riots – The Burning Platform

ARE YOU LOVING YOUR SERVITUDE? (PART TWO)

In Part One of this article I laid out the argument Huxley’s dystopian vision of the future had played out over many decades, but now I observe Orwell’s darker vision in motion since the start of this century.

All the “solutions” being imposed by those in power don’t solve anything, because they aren’t designed to solve anything. These are nothing but short-term emergency sustaining maneuvers to keep the dying patient alive, while the criminals ransack his house, extracting whatever wealth he has saved. Throwing $1,200 bones and $600 a week bribes to what they consider the Main Street riff raff, while funneling trillions into the pockets of Too Big To Trust Wall Street banks, billionaire oligarchs, connected mega-corporations, and pliable corrupt politicians, is just what the doctor ordered for the ruling class.

Their weak-kneed toadies at the Federal Reserve have dutifully fulfilled their mandate of no banker or hedge fund left behind. While Main Street is beset with potholes, boarded up small business storefronts (if they haven’t been looted and burned), homeless drug addicts, and the unemployed lining up at local food banks, Wall Street is being paved in gold, with its inhabitants eating caviar, drinking champagne, and celebrating their brilliance in owning a central bank, guaranteed to enrich them.

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Will Paris Riots Scuttle Climate Accord?

Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan

Will Paris Riots Scuttle Climate Accord?

In Katowice, Poland, all the signers of the 2015 Paris climate accord are gathered to assess how the world’s nations are meeting their goals to cut carbon emissions.

Certainly, the communications strategy in the run-up was impressive.

In October came that apocalyptic U.N. report warning that the world is warming faster than we thought and the disasters coming sooner than we thought.

What disasters? More and worse hurricanes, uncontrollable fires, floods, the erosion of coastlines, typhoons, drought, tsunamis, the sinking of islands into the sea.

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POISON PILL

Globalist Macron Carbon Tax

Via Branco

WELCOME TO THE SOCIALIST PARADISE OF BRAZIL

First Venezuela and now Brazil. Brain dead liberals are intellectually incapable of understanding the economic consequences of their socialist agenda. Socialism destroys countries and the lives of their citizens. Poverty, hopelessness, starvation and ultimately revolution are the consequences. Eight more years of Obama/Clinton will put us well down the path to Rio.

Riots In Rio: Police Unleash Tear-Gas, Rubber Bullets As Poor Brazilians Block Olympic Torch Route

by Tyler Durden

Aug 4, 2016 10:46 AM

Just 24 hours before the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics, police have been forced to use tear-gas and rubber bullets to clear protesters from the path of the Olympic torch through a poor suburb of Rio de Janeiro. As The Guardian reports, police said anti-government protesters in Duque de Caixas, on Rio’s north side, threw rocks and blocked the torch’s path; and 3 people (including a 10-year-old girl) were injured.

Hundreds of people blocked the streets in the north of Rio to protest about the high cost of the Games in a country already struggling with recession, corruption and political crisis. Footage showed crowds, including children, fleeing from the police, who reportedly said a group refused to leave one lane of the road open for the torch, the BBC reported. Riot police used tear gas to disperse the crowd and video footage appeared to show a policeman firing a projectile directly at a protester. The video you won’t see on mainstream media coverage of the The Olympics…

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Nine Meals from Anarchy

Guest Post by Jeff Thomas

In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” Since then, his observation has been echoed by people as disparate as Robert Heinlein and Leon Trotsky.

The key here is that, unlike all other commodities, food is the one essential that cannot be postponed. If there were a shortage of, say, shoes, we could make do for months or even years. A shortage of gasoline would be worse, but we could survive it, through mass transport, or even walking, if necessary.

But food is different. If there were an interruption in the supply of food, fear would set in immediately. And, if the resumption of the food supply were uncertain, the fear would become pronounced. After only nine missed meals, it’s not unlikely that we’d panic and be prepared to commit a crime to acquire food. If we were to see our neighbour with a loaf of bread, and we owned a gun, we might well say, “I’m sorry, you’re a good neighbour and we’ve been friends for years, but my children haven’t eaten today – I have to have that bread – even if I have to shoot you.”

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1936 Convention – 2016 Convention – Will 2017 be like 1937?

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

Perhaps it is just cyclical, but the Cleveland Republican Convention will be the first time that city has held a political convention since the fateful 1936 election just prior to the 1937 peak in the recovery from the Great Depression. This has the potential to be very bad for the city insofar as it will expose the downside of how unions destroy their own jobs by getting out-of-touch with the real boss – the consumer. The unions always see this as them against a corporation and fail to understand that if they price themselves out of a job, it is because the consumer is not buying it.

Once upon a time, New York City was the main port. The union demands were abusive and eventually the port of New York came to an end. There can be no monopoly be it a corporation or labor for the ultimate decision-maker is always the consumer.

The prospect of Republican nomination going nuts remains rather high. We may yet see riots if Trump is denied the nomination evoking the memories of violent Chicago’s 1968 Democratic convention when backroom deals by kingmakers determined the nominee and that led to fistfights on the floors that stained the city as image for a decade as the events were broadcast worldwide.

The 1968 Democratic Chicago Convention saw massive protests about Vietnam. We are in an upward cycle now for civil unrest. We may begin to see a lot more chaos around the upcoming Presidential election from those trying to stop Trump and the silent majority who are supporting Trump against the corrupt insiders.

There was a major change in trend in 1937. It appears we are headed for that same change in trend come 2017.

We have 40% of Trump supporters say they will abandon the Republican Party and 30% of Sander’s supporters say they would never vote for Hillary. This is illustrating there is a tremendous amount of the political base on both sides that is just dissatisfied for politics as we know it today. By the time we come to 2018, this will grow to a nightmare for Washington insiders.