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The Technocratic Revulsion Begins: Photos And Video As Thousands Of Italians Protest Monti's "Banker" Government
Well that was quick: Italy is about to be acquainted with the old Asian saying that a "known devil is better then unknown angel", especially when the angel is a Prime and Finance minister (two for the austere price of one) working purely on the behalf of offshore banker interests. As Reuters and Corriere report, thousands of Italians took to the streets in several cities on Thursday to protest against what they called a "bankers' government" led by economist Mario Monti, and there were clashes with police. Students in Italy's financial capital Milan threw firecrackers at police trying to prevent them approaching the Bocconi university, which is chaired by Monti and has become a symbol for the new executive of technocrats he has formed to tackle Italy's debt crisis. Police responded by charging the students with batons. One journalist was injured by a firecracker, police sources said. The students also threw eggs and fake dollar banknotes at the building of the Italian banking association. "We don't want the banks to rule" and "Monti's government is not the solution," the students chanted." Well as long as it is only the students who feel this way, all is well. If, however, the anti-Monti sentiment is shared by more, which it is, then the technocratic government will be lucky to survive three weeks... forget 2013. And the greater the revulsion, the bigger the Stockholm Syndrome nostalgia for Berlusconi will be. If we were betting people, we would speculate that Silvio's chances for reelection are soaring with each passing minute.
More from Reuters:
There were also protests in Turin, Rome, Palermo and Bari, with demonstrators targeting universities where some of Monti's ministers used to teach, bank branches and tax offices.
In Turin, clashes broke out between police and thousands of demonstrators including anarchists trying to approach the local headquarters of the Bank of Italy.
Police said several people had been injured, including a policeman. Some of the protesters chanted: "Smell of austerity" and "Monti will all make us beggars."
A collapse of market confidence has pushed Italy to the brink of financial disaster and driven up its borrowing costs to unsustainable levels.
Monti's cabinet is made up of a mix of academic specialists and experienced administrators and includes Corrado Passera, the chief executive of Italy's biggest retail bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, as industry minister.
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mario monti is a bankster cunt....fuck him and the fascist horse he rode in on....i hope the italians do to him what they did to mussolini
Banksters have won... Nothing left to do but kill off the herd.
These OWS idiots haven't a clue ! The Herpes pimple on the Lips of Life is Socialism ! Monedas 2011 Comedy Jihad When will Socialism and Fascism and Communism be flushed down the sewer for ever more ? Until then, we will mud wrestle in our own feces forever !
They threw "fake dollar banknotes".
So that means the regular issue from all countries.
Fuck,even the CEO of Italy's biggest retail bank is in the cabinet,Corrado Passera.
Un fucking Believable.
If there is not protest,then the fucking floride needs to be cut back in the water system.
I guess this is why Gold is getting wacked ,and silver.
Fuck You"s Central Banksters/PPT ....FUCK YOU'S.!!!
It is high time when the citizens of some country stood up against the cartel of bankers and politicians and told them to stuff it.
At least some people in the Eurozone have balls to stand up for their country before their tax revenues and their future country's income is looted by the too big to fail institutions. The best option for the people of Italy or Greece is to default on their loans and let the bondholders pay for making stupid investments.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article24581.html
amarsrhall= a douchebag
Unicredit Bank is nearly bankrupt, the Mafia did a great job!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-17/unicredit-trading-as-junk-with-...
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-17/unicredit-bombshell-shouldn-...
This video needs to be shown to the NYPD and Oakland PD. This will help clear their misconceptions of what a violent protest looks like!
is EXTREMELY difficult even for an italian to understand italian politics. 100% of what is found on media and unfortunately also here is just propaganda from the factions that control the italian media outlets. and i guess, considering the tone of the info, this is not B.
there are good reasons why the banksters government might last.
- italian MP only get a pension after a full term. they will vote any BS to get their rich for-life pension
- now there is an unelected government. any crap they might do will be blamed on unelected bureaucrats. the honor of the political parties will be saved.
however any real reform is out of the questions. these are all state employees from the high chelons of the state machine. any change that might affect the state machine is therefore unthinkable
they will tax the italians to death.
aha, and the story that italians evade taxes on massive scale? is BS. a miserable excuse to justify a bankrupt and inept central state that spends way more than should be possible in order to finance armies of central state slaves, millions of "civil servants", and so on. napoli has 20,000 people working in the garbage collection, versus 2000 in milano.