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Occupy Wall Street Protests Go Global
Hugh Pickens writes "Tens of thousands of people around the world took to the streets Saturday to reiterate their anger at the global financial system, corporate greed and government cutbacks, with rallies held in more than 900 cities in Europe, Africa and Asia. 'United in one voice, we will let politicians, and the financial elites they serve, know it is up to us, the people, to decide our future,' said organizers of the global demonstration. The demonstrations by the disaffected coincided with the Group of 20 meeting in Paris, where finance ministers and central bankers from major economies were holding talks on the debt and deficit crises afflicting many Western countries. Crowds around the world were largely peaceful, but the demonstration in Rome turned violent as clashes in the Italian capital left dozens injured, including several police officers. In London, WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange made a dramatic appearance, bursting through the police lines just after 2:30pm, accompanied by scores of supporters. He climbed the cathedral steps near St. Paul's to condemn 'greed' and 'corruption,' and attacked the City of London, accusing its financiers of money laundering and tax avoidance."
I agree. This is Corporatism at work.
Lets quit using the Marketspeak buzz words and call it what it is. Fascism Go ahead look up the definition and yes that is what we have in this country now Fascism. You don't get it the media and the men behind the curtain wants you to use words like Corporatism because the world still remembers the horror fascism can bring. History does repeat its self if we let it and here in the US it is 1930 Germany. Remember a lot of these corporations were up to the same dirty tricks in WW2 and the same families are involved. Do a little reading on Bush's Grandpa for one. Even the same banks are involved.
So lets pull the monster with 10,000 heads out into the light and call it want it really is Fascism if we call it what it really is more people see what is really going on and will rise up to defeat it.
Welcome the Nazi Amerika.
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What's really fun is that the Left Wing faction of Slashdot is sitting at the protest (in their own urine, no doubt) modding down comments using their internet enabled iPhone or Droid while protesting the very same corporations that created these devices and provide internet services.
Irony.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
I keep seeing the "Mortgage crisis was cause because Banks were forced to lend to poor people" meme too, but they never provide any numbers to support this. The Government didn't force banks to give people mortgages for amounts that were far greater than the value of the homes they were buying while simultaneously selling investors these mortgages as bundled securities while they were secretly betting everything they had on the failure of these same investments.
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