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Water Cannons? Tear Gas?
“Flora” (Roman Goddess of Spring), Villa di Arianna 1st Century A.D.
[..] the rifleman’s stalking the sick and the lame
Preacherman seeks the same, who’ll get there first is uncertain
Nightsticks, water cannons, tear gas, padlocks
Molotov cocktails and rocks behind every curtain
False-hearted judges, dying in the webs that they spin
Only a matter of time ’til night comes steppin’ in
Bob Dylan, Jokerman
I’ve seen huge amounts of riot police in many cities this weekend, in Holland, Germany, UK, Sweden, Canada, Florida and money more places (Miami Beach declared a state of emergency), using water cannons, horses, dogs, in some cases tear gas, to disperse relatively small and peaceful crowds. These things are normally used in case of serious rioting. But now the “justification” is that people are standing and walking too close together, and not obeying the “measures” and restrictions.
But that is exactly what they’re protesting. If you protest the measures, and they say you can only do that if you comply with those same measures, which includes asking permission beforehand, that is not a protest, that is theater. And the right to protest is not something that can just arbitrarily be taken away in a democratic country. Until now. Until Covid came along.
Here’s a clip of 14 countries with protests. They don’t include the water cannons etc. footage, which is fine by me.
Almost all countries have rising numbers of Covid cases again, so their only response will be re-activated: lockdown. Well, yes, the response now also includes vaccines as our only hope out of this, but those will take a long time to arrive everywhere, and both their efficacy and adverse effects remain major and untested questions.
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Long Pitchforks And Water Cannons
Long Pitchforks And Water Cannons
The juxtaposition of the following two tweets is absolutely stunning and just freaking… WOW!
Potential Major Political Blowback
Can you imagine the political blowback that is coming if the economy doesn’t snap back soon as the levered bad actor oil companies (just to name one sector) have been bailed out while the Administration is still trying to kill Obamacare and even tried to cut food stamps to the poor earlier this year?
Nothing partisan here, we are just extrapolating the consequences and political analysis of the GFC to the current crisis. Think about it, last week Main Street registered another 6 million-plus hit in lost jobs and junk bond investors got bailed out of their risky and dumb-ass bets.
Op-Ed: Get ready for the recovery of the 1%
There were two important economic events on Thursday. The government reported that 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment, an all-time record. And the Federal Reserve announced a new program to flood the economy and financial markets with $2.3 trillion in liquidity — including buying up junk bonds from debt-laden companies.
Which one moved the market? The Fed move, driving the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 500 points by midday.
The market jump, unemployment surge and Fed rescue efforts all converged to form a new split in the economy, between the asset-rich and the rest of America. — CNBC
Also, seeing a lot of the privileged Bailout Queens on Twitterati taking victory laps thinking they’re geniuses — and some even grotesquely posting pictures of their steak and lobster dinners like anybody gives a shit — after the Fed has saved their bacon for the umpteenth time. Yet they have no clue of the consequences of what may be about to come. Must be the ultimate contrarian signal.
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