Riot Police Remove Their Helmets in Solidarity With Italian Protesters

[DeSwiss]

WorldNewsJB·Published on Dec 9, 2013

Riot Police Remove Their Helmets in Solidarity With Italian Protesters

In Italy during a demonstration against government measures and impotent politics, riot police understand the gravity of actual Italian situation and decide to follow another people.

[BelgianMadCow]

1. Saw it mentioned yesterday on FAZ comments that serious protests are going on in Italy

not a WORD in M$M here. Happen to have any good links handy, DeSwiss? And thanks for posting.

Note that police in Ukraine have also reacted with considerbale restraint towards the protesters. No baton beatings, no kettling, no pepper spray. It was described in the article as more street sports than any kind of assault. Lead one of the commenters at FAZ to say they're enjoying a level of democracy western nations can only dream of.

[DeSwiss]

2. You won't see this on the MSM......

...until and unless they're forced to. So far its just us in the underground reporting it.

- Within the oligarch-owned press, doing reporting which belies 1%er invincibility are frowned upon. Just as with the truth about cannabis......

[BelgianMadCow]

4. Yeah, searching for protest italy on rediff gave me Namibian, Iranian and such sources.

Something of a blackout going on. Maybe TPTB don't like protests named "pitchfork"?

[DeSwiss]

5. No, they don't like that name or anything about it.

- As a matter both of principle and survival......

[BelgianMadCow]

6. When I refreshed my query on rediff, weirdest thing happened.

I refreshed my query on rediff. It went hanging on google analytics, and then timed out. So I then Iqxuicked for "UPI pitchfork Italy" to find back the same article. And Ixquick gives me the following message:

We apologize for the inconvenience: to prevent possible abuse of the Ixquick service, your Internet connection has been prevented from accessing it.

This happens when a large number of search requests are received from one's Internet connection in a short amount of time -- for example, if you are using "screen-scraping" software, or if you are sharing a connection with many people, perhaps through a proxy service.

I'm not using screen scraper software, nor am I sharing my connection or using a proxy. But I guess someone is.

[kenfrequed]

8. Hardly a shock there.

Our mainstream media is mostly owned by the very corporations that benefit from austerity economics (or at least think they do). I doubt that they would want stories about a nation uniting against such policies.

[BelgianMadCow]

3. Background: 'Pitchfork' protests spread across Italy in advance of confidence vote

Using a news aggregator I stumbled upon and which I'm liking more and more (because it goes outside western M$M), found this article from UPI:

ROME, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Protests of the so-called "Pitchfork Movement" spread across Italy Wednesday as demonstrations against tax hikes driven by austerity measures gained ground.

Protest leaders threatened a large-scale demonstration in Rome if members of parliament did not withhold their votes from a confidence measure, ANSA reported.

In the third day of anti-government demonstrations, protesters in Turin blocked traffic while other protests around the city shut down food markets and other businesses.

Protesters in Genoa occupied the central square, while a large crowd gathered outside an office of the national tax collection agency in nearby Savona.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/12/11/Pitchfork-protests-spread-across-Italy-in-advance-of-confidence-vote/UPI-47511386775107/#ixzz2nFoUfTQn

Article also has it the government says taking off of helmets isn't supposed to be interpreted as a sign of support, but to show things have calmed down.

What to think when the protests pro-EU in Ukraine are plastered all over the media here, yet there is not a peep about anti-EU protests in Italy? So much for the free press.

On edit: posted this article in LBN.

[imthevicar]

7. it's over,

The Italian elite just lost their protection.