Analysis: Europe faces rising austerity protests in 2011

[HydraBob]

reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BE3FK20101215
As austerity bites, Western Europe faces a near inevitable rise in protest and unrest in 2011 which is likely to hit markets and dampen weak governments’ appetite for reform but not affect policies dramatically.

efinancialnews.com/story/2010-12-15/roubini-forecast-doom-china-euro

reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6BD2FH20101215
Greek protesters clashed with police and set fire to cars and a hotel in central Athens on Wednesday as tens of thousands marched against austerity measures aimed at pulling the country out of a debt crisis.

breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.fea1c030d95ba5c96d74e7000265e4a3.b61&show_article=1
Italians voiced shock on Wednesday after violent protests set off by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s narrow victory in a vote in parliament that leaves his government hanging by a thread.

Russia riots:
youtube.com/watch?v=Nr11sdAGjwo&feature=player_embedded

Italy riots:
youtube.com/watch?v=LJ0wgefcAOg&feature=player_embedded

Greece riots:
youtube.com/watch?v=AuJZdWTiaJM&feature=player_embedded&has_verified=1

 

[DawnInTexas]

'Tis what’s heading our way.

Watch.
(and pray).

God Bless you.
+Peace On Earth, Good Will Toward Men.
Love, Dawn

 

[ProVobis]

And Europe doesn’t have the amount of debt the US has accumulated yet.

 

[curlycool89]

reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BE3FK20101215
As austerity bites, Western Europe faces a near inevitable rise in protest and unrest in 2011 which is likely to hit markets and dampen weak governments’ appetite for reform but not affect policies dramatically.

efinancialnews.com/story/2010-12-15/roubini-forecast-doom-china-euro

reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6BD2FH20101215
Greek protesters clashed with police and set fire to cars and a hotel in central Athens on Wednesday as tens of thousands marched against austerity measures aimed at pulling the country out of a debt crisis.

breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.fea1c030d95ba5c96d74e7000265e4a3.b61&show_article=1
Italians voiced shock on Wednesday after violent protests set off by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s narrow victory in a vote in parliament that leaves his government hanging by a thread.

Russia riots:
youtube.com/watch?v=Nr11sdAGjwo&feature=player_embedded

Italy riots:
youtube.com/watch?v=LJ0wgefcAOg&feature=player_embedded

Greece riots:
youtube.com/watch?v=AuJZdWTiaJM&feature=player_embedded&has_verified=1

They actually need to study that? You could’ve given me $10 and I could have told you that protests were going to get worse. You could have asked any good reporter and they would’ve said the same thing. What a waste of money.

Next, studies will reveal that water is wet

 

[DawnInTexas]

They actually need to study that? You could’ve given me $10 and I could have told you that protests were going to get worse. You could have asked any good reporter and they would’ve said the same thing. What a waste of money.

Next, studies will reveal that water is wet

Many (here at CAF included) would poo-poo your remark-especially when it comes to the USA.

They believe we’re going through a phase, we always have, and will recover.

Life is good. All is well. Obama is our Hope.
I’m a good person. Abortion is a right…

God Bless you.
+Peace On Earth, Good Will Toward Men!
Love, Dawn

 

[HydraBob]

Martial Law UK:
uk.news.yahoo.com/14/20101215/tpl-met-chief-mulls-protest-ban-after-vi-81c5b50.html

Person getting pulled out of wheelchair by UK police:
youtube.com/watch?v=OUHzSQgayXY&feature=player_embedded

From what I hear (non-MSM analysts), US has 12-18 month tops. When the EURO collapses, you only have 2-3 weeks to get out of the dollar / paper.

One reason why most people won’t wake up, just human psychology:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias
The normalcy bias refers to an extreme mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of the government to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred that it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation.

 

[Santi2]

Martial Law UK:
uk.news.yahoo.com/14/20101215/tpl-met-chief-mulls-protest-ban-after-vi-81c5b50.html

Person getting pulled out of wheelchair by UK police:
youtube.com/watch?v=OUHzSQgayXY&feature=player_embedded

Where does the link imply martial law in the UK? Or is that just your personal opinion? The students protests here are actually losing public support because social cohesiveness against unpopular austerity measures cannot be gained by way of violence and public disorder.

Your video on Jody McIntyre does not provide a full background to the conduct of the students protests as well as the policing involved. Also, Jody McIntyre is not a student. He belongs to one of the many anti-this and anti-that groups who ride on the coat tails of the students protests. He was actually lifted from his wheelchair by the police for his safety. It was his decision to go back into the crowd knowing fully well that the police will not discriminate when they are attacked. The link you provided is the result of the lack of mitigation for his personal circumstances.

 

[curlycool89]

Where does the link imply martial law in the UK? Or is that just your personal opinion? The students protests here are actually losing public support because social cohesiveness against unpopular austerity measures cannot be gained by way of violence and public disorder.

Attacking Prince Charles was a terrible idea that they had. Like him or not, he’s the next King. Brits may like to protest, but still no one gets away with physically attacking the Royals.

From what I hear (non-MSM analysts), US has 12-18 month tops. When the EURO collapses, you only have 2-3 weeks to get out of the dollar / paper.

There’s a reason that the dollar is legislated as legal currency. The government will prosecute anyone not accepting the dollar, and rightly so (not accepting the dollar in America is illegal).

Number 2, the Euro is not going to collapse. Maybe get devalued quite a bit, but an outright collapse is extremely unlucky. The Eurozone has a lot riding on it, so it’s going to stick around. Luckily for the world economy, most people have no idea how anything works economically. Ironically, that means that it has a greater chance of recovering.

Number 3, attempting to predict any financial market is a crapshoot. The currency market is doubly so. The 1-900 Psychic line has about the same chance of guessing right as a financial firm. The reason is that the stock market is probably about as close to an idealized free market situation as you’re going to get; there’s millions of individual investors making decisions. But you can also ignore that, because it takes as little as 1 man to save the entire thing (J.P. Morgan basically single handedly cushioned the Panic of 1907. This guy should be known as an American Hero).

 

[colmcille1]

Hi all,
The new austerity is a direct result of a Godless EU.
God Bless,
Colmcille.

 

[colmcille1]

Hi Jharek,
Yes we benefitted as a nation for a while. But look at our economy now!
Greed was the creed. Greed is a sin. Sin thrives in the absence of obedience to God.
Thats why we are in a world of pain right now. And its going to get worse.
God Bless,
Colmcille.

 

[Yellow_Belle]

Hi Jharek,
Yes we benefitted as a nation for a while. But look at our economy now!
Greed was the creed. Greed is a sin. Sin thrives in the absence of obedience to God.
Thats why we are in a world of pain right now. And its going to get worse.
God Bless,
Colmcille.

You want to blame the EU because WE made a mess of our economy. Now that’s dedication to denial.

 

[colmcille1]

You want to blame the EU because WE made a mess of our economy. Now that’s dedication to denial.

Hi Yellow Belle,
Nope, you got the gist of it wrong.
The EU is one massive poisoned chalice. There are wealthy elites in the corridors of EU power just as there are in every individual state. They will NEVER suffer hardship. Yet millions of European citizens do. Why? Because they are expendable.
Therefore I blame the Godless wealthy who do not care for their fellow human beings. I blame them and their Godless institutions.
How exactly am I in denial? Please do tell if you alone fiendishly possess the solution.
God Bless the human.
Colmcille.

 

[Yellow_Belle]

Hi Yellow Belle,
Nope, you got the gist of it wrong.
The EU is one massive poisoned chalice. There are wealthy elites in the corridors of EU power just as there are in every individual state. They will NEVER suffer hardship. Yet millions of European citizens do. Why? Because they are expendable.
Therefore I blame the Godless wealthy who do not care for their fellow human beings. I blame them and their Godless institutions.
How exactly am I in denial? Please do tell if you alone fiendishly possess the solution.
God Bless the human.
Colmcille.

Don’t think I did get the gist of it wrong. You seem determined to apportion blame for our mismanagement of our own economy to some shadowy elites in the equally shadowy corridors of the godless EU. A conspiracy theory that masks a denial and what you are in denial about is that** we did this to ourselves** Of course the rich will never suffer hardship - at any point in history have you ever known the rich to suffer hardship??

 

[curlycool89]

I remember reading somewhere that when Ireland adopted the Euro, they were the only country to do so that had a currency that was worth more than the Euro. Every other country had currency that was worth less than the Euro.

Don’t think I did get the gist of it wrong. You seem determined to apportion blame for our mismanagement of our own economy to some shadowy elites in the equally shadowy corridors of the godless EU. A conspiracy theory that masks a denial and what you are in denial about is that** we did this to ourselves** Of course the rich will never suffer hardship - at any point in history have you ever known the rich to suffer hardship??

One of the reasons the economy went down was because people were living outside of their means. And that means everyone. Probably the biggest joke of them all is being able to deduct mortgage interest payments from income tax (it doesn’t take a degree in economics to see what that ended up doing). People took out unbelievable amounts of debt, and nobody thought to warn people that this was incredibly stupid (it shouldn’t take a degree in economics to figure that one out, but as they say common sense isn’t really all that common).

 

[colmcille1]

Don’t think I did get the gist of it wrong. You seem determined to apportion blame for our mismanagement of our own economy to some shadowy elites in the equally shadowy corridors of the godless EU. A conspiracy theory that masks a denial and what you are in denial about is that** we did this to ourselves** Of course the rich will never suffer hardship - at any point in history have you ever known the rich to suffer hardship??

Hi Yellow Belle,
Please read your post again. You said: “Of course the rich will never suffer hardship…” Would you please for the love of Christ tell me how that statement means that you are qualified to say that I am a conspiracy freak whereas you have a coolly objective grasp of human history? I am sick to the back teeth of hearing your erroneous line of argument. As was once said quite curtly in my native city of Dublin: “Get off the stage!”
God Bless the human.
Colmcille.