Fighting breaks out in Barcelona as students protest over education cuts
Source: The Guardian
Police and protesters fought in the streets of Barcelona on Wednesday as more than 30,000 people joined students in demonstrations against cuts in education spending.
Fires were lit in the streets, cars burned and bank windows were smashed with missiles as the protests turned violent. At least one bank was broken into and police fired rubber bullets as roads in the city were blocked.
Baton-wielding riot police made several charges, pushing hundreds of demonstrators back into the main buildings of the University of Barcelona, not far from the central Plaça de Catalunya.
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More peaceful demonstrations were held in several Spanish cities, with students and schoolchildren to the fore. Many came out in support of their counterparts in Valencia after heavy policing of recent demonstrations there added fuel to the protest movement.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/29/fighting-barcelona-students-protest-education-cuts
This was impossible to link from any other European "mainstream" media - we are being kept in the dark it would seem. There was also a very peaceful demonstration of 20000+ in Valencia, http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2012/02/29/valencia/1330515605_417349.html if you understand some Spanish. As usual, reporting is on the violence foremost, but the Pais article goes into quite some detail about the reasons for the protest. Increasing tuition, layofss, wage cuts...the european socially corrected form of capitalism is being destroyed.
This isn't about Greece alone, at all. Banks go belly-up, states rescue them, and impose austerity on the common people to rebalance their budgets. It's hard to believe (that we take it, again). "sovereign" "euro" crisis = BS. Worldwide baking crisis is what it was and is.
Major demonstrations planned in Belgium as well, of the teachers (over pension age).
Two weeks ago, port of Antwerp was closed down for almost a week.
one fight
ps: I've mentioned this in other threads, but some (tangential) inside info from a banker: end of last year, when out of the blue central banks all over the world came with a liquidity injection overnight, it was because BNP Paribas had almost fallen over.
Things are much bigger than they let on. Just how big the air castle is...total derivatives are 700 trillion, that must be some upper limit. Non-regulated ones amount to some 60 trillion, I've read. Some 10 trillion has been QE-d so far in the US, in the trillions in the EU as well. Much deleveraging to go?
The people are being used to inflate a leaking balloon, so as to give the 0,01% a soft landing (or better: huge profits, again).