zone around the 185-meter skyscraper, putting up barricades and barbed wire in preparation for the protest action.
A spokeswoman told news agency AFP "it is one of the biggest deployments ever in the city," saying they expected the majority of demonstrators to be peaceful.
ECB headquarters moving to Frankfurt? Better put barbed wire onto playgrounds. For security reasons only, of course. pic.twitter.com/zk0sPYoPCC
— Touya Akira (@ClipperChip) March 18, 2015
But they believed some violence-prone protesters could use the crowds as cover, and had placed helicopters and water cannons on standby.
A special train has been chartered by organizers to bring 800 people from Berlin, and 60 buses from 39 European countries are also heading to the financial hub.
According to Frankfurt police, seven police vehicles were set on fire, adding "there were peaceful demonstrators and there were criminals also here this morning." The police said it deployed "upper-mid 4 figure number" of officers, but declined to comment on deployment of gas.
As for the ECB, demonstrators said they want to blockade the billion-dollar building, in an attempt to disrupt what they describe as "capitalist business as usual."
A clip of the police using water cannon on protesters and some of the highlights of today's protest so far:
The ECB, along with the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund, are part of the so-called "troika" monitoring countries' compliance with the conditions of bailout loans.
These include lowering government spending and other debt-reduction methods, which have been blamed for increasing unemployment and stunting economic growth.
The ECB says it plans to remain "fully operational" despite the action, with some employees working from home. Because buying bonds only requires a computer stroke from anywhere in the world.
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And here is a live webcast from Frankfurt:
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The spice must flow......or else.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money - Margaret Thatcherawesome. Stupid leftists think they are fighting capitalism. True capitalism can only exist in the absence of government. They are protesting a government agency, thereforce they are fighting government (or socialism/communism/facism/corporatism).
The government steals their money and doesn't give enough back and somehow thats the fault of private business? Austerity is a term that refers to government policy.
Fuckin Leftists.
This can't end well. Most, if not all, Western Government debt is still increasing despite so-called "austerity". It needs real austerity to do anything about that so in that sense "They ain't seen nothing yet".
The real target should not be austerity but a corrupt and broken system which needs REAL reforms not more QE to further enrich the Banksters.
Oh fuck these worthless people. I am having fun trololololing them on Twitter. IF you guys want to burn your day, this is a enteretaining way to do it.
@blockupyF #blockupy #blockupyfrankfurt
Enjoy
Agreed, Haus-Targaryen, but the protestors seem to get away with setting the agenda. If Blockupy gets any traction they'll be in the US by this summer. NWO globalists don't mind borders.
and one day soon, coming to a USSA city too.
This is the early 1930's all over again!
What's next? Brown Shirts?
Brownshirts are here already in the form of the NSA.
Wait till the EBT's stop for more than just a couple hours...
Hurry, Tanks in the streets, Martial Law, Curfews, Water Cannons, Armageddon, EU TARP/TALF, Blank Check Bailouts for Banks!!!
HURRY BEFORE THE ASTEROID HITS!!!
DAY AFTER TOMORROW SHIT GOT REAL, HANK PAULSON STYLE!!!
Whilst I understand the sentiment the ECB doesn't make the decisions about austerity, it is a mere implementation tool and energy could be more wisely and optimally expended. Unfortunately here in the good ole EU we've all been disarmed hence the following is a nigh impossible option, however desirable it may appear to some. Guess there is no man made final solution for Europeans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjeNDKSTWIg
I agree with the sentiment, but the department of homo suckers is the real SA.
I really dislike the transvestites searching asses dept, they stole some of my stuff on my last flight.
They're 'practicing' to stand in bread lines
Zuchinni Park. Same handlers.
...and then I saw this: https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/578123827420377089
I can't even begin.
Awesome.
That's some thatch Comrade Merkel has there.
No doubt some muff-diving took place.
Lmao....did someone say "anti-capitalist rally". Its an ECB BANK. There is nothing capitalistic about a government sanction, invented and protected institution. You could call it an anti fascist or anti socialist rally and have some foundation for doing so
They are the free shit army. They are well informed independent thinkers. They have pride. You just don't get it.
Indeed. It seems most here don't get it.
There is no capitalism in the EU. There's planned wealth extraction.
Anti-capitalists not anti-capitalism. The creation of capital is GOOD, but capitalists (the 001% type) not necessarily so.
LoL! Anti-commie, not anti-communism per-se. Just so you understand my position.
It's ok. Carbon taxes will solve all this.
Join our cult.....or else Al Gore is going to call for your arrest and execution.
You can't get any bars on the Lear Jet at 35,000 ft, so you're safe for now.
That's not true. Remember all the cell phone calls from planes on 9/11/01? Or are you some kind of conspiracy theorist? /sarc off
Yea, that was hilarious. I can just imagine that little phone trying to switch towers at 500 mph. About as stupid as kerosene melting hardened steel and causing all those explosions, and ... oh, the hell with it.
Merica, Idiocracy...... Idiocracy Merica.
Pull it!
"I can just imagine that little phone trying to switch towers at 500 mph"
That's exactly why (IMO) they tell you to have you phones in airplane mode for the duration of the flight. They don't want sheep figuring out that the "let's roll" phone call was fake.
GZG--the folks givin' u da reddiez don't get MSM cable in dere momz basementz to heer it strate from Papa Al'z mouf
- Ned
{I dumbed above down so the folks kin unnerstan}
Very well explained Market Capitalist, it is so frustrating that these idealistic young , who sense that something is seriouly fucked up , just dont get it . They are essentially asking for more of the very thing that is wrong in the first place and rageing against that which if liberated ,possibly has the potential to liberate man i.e a world without central bank monopoly and government force
Cut them a break.
At least they got the balls to go out and rock the fucking ship while all the self proclaimed "capitalists" sit on their lazy asses picking blackheads...
There is a problem in Europe and throwing shit at Helicopter Draghi is not the problem.
Yeah! Those lazy ass Capitalists paying the Taxes should be the ones protesting. But they still have a job and bills to pay, give it some time, comrade.
funny how the wagon riders got time to influence policy while the wagon pullers are all too busy workin their ass off...
tic toc...
wait til we run out of wagons, ha, lol...
Ever notice the staff here leans a little left.
Left, Right, Center... ad nauseum
What are you doing here? Not only are you playing their game, your using their terminology.
My staff leans a little left.
from right wing manipulation
That is an easy narrative to fall into when you are not one of the unemployed EURO youngsters in the middle of getting ass fucked by our beloved global "capitalist" system the corrupt nest of bloodsucking NWO entitlists that it is.
"ass fucked by our beloved global "capitalist" system"
Yes, they are being fucked by Capitalism, not Socialism. Better stick to your 3rd grade cut and paste artwork Billy. It makes as much sense as you do. You were also wrong on Feguson like the NBC freaks, dickhead, or maybe you were right, I don't know who pays you.
You mean "best intentions" is the only thing that counts?
You were saying something about "best intentions"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOcvH4b0Opk
In the ideal world that is
There are only 2 classes in society, the ruling class, and the ruled.
What we have is an oligarchic plutocracy controlling governments, corporations and the military. This ruling class is parasitic. Governments are their chief host, corporations are their tentacles and the military is their cannon fodder. The rest - the ruled class - is just a bit of collateral damage.
No. It's the Fed, Draghi, ECB, all the assholes who ruined the low and middle class with their endless printing. Protests are only just beginning.
I was waiting to see which two idiots would first quote Thatcher against socialism, and claim this is not capitalism. So the gold and silver medals go to the first two comments.
There cannot be a capitalism without a government, there has never been and there will never be.
"Capitalist production and exchange are inherently "anarchistic". Individuals, each in pursuit of his or her private interests, cannot possibly take "the common interest" -- even of the capitalist class -- into account in their actions. Thus, the capitalist State has also to function as a vehicle through which the class interests of the capitalists are expressed in all fields of production, circulation and exchange. It plays an important role in regulating competition, in regulating the exploitation of labor (through, for example, legislation on minimum wages and maximum hours of employment) and generally in placing a floor under the processes of capitalist exploitation and accumulation. The State must also play an important role in providing "public goods" and social and physical infrastructures which are necessary prerequisites for capitalist production and exchange but which no individual capitalist would find it possible to provide at a profit. And the State inevitably becomes involved in crisis management and in countering the tendency for the rate of profit to fall . State intervention is necessary in all of these respects because a system based on individual self-interest and competition cannot otherwise express a collective class interest.?
Harvey, 1976
Idiot anarcho capitalists...
Agree. Also, I have a simple question for Adam Smith: How do you keep capitalism from falling into a very few "good" hands?
and why would you want to do that?
Every single part of that argument applies equally to orthodox Marxism, anarcho-socialism, and anarcho-communism.
While it is a historical fact there has never been non-state capitalism, it is equally true that what you are calling capitalism has little in common with what others are calling capitalism... everyone is aiming at straw targets, most especially David Harvey, never thought I'd see him quoted around here. His analysis is entirely one-sided and historical, though of dubious accuracy - as with virtually all Marxist scholarship, it's just another method of history through which facts and opinions are made to support ideological conclusions - a narrative about history, but not a particularly accurate one.
PS: I like to do the same - wait eagerly to see which fool will label a state-capitalist totalitarian authoritarian oligarchy/dictatorship as socialist or even communist. Or label a gens or clan a tribe or nation, or anywhere a democracy (arithmetocracy).
Just like every part of your analysis is a one-sided and historical account of socialism, which many calling themselves socialist condemn (State-capitalist Stalinisim and its variants I mean)
Just like those like you will repeatedly sing the same song against the possibility of a collective-cooperative society referring to the inherently selfish and self-preserving nature of humanity, those like Harvey are right to point out that a system based on the supposed merits of self-interest in which capital owners possess the economic power is destined to evolve into this crony capitalism. And he is not aiming at straw targets, as 98% of the world is crony capitalist and you cannot find a single counter example to that, while experiences of socialisms are very few when compared. If someone is aiming at straw targets, it is more you rather than Harvey.
The praxeology of Austrian economics is as low as any scholarship can get so I could not care less about what these charlatans call capitalism. At the end of the day, the level if illiteracy here is at such a level that they call Obama a socialist. I recommended a few times to those idiots that they don't say this anywhere in Europe if they do not want to make fools of themselves.
The problem is that even if the state does not exist in early stages in an anarcho capitalist system, as capital owners accumulate larger amounts of wealth, they will collude, merge, and form a state to protect class interests. This is not only intuitive but also historically what happened. So as long as such vast amounts of wealth accumulation is prevented (as in an anarcho socialist participatory-cooperative system) the same mechanics need not apply and such an oppresive state with class interests need not emerge. So your argument that "every single part of my analysis applies to anarcho socilaism" is not correct.
At first I thought, "wow, some people in Europe are actually doing something." Oops... then I realized, "oh, it's just far-left*/socialist/communist/syndicalist Free Shit Army avant garde" upset that not enough of the booty is flowing into their pockets but otherwise quite satisfied with the UberPonzi for all intents and purposes. Ho-hum.
*We speak American around here
"The government steals their money and doesn't give enough back and somehow thats the fault of private business?"
yes.
goverment is private business.
example? > TTIP negotiations.
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In rubble we trust
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Buy rubles while they're still cheap. Sell them for worthless dollars later.
Ms thatcher quote, is not the whole story:
"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money - Margaret Thatcher"
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money, and it enables a few
powerful elite-to become filthy rich ,bribing corrupt government leaders and the media.
"At this point, what difference does it make?"
The problem with socialism is...
you've been conditioned to think its impossible.
Socialist countries have overtaken America by the dozen on issues like quality of life, average literacy and longevity.
Anyone who thinks socialism is a bad word to me is an intellectual relic of the past. These Europeans are light years, yes I said light years, ahead of the American public in their sophistication on these matters.
They understand the role of a society, that society and social concerns have a place. We only understand barren, conflicted individualism and striving competition of all-vs-all. We are the most easily atomized, separated, and distracted from anything like a social concern. Here you see Europeans living in a country with a quality of living that dwarfs our own (I have lived for years in both places) and they STILL protest, because that is the level of their development in terms of individual and social conscience and consciousness. We are far, far below them and that is why our country is a fascist-capitalist empire which anyone else would be disgraced to live in.
Socialism won't work without direct democracy - Citizens Goverment.
Laughable.
True socialism means elimination of all competition.
Tell me how that can work out in anything else than the lowest common denominator, over the medium to long term.
Here you see Europeans living in a country with a quality of living that dwarfs our own (I have lived for years in both places)
I'm assuming you're comparing Germany with the US.
I lived in both places too. You can say the US is catching up on socialism, and Germany is catching up on fascism, over the last decade. Worst of both worlds is the result.
The Pfefferspray must also flow....
Yes, central banker's money. And, surprise! They keep printing!
Margaret Thatcher knew very well that to spread crony capitalism you need socialism.
People who still don't understand this are just sheeple.
This is a small group of informed sheeple. This will be a non media event in 4 days.
Like everything else so far huh
nice GTA5 tissue, but... in fact, the game is endless until you remove the powercord...
take that, germans.
Good. Keep protesting, disobeying and opposing this fucked system until they can no longer ignore you.
Blockupy and most of the demonstrants get payed from the System. The System is Rothschild.
In order to get stronger laws and so on, .......... they do their work of the NWO!
AntiCapitalist? Do they know what capitalism is? The IMF a capitalist symbol? Since when? So debt servitude is capitalism?
AntiAusterity?Really? Are they marching in support of Greece and the transfer of THEIR wealth to the Greeks?
I'm sure this is not organized by Marxists. They have never used violence to advance their goals.
Transfer of their parents wealth.
FIFY
Transfer of their parents wealth.
FIFY
What's your source for "anti-capitalist"? The Frankfurt police? lol.
You don't provide any proof of this, but I do see a motive for the ruling class to inject agent provocateurs within these movements to discredit them and ultimately justify their clampdown. However, they cannot shut everybody up, their policies are poisonous, and people do and will fight when pushed enough.
The Eurozone in its current form is the main reason for the pain in Europe. Europe is Europe's greatest threat - this has always been the case.
The shills working ZH today are going to do everything to bury this very important point.
Yet regardless of circumstances CAPITALISM is always singled out. We see everyday, even on ZH the term "crony" capitalist being thrown about. We might as well be referring to "cancerous" life, given that cancer can only occur as a result of life...so to cure cancer we must kill life. Every destructive force in the world is being labeled or directed at capitalism as the real culprit. Be it the protestors or the police saying it, it really doesn't matter. What matters is what people believe and unfortunately the principle issue is that they believe whatever they are told. These protestors are but another useful tool.
Correct. It takes a lot of independent thought to figure out that the elite are actually anti free market. and thus anyone else who is anti free market is being played by these self proclaimed elite...
i agree. i cannot personally see how fractional reserve of pure fiat banking controlled by some heirarchy is at all compatible with true competition - it is the antithesis... maybe people are tired of "competing" for the fewer and fewer crumbs dropped under the "masters" table.. i reckon commodity money and decentralized truly private banks (or matresses / cookie jars) is the moral way to go... the rule of law needs implemented also to confiscate the stolen booty and somehow either destroy it or distribute it at reset.. the adoption of commodity money at this point, when the same cartel have just looted the worlds major stockholds of said commodities is not good logic - they also used their ill gotten gains to "purchase" "title" to the worlds natural resources, including mines. unless these two points (theft and false claim) are addressed, then adoption of commodity money simply herds the sheep right back into the masters pens
the modern banking systems are the epitome of false weights and measures
It takes a lot of independent thought to figure out that the elite are actually anti free market.
You expect an anarchist to think that far ahead?
People insisting that there exists some "pure", "primordial" form of capitalism, which is somehow better and preferrable to what we're actually seeing -- sound to me a lot like Communists who used to say "What you're seeing is not true communism. True communism doesnt work like this, it actually looks completely different." This of course was the mantra of all marxist/communist apologists during the 20th century.
Take some goddamn responsibility for the consequences of the ideas you support, and the forms that they have morphed into. This is capitalism, whether you reject it as such on the basis of some wonderful qualifying schema you may have. The endgame of capitalism is that monopolists and "monied powers" eventually take over the government, fusing market and state. And thats what they've done. Don't get around that with an insistance on conceptual purity -- nobody cares about your purebred unicorn in-a-perfect-world capitalism.
Yes, Eurozone and European Parliament, ECB (on the hands ok banksters)... Biggest threath to Europe.
Absolutely.
They should be protesting fascism/socialism, the two-faced coin.
Yeah ! Go Blockupy !
Blockupy has got the order to burn some police car. That`s ok for the system.
But they never will take the banksters or the poiticians! They get their money from them to make this party.
Blockupy ist a big joke of the NWO.
I think there is more to it than just staging an anti-capitalist/ Anti ECB event. I believe it really is a gesture towards the powers that be - as posted yesterday ( on another thread ). Germany is in serious turmoil socially,culturally, politically,financially, etc.. The concerns of public are not being taken seriously. This will get worse.
"Activists are targeting the ECB as a symbol of capitalism."
So they are not protesting against the ECB; they don't want the ECB gone. They want the ECB to do MOAR.
As much as I like the sound of burning Audi's outside the ECB, this is not the protest we're looking for. Did I miss something?
"Activists are targeting the ECB as a symbol of capitalism."
Wait....what?
Why there's never a demonstration in front of the House of Rothschilds?
Remember : "Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws."
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"I'm not sure where they are"
What's the matter with lumber, I own 2 lumber yards.
Until you have photo's of Mario Draghi being dragged through the streets heading for a lamp post. This is just a little dust up!
Banksters Inc. will pee out of the windows of the new HQ down upon the heads of the serfs!
Why not make a print a picture of the ECB building on a rifle target. Or make one that looks like a pinata?
and here in merica on the dawn of fed policy day, not even a peep, much less a protest, just sheep clueless to another sharade ponzi policy decision.
That'll bring out the counter-terrorism hit squad in no time!
The banksters are coming out of the closet now that they have created their little police states around the globe. They feel safe and comfy with their new military armed protective doberman's laughingly called police.
Worse,,, they may be right.
you seen this early ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T65SwzHAbes
fucking good to watch. i would love to slow down the speech for my dumb country and broadcast it on 8pm tv news to ice cold showering my people :)
http://www.relay-of-life.org/main.html
Live nearby and I can tell you I have never seen so many convoys of police vehicles.
As to the Blockupy movement, well usefull muppets maybe.
They really are just fools, protesting against the wrong thing in the wrong place.
Does it seem real....or does it look staged?
In the wierdo world of manipulated everything who can tell
If the signs look professionally made it's probably staged....if the signs look homemade....it's probably real.
It is probably a bit of both. Undoubtly many plain clothes cops among the protestors to keep keep things in check, and very possibly paid hooligans to escalate in order to create a certain perception if needed.
If Soros sunk 33 million into Ferguson.....this has got be costing him a damn fortune.
http://barbwire.com/2015/01/23/0800-socialist-billionaire-soros-spent-33-million-fan-ferguson-flames/
http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/01/15/george-soros-pumped-least-33-million-ferguson-protests
http://www.brennerbrief.com/george-soros-pumps-least-33-million-ferguson-grassroots-movement/
What I was wondering too
Another SorosTM investment.
10,000 ~ So is that like 20% of capacity of Lucas Oil Stadium [where the NCAA Final 4 will be held]?
FFS ~ I'll expect more mayhem in Frankfurt & Lexington, KY if the Wildcats end up winning.
In a sheeple world, you can't really compare the capacity of a sports stadium, one of the high shrines of the diversionary sheeple pacification rituals, to the size of a protest.
If the protest has been staged or not, and who is behind it is more revealing.
final four, ha, my family, ha...
funny how the polizei are guarding the criminals.
Was it ever any different ?
Feudalism 2.0
Is that Soros teaching Germans to hate Russia?
or sending message to obey USA!
All these protests which are getting no-where all around the world and leaving the tyrants still in power have to evolve from "Let's all stand around and get our asses water cannoned and maced and shot up and arrested one by one.", to "Let's take in our rifles and take out everyone in power and start over clean."
If nothing else, these weak arsed protests are boring me to tears.
Like a BOD lynching party?
Funny all the shills here today both misrepresenting Blockupy's positions and ignoring the overt and covert violence of the authorities. Blockupy is not about money printing. It is about having bondholders take loses from time to time. And any ZHedger should know full well how the authorities infiltrate groups and promote violence in order to discredit any group.
ghost, not enough violence is the problem, and not enough target selection for the violence- effective revolution in modern countries is not about protest violence - it is about very limited eliminations..mass protests are for the collapse after select targets are removed.
Very well said.
Could not have said it better myself. All we have to do to make things a lot better is take out about 1000 of these tyrants who are shitting all over the world and the people And keep shooting the new ones until you get good, freedom-loving ones in power. And if that never happens, then enjoy the shooting. We have the tyrants so rediculously outnumbered that it's a farce. 800 pound gorhilla in the room.
The solution is simple, it just takes some big balls to start it up.
Cocked and locked.
The single greatest advancement of the police state in America would be the successful or even attempted assassination of Obama. The constitution would be ended along with EVERYTHING we could perceive as freedom. Only a fool thinks that anything will be resolved through violence. Violence is their goal. Just as economic collapse is, as it creates fear and chaos in a society that is primarily motivated by concerns of security derived through state control. The apparent absence of order and rule of law will aggregate power in the name of tyranny. Name ONE assassination that has advanced freedom.
This is a game that requires the gradual depletion of self reliance and simultaneous state dependency. It cannot be destroyed by the direct hand of government. It must be done through back channels, through the Alinsky approach of collapse from within, from constantly increasing demands for entitlements from a state starved of resources by greedy capitalists.
What are these protests about? Austerity? Really? Austerity for whom? Those holding their hands out for MOAR entitlements? Are there protestors out there demanding lower taxes? Less government intervention in business and commerce?
NO! ONLY MOAR FOR ME!
"The constitution would be ended"
LOL
Man, they scrapped that thing years ago...
Yep. As odious as he is, hope that the Bath House is well protected.
There are still cards to be dealt. The sheep are pacified and contained.
and the wrong kind of violence. Ferguson for example, burned down their neighbors businesses and home while leaving government / police buildings torch free. I am not advocating any violence but when it occurs it should be directed at the intended audience. Sort of like slapping your wife when upset at your brother.
Tyrone! What are you doing?
Burnin' down the post office, soul brother!
Dumbass! I won't get my welfare check. Here, take that gas can and go burn down your house! That will show the man!
The saddest part is there is not one protest against our own political or banking system and we have guns, they must have bigger balls.
probably has something to do with the fact that americons are too toopid to understand the actual source of our discontent is the people who have malevolently created an unfair system of money for their own benefit.
An American protest story: in sept 2010 we conservatives marched on DC, i was there with them..the MSM said it was a small turn out, they lied. the msm reported on racists being there - they lied, there was no violence, the park police stated we left the mall and capital in good shape with little litter. we had speeches and we waved signs and the media said ho hum all racist. a few congressmen came and talked about things that they then never did.
my point is in america those who see injustice and act civil get laughed at and lied about, while the approved protest class be come violent and get plenty of MSM face time.."burn it down burn this MF down"
why protest? it is as useful as voting in usa..I will never attend these events again..it does not move the powers that be one inch.
ps..the majority at that protest were protesting the FED's actions these people understood something was very wrong with our money system..not ave tv watching dupes.
Protests accomplish nothing positive. They only reinforce fear and insecurities in a population seemingly begging for MORE police control.
We EFFECTIVELY protest through our economic activity. Think about it. Everything our government does is not directly about freedom or liberty, it is about MONEY. Taxation, regulation CONTROL is exercised through the control of MONEY. What we buy, how we spend MONEY. Money that is the direct reflection of the ownership of our productive efforts. How we spend, how we "invest" our production is EVERYTHING. This is not hard to figure out, it is hard to DO, because they have figured on every weakness, every human response to front run and manipulate us. They CONTROL us, and if there is a public demonstration it will ultimately serve ONLY them.
So lets just stop it. Lets put our MONEY where our mouth is. They know we do not want to sacrifice, or even delay gratification. they will "loan" us the money to buy that TV or car or house or phone or any piece of crap, because they know we NEED it. They KNOW we will choose destruction before construction, before actually thinking and working for our own true benefit. They know our emotional needs, they create our emotional needs, and they enable their fulfillment. The only effective means of fixing this is to do what has not been done. Sacrifice OUR immediate needs for our future needs. Stop borrowing money. Stop asking government for ANYTHING.
ap headline:
"US sets new record for denying, censoring government files"Give me a break... We couldn't even stop flying long enough to get rid of the TSA when it was a startup... Now they're spreading like bed bugs...
It cramps our style.
+100! That is the best way to protest!
What did civil rights proponents do back in the 60s? Boycott.
Take your $$ elsewhere.
Americans dont understand 5th collum infiltration
We have no capitalists, no fascists, not communists, no necons, no rich people and no poor people on Q99X2. We only have us.
"Imagine there's no heaven..."
It's easy if you try...
I don't have to 'imagine' that. Imagine if there's no Santa, Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy.
Different Fables for different audiences -- all designed to attain their compliance with expected behavior.
Looks like Russia wins. Everybody hates the NWO especially their own nation states.
Machine gun the oldsters, we can't afford them.
They should have planned the systems better. They were poor stewards.
Now they pay by visiting the woodchoppers.
Get the Popcorn....love a good action...news! MayDay should be a blast.
Too bad gutless, clueless American Sheeple haven't gotten it together
Americans are soft.
I’ve lived in this subdivision for about 9 months.
Every morning the retard across the street is helped onto a public school bus and taken somewhere. That’s got to be expensive.
Instead of drowning retards like unwanted kittens, we vote on proposals to give them our resources.
You dislike typical Americans but yet moved into a subdivision. Task for the day: throw all of your mirrors out.
AKA "I Demand Free Shit Crowd". And when Libtard Pols are forced to cut back the "free shit" because there isn't any more money to pay for it, these losers demand more free shit! It just isn't "fair" that people that work have more than those sitting around coffee shops reading Das Kapital. Oh look at me, I got tears in my eyes now.
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Yeah, those lazy kids should learn how to daytrade and get some low interest loans from Draghi too.
Nice fat ass you've cultivated in the meantime though, armchair quarterback.
Funny thing. I just read in the German press that stock market workers and Bankers working in Frankfurt received emails to not come in suits to work today, so that protesters can't identify them as Bankers.
This is fucking historic! Bankers in fear of being Bankers!
I wished there was true capitalism, where good work, service attitude and making money through honest means had any value. We need LESS government mingling and big ass corporations and lobbies and more pure capitalism. The rules and laws are twisted.
Start the shooting already. Watching all these almost-violent protests is like watching the Arabs and Jews "almost fight" for centuries. Just get the fight the fk over with.
FU ECB
smelly fucking occupigs.
And if these protests had taken place in, say, Russia, the protesters would have been agents of foreign, hostile forces, infiltrated by the C.I.A. and God knows who else they could blame ...
A Russia post will be along soon enough to get your "troll on"....
"Anticapitalist"?
Why not anti-no employment, anti-low wages, anti-servitude, anti-oligarchs, anti-parasites, anti-banksters?
If there is no honest (as opposed to rigged) capitalism, there can be no anti-capitalism!
Nice.
Ohhhh....so anyone with a beef against central bankster pirates of earth are now 'leftist anti-capitalists'..... got it.
Only when the central banksters are taken down will free market prevail.
A controlled economy is like the old Soviet Union.
We all know how that ended up.