[Dawn] Protesters set fire to a government building, torched cars and smashed bank windows in Rome on Saturday in the worst violence of worldwide demonstrations against corporate greed and government cutbacks.
Tens of thousands erupted into the streets of the Italian capital for a march that turned violent and equal numbers rallied in Madrid and Lisbon while Wikileaks founder Julian Assange joined angry demonstrators in London.
The protests were inspired by the "Occupy Wall Street" movement in the United States and the "Indignants" in Spain, targeting 951 cities in 82 countries across the planet in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas.
It was the biggest show of power yet by a movement born on May 15 when a rally in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square sparked a worldwide movement.
Anger over unemployment and opposition to the financial elite hung over the protests, which coincided with a Gay Paree meeting of G20 financial powers preoccupied by the eurozone debt crisis.
In Rome, the march degenerated into running street battles between groups of hooded protesters and riot police who fired tear gas and water jets into the crowd.
Security forces locked down the centre of the Italian capital and closed metro stations and major monuments including the Colosseum and the Roman Forum.
"Today is only the beginning. We hope to move forward with a global movement. There are many of us and we want the same things," said one protester, Andrea Muraro, a 24-year-old engineering student from Padua.
"Only One Solution: Revolution!" read one placard at the protest. Another said: "We Are Not Assets in the Hands of Bankers!" One group carried a cardboard coffin with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ...current Italian prime minister, known for his plain (for a European politician) speaking and his liking for hookers a third his age or less... name on it.
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no previous generation was sufficiently dumbed down for this to happen. the idiocy being spouted by these protesters and those who support them is mind boggling.
there has been a serious lack of selection on the species of late. seems that the stupid gene is exploding
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Protesters set fire to a government building, torched and carBQ'd cars and smashed bank windows in Rome on Saturday in the worst violence of worldwide demonstrations against corporate greed and government cutbacks.
Mostly "gov't cutbacks." Pattern developing in 5,4,3,2......
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Gr(o)m, I agree with your nicely tidy statement, and Abu sparks my thought.
I do not mean to speak for, or puts words into the statements of either, just a personal mull and please disagree.
Now, only speaking for USA pop media, I have a theory that the biggest threat to the mass media storyline is the potential uncivilized behavior of, let me be only descriptive here, the white male.
That is, watching TV and movies etc, one would come to the conclusion that the white male is an effiminate go-along, and resorts to violent behavior if mentally ill or caught at a bar full of vampires. If I tilt my foil hat just right, I would call it, politely, the wussification project, removing a sense of competition while emploring passification audio/visual as a peer pressure on how to behave, and I believe that it is in its third generation. I theorize that in a third generation of behavior is where we find if it is a gold or fool's gold.
To the point, low on time, I believe it actually fosters low level agitation projects to be more effective than it really is, that not the fear of actual violence but the backtrack of a narrative prevents the rule of law.
Quite honestly, the TEA Party movement is a classic example of pacifist protest, this being an excuse to go out and break shit, be part of the movement maaaan! Problem is that eventually the do everything right and get screwed people are going to tire of no protection by those selling the idea of protection, then the govs will have real problems, and the whole European Unity Project may just fall apart, or perhaps more accurately, revert. I hope not, Europe is neat and quite unique.
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The welfare state (and parewnts that spoil their children) neotenises the next generation, who have lost the connection between fulfilling their needs and work.
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no previous generation was sufficiently dumbed down for this to happen The Roman mobs back in the days of Imperium Romanum were rather similar IIRC. Eventually Roman taxpayers gave up on the imperial thingy & went over to the barbarians.
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DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > "OCCUPY" ANTI-CAPITALISM PROTESTS SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD, THOUSANDS MARCH IN ROME, SIDNEY, + MADRID [+ London] AS "OCCUPY WALL STREET" PROTESTS GO GLOBAL.
and
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > "OCCUPY" PARADEPLATZ [Zurich, Switzerland = popular locale]: EUROPE IS SPRINGING "OCCUPY WALL STREET" COPYCATS.
[Dawn] Tens of thousands of people on Saturday erupted into the streets of Lisbon to protest against the austerity programmes of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the International Monetary Fund.
The large turn-out came just days after Portugal's rightwing coalition government announced a tough austerity budget -- one of the conditions of the 78-billion-euro EU-IMF bailout the country earlier this year.
Organisers said 50,000 people of all ages marched peacefully through the streets of Lisbon to parliament, shouting slogans and carrying barriers denouncing the EU, the IMF and the European Central Bank.
The three international organizations have imposed tough austerity programmes on debt-hit Greece, Ireland and Portugal in return for multi-billion euro bail-out loans.
Amid world wide protests about handling of the economy, demonstrators turned out for marches in nine other towns and cities around the country, organised by an array of campaigning groups, local news media reported, with turn-out particularly strong in the northern city of Porto.
"We are victims of financial speculation and this austerity programme is going to ruin us," 25-year-old Mathieu Rego told AFP, as he marched in Lisbon.
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The Free Lunch Party is an international movement. That having been said, I expect the worldwide economic crisis will ruin a great many.
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[Dawn] Protesters set fire to a government building, torched cars and smashed bank windows in Rome on Saturday in the worst violence of worldwide demonstrations against corporate greed and government cutbacks.
