Thursday, January 29, 2009

Huge Protests starting in FRANCE over Economic Collapse! GREECE TOO!


Huge crowds have taken to the streets in France to protest over the handling of the economic crisis, causing disruption to rail and air services.
The head of France's biggest union said a million workers had rallied to demand action to protect jobs and wages.
But despite the show of public support, the strike appeared to be falling short of the paralysis forecast by unions.
Regional trains and those in and around Paris were hit, and a third of flights from Orly airport were cancelled.
Forty per cent of regional services were running, train operator SNCF said, and 60% of high-speed TGV services. Three-quarters of metro trains were running in Paris.
Paris's second airport was heavily hit by the strike, but flights out of the larger Charles de Gaulle hub were experiencing only short delays, AFP news agency said.

Overall, some 23% of the country's public sector workers are thought to have joined the action, which was called by eight major French unions.
Bernard Thibault, head of the CGT union, told AFP more than a million workers had joined the action, making it impossible for French President Nicolas Sarkozy to ignore their concerns.
In Paris, tens of thousands of protesters have set off from the Place de la Bastille on a march towards the centre of the city.
Earlier, some 25,000 to 30,000 people rallied in the city of Lyon, according to organisers and police.

In Marseille, organisers and the authorities disagreed, with the former putting the number of demonstrators at 300,000 but the police estimating 20,000 had taken part.
With unemployment looking likely to hit 10% by next year, the French are now looking for assurances from their president that he will drop his programme of cost cutting reforms and instead turn his attention to relaunching the ailing economy, our correspondent says.
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Greece:
Under the headline "Is Greece a dangerous country", an editorial in the daily To Vima said: "Now the country is cut not only in two, but in many pieces, everyone should think of ways of confronting a crisis which is sure to hurt the Greek economy severely. Last night, there was little indication that the protesters would back down. "If need be we will stay here until Easter. If need be, our tractors will grow roots," said one farmer. "We are bankrupt. We've got nothing to lose."
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9 comments:

  1. Bring back the guillotine!!

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  2. You could get a million Frenchies to march in the streets because it had been cloudy for too long. Setting policy on the whims of an angry mob is dangerous & anti-democratic. Hopefully they can be successfully ignored.

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  3. I thought men were supposed to lead and protect!
    I am just a woman, waiting to long for you guys to get it on with these lying criminal, murderous pervert thieves.

    What an embarrassment for a white, christian nation for a woman to be more of a man then men themselves.

    My bet is it will be a "lady" who fires the first shot.

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  4. "Violence is anti-democratic"? We have appointed bureaucrats stealing trillions in the middle of the night, think Oct. 3, 2008, and you think you live in a democracy? U.S. Citizens are sooooooooooo naive.

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  5. Can you blame them? The U.S. was born and raised with a steady diet of violence. Remember, the Declaration of Independence came out of nothing more than a lust for more money on the part of the colonial merchants.

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  6. It's you're democratic right to protest government decisions if the citizens dont like it.

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  7. Prsdnt Obama Deludes Himself
    Re The Required Economy Collapse Cure
    It's Not Just The Economy, It's The Technology Culture That Collapsed


    A. Brief notes re the apparent major aspects of the collapse


    1) Jan 6 2009

    What Is "Scientific Progress"
    What Is Needed To Advance Science
    http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=390&#entry392722


    2) Dec 24 2008

    For 2008 Sciencenews Of The Year YOK The World-Wide Economy Collapse
    Money Printing Will NOT Cure The Technology Culture Greed Cancer
    http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=390&#entry390280


    3) Dec 22 2008

    Separate Technology From Science To Renovate Our Culture Including Economy
    http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=375&#entry390004


    4) Nov 21 2008

    Real And Virtual Energy, And Keynesian Salvation Prospects
    http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=345&#entry384952



    B. There are no short-cuts for effecting a cure of the malignant world economy greed cancer.

    From the above (4) ref:

    "The present tone of the world's culture, and even ethics, including the banners of a variety of types and shades of greed, has been set by the 20th century Technology Culture. Its essence is the legitimacy and admiration of gaining capital via virtual activities, activities without or beyond the production of real assets for humanity, real life resources.

    So the odds of the economy's salvation via Keynesian prospects are, in the long run, proportional to the odds that the culture of Earth's humanity will evolve towards ever more rational self-organization...which is, how unsurprisingly rational, the odds of every organism to survive..."

    There are no short-cuts for effecting a cure of the malignant world economy greed cancer. The cure and recovery from this cancer entails a steady resolute cultural modification of 20th century personal and societal capitalistic greed values-ethics-morals. It entails public education to value and promote legitimacy and respect only of shares-stocks of products and processes that contribute to health, security, basic comfort, education and science, and to reject and shun offers of any form of productionless capital gain or of luxuriousness.

    And it entails a steady resolute continuous promotion of rational respect to non-luxurious life style, to a wide civic public social security network, and to continuous pursuit of further scientific comprehension of ever closer approaching approximate models of the real world including life and ourselves. This would be a return to and furthering of Enlightenment's inherent philosophy and attitudes in regards to individualism, universal human progress and, most important to humanity, a return to the societal applications of reason.


    Dov Henis

    (Comments From The 22nd Century)
    http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-P81pQcU1dLBbHgtjQjxG_Q--?cq=1

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  8. Anyone that says the United States is a democracy is a pure loon. It is not a democracy it is a republic and a despotic one at that.

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  9. All the world's wisdom in one line.
    "There ain't no free lunch"

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