The Bilderberg Group

Mitt Romney and Bill Gates went to the Bilderberg Group meeting a few days ago in Virginia. A bunch of rich people started the group way back when, and here they were in Virginia figuring out ways to control governments better, to the detriment of the 99 percent. Maybe that’s why Tea Party and Occupy members were protesting the meeting together. Anyway, take a look at the video below and you’ll see the danger Bildenberg poses to the rest of us. The primary purpose of the group seems to be to redistribute income from the 99 percent to themselves.

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The protests continue in Spain where the Police use excessive force

The protest continue in Spain! Several protests against high unemployment and income inequality broke out in Spain last weekend. The police reportedly used force against peaceful protesters in the legendary square Puerta Del Sol.

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The Landless March in Guatemala

“After 9 days and 212 kilometers, the Indigenous, Campesino and Popular March for the defense of Mother Earth, against evictions, criminalization, and in favor of Integrated Rural Development, arrived to the center of the Capital City. According to members of the Committee for Campesino Unity (CUC), it is estimated that about 15,000 people participated in the ninth and final day of the march.” This would be the equivalent of millions of Americans marching, but we can’t we’d miss Dancing with the Stars and our video games!

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Protesters battle Greek police as parliament decides

(Reuters) – Greek lawmakers looked set to endorse a new austerity deal on Sunday to secure an EU/IMF bailout and avoid national bankruptcy, defying public rage and protesters who fought pitched battles with riot police outside parliament.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Police arrested protesters who sat on the ground and blocked traffic into New York City’s financial district on Thursday, part of a day of mass gatherings in response to efforts to break up Occupy Wall Street camps nationwide.

Police in riot helmets hauled several protesters to their feet and handcuffed them at an intersection one block from Wall Street.

“All day, all week, shut down Wall Street!” the crowd chanted.

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Tens of thousands Strike In Greece

More than 60,000 protesters marched in Greek cities on Wednesday, police said, as a two-day general strike began against a new austerity bill demanded by Greece’s international creditors to avert bankruptcy.

The highest turnout was in Athens where over 52,000 people converged on central Syntagma Square, where parliament is located, in separate protests organized by unions but also joined by unaffiliated Greeks fed up with austerity cuts.

“I work in the private sector and I’m in danger of losing my job,” said a 45-year-old woman who declined to be named.

“Our bosses are taking the opportunity of the crisis to cut wherever they can. I’m desperate. The government’s measures are going from bad to worse without benefit for the country. We are all terrorized,” she told AFP.

Another 15,000 people demonstrated in the second city of Thessaloniki, local police said, and another protest was held in Heraklion on the island of Crete, where vandalism on bank branches was reported.

Authorities in Athens threw a cordon of riot police buses and a steel fence in front of parliament and shutting down two metro train stations in the area.

“Forward people, it’s now or never to throw out the government, the IMF and the EU,” said a banner carried by leftist demonstrators.

“The government must fall now,” said another borne by Communists.

Some 3,000 officers were stationed around the capital, with additional forces guarding possible targets of violence such as embassies and government buildings.

A police motorcycle patrol was pelted with stones in the working-class district of Kaisiariani as the central Athens protests kicked off, and one of the riders was hurt, a police source said.

Most of the country’s professional classes joined the 48-hour walkout including civil servants, tax collectors, doctors, teachers, sailors and taxi owners while traders, petrol station operators and bakers also shut down their businesses in protest against the government’s economic policies.

Many government buildings were blocked by public sector staff outraged by new pay cuts and layoffs on top of a prior state payroll trim last year.

“Take the memorandum and get out of here,” read a sign strung across a health ministry building in central Athens, referring to the loan bailout deal with the EU and the IMF that saved Greece from default in 2010.

Air traffic controllers were also to stage a 12-hour work stoppage on Wednesday, forcing airlines to scrap or reschedule several flights.

The main unions, GSEE for the private sector and Adedy for civil servants, were heading demonstrations in Athens and Thessaloniki.

The new austerity bill includes collective wage amendments, a new civil service salary system and temporary layoffs for thousands of public sector staff.

The new cuts are demanded by the EU and IMF in return for the latest loans from a 110-billion-euro ($151-billion) rescue programme agreed last year.

The Greek state has enough money to pay its bills through mid-November.

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Occupy Movement Protests in European Cities for Third Day in a Row

LONDON — Protesters inspired by the “Occupy Wall Street” movement camped out in European cities for a third day Monday in a campaign that has got the EU and Russia both unexpectedly on the same page.

From London and Frankfurt to Madrid and Amsterdam, hundreds of demonstrators pitched tents following a global day of action on Saturday and vowed to maintain their drive against corporate greed and state cutbacks.

The protests in 80 countries at the weekend, some of which turned violent, were part of a global campaign emulating the “Occupy Wall Street” movement in New York and Spain’s “Indignants” campaign.

More than 200 protesters occupied a square outside St Paul’s Cathedral in the heart of London’s financial district on Monday after police told them to leave but Church officials said they could stay.

“We are going to stay here as long as it takes to get the message through saying: we know what they are doing and we don’t want it. We want a change,” unemployed protester Sophia Samra, 23, told AFP.

With bankers and business people walking around the ragtag group and their tents as the working week began, the scene was far calmer than on Saturday when about 1,000 people scuffled with police.

In Frankfurt, around 200 people set up a makeshift village of some 50 tents outside the European Central Bank, where some 6,000 people had gathered on Saturday.

“We’re staying as long as we have permits to stay,” said Aaron Kraus, 22, of “Occupy Frankfurt.”

In Madrid, about 40 “Indignants”, including an elderly woman and a young mother with a baby, were still occupying the derelict Hotel Madrid. A giant white sheet saying “United for Global Change” hung above the main entrance.

They said they would meet at 6:00 pm (1600 GMT) to discuss their plans, with the most popular option being turning over its rooms to families who have been evicted from their homes.

In the Netherlands, about 40 tents were pitched outside the Amsterdam stock exchange early Monday. Outside the building, protesters unfurled a red carpet on which they burned fake bank notes.

In New York, the birthplace of the movement, hundreds of people were starting their second month camped out in Zuccotti Park near Wall Street and gearing up for another march on Saturday against police brutality.

Dozens were arrested on Saturday when thousands of protestors marched through Times Square. Protests also spread throughout the country, with 175 people arrested in Chicago.

But there was rare agreement between Russia and the European Union on their reaction to the wave of protests.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is set to return to the Kremlin next year, warned Monday that Western governments were unable to meet the demands of the demonstrators.

He warned of “the situation which we now see in some countries with developed economies when hundreds of thousands of people come out on the streets… and demand what the governments of these countries in fact are not able to fulfil”.

Russia’s economy has been relatively unscathed and has not seen any similar mass marches, although authorities regularly break up unsanctioned political rallies.

EU president Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said they understood the frustration of the protesters and vowed to make the financial sector share the pain.

“The concerns of those young people on growth and employment are totally legitimate,” Van Rompuy said ahead of a crucial EU summit on Sunday on the euro crisis, but warned that “unpopular” budget cuts must continue.

The most violent of the weekend’s protests were in Rome where hundreds people smashed up banks and hurled rocks at riot police, with 135 people injured.

Tens of thousands turned out at Saturday’s biggest rallies in Lisbon, Madrid and Rome.

US financial analyst Mike Lipper said that the movement appeared lacking in leaders at the moment but that it could still prove a conduit for wider discontent, and lead to social unrest.

“This risk is why it is wise for global investors to keep a wary eye on these crowds,” he wrote in a commentary.

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