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Montreal Students Clash With Riot Police In Austerity Protests
Last week, anti-austerity protests in Germany turned the streets of Frankfurt into a veritable horror show as Blockupy supporters dressed as clowns clashed with riot police against a backdrop of flaming cars and utter chaos in what looked like a scene out of Pennywise The Clown Meets Black Hawk Down:
It now appears the Blockupy spirit has migrated across the pond to Montreal, where hundreds of students hit the streets to protest austerity measures drawing the ire of police armed with rubber bullets, tear gas, and sound bombs. Here’s more via RT:
Canadian police used tear gas and reportedly fired rubber bullets and sound bombs at hundreds of students protesting austerity measures at an anti-capitalist rally in Montreal. Thousands took to the streets on Tuesday to protest sweeping education cuts…
Many activists wore masks, covering their faces while violating the local bylaw that prohibits covering faces during protests…
The Revolutionary Student Movement organized the Tuesday’s evening march. The group has claimed it is “an association of young Communists and revolutionary anti-capitalists.”
Thousands of students have been boycotting classes to protest against provincial government austerity measures, including new tuition hikes and university cuts.
The protesters reportedly broke car windows, lit flares, and spray painted some stuff, which all would have been ok had they provided police with a schedule initially:
Police declared the march illegal from the beginning, saying that protest organizers failed to provide local authorities with their itinerary, which is required by the bylaw P-6.
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We assume the Bank of Canada may be hiring a "Fire Expert" soon.
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They can shoot all the French Canadian Marxist Mimes they want.
Hell, where do I sign up for some of that action ?
LOL!
Canadian austerity? What is that? They only can watch 10 hours of hockey a day?
The cops in Toronto are real NWO scumbags. They beat the hell out of any protestors. I wonder if Montreal all are as bad?
"MOAR Free Shit!""
Who says these are communists? The government? I'd like to see their protest signs. If the press won't show you their actual protest signs you can be sure they carry messages unpopular with the state.
I live in Canada and did not know about this and cannot find it mentioned today on the front of the Globe and Mail. MSM whitewash.
Just wait & see what happens if crude stays sub $60 USD.
Canada is so incredibly ripe for social unrest from Alberta to Quebec to Montreal, words fail to outline the social volatility that will result in that bubbletastic, yet centrally & bureaucratically planned, massively indebted, cradle-to-grave welfare state.
There is no social unrest in Alberta.
We're working much too hard and have no time for such frivolties.
I see you have been well trained.
Arbeit macht frei! All hail Prentice :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei
I've been leaving my office in Calgary after 8 most nights and these fuckers in Montreal are protesting because I'm not giving them enough free money to waste on a useless degree they won't be using at their McDonalds jobs. And what's more, the new .quebec domain name registry rejected my pre-registration attempt to reserve the fuck.quebec domain name!
Same here Bob...im east of Toronto. Nothing on todays 'theNational' (at least in 1st 30min) and on CP24.
Yeah, in Toronto also and heard nothing about this in the news.
Nothing on the news here in Ottawa either, but this is a Quebec right of spring for university students since 2009 and excessive tuition increases across CANADA. Frankly, I support the students in Quebec for their ideological commitment to the need for lower cost tuition across CANADA and in Quebec. Steven Harper in an anal retentive money hoarder and has been squeezing everyone in CANADA out of every last dime we have since he fraudulently took over the Progressive Conservative Party of CANADA with a fraudulent internal party vote that was rigged. Transfer payments to the provincial governments have not increased with inflation and the Federal Government of CANADA is just driving up costs to the point where working class and students cannot survive without getting dangerously in debt. French Canadians are NOT naïve when it comes to their rights to be equitably included in the domain of Capitalism in Quebec. The milieu in Quebec also fosters social inclusiveness for demonstrators and the solidarity amongst them is very strong. In brief, they are a social force to be concerned about if you are the Gubberment of CANADA.
First off, their name is bad in the extreme ... "Revlotuoionary Students Something?!"
They need to chaneg to something like, "Students for a Better Society."
Call them whatever you like, to me they'll always be thieving elitist socialist pricks. As if the rest of the country doesn't subsidize these assholes enough already.
BobPaulson I live in Canada and did not know about this and cannot find it mentioned today on the front of the Globe and Mail. MSM whitewash.
Really?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/police-and-protesters-clash-at-an...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/arrests-made-police-cars-va...
So I guess someone has to hit ya in the head. Of course it wasn't front page headlines, but it was there.
Seven thousand people marching and this is the best coverage we can find from the Globe?????
Word count, 184.
"Arrests made, police cars vandalized as student protesters clash with police in Montreal"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/arrests-made-police-cars-va...
The Globe is zio-prop.
BobPaulson
"I live in Canada and did not know about this.."
It happened two days ago, you have to keep up with the news in Canada by getting it from Russia (RT).
Pretty sad eh?
Young 'Communists' protesting 'Capitalism'. Dumb fucks don't even know 'Capitalism' has already been dead for decades. They have no fucking idea who their enemy even is.
To borrow a line from The Princess Bride, let me say there's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do. Go through the clothes and look for loose change.
Capitalism in NA and parts of the EU may be mostly dead, but in shit holes like Venezuela it is all dead.
Deport these protesters into a Marxist nirvana somewhere and let them rot there. I'll take my mostly dead North America over these idiots' vision of making it all dead.
So once again, we have the peanut gallery on ZH that bitches about EVERYTHING mainstream, and disbelieves EVERYTHING on MSM, jumping right on the "fuck the communist protestors" bandwagon . First, they are only "communists" because MSM says so. As a few here have mentioned, they are likely no such thing. Second, they are protesting the same thing most of us bitch about day in and day out -- banksters and oligarchs. Third, they are actually out in the streets getting shot at with tear gas while the ZH "fuck the FSA communists" brigade sits safely behind their computer screens. Take one moment and think about why you bother to complain about everything you complain about when you are so easily convinced by some bullshit MSM labels that the people protesting the machine are worthy of your disdain. And then take another moment and ask yourself why nothing is ever going to change. We have met the enemy, and the enemy is us.
Confirmation bias.
They are in thrall to their ingroup wiring.
If they understood what they're up against - which is, incidentally, basically the entire cumulated momentum of modern civilization - I bet they approach the situation differently than as cannon fodder for the empire troopers in the streets.
P.s. yeah the cops here are savage, stupider than cattle but crueler too...
LOL the moneychangers running the FED have been stealing from the Living since its inception. Guess they dont watch the Princess Bride
Something tells me that even if you had a magic wand and got whatever you wanted, it wouldn't take long before you became brokeass bitch again. That's just my opinion.
Amen!!! Each of us has more in common with these protesters than we do with the cops beating them, the MSM fucks reporting it, and the politicos who enabled it all.
...and then they came for me but there was nobody left...
The protesters have more in common with the cops than with me, thank you very much
They both act in ignorance and thus are simple tools for the hegelian dialectic.
Meanwhile, the sovereigns remain unassailable, witnessing..
Talk about oversimplification. The protestors can at least be arsed to get out of bed and speak out against futuile fiscal measures targetted at societies most vulnerable whilst the cops are there to make sure that no-one complains about the measures and violate those serfs which do. In the meantime the mainstream media makes sure that the protests of those aligned with the vulnerable don't make it into the nations media, lest unpopularity catches on. Hopefully this will be an enormous eye opening event not only for the protestors, but for all the real clowns in Canada who believe they are a democratic nation with a free press.
You seem to be oversimplifying, yourself.
There are way better things to do than protest. I live in Montreal and I am wholeheartedly combatting zio-evil, yet I would not have joined these protests, even if I had known ahead of time, since I don't see why I should go out of my way to get my head beat in by thug cops, for practically no strategic gain.
Instead of showing people how we get beat up for thinking differently, I prefer to show the lame-asses around me how my life is a million times better thanks to being MGTOW ('Men Going Their Own Way'). Maybe someday I'll tempt the miserable lot, but in the meantime, my life is awesome!
I find it amusing those that call themselves sovereign. You are only sovereign to the point you can defend yourself and your property.
I have yet to meet a totally soverereign person. Even those in the 1% can get fucked up if they make the wrong mistake.
I am sovereign. Anything that can be removed from me is not me. I am my own property. Only the absolute can melt me in itself; no other agent can claim Me but through my own surrender.
The perspective you voiced is anchored down in the crude physical realms. It is not the perspective I witness through.
Where's the admiration for these largely French protesters doing battle in the streets?
Maybe their activism makes some here uncomfortable? The banks/corporations are stealing our democratic republic for their own rapacious greed and I for one admire those in Montreal who are pushing back.
Yeah right "activism". So how is lighting a car on fire going to make anything better? If they are protesting higher tuition costs why aren't they protesting their universities?
More bored college kids deluding themselves that "thery were there man, making a difference."
Whatever.
Every other day someone at work mentions a 'revolution' or 'uprising' after being wired to talk radio for a few hours. And, when you ask them about ending the Fed or giving the control of currency back to the people, their response is ??????
The MSM is very powerful with behavior control as seen with some ZHers here. Good post EatRand.
Just call them what they are members of the Canadian Free Shit Army..... There are free shit crony capitalists, and their are free shit communists. The real interesting question would be how many of them are Canadian born, not imported welfare sponges.
Quebec has been the lazy beggar of Canada for decades now. They receive unprecedented amount of handouts aka "equalization payments" from most of the rest of the country. They've elected the socialist NDP in that area because the Bloq Quebeqois didn't manage to get them enough handouts for their liking, and now they're protesting because even the NDP isn't giving them enough free shit.
You're damn right they're communists if full-on socialists can't appease their craving for free shit.
To quote Vasermaan "Just because they are protesting against Capitalism, doesn't mean that it wasn't organized by capitalists"
In Canada it's "MOAR Free Shit Eh!"......
Screw these kids who think they get everyting in life for free, take their pants down and screwy them!
Apparantly they don't need the college. They've already figured out how to be progressives (labeled "communists" in this article).
Charity begins at home. Let's clean up our own garbage first.
You are truly an ignoramus.
young communists and revolutionary anti capitalists. sounds like a typical crowd at ZH these days.
pretty sure ZH is the only place no_keynes capitalists have left tbh
Aren't you the same guy on the other thread saying we should cull the heard of useless eaters, go Isreal! and such? Why would anyone want to protest that mindset? Must be communists.
Yeah, that's him. Specifically, he wants to cull the herd of "useless eaters in the arab world" which makes him, by definition, anti-semitic. Not really surprising that he expresses his desire "on the record" to march these semitic useless eaters into ovens.
How very exceptional.
Hey LVDave dont you mean anti sem...er I mean anti zionists ? Thats the bit of ZH you dont like is,nt it Dave ? No critisism of the especially chosen money changer tribe and its little hidey hole Israel can be tolerated eh Davey boy ?
I think it is frustration and we will be seeing a lot more. There are people still in university at 25, paying through the nose, many not having made an income yet and if they get their degree, hope they can get a job they were trained in.
Then there is the rest of us, having to comply with every stupid rule the bankers, politicians and big corporations dream up.
I don't blame the young people. They know bullshit when they see and hear it too.
Except in Quebec they aren't paying through the nose. If you are in Engineering at Polytechnique in Montreal, you are paying $3000 in tuition for a full year. That is a whole year. I have a son in Engineering at Waterloo (13,000 per year) and a son in Engineering at Carleton (11,000 per year). And I know that I would be coughing up a whole lot more if we were in the States.
I love Quebecers, they are fickle and demanding but at least they are passionate.
I don't know what they are protesting and I doubt that they even know. But I am glad they protest. The rest of Canada can't get their butts in gear to get a good protest going for things that we are actually concerned about. Heck most of our protests are filled with non-Canadians.
Sadly, I live about 20 minutes from Parliament Hill and I don't think I have been to a protest in 6 years. Hypocricy is not dead, my friends.
Montreal students are known to be the most pampered spoiled bunch of malcontents in the universe. Get back to your French art history class and graduate so that you can start brewing coffee.
Yeah God forbid someone learn something about art instead of learning about capitalism.
learning about capitalism ? You gotta be kidding .
i'd say it's VERY much needed my friend.
i didn't express myself clearly - i was trying to imply that capitalism, these days, is even less grounded in reality than most art. actually 'true' captilism is a fairy tale - it never existed because humans corrupt it. so while i would urge folks to understand what capitalism is, it doesn't hurt to learn about art either.
at least with art, one typically learns some practical skills and produces real stuff that others enjoy. As well most artists can at least paint and fix things around the house because they've learned how to build and repair. My ex-girlfriend - who had an art degree and was a teacher - was better with power tools than most stock brokers I've ever met. Lastly, most self-professed 'capitalists' produce nothing - especially if all they do is sit at a desk and short stocks or trade derivatives and the like.
+100
I did undergrad there but thankfully my major was NOT modern classical black female studies in the 18th century.
"Anti-austerity" is a new bullshit media word that was made up to distract from what the protests are really about. Don't be fooled by that word.
Yeah what ever happened to "luxury" and "indulgence?"
Mean what ya say, say what ya mean, I sez!
Yes, it is welfare. Nothing more, nothing less.
So moar better "democracy" then? Governments of the earth are toast - what a farce. This whole planet is hosed, except possibly for a few remote pigmie tribes that can't even be spotted by satellites - hell, they can probably eat radiation all day and laugh. And maybe they need iphones? Thankful for the joys and even the sorrows I've had, but if this is the best the collective gene pool can do, I won't be visiting again. And I miss Douglas Adams, and am glad I never saw any movies of his material!!
You ain't seen nothing yet, I assure you.
Intelligent life extinguishes itself because it's based on unintelligent life.
Well at least we don't have to worry about climate change because that's all that science bullshit.
Soros are you in Montreal?
Not sure about Montreal, however, he's spent over 54 million fomenting unrest in ferguson Missuri.
54 Million will get you a whole mess of "grass roots" activists.
It's great to see the upstanding citizen members of the FSA
Besides being the puppet master controlling Obama, don't forget who's behind the conflict in the Ukraine. Search it "Soros Ukraine conflict" online while you still can.
Communists?
They should've used real bullets.
Because taking from the productive element and giving it to losers is a much better system than voluntary free trade that encourages productivity, creativity and growth.....
Fucking morons.....
No the real fucking morons are the ones that believe that free market capitalism ever really existed in the first place.
Agree. And just as ignorant: those who can’t see this charade of bullshit happening to the world right now as the natural outcome of decades of capital accumulation in the West (predominantly US, EU and Japan) = the end game of capitalism itself. All ‘free markets’ (an oxymoron, since a market needs to be enforced – the private ownership of the means of production that the ‘free market’ presupposes needs to be enforced) ends in the capital/power being concentrated in fewer and fewer hand. The end game being what we see now. Big corporations (and unregistered ‘old money’ – the real owners of the current system) taking over and expanding its power.
In another thread I asked one of the ‘Austrian school’-advocates (there’re surprisingly many) to define ‘communism’. The response: communism is equal central planning. Well, big corporations are centrally planned – are they per definition communist? A Monarchy is centrally planned. Are Monarchs communists? Fascist societies are centrally planned – are fascism communist?
Basically, there’re a lot of knowledge on ZH on the current debate of ‘currency devaluation’, ‘fiat vs. gold/silver’, ‘deflation/inflation as the result of QE’ etc. etc. But when it comes to the history of ideologies and the current global opposition against banker occupation they’re clueless.
In most of the world the opposition to the current paradigm is left wing. It’s only in US there’s this weird – and misunderstood – idea of a ‘right-wing’ anarchism. The so-called ‘libertarianism’ (again outside of US libertarianism is associated with the left wing). The sad thing is, that we should be uniting. We all fight the same oligarchs, but with different rationale. Some of us – myself included – fight all forms of concentrated power. Not just the power concentrated in the state – but controlled by private entities = fascism – but also (and currently a bigger issue) the power concentrated in ‘the market’. The banks, big business (the FIRE-sector).
+100 - while i think that capitalism has many valid ways to look at economic behavior between humans...I believe that it's not the end-all/be-all theory that answers all the questions. I'm sure I will get a shit load of down-votes for saying that. But mostly because, it seems, that if one points out ANY flaw whatsoever in capitalism, then it automatically means one must then be an advocate for socialism, facism, or communism, etc... As I have said before, and will probably die saying, NONE of these 'theories' or 'systems' is perfect because humans are imperfect and in ANY system humans will figure out ways to gain an advantage that is technically 'unfair' to their fellow humans. And what may be unfair in one system is fair in another and vice versa.
A monopoly or an oligarchy is a perfect example of a distortion of capitalism whereby those who have been successful in a capitalist system eventually use their economic power to reduce competition in the market so they can retain their position in & power (i.e., advantage) over the system. Socialism/communism cause different types of 'distortions' - they reduce innovation and productivity because they reduce incentive since productivity after a certain point, is shared with those who are less productive.
I realize this is beyond the grasp of many who want things to be black and white, but in complex social systems - especially human civilizations, the idea that one theory is all good, and another is all bad is ludicrous. However, I can pretty much guarantee there a lot of so called 'capitalists' who have done MUCH more damage to capitalism than these kids who are demonstrating - will all the short sellers and derivatives traders please stand up...
"Thousands of students have been boycotting classes to protest against provincial government austerity measures"
You can see this austerity in action here: http://www.iedm.org/27-quebec-debt-clock
http://www.finances.gouv.qc.ca/en/page.asp?sectn=36&contn=335
http://www.fraserinstitute.org/research-news/news/news-releases/Quebec-c...
Debt to GDP of a mere 0.5? I think I see Krugman in that march! Revolutionary student movement my ass. It's just Montreal branch of the Neo-Keysenian equivalent of the Eagle Scouts (or Hitlerjugend).
pretty sure i read quebecs debt is biggest in canada, but with lazy frenchies wanting free shit and bigger gov all the time its hard to be surprised
No prob
I pay
Love, Alberta
Forgot my wallet in the car
Sorry, Ontario
Culling the herd is about the best chance for a better life....how depressing.
Why worry about education costs? I'm sure we'll follow suit soon and just wipe out student debt. Go borrow a million fucking dollars, and don't pay it back. The new future.
Smoke Meat Prices have almost doubled!
I would care except, students are the whiniest cry baby bitches ever (before i was one, when i was one, and still 20 years later) and Montreal
ZH'ers bitch about education debt and then deride people for protesting the increase in cost. Makes perfect fucking sense, you numbskulls.
Look at a debt slave who have maxed out in repaying a fulfilled obligation on a specific due date. We call that shark loans.
CNBC runs a program just to reinforce Venture Capital misbehavior. Let's spin the hands of time back when Obama released a Stimulus program to transform America.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/18/kaiser-family-foundation-2009-grant-to...’s-‘urban-health-initiative’-sparks-more-solyndra-crony-capitalism-questions/
Quebec has always threatened to remove itself from Canada. They always retreat over Canadian taxpayer stimulus infusion. When the well runs dry, they repeat the same fucknob demands to payoff the last loan @ 40% principle with 80% compounded interest obligation spanned within 30 year bond.
We need new money, thought money grew on trees and never had to repay the bill.
/hahahahahahahahaaa
Ya, and I'm the sucker who pays.
Just because I have some ambition to work hard.
What a fool I am.
Looks like the Canadians are celebrating Halloween early this year..
While I support freedom to protest, these people are dangerous if they get into power, they will kill millions through their own stupidity, Mao killed more than Stalin and didn't even try...
Tyler,I am all for web freedom but isn't there some way to put the member history length on the banner?
Seems a lot of three week trolls on Ukraine issues,Putin,Israeli AIPAC stuff.If I want to talk to Langley,NSA
,Mossad,etc.,I will send them an email.This shit gets old.Compare now to three years ago for wit and entertain-
ment value.Guess I will surf somewheres else.....Bugga....
You know YOU'LL be treated like a troll where you surf elsewhere?
This is fight club, if one can't ram one's dialectic through some lame troll, well, too bad - one earned the shame.
Stand on the power of ideas, not on "i joined x weeks ago"
i wish i could do that too.
but ZH croud is still the best and there is no better place to go.
i have nearly stopped looking at all other media.
if it something important, it will be on ZH
Correct. Sure there are these trolls but in one sense that's the joy of ZH. You get all sorts of views, even those of paid hasbaras. Just move on to the next comment.
Just say NO .... to "Brick and Mortarboard" daycare centers .... for socialist retards .... home schooling and internet and ZeroHedge .... if you are serious about learning !
I want more free shit TOO!
Keep the printing up Central Banksters and you'll get a lot more.
With growing desparity between the wealthy and poor and these protest will erupt into violence, like Greece and Egypt.
The classless kleptocrats in the 1% have appropriated all of the disposable income due to the middle class over the last 40 years. People cannot afford to go to university and be saddled with unmanagable debt when they graduate and the students in Quebec are well aware of it, Z/H.
Isn't it amazing that no matter how much money these f*ckers (let's call them the 1%) have they always want more? Once I had made enough to provide for myself and my family - God's truth - I lost all interest in making more money. I truly do not get their mindset. What do they want the money for?
Ironic coming from Monty, its about power and control.
Actually, its about 'elimination' and 'retention' if one is looking at the developmental/biographical historiography of an individual particular cohort of 1%ers. Warren Buffett is a perfect example of a 1%er that is a fat anal money hoarder that has problems with 'elimination'. One can accurately predict Buffett's investment actions based on the fact that Warren Buffett is an anally fixated character that has a pathological need to hoard money that is likely due to the trauma he experienced in terms of toilet training in infancy. Please read _The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness_ by Erich Fromm before attempting to lambaste me for my characterization of the Jabba-the-hut-from-Omaha. Warren Buffett is the most bloated PIG on the slaughtering block and it is high time that we all recognized his greed and anal hoarding behviour IMO.
Rising education costs???? You can send your kid to university for $3000-$5000 a year in Canada. Compare that to $30,000 to $50,000 a year in the US. On the good side the Canadian students are protesting even a modest hike. Dumb American students can't see they are being made into debt slaves forever and halrdly a peep????? Something really wrong here. My Canadian daughter in Europe is applying for a pHD in Austria and will have it paid 100% by the government if she gets in. Where are the riots in the US streets?
I believe students in Quebec pay less tuition as compared to other provinces. Yet they feel the need to riot. Tell them to get a job.
Uhh One thing to note here is that there is no austerity in Canada. People are still buying overpriced homes and german cars on credit. .gov has not figured out yet that $100 oil will not be returning any time soon and we continue to follow the states into that quagmire in Syria, and Iraq. We will get austerity good and hard JUST before you in the states do.
And let us pray that at that point the villagers head for the castle, armed with torches and pitch forks.
What the governmnet giveth, it can taketh away with rubber bullets.
The banksters need to repay us.
The banksters cometh first.
"What the governmnet giveth, it can taketh away"
The foundation concept of the Cloward Piven Strategy.
I am from Quebec and I can tell you the austerity measures are actualy pretty weak.
For exemple: some families will have to pay 8$ a day instead of 7$ so that a governement financed facility can keep their child for a day. Big fucking deal!
It is good to see radical student movement back in Montreal. I hope they will continue proud tradition of struggle for social progress in Canada and continue defending right of ordinary people like students did by supporting FLQ in 1970 against fascist pigs that declared war against peoples of Quebec.
I'm no friend to the left or progressives but this is actually kinda funny...
Police declared the march illegal from the beginning, saying that protest organizers failed to provide local authorities with their itinerary, which is required by the bylaw P-6.
...which is to say, "Dammit, quit protesting your progressive government. Proper leftwing statism involves raising the costs of your free shit! on occassion (it being extracted from the wage slaves) and without your organizers identifying themselves to the state first (so we know where they live and can surveil them later) and getting the proper approvals, permits and fees all paid up in advance, we're going to have to declare this illegal!!! So...um...shut up! Respect owa authoritah!" (Sticks out its collective tongue)
Oh, ok...makes perfect sense...lol.
See, what collectivists actually need is a statist Protest Department where protesters can be properly subsidized by the state and issued annual protest licenses ;-)
OK, you're in the clueless camp - se also my post above.
My guess is, that you see ‘the Obama-administration’ as progressive and/or left-wing?
I don’t need to ask for your definition of ‘left-wing’ or ‘progressive’ to know you’ve no idea. There’s NOTHING left-wing going on in US. Everything going on in the US (EU, Japan and their minions in the third world – all the places being robbed or SAP’ed (same thing)) is done one behalf of or directly by PRIVATE POWER. The money masters. The ownership class – to use a term coined by the left wing. The ownership class of course has an interest in making people believe that the shit going on is done by their potential nemesis (the left wing).
That propaganda has worked in the US. Not in EU. Here we have the same shit going on, but we also has an understanding of history that most US citizen/serfs lack. I don’t know if it’s the McCarthy-area, all the idiotic Hollywood movies, MSM or the “education” system of US that’s to blame. But the result is the same. A lot of moronic cheerleading for ‘the free market’ and a lot of brain-dead bashing of all opposition ‘labeled’ left-wing.
TPTB are smiling and rejoicing their successful divide and conquer strategy at work.
(In my best John Wayne voice...lol) I want you to listen up and listen up good...pilgrim.
You wouldn't know a "free market" if it bit off whats left of your ass. And WTF is the EU anyways, a negotiated central bank currency acceptable to the socialist nations (whoops, excuse me, ceding your sovereignty means you no longer nations) that comprise the "EU"?
What Obama is doing is straight down the line dictatorial "progressive-leftist", from doubling the national debt (pure socialisist-statism, ala Greece) to disregarding any "law" that displeases him (like Maduro or Castro or any leftard) to blatant cronyism with "health care" or Garrreeeeeen! energy (as in George fucking Soros).
If you're sittin around thinkin "progressives" and socialists aren't some of the greediest bastards on the face of the planet and use law to aquire moar you need to see a fiscally conservative shrink who will gladly bill by the hour because he's not greedy.
It'll take five minutes.
George soros payroll strikes again.
Quebecers derserve great respect for having the good sense to refuse conscription to go get their nuts blown off in both WWI and WWII. They have known how demented and corrupt to the core the British empire is far longer than anybody on ZH. Gens du pays...
Get with it millenials! Oh yeah.......they had all their tents burned and their asses beat. That's ok, just don't camp out this time. Hit and run.
So the majority of protestors are for a government that is austere by design, but are protesting austerity, got it.