Tens of thousands defy Spain protest ban 2011-05-21

 

Speech by David Icke.

15th May 2011 Spain

PADDY WOODWORTH “ASK THE man on the horse,” one of the demonstrators in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol told a reporter from a live-streaming TV channel yesterday. She had asked him what motivated the six-day sit-ins, in a dozen Spanish city centres, that have turned tomorrow’s local and regional elections into a new kind of test for Spain’s rather tarnished democratic institutions. The man on the horse, King Charles III, is cast in bronze, a well-known Madrid landmark. There is more than an echo of the absurdist humour that brightened another May street uprising, in Paris in 1968, in Spain’s enigmatic new protest movement, which is already spreading…
Irish Times 2011-05-21

Spain politicians baffled by pre-poll protest movement2011-05-18 m&c Madrid – Spanish politicians were Wednesday trying to appease a growing protest movement that was threatening to cost them votes in Sunday’s local and regional elections. Protests were held overnight and on Wednesday in about 40 cities, and more were planned. The demonstrators, most of who are young, are demanding an overhaul of the political system in order to improve living conditions in a… read more Spain’s Zapatero: protesters ‘deserve respect’2011-05-19 Breitbart A general view of the Puerta del Sol square in Madrid. Spain’s prime minist… Protesters gather at Catalunya’s square in Barcelona. Spain’s prime ministe… Spain’s prime minister Thursday commended the thousands of young people who have taken to the streets to protest the economic crisis, saying they “deserve our respect.”… read more Spanish protestors defy ban on pre-election rallies2011-05-20 m&c Madrid – Young protestors demanding a reform of Spain’s democracy on Friday pledged to defy a ban on their rallies which were declared illegal by the national electoral commission overnight. The commission charged with handling the organization of Sunday’s local and regional elections said it was illegal to hold political gatherings on… read more Spain bans protests ahead of elections2011-05-20 The Guardian Thousands of protesters have gathered in Madrid and dozens of other Spanish cities to protest over cuts Demonstrators form a tent city in Madrid, protesting against high unemployment and austerity measures. Photograph: Emilio Morenatti/AP… read more Spanish police to “apply law” in dispersing rallies2011-05-20 m&c Madrid – The Spanish government was Friday facing the challenge of avoiding pre-election violence after the national electoral commission banned protests demanding a reform of the country’s democracy. Police would apply the law, but would not create unnecessary problems, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said. The commission prohibited rallies on Saturday, which is the pre-election… read more Inspired by Arab Spring, Spain’s youthful 15-M movement spreads in Europe2011-05-21 Yahoo Daily News Madrid – Tens of thousands of disenchanted and unemployed young Spaniards refused to leave tent cities they raised over the week in plazas throughout the country, defying an official ban on gatherings ahead of this Sunday’s municipal elections. Some are calling the growing youth movement a “Spanish Revolution” – spread via Twitter and Facebook – that’s reminiscent of the 1968… read more Spain bans young protesters ahead of elections2011-05-20 The Guardian Police and tens of thousands of young protesters camped out in dozens of Spanish cities are heading for a clash after the country’s electoral authorities effectively ordered the government to dissolve the protests. The committee declared that the protests contravened Spain’s election laws, which ban campaigning the day before a vote. Municipal and…

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May 17th Spain…

We remain of two minds about the current EU sovereign debt crisis. On the one hand, we believe the crisis was certainly provoked by sloppy lending to the Southern PIGS. This lending might have been, in fact, pre-planned to provoke a situation where Eurocrats would need to tighten economic surveillance on all countries. In fact, this is exactly what has happened.

Another idea is that the crisis has been heightened in order to produce a true world currency. This is also a possibility given that those who control the EU also control central banking around the world. The money under control of powerful banking families is said to number in the trillions or even tens of trillions of more. It is hard to believe that such monied parties could not find the money necessary to assuage Europe’s difficulties if they wished to.

The only way to resolve these speculations in our view is by continued scrutiny of the actions and rhetoric of EU leaders. Hardly anything that is said by such individuals is truthful on its face. One must constantly scrutinize actions and statements in search of a deeper context.

But there is another point to consider as well, one we have made before. In the 21st century, given the broadening of available communication-technology, it is not power elite “leaders” who may decide the future but the broader populace who are moving the Internet Reformation forward. Those at the top of the EU may come up with solutions that they consider adequate one way or another only to find that voters are dismissive of them.

As voters continue to elect anti-EU politicians – and they have done so in Finland and are getting ready to do so in Germany and elsewhere – even workable solutions may not prove adequate. Those in charge of the EU anticipated that a financial “crisis” would allow them to ignore provisions of EU law that put up barriers to bailouts. Already, many such provisions have been abrogated. But reformers are noticing and seem to us increasingly peeved. Spain and Italy were both hit by protests yesterday. As temperatures climb, so does activism.

Conclusion: The twin pressures of anti-EU elections and anti-austerity protests may result eventually in one or more weak states leaving the EU. It will be then, as that occurs, that we shall find whether the EU can survive with a core group of healthier states or whether such a state of affairs will constitute a “catastrophe” as one EU officials said recently. Believing as we do that the EU is an authoritarian disaster, we wouldn’t mind the latter.

http://www.thedailybell.com/2349/Greece-Gets-Pounded-Before-Further-Bailout.html

MADRID – Tens of thousands of people are defying a pre-election ban on demonstrations and protesting unemployment in squares around Spain in defiance of an order to quit at midnight. The government avoided saying if it would order police to break up the crowds on Saturday, but at the stroke of midnight officers kept a discreet presence on the edges of the demonstrations. Demonstrators kept quiet as city clocks chimed the beginning of a new day, many with sticky tape over their mouths in a gesture organizers said…
Houston Chronicle 2011-05-21

Without an hint of violence the Spanish people are saying Enough is Enough!!

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