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Meet The Woman Who Attacked Mario Draghi: In Her Own Words

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The biggest star of today's ECB's press conference was not Mario Draghi but 21-year-old German feminist, Josephine Witt, an ex-Femen activist who jumped on Draghi's desk wearing an "ECB Dick-tatorship", a slogan she repeatedly screamed as she was led away by security guards. She threw paper copies of her demands at Mr Draghi, while showering him with confetti that were created from her finely chopped up manifesto.

 

As Nordea analyst Heidi Schauman wryly observed after the conference: "All those expecting an uneventful ECB press conference were so wrong."

Who is Josephine Witt and what is her message?

According to the Telegraph, "to gain access to the press conference, the ECB said Ms Witt "registered as a journalist for a news organisation she does not represent”. Ms Witt told The Telegraph that she ha d pretended to be working for Vice Media, knowing that they hire many young reporters. The central bank said that it is investigating the incident."

Ms Witt said she would continue to engage in "hardcore activism" in response to what she believed was an "undemocratic" ECB. She added that recent protests in Frankfurt during the opening of the ECB's new offices were a reaction to Mr Draghi's leadership. "[He] never got a mandate, never got voted for or elected," she said.

 

"He imposes policies on these societies that are completely undemocratic," she added. A friend of Ms Witt said she opposes what she describes as “European neo-liberalism”, and argued that the ECB cannot act “without a state of surveillance, of police and violence”.

 

The friend stated that Ms Witt wants “peace and happiness for our lives, for Greece, and for all countries around the Mediterranean sea.” Her aim is to introduce a new political order to replace the European Union, with “democracy, civil rights, solidarity, and no borders”, the friend said.

She criticized the ECB for believing itself to be “master of the universe”, warning that “you will hear our outcries louder, brighter, inside and outside your halls, everywhere, and you shall deserve no rest”. She nicknamed the letters "papillons", in reference to the messages distributed by French resistance fighters during the Second World War. Papillon is French for butterfly.

As can be read in her manifesto (below) she said: “I do not expect this illegitimate institution to hear my voice, neither to understand my message.” Making reference to her "butterflies" she continued: “Today I’m just a butterfly sending you a sentence, but be afraid more are coming.” The activist was dragged from the ECB’s press room and taken to a police station in Frankfurt. She claims she was held for around two-and-a-half hours before being released without charge.

She extensively documented her 15 minutes of fame on Twitter, which as of this moment had a total of only 33 tweets, the first of which is from February 25. The majority detail her intrusion into the Frankfurt bank's inner sanctum as follows:

 

This is her manifesto which she threw at Draghi while dumping confetti on him:

A closer read:

We own our own lives -

and in the face of the overwhelmingly powerful external
environment of the ECB’s monetary police,
sometimes it’s hard to remember.

 

We own our own lives -
and they’re not the chips in the ECB’s gambling game,
not to be played with, not to be sold, not to be devastated.

 

We own our own lives!
-will be the outcry of those who face repression,
when we begin to see our poverty not as personal defeat or unchangeable destiny.

 

ECB,
master of the universe,
I come to remind you that there is no god,
but there are people, behind those lives,
and if you rule instead of serving,
you will hear our outcries louder, brighter, inside and outside your halls, everywhere, and you shall deserve no rest.

 

And while the ECB can only persist in its autocratic hegemony, depending on states of surveillance and police,
finally, the daily violence is enrooted here,
we will find our radical answers
and act with no violence against those human disasters.

 

Because we will not accept the insane narrative that the ECB wants to impose to all people wherein even freedom of speech and dignity can be sold to the bank in order to survive. Persisting in its arrogance against the people, the ECB increases perilously its own debt to them. A press conference is not enough to call it "democracy".
I do not expect this illegitimate institution to hear my voice, neither to understand my message,
it would be too much to ask,
but I know for a fact that a lot of people do understand very well the matter.
Today I'm just a butterfly sending you a sentence, but be afraid more are coming. We will take back the power over our own lives.
The ECB’s debt is not yet paid.

Surprisingly coherent for a 21 year old.

At the end of the day one Mario Draghi was surely delighted that what the protester rained upon him today was soft and does not cause bodily harm. One can only hope confetti is the only thing that ever rains down on Draghi and other unelected central planners.

 

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Thu, 04/16/2015 - 04:46 | 5997950 Monty Burns
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I wonder if there were twins would they be half-Witts?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 11:43 | 5998908 Charming Anarchist
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twitts

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 05:57 | 5997993 Prober
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I asked my psychiatrist friend about the motivations of your relentless anti-jew rants on EVERY subject, for you EVERYTHING is about jews, whom you see in every shadow, behind every issue.

He said you are motivated by either one or both of 2 drivers:

1. You are an islamic cult worshiper, most likely an arab subhuman primitive, and your self-image has been permanently destroyed by having been repeated defeated by the israelis (jews), resulting in you having an uncontrollable fear, resentment and envy of jews.

2. You had a homosexual relationship with a jew in which you took a big jewish dick deep down your throat and afterwards you struggle with humiliation and regret.

In all cases you struggle to maintain a stable identity and self-image instead the inferior that you know you are, so you masquerade as an english person, whom you wish you were instead of a primitive defective islamic cult worshiping defective, and assume an englishman's name to hide your shame in your islamic-arab moniker.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 06:31 | 5998017 WAMO556
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Invective much??

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:29 | 5998380 Prober
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quid pro quo

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 10:27 | 5998617 tony wilson and...
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was he jewish?

this psycho guy

you talked 2

about me.

has your doctor syco guy ever raped young boys

your name is prober and you have jewish freudian friend who probably rapes boys

nice one moshe

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 01:29 | 5997780 Peter Pan
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This girl will eventually marry a banker.

Mark my words.

After a while girls like this one still wants the highs without having to climb the desk.

If she can continue to fight Draghi et al, then God bless her.

Best plumbers crack I have seen at a news conference.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 01:29 | 5997781 pcrs
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Violently imposing neo liberal

where liberal stand for liberty.

She also want more democracy which is the imposition of the will of the majority on the minority 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 01:42 | 5997792 Johnny Websters
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< "Her aim is to introduce a new political order to replace the European Union, with “democracy, civil rights, solidarity, and no borders”, the friend said.> Who was her "friend", George Soros?

Having said that the look of panic on Draghis face was priceless, so kudos to her for that!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 01:42 | 5997794 Atomizer
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Feminist cunt loving for a day after pill to sue her husband and collect the insurance policy. We call them black widow's  

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 01:45 | 5997796 wildsilver
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Josephine for president!

Big ups to you Ms Witt, risking all to show the world what courage and conviction are about.

As for the know it all posters here, banging on about change 'till their fingers get tired, shame on you.

This woman just beat you all, hands down, no contest.

You, with your comments focused on the distraction of her looks and clothes, obedient little clones that you are, it's no wonder we're getting screwed over on a daily basis.

Proves you're all show and no go limp dicks after all.

Change starts with the self, and dudes, you're not even in the quals, let alone the race.

 

 

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:08 | 5998304 Bumbu Sauce
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fucking hilarious.  This idiot whore is READY FOR HILLARY!  A stupid stunt from an idiot leftist and you cunts here at ZH lose your fucking minds over her.

You all deserve to starve on your way to freezing to death.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 01:55 | 5997809 Atomizer
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Mrs Atomizer is a score. The same A type personally as me. We fucking lecture each other daily. I'am Richard and she is Hyacinth. It's the best marriage I've ever had. I love her dearly, not kidding. Ten years ago, I thought it was bootcamp. Turned into a better husband  Mrs Atomizer is a gem. She even let's me blog on Zerohege. 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 01:55 | 5997810 Sandmann
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Draghi displayed absolutely no physical courage.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 01:56 | 5997811 nah
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The US is powerful in part because of a unified currency run by people focused on value

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they may be selfishly bound to banks and enormous corporations

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but it is a deeply liquid resource serving TPTB

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even with US healthcare we are not bankrupt

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 02:08 | 5997828 juicy_bananas
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I bet that smells like fish.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 02:13 | 5997833 Debugas
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how to fight ECB - keep your savings in something else but not euros, avoid paying taxes as much as you can

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 03:04 | 5997872 Sanity Bear
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Stupid bitch wore sensible shoes instead of spiked heels. I was so looking forward to a "Draghi crush" video

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 03:24 | 5997890 joego1
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She had to jump up on the table, she wore her hurdling shoes.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 03:19 | 5997883 lemarche
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OH IT WAS NOT FEMEN.. SO THAT S WHY SHE DID NOT SHOW US HER BOOBS !! :(( PITY.. SHE S KIND OF CUTE, APART FROM BEING NUTS, THAT IS LoL

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 03:22 | 5997889 joego1
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She has me excited

I want to Dick tater

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 03:33 | 5997897 Soul Glow
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This is the most brilliant thing anyone has done in a long time. 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 03:43 | 5997902 escapeefromOZ
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Confetti for a buffoon , very appropriate . After a couple of years after Island decided not to make the population pay for the debts of the criminal banks , the IMF agreed that Iceland made the right decision . Only a few day ago here at ZH there was article on a study that proved that austerity and " economic reform " are useless . But the idiots in charge of the EU and the USA don't read ZH and ignore the signs of discontent . Who said " making impossible peaceful revolution , makes possible violent revolution " ? There is a message for the idiots from the EU and the traitors such as Merkel , Holland , Renzi and others , revolution is coming .......despite the police state , the secret police everywhere , the reading of our emails and snail post .

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 04:13 | 5997922 q99x2
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Calling Bonzai7 for a field day.

There's a 21 year old German gal in one of my classes. Strong personalities they have.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 04:22 | 5997930 HowdyDoody
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Another FEMEN member demonstrated solidarity with the Nazis who torched the Trades Union house in Odessa last year, murdering about 50 people mostly women and children. A pregnant women inside was raped before being strangled. I suppose FEMEN supported the rights of women and children to be murdered alongside men.

http://russia-insider.com/sites/insider/files/femen-leader-ievgeniia-kra...

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 11:07 | 5998760 Vullsain
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Give her a break, she probably thought only men were being murdered.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 04:29 | 5997936 Forked Tongue Fella
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Typical technocrat pussy....Draghi was shitting himself.

 

the fear and was in his eyes

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 04:45 | 5997949 anonymice
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Thank you, young lady. There's still hope. 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 04:47 | 5997951 Calculus99
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The reason she was released quickly and without charge is because Europeans aren't that facist (yet) compared to the Police/thugs and the justice dept in the US. 

In the US she'd probably be looking at some scary domestic terrorist charge and then 2-5 years solitary.

Not saying Europe is better but right now it's clearly less thuggish than the US. 

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 05:00 | 5997963 BoPeople
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Or the NGO that hired her for the stunt had conspired with the ECB for some reason that is not yet apparent... possibly as simple as creating division and distraction.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 04:50 | 5997956 Monty Burns
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With a crack like that I wouldn't mind being at my Witt's end.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 04:58 | 5997960 BoPeople
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Get back Jo Jo.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 05:10 | 5997971 walcott
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thong and nice ass 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 05:27 | 5997977 brucyy
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While it's certainly funny to see dragui pissing his pant , i have concerns. 

1) this little stunt will only achieve one thing : Fat , weaponized security with ultra restricted access for all ecb members and buildings

2)She's a 21 year old kid with a feminist background previously known for showing her tits in front of a fucking church. I have concerns that for the rest of the world oustide zerohedge, she has zero credibility , zero political leverage  , sub zero economic litteracy , and the whole thing just provides entertainment value .. despite the seriousness of the situation , regarding central banking policies .. I feel that her show could impede any future legitimate protests by actually educated protestors . Make no mistake , her little speech was not made by her own thinking. It's pretty much all over the internet , you just have to read a few blogs.

And that scares me . Any future attempt by individuals to bring out price discovery , failed keynesian policies , overinflated assets prices and negative interest rates to the power that be will be treated as a marxist-terrorist-enemy of the state-scumbag and thrown in jail

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 05:35 | 5997989 Prober
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"showing her tits in front of a fucking church"

What are you asserting is so negative about tits and the front of fucking churches - is it the church that is negative or the tits ????

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 05:49 | 5997995 brucyy
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Tits are always good news . and i personally don't give a crap about religion. i guess my point was , if you want to destroy a freaking central bank , you need to sit , have allies , think for a very long time  and be prepared. Showing your tits in public will work against you.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 06:01 | 5997999 Ghordius
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in short, she would have to articulate an alternative monetary policy, and for that you need a political movement, not the actions of an individual

"this little stunt will only achieve one thing : Fat , weaponized security with ultra restricted access for all ecb members and buildings"

I don't think so. this incident does not mean there is a need for more security. nobody was hurt. and this incident is way less politically relevant then the recent demonstrations around that ECB Tower, just lately

this incident is just more palatable to those who have been indoctrinated that individual action is better then collective political movements, policies, constitutions, etc.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 06:29 | 5998016 brucyy
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I'm all for individual action , but in that case , i agree that any action against this madness can only be made by consensus between intelligent and reasonable individuals ... In the case of the eurozone , i believe sovereign entities should be the only one with the power and the moral obligation to create their own money supply.  It's really that simple. Money creation by unelected ,  private entities is high treason against the people , and people , will probably come to realize it.

I only hope the outcome will be the right one , i fear populism.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 06:59 | 5998034 Ghordius
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"i believe sovereign entities should be the only one with the power and the moral obligation to create their own money supply"

fine, but does this sovereign power cease when the same sovereign entities share that power by treaty?

"Money creation by unelected, private entities..."

first, credit creation is not done by modern central banks. That's the commercial banks, in national banking systems with a national bank overseeing them by law

second, not even one of the eurozone countries had ever elected national bankers. they still are appointed by the elected parliaments

third, we usually talk about National Banks, in the eurozone, because they are not private entities. They usually either belong fully to the State or are under a very strict special law that amounts to the same, i.e. not private in the usual sense of the word

fourth, those very National Banks are still there. A very good example would be the Banque de France. Which issues two currencies, for a dozen of countries. And could, as all our NCBs, issue anytime another one for French national purposes, in the same way as the Greek National Bank could anytime issue Drachmas... if it gets permission to do that by the...

... here it comes... Greek Parliament. The elected Greek Parliament

and there it is, again. Parliamentarism. some 99.9% of criticism of the ECB, the EUR, the EU, etc. etc. is based on criticism of the Parliamentary System, which is criticism of our constitutions

often, in a populistic manner. i.e. in manners that are shallow and superficial

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 07:40 | 5998105 brucyy
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Thanks Ghordius , most interesting 

May i take more of your time ?

If it all comes down to the democratically elected (sort of) parliament , and if each sovereign countries in eurozone do have the power to issue euros for their own national interest , but can't/won't do so under EU law , does it mean that under EU constitution,  ecb governing council has more control over monetary policies than all said individual elected parliaments ? Of course NCBs are still there , arent they mostly irrelevant within the EEU constitution ?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 07:55 | 5998122 Ghordius
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brucyy, careful there. The EUR is the "product" of the ECB. Which is something like a synthetic currency, then each EUR is, if you want, made of French Francs, Italian Liras, German Marks, etc.

so no, the member countries don't make monetary policy, that's the whole point, it's a shared, common monetary policy.

further, we do not have an EU constitution. Everything "EU" is based on treaties among the EU partners, i.e. sovereign countries.

The NCBs irrelevant? Note one little detail that spoils completely this concept: when the ECB Council decided on our fabled current Q€, they also decided that 80% of that would be done by... the NCBs

further, who votes in the ECB Council? Well, it's the National Bank Governors of the member countries. Which, in turn, are appointed by the National Parliaments

are you familiar with the political concept of Confederation?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:06 | 5998136 overmedicatedun...
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Ghordius, seperate countries small like monoco or lichtenstein..seem to have good quality of life and little public demonstrations ..that is the model for the world ..here in Amerika we need to de fang DC and break up the union into multiple smaller nation states..the future if it is to be human, we must pull back from NWO globalism of which the EU is part.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:18 | 5998163 anonymice
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I think the EU was doing just fine, until the Brits joined and wanted to turn the whole thing from political cooperation amongst countries into a free market show.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:03 | 5998287 Ghordius
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overmed, careful, there

Monaco, for example, is no democracy. If you demonstrate there, the Prince might just deport you out of the country

Is the EU really part of the "NWO Globalism"? because from the point of view of the globalists, it's a damn protectionist racket, hitting on innocent megaBiz like MicroSoft and Google, for example

remember that the smaller, the more countries of the EU prefer to be in the EU instead of out

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:25 | 5998362 overmedicatedun...
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Ghordius, good points, when i posted smaller is better, i was posting from pov of scale..the scale of the EU and modern Amerika, is just too large for humans to live well and in safety..city states run well would be the goal - humans lose so much when part of gigantic distant detached megaliths ..the FED cannot run economic policy for both NYC and Omaha..both suffer. 300 mil amerikans - we just got too big..DC now becomes the center of the universe.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:29 | 6000402 Benjamin123
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These are not real countries. These are playgrounds for the elite. The elites are scarce by definition, you cant turn every country into a hundred monacos.

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Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:37 | 5998417 Bemused Observer
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It's not an either/or. Individual actions, even though they are more theatric than effective, ARE nonetheless useful. They often get the attention of those who have something simmering. Once their attention is caught, they start thinking on things...
The biggest organized groups on the planet are made up of individuals who joined up because they got to 'thinking on things'...

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:46 | 5998229 commoncourtesy
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"this little stunt will only achieve one thing : Fat , weaponized security with ultra restricted access for all ecb members and buildings"

I really hope so!

Let them build their own prisons, preferably underground where they can WORM their way through life. It cannot feel great having to have armed, protection officers around you all the time, worried sick that you could be attacked anywhere. Let them live in their fish-bowls. I hope thay always feel nervous as though everyone else is as messed-up, untrustworthy, dishonest and as evil as they are. I hope they cannot express a single word or thought without being worried they will be overheard.

Would anyone want a single one of these psychopaths as friends?

I like the thought that I can at least 'feel' free and as much as possible stay out of their horrendous system.

The best things in life really are free.

I have faith in the fact that Mother Nature always takes-back what she gives.  

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:04 | 5998293 Ghordius
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pardon me, I put my comment in the wrong place, above

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 06:34 | 5998020 SmedleyButlersGhost
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The most compelling argument to my going to church ..... no wait, a strip club will do

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 06:39 | 5998023 SmedleyButlersGhost
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"..... and no borders..". so she doesn't believe in sovereignty. She has more in common with the bankers than not  Show the tits and move on please   if she is related to the Olympic skater Katrina Witt - please include her in the protest. She was awesome.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:45 | 5998241 SirBarksAlot
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Yes, Brucyy, because your pompous comments on this website are doing so much more than Ms. Witt's actions. 

Thanks so much for your contribution.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:21 | 5998346 brucyy
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I just expressed my very little opinion. Wasnt trying to be pompus and/or right by any measures

Sorry if it appeared that way to anyone

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:30 | 5998386 Bemused Observer
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About number 1, if after all this time they don't already HAVE that, then it isn't available. Seriously, you don't think these guys have security? The big point here is that NO security cordon is airtight. No one should ever consider themselves untouchable.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 05:21 | 5997984 StychoKiller
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Presented for your consideration:  One Mr. Draghi who's soon to learn that sheer terror doesn't just happen once, but will become continuous -- in The Twilight Zone (dun dun duun!)

He better be glad it was just confetti, and not Nitric acid!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:25 | 5998364 Bemused Observer
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He would do well to remember that it COULD have been something like nitric acid, and she got THAT close despite security...

They'd ALL do well to remember that.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:44 | 6000453 Benjamin123
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I have stood meters away from quite a few important persons in my life... Their security is a fiction. Often i wondered if the security i see is just a cover and they are actually protected by totally different systems.

Telepaths perhaps? Perhaps their telepaths can scan an area and determine it to be safe in advance of the useless bodyguards?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 05:22 | 5997986 no more banksters
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long live Josephine!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 06:20 | 5998004 Atomizer
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Good moring motherfucker's, Nuland goes Tranny. Thought you'd enjoy. 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:07 | 5998140 Mi Naem
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Funny and sad how the Tylers indiscriminately wipe out large blocks of comments yesterday for no apparent reason and no explanation whatsoever, and terminate some thoughtful but provocative commenters' accounts.  Yet amateurish self-sucking trolls like you, ShitgumSuicide, and other IDs continue to post here unmolested by those with the power to make a constructive difference. I'm sure it's just an accident. 

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 06:14 | 5998005 macroeconomist
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The sickness of some of the commenters on zerohedge is simply astonishing. Everything is a conspiracy, everything is staged up to give false hopes to the sheeple, every protester is in fact hired by bankers...

Syriza and Varoufakis: Banker-owned

Canadian protesting students : Hired by bankers

This brave woman: Set up by bankers (some even claimed she may be mentally deranged and five people voted that up)

 

I could go on and on. And what have these tough boys ever done to change something while they have been calling everyone else the sheeple? They bought gold!

Fucking retards.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 06:29 | 5998015 Atomizer
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They prey on PC . Fuck these cunts. We will bitch slap them everyday, 24/7.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 06:54 | 5998018 falak pema
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Lol, well said.

But what will you with people that believe they have an inherent right to benefit from a hegemonic monetary/financial order and play the casino to earn their living, knowing like the money changers they be,  that in addition to this delusionary state of Hubris they be false noses as they do kneel to the existing $$$ order (as this young and bright woman makes very clear in her manifest against its surrogate sister the Euro, it (the dictatorship) applies also to the greenback hegemony, like master and slave in the current financial order of things of Bankstas and political cronies).

And in this cacaphonial forum all the so called libertarians decry anybody who laughs at their pretence of lauding Market's God's INVISIbLE Hand, as they like to THINK their own false noses are not Pinocchio's farcical appendage but some awesome face job done by a Von Mises and/or John Galt beauty specialist whose free market skills are superior to the political power/order of things. 

When plastic surgery meets its Nemesis, the meltdown is one awesome spectacle !

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 06:58 | 5998042 brucyy
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Well , if i had to go for facial surgery , i'd rather give the scalpel to von mises a thousand times , before giving it to any "socially inclined" politicians subsidizing rotten banks all over the place.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 07:23 | 5998071 falak pema
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Hayek and Friedman inspired the neo-liberal financial revolution of Reagan and Thatcher.

This current Pax Americana cum Britain City colony is their baby, planned and delivered to their sons : the Tony Blairs and Clinton/GWB of this world (now Obama as well).

So you got what you wanted but didn't know that Hayek and Friedman/Greenspan were the shamans who inspired the WS steroid fed financialista bonanza! 

"Rotten banks" are those same that Maggy has gone down in History as saying : I would rather trust a banker with my money than a bureaucrat of government. hahaha !

As for Ronnie he only believed that "free enterprise" was what saved the world not the state (the problem); all the while he represented Government working for the Oligarchs of his age (MIC/OIL). No checks and balances and with GWB we went whole hog into Patriot Act protecting even the Arab Oligarchs who believed that their wealth was God given and "off with your head" if you disagreed! 

So now we have Google/Apple/Amazon to show us the way  and that way is : You do it Our way or its the highway! Welcome to the clickomaniacal world. 

Monomaniacal world was what Hitler/Mussolini/Stalin invented that now Pax Americana propagates as a new version of its world order based on financial and military hegemony. 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:00 | 5998131 brucyy
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No offence but , i've been in france for the last 9 years , and all i ever see , read , watch , is about the neoliberalism of reagan , tatcher , the anglo-saxon evil axis.

The reagan tatcher relationship was more than 30 years ago . That's more than enough time to reverse policies if one truly whishes. How many more governments is it gonna take to start shifting the blame to present days and take responsability ? 30 ? 100's ?

By the way , i wouldnt give my cash to a banker , but certainly not to a government bureaucrats , either.

The rest doesnt really matter anymore . I have my own little business , and just trying to survive the daily state assaults.

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:11 | 5998147 Ghordius
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+1 bless you, brucyy, small business owners in France are truly under a triple assault, factually and potentially:

- from the extreme liberal policies spawned by the "Anglo-Saxon Axis of Evil", which favour Big Biz, particularly Multinational Big Biz, over all else

- from the extreme socialist policies spawned in France itself, which again favour Big Biz, particularly because our dear european socialists can squeeze more perks out of the big ones

- from the extreme nationalist/conservative policies (see our dear Marine Le Pen), which favour Dirigisme, and National Interest Industrial Policies, which again favour... you got it: Big Biz

there is only one political stance which is truly for Small Biz: centrism. The Political Middle of the Three. The "Please No Radical Solutions" Moderate Center

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:04 | 5998292 Imagery
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As an entreprenuer / small biz guy (Oil Biz) in US, I can tell you first-hand ALL my peers have had to go work elsewhere.  This US Shale Boom was nothing more than another TBTF WS PONZI.  It is dead and not coming back.  Once again, the US Troika (Gov+TBTF WS Banks+MIC) are trying to kill the small biz guy to faciilitate the easty-to-control Crony Capitalists like Immelt (GE) etal.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:26 | 5998184 falak pema
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As a man who ran a small business for 15 years (after having served the Oil Oligarchy in their global mayhem for a similar span (oh the idealism of youth when you think you serve "progress"))... I agree with everything that Ghordius and you say about the small business man in France and in first world to a lesser or greater extent depending on country.

But... we are talking about global problems and that legacy of Imperial plays; in our age Pax Americana, as before WW1/WW2 it was the age of Rule Britannia; and THAT beast of predatory hunger casts a LONG SHADOW for generations. 

The rest does matter for the new generation as this girl in the video and for all the hungry and unwashed who serve as ping pongs in the mad games these empires play. 

"One truly wishes"... is a pipedream that is always written, alas in blood. As we see in these asymmetric wars since last 50 years that don't concern the good people of first world (who bled in the WW1/WW2 period and should therefore be innoculated against spreading it to others which is as much a truism as is "human rights"), as they are cushioned by the NWO as its prime consumers and beneficiaries (for how long?).

What we are seeing today is the "consumer" model is now killing the "citizen" model of the first world and THAT is an awesome regression that our new generations face.  

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 07:23 | 5998075 gwar5
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Not to worry, the necronomy is fine.

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 07:56 | 5998123 Niall Of The Ni...
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We're all riding this tiger. It's much bigger than us and I'm not counting on getting off alive. Given that none of us here have a nuclear weapon nobody in power much cares what we think.

Thinking it openly would get us blacklisted from employment and ostracized from polite society---if we were very, very lucky.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:32 | 5998204 SirBarksAlot
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You need to find your feet outside the system. 

It takes time, but you can do it.

They're moving your cheese anyhow.  Follow the cheese and get out while you can.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 06:19 | 5998007 Atomizer
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A down vote means that you're a sexually fusterated liberal who need's a drone to keep a monthly government paycheck.   

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 07:20 | 5998070 gwar5
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Free the Thongs. Now.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:31 | 5998078 InsanityIsWinning
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She can dance on my desk anytime . . . .

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 07:33 | 5998095 Shitgum Suicide
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I'd like to run a bead of caulk through that crack!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 07:33 | 5998096 simjojim
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He thought she was a Zero Hedge stacker.

http://s18.postimg.org/dahl8xcl5/draghi1.jpg

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 07:41 | 5998106 Catullus
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Democracy. Ha. It's another democracy religion nut job who can't see what a farce it is.

If you own yourself, you don't need other to vote to agree with you. Just be free.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:14 | 6000343 Benjamin123
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Free people are dead people. To survive you need armies to protect your property and security, against criminals and enemy armies. Free people lack common defense, are weak and easy to kill. Just ask any indian in the americas.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 07:41 | 5998107 the6thBook
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Surprisingly coherent for a 21 year old?  Seemed like ramblings...  Abolish all borders in Europe and set up a central "democracy"... Do the people of Europe get a vote in disolving their borders???  I'm pretty sure Greece does not want to be part of Germany.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:11 | 6000330 Benjamin123
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Greece does not have a mind. But im sure most greeks are in love with the EU concept of open borders and a common currency. They would be more than glad to give up sovereignity and turn greece into some province of the EU super state if that would ensure their prosperity.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 07:41 | 5998109 flyonmywall
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Jumping on people's desk at some conference may be the beginning of something good.

Throw in a nice pair of tits, and a thong, and some people may actually wake up. The odds however, are not good. Next time, bring a few AK47s and some hollowpoints. Tits and ass are fine for a little bit, but real blood is more convincing.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:09 | 5998143 Crazed Smoker
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Studies on gender bias show women vote in left-center governments versus men who vote in right-center governments.  Money running out to feed collapsing ponzi while overlord paymasters demands payments threatens to negatively affects feminists gender biased left wing big daddy government.   Uh - oh.  No worries.  Studies also show men get 60% harsher sentences for exact same crimes  - so she has pussy pass.  

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:06 | 6000311 Benjamin123
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You cant judge lesser creatures by human standards. It would be ridiculous, like calling the cops on a cat that bit you or getting upset about africans or arabs killing each other. Its just a nature thing. Anger is reserved for human foes only!

If a cat tortures and kill a mouse, people smile at the silly kitty. If a person tortures and kills a mouse he gets called out as a psycho and attacked or insulted. If thousands of niggers get shot in Egypt while crossing to Israel, no one cares. If the surviving niggers get sent to jail (concentration camp?) when caught in Israel, everyone freaks out. Its different when actual people do the deed!

That is the nature and origin of the double standards everyone complains about nowdays. The fucking double standards, you cant judge everyone with the same set of rules despite what the laws say.

Bottom line, women will be women.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:11 | 5998146 gmak
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So now we just need some pretentious elite to utter the words "Let them eat confetti"... Then maybe someone will unleash a little mythical realm of evil and suffering. Unfortunately, the human species seems to need to experience a degree of calorie reduction or starvation for this to happen.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:14 | 5998154 hot sauce technician
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False flag.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:27 | 5998188 SirBarksAlot
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I see the bankers are posting this morning.

Pitiful.  Really.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:30 | 5998198 Downtoolong
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Her two handfuls of paper confetti and letters are no match for the mountains of paper money he’s throwing at her.

Good try though. We should have an incident like this everyday. I love the ass crack in photo #1. If I ever get to this point, I’ll show him all of mine.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:34 | 5998208 22winmag
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A star is born.

 

She will get a book deal in return for her crimes, just like Benny and Billary.

 

Billary, there is another feminist for you.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:34 | 5998210 CitizenPete
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If she had done this in the US with the Bernank or Mother Goose, she would have been labeled a "terrorist", and you would never see her again. She would trade in her thong and flats for an orange jump suit, granny underwear and velcro sneakers, while being "accomidated" at Gitmo. Just think : if a piece of confetti got in his eye, he could have gone blind by a thousand paper cuts. Too bad she wasn't just 1 of 20 "attackers" -- even though it was a misguided fiscal union (read: one world government) manifesto -- the presstitutes love this sort of drama and the frustration of citizens gets heard. Reminiscent of the W. Bush shoe dodge, another little protest event which might have foretold the smell of future events in Iraq.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 08:58 | 5998270 RougeUnderwriter
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It is a Shmetah year and yesterday was a Blood moon - get your spiritual house in order.

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:07 | 5998288 Loup Kib
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Clithori-Torship.  Femen-Horseshit.  People applaud.  People are asses.  Obviously, QI is diminishing constantly since 1950 :  https://electrodes.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/iq__world_iq_level_dimini...

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:05 | 5998296 mikeyy266
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All of you Americans should be ashamed of yourself. You need to turn off your TV and Facebook and do something about this. Grow some balls, and take back your country. And to Tyler...all of us here know the problems. We appreciate your work in bringing them to our attention. You have tens of thousands of followers. You need to use this database to start implimenting solutions. Publishing articles is great, but it won't change anything. You need to start a political party. You have the followers to support you. 

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:10 | 5998310 Bumbu Sauce
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Do something about leftist whores feigning attacks on the European Central Bank?

What a queer cunt you are.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:17 | 5998330 Mi Naem
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"And to Tyler.... You have the followers to support you.

Bullshit.  This place is an interesting aggregator of news and "analysis" you won't likely find in one place elsewhere, but that's it. 

Their agenda is nihilistic and cynical, and what they have built here is a mere wrecking ball.  I don't think they could build something constructive if they wanted to.  If you would follow that, then I suggest you step back and figure out where you really want to go. 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:27 | 5998336 exartizo
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LIGHT INTRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

Fly On The Wall Productions

A short discussion between Mario Draghi and his security detail prior to the ECB meeting on April 15, 2015

Security: Mario, there’s been a slight adjustment to our agenda this morning

Draghi: Oh not another one. It’s those fucking Greeks right?

Security: No Mario. I’m afraid it’s a little bit lighter than that.

Draghi: Ok, out with it man.

Security: Well it appears the daughter of a rich French tycoon wants to raise a little hell for her pet cause.

Draghi: Meaning?

Security: Meaning you’re the Dictator D’Jour

Draghi: Great. What does she want to do?

Security: Just a little confetti. The chick’s name is Josephine Witt. She’ll jump up onto the table wear a daring t-shirt, and expose herself a little physically on camera for future potential boyfriends. She’ll smile pretty for the camera as we drag her off and then we’ll let her go a few hours later.

Draghi: Ok. Just make sure she doesn’t trip and fall. Geez. I really need my own TV show.

Security: Hey, if you’re serious about that boss just let the higher ups know.

Draghi: I really need a cushy private sector gig like the one Bernanke's getting with Citadel.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:20 | 5998339 Brokenarrow
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One day someone will show up not wearing a thong. They will be dying from cancer and have nothing to lose. They will be wearing a draw holster like the pigs wear. I will giddy and happy.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:22 | 5998348 Toolshed
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"One can only hope confetti is the only thing that ever rains down on Draghi and other unelected central planners."

Who is ths fucker named One, and where can he be found?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:29 | 5998381 large_wooden_badger
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I'd hit it, is that misogynist?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:45 | 5998448 Counterpunch
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More interesting us the decline and fall if vice news from alternative investigative media to typical MSM Corporate/Jewish ( lets be honest ) media narratives using young reporters and an informal style.

After watching Cenk Uigher on TYT gnash his teeth and rend his garmwnts 20 minutes after the story of the fake anti-Jewish flyers in E Ukraine broke (and broke everywhere -traced back to the NY ADL...Rumor has it) - I realized that anytime alternative media is big enough to challenge the msm it will be compromised or failing that, as witg RT, an army of paid propagandists sent out to declare that its just a propaganda outlet.

Speaking of which - you know all the news media coverage of the shot down airliner? Yeah Putin's fault? Months later... why not a shred of evidence for those claims?

you get the most flak over the target.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 09:48 | 5998457 Counterpunch
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Id take FEMEN more seriously if they didnt tend to have such small tits.

 

Good for this lass shes cute.   as Daniel Tosh put it...being an ugly chick is like being a man... youre gonna have to work.

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 10:13 | 5998551 troubledasset
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Wow, Josephine looks like my wife. That's crazy.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 10:20 | 5998585 scatha
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We own our own lives!

What a radical idea in 21st century!!!

 

We need radical activist, peaceful like her or not. We all should realize that global bankster’s mafia are themselves extremists and radicals in their sick plans and implementations that can only be characterized as paranoid delusions.

 

We should support any radical movements no matter whether we agree with them or not because only then banksters, threatened by radicalism that mirror viciousness of their own, will have to listen to our voices of sanity.

Look at those ECB clowns in the pictures. I say no political but medical intervention is needed here, they are all INSANE.

All those financial oligarch elites prey on us mostly because our ambivalent attitude to money and financial systems. We ponder: is it good or evil? Can it be fixed or not?

An interesting, radical take on money and financial system and what to do with it, I found at:

 

https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/plutus-and-the-myth-o...

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 10:31 | 5998629 Johnny_is_alrea...
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TITS or GTFO

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 11:38 | 5998877 Charming Anarchist
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Yup.  I can not think of any 21 year old who is aware of any issues she raised.  Heck, I do not know any 21 year old who gives a damn about any of these issues.  The type of thing that makes you go hmmmm.....

 

<<Surprisingly coherent for a 21 year old.>> 

She connects a lot of dots but surprisingly omits others.  Hmmmm....... Which dots did she omit??

On second reading, it looks like she copy-pasted ZHmember comments.  Whoever wrote her script is a clever rascal. 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 13:11 | 5999303 Shirley Swanepoel
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It took a girl. Hopefully boys will follow now.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 17:39 | 6000434 Benjamin123
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Once again the freedom loving libertarian zerohedgers jump to the defense of the imaginary lines on a map defining their corrals. The same zerohedgers that defend an universal currency, gold, vow to defend irrational national currencies.

Call for revolution, mock the revolutionaries. Mock their methods, accuse them of secretely working with the enemy.

Rise your fists against the police state, giggle when potentially violent niggers get shot 47 times.

Oppose the state interfering with private business. Call for the state to bust private worker associations, with troops one may presume.

Support free markets and meritocracy. Support closed borders and the protection of your nation.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:39 | 6001577 cn13
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The butterfly analogy will go down in history.

Don't dismiss this as just another clown act.

This is the real deal.  Anarchy will come from the EU and spread elsewhere.

It is now time for our supposed "leaders" to face justice. 

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 21:21 | 6005238 walküre
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Josephine, I follow you on twitter and see that you have linked to ZH. That's some good exposure for you. Maybe you read this here.

https://twitter.com/josephine_witt

You are a beautiful and courageous woman and your activism will serve us as a wonderful example in raising our 12 y/o daughter. 

She already has her own idealism and some political convictions. I'm sure she will be inspired by your actions when she learns that you are one of the few out there exposing the machine which controls our lives.

You will make enemies along the way. This game of currency and faith is much too big and too important to the elite to let anyone just take it away from them. Their control and power rests on our compliance and stupidity in accepting the confetti they print at will. Many legions of state funded servants will lie, cheat and steal to protect the elite. Many are dependent on the machine and will not want to bite the hand that feeds them. Few are awake and willing to protect or support you.

Be careful and stay safe!

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!