UPDATE: German Court Overturns Protest Ban
August 29th march free to go-ahead, following coronavirus guidelines
The Berlin Senate’s decision to ban the coronavirus protest planned for this weekend has been overturned by the Administrative Court.
That said, the protest will still be under some restrictions – the court ruled that the organizers must follow all the laws and restrictions they are protesting against.
According to a report from Deutsche Welle:
…the judges said protest organizers and participants must provide barriers in front of the stages where speeches will be held — and must regularly remind participants to observe social distancing rules and keep their distance.
Wearing masks was not included in the judge’s guidelines for the protest.
The court’s decision can be appealed by the Senate, but given the timeframe that seems unlikely at this stage.
Many thousands were reportedly travelling to Berlin regardless, as it was thought the protest organizers intended to go ahead in spite of the ban. A similar protest on August 1st (pictured above) drew tens of thousands of people.
The Berlin protest is taking place alongside other events around the world for a global day of action. Protests are planned for London, Ottawa, Paris and Zurich.
If you have any information about other planned events, post them in the comments below and we’ll add them to the list.
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It would be awesome if a judge ruled that a protest must be masked.
Police brutally attacked a woman.
They always choose the most manly men for the riot squads.
One thing I forgot to mention about my experience of The Protest in Berlin: many, many cops were not wearing masks.
When is Robert Kennedy Jr. speaking today? And is it possible to watch/listen online?
His organization is the source for info like that. Visit “Children’s Health Defense.” Although they embrace realities that I reject, they are true watchdogs. The site is a great source of info (vaccines and all things health-related), current and historical. Robert has a lot of lawyerly talent in his organization (and he’s a lawyer) and they use that to go after professional scam artists in big pharma.
Children’s Health Defense: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/
They could stand to use a better web master however. I use Pale Moon (browser) and was curious why the tabs on the top of CHD’s website didn’t function in PM but did function in Epic, which I also use, and so I asked them in the Pale Moon forum about it. They showed me some code and suggested that I pass it on to CHD, which I did. They did not acknowledge receipt of the communication (using their own online forms, which am not a fan of). Did they get the message? Who knows?
RFK supports ‘vaccination’.
Yes, I know. He supports ‘safe’ vaccination. He speaks from an establishment position. His entire team does. They also believe in the concept of ‘virus’, which I don’t. That Robert says he believes that we are in a pandemic right now is very odd. It’s not just people with my beliefs who are pointing out that we most certainly are not in a pandemic.
Because Robert believes in ‘safe’ vaccines and has chosen to make a career out of ensuring that we get those, and because vaccine companies, the WHO and CDC are all corrupt, that means that he’s constantly going after them, a good thing. It’s better than nothing.
For the above reasons, and the high profile of his name, it seems to me, Robert’s organization remains on YouTube.
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it…..
His speech is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXYfP2d7cR4
Thank you!
We are with you in spirit and thank you for your courage! Greetings from a small village in India (we are a village of 15… yes, hard to believe in a country with 1.3 billion)! Been protesting in whatever small way we can with a most brutal government breathing down our necks. Encouraged by all (most) of you.
best of luck to all the freethinkers of India.
Greetings! Stay connected.
Wonderful to hear that — a fellow Indian, living in Japan.
Greetings from Slovenia!
Today, we held our first Saturday protest against the Corona measures in Ljubljana.
We have been protesting for 18 weeks so far @ the so-called bicycle protests every Friday evening at 19.00 against our PM, Janez Janša and our government, overal
Best regards,
IRY DAI
Keep up the good work brothers in Slovenia.
Good luck with your protests in Slovenia. It’s reassuring to hear from like-minded people around the world!
Re: THE DEMO: Arrived fairly early, with Daughter, at 8:30 am, to get a sense of things before the crowd. Saw a couple of colorfully-decorated Bavarian camper-vans and a covered flat-bed truck, such as the type I remember seeing back in the Love Parade Days, bearing a crew of handsome, and rather square, middle class Germans (one in a cowboy hat) comporting themselves as they would at a cookout. They whooped and waved and I thumbs-upped in return: if they were “right wing” they did a pretty good job of hiding it, considering how brown I am. I would have whooped back if in whooping I wouldn’t have been sure to mortify my Daughter (who is at a supremely mortifiable age). Saw a fellow wrangling a very large portrait of John Lennon, out of a van, up ahead. I wanted to hug everyone I saw.
These people, despite being types I’d never dream of hanging out with under normal circumstances, were/are so much more clued-in than my naively-conformist Hipster friends… the friends who can quote Gramsci and Graeber but are so absurdly naive… so thoroughly brainwashed… that they admire Digital Robber Baron Gates (and actually believe that thief invented things) and rely on the pronouncements of his Kapo Fauci… and trust the Media Assets that were put in place for the obvious purpose of advancing the psychopathic aims of their owners. What to do? Most (though not all) of my actual friends are fucking idiots; idiots who can’t be persuaded that 2+2 = 4 as long as Gates declares (depending on his mood) it’s 5, 6 and 7. My hope for The Future rests on the actions of the defiant and provincial “squares” I was raised to chuckle at and I salute them.
Somebody in a thread below chided a commenter for the “sexist” abomination of referring to a corrupt female politician (aptly) as a “cow”: attaboy/girl/they: sounds like the kind of adolescent virtue-signalling some of my friends could get behind. Yeah, well, there will probably be a job for you, Kermit, as a volunteer Stasi-Nanny, for the Pharma-Block of your local Green Sector knitting cabal. But only if things go as horrifically as the presence of your type portends…
Is it “apt” to refer to Obama as an ape, too?
I believe the term of art for such persons is “Uncle Tom”.
or alternatively, “house nigger”.
Whatever, you’re still dodging the question.
All but those black must shun the N word. Even such as Harry Belafonte called Colin Powell a “house slave.”
Correctly.
Is it “sexist” to call Mussolini a “dick”?
I asked first.
“I asked first.”
Perfect playground response; you’ll encounter the “rhetorical question as a valid response to a stupid question” device in Uni, probably. Ten years in your future…?
But why is my question, according to you, stupid? It is quite straightforward. Is it acceptable to call Obama an ape or not? If not, why not?
“Is it acceptable to call Obama an ape or not?”
The “problem” (not that I care, as a Black male, either way: sticks and stones etc) is that “ape” is a pejorative term, among quite a few racists, for all Blacks; if Obama were called “ape,” that would be racist speech, because the critique/accusation/denigration, would be, explicitly, on the level of his race… and not about, say, some political or psychological attribute of his to be metaphorized in an animal. The question is “stupid” to the extent that we all (except the racists, possibly) know it: “ape” is a racist term for Blacks. Whereas anyone can call, say, Angela Merkel a “cow” without needing to be sexist; that is, without needing to denigrate Merkel on the level of her gender. Calling Merkel a “cow” is not misogynist, although, of course, it feels that way to you. But we can’t police the language according to how everybody “feels” (which is how we’re doing it, and for Orwellian reasons, which makes it worse), we have to be very clear and detailed in our thinking in order to protect the language (and ourselves) from the kind of definition-creep that propaganda-slinging fascists love.
Another example: if some dude with yards of exposed chest hair declares, in public, “I prefer to have sex with large-breasted women,” as vulgar/ crude/ tacky as the declaration may be, it isn’t misogynist of him to say so. The word “misogynist” is being slung too easily, just like the word “racist,” in order to police texts and/or speech that feels “wrong” to some. We shouldn’t hijack and overuse those words. There is, clearly, a ton of Misogyny out there, and there is, clearly, a ton of Racism, and, often, the worst examples of both are subtle enough to be damaging in a very stealthy way and can only be countered by careful thought and precise expression. And I think it’s all profoundly related to fascist activities like putting the healthy populations of entire countries under House Arrest and calling it “quarantine”. An issue much deeper than our little flame war.
PS I suddenly realize I’ll have to spell it out in greater detail, for you (or you’ll jump on the micro-gap) when I say “Whereas anyone can call, say, Angela Merkel a “cow” without needing to be sexist”. Calling someone a “cow” is only “sexist” if the person deploying the pejorative is clear in believing or implying that “all women are cows” or “cow-like attributes are a problem of the gender”. When John Ess called Merkel a “cow,” below, it was obvious, in context (and as he clarified immediately) that:
Therefore, this anti-Merkel sentiment is not misogynist/ sexist because it is not attacking Merkel on the level of gender any more than if he had called Merkel a chicken. Or a goat. Or a snake. Et al.
One privilege we Serfs enjoy in our supposed democracy is the right to be rude, in public, about elected officials: a very small counter-power in response to Hegemony.
But the clever and sinister testosterone-dick-bastards (anti-male sexism intended, but that’s okay, we allow that) in charge are fond of the postmodern trick of appointing Women, and/or People of Color, to positions of ceremonial power, in order to surround these people with sacred PC fences and thereby get away with (literal, often) murder. Colin Powell was one of the key smiley-faces talking us, mendaciously, into the blitzkrieging of Iraq: why was he so “trusted” by Liberals? Why were HRC’s explicitly racist and warmongering tendencies so invisible to the Liberals who wept when she was pipped, at the gate, by the Rotting Apricot? How could no Obama-maniac see the blatant Bushite Skull under his nice-looking skin? The snakes behind the scenes understand the psychology of it all too well and understand the power of twisting the definitions of “racism” and “misogyny” to grant “woke” immunity to their creepy figureheads-of-color/gender. Which may well be why the heads of the CDC and of the WHO, too, became Black not long before Corona Theater commenced. And why the evil B. Gates Robber Baron had to be paired with a Wife to cut his Caligula vibes in half.
Thanks for reading,
S
It is however rather offensive to cows, and animals in general, smacking of speciesism: assuming being a cow is inferior to being human.
No you didn’t.
Yes, I actually did.
Not at all Steve. Not at all.
Remember, while it remains permissible to refer to him a as a “no good mother fuc*ing fascist” it is not acceptable to refer to him as a “dead co*k su*ker we should dig up and hang a second time.”
The later would be homophobic of course.
“… it is not acceptable to refer to him as a “dead co*k su*ker we should dig up and hang a second time.”
Right then, I’ll have to stop saying that loudly in mixed company… ! Thanks, man.
(And you do, don’t you, grasp the grade of nuance between, say, “Tom” and “Ape” and, proportionally, “cow” and “c–t”? Because being just this side of the center-line, in each spectrum, makes all the difference… which I can attest to as a Black male. What you’re attempting to enforce is the bizarre and special Twitter-Fascist Rule that criticizing any Black is racist, and criticizing any Woman is sexist, if the language even remotely matches, in some minds, a description of the target… which only works if being “Black” or a “Woman” is, in itself, a defective state. Are they… in your world?)
Dude, you are the one not grasping. Cows and apes are animals. Women are human. It’s dehumanising to compare people to animals. It’s not that hard.
The question, my not-super-clever chum, is not whether some pejoratives are nicer than others; the question is whether a pejorative like “cow” is more “sexist” than the even-more-commonly (and quite okay, socially) pejorative “dick”. If you’re sane/ intelligent the answer is “no”. Further, we’ve probably established that you are sexist… although the targets of your sexism (males) happen to be approved, by the Twitter-Fascist-Continuum, as Kosher (as targets). No problem: the world is full of Sexists and Racists with zero self-awareness. Take a bow! Done with you.
Dude. Calling a woman a cow is *extremely* misogynistic. It’s not only dehumanising, it’s a direct reference to femaleness. Pig is not a reference to either sex.
I’ve never called a man a “dick”, so not sure why you’re all throwing this to me as if it were some kind of gotcha.
“I’ve never called a man a “dick”,
That’s not the point: the question (and point) is: have you ever had a tantrum of self-servingly selective-indignation over hearing/reading someone use the word “dick” as a pejorative. I’m no psychic but the vibrations indicate the answer to that question is probably “as if”.
“Pig is not a reference to either sex.”
I’m shocked (shocked) that you’ve moved the goalpost. But your initial complaint about the use of the word “cow” was that it’s “dehumanizing” (ie: comparing a Merkel to an animal “dehumanizes” her). I can only infer from your responses that you don’t think a “male” can be “dehumanized” (by comparing him to a “pig”). Interesting.
I didn’t move anything. I’m making a case that it’s misogynistic to call a woman a cow. I compared it to “ape” to make clear that it is dehumanising. Then, because some of you asked WHAT ABOUT PIGS?????, I had to explain the difference.
As to “dick” as an insult, it has a lot to do with its usage as a rape weapon. If men get offended with it… maybe men should stop using and/or talking about dicks as weapons?
maybe men should stop using and/or talking about dicks as weapons
I really can’t imagine where people get the idea that feminists just hate men in general. it’s just a complete mystery.
It’s just a small part of the divide-and-rule that the Very Few have been inflicting on us (through their minions like ‘Someone™’) for forty or so years..
Lol patriarchy is a lot older than class society, and definitely a lot older than forty years.
Feminists allow women to hate men, although they do not *require* it.
Hating men is perfectly natural for women. We have plenty of reasons to hate men. Furthermore, women’s hatred of men is completely inoffensive to men. Whem women hate men, they want to stay as far as possible from men: they create women-only spaces, engage in lesbian relationships, or become celibate, etc. When men hate women they do the exact opposite: they stalk us, harass us, rape us, beat us up, engage in all kinds of violence against us.
At the risk of being sexist and “gaslighting” I must point out you are extremely and dangerously deluded… I’m sorry so many men out there are meatheads (and so many women are insane) but there are many men that can actually feel things….
Margaret Atwood – back when she wasn’t a neoliberal shill – wrote:
“Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.”
Good that at least you acknowledge the gaslighting though.
Ah, now you’ve shifted into the self-satirizing territory of the extremist who overplays her/his ideological obsession. The profoundly paranoid and loony sexism of equating all men with rapists could only be outdone by some woman-hating fool who suggests that all women are potentially guilty of infanticide. We need far fewer Extremists (on filthy old social-engineering hobby horses) and lots more (in good-faith) Thinkers. But we so rarely get what we need, eh? So we make do.
Enjoy the remains of your day,
S
I did not equate all men with rapists, and I won’t respond to an argument based on a strawman. Try responding to the things I actually say.
“ and I won’t respond to an argument based on a strawman”
You won’t respond to any argument that makes enough sense to expose your raging double-standard; you’re full of anti-male-hatred and trying to pass off a personal problem as a philosophical truth: it only works in a room stocked with your fellow victims (or “victims),” I’m afraid.
“Hating men is perfectly natural for women. We have plenty of reasons to hate men.”
Yeah. Not sexist at all, that comment. It’s obvious you know (personally) enough of the population… say, 10%…?… to make such a confidently totalizing assessment. Or maybe you just read lots and lots of the perfectly objective Daily Mail? If we flipped that preposterous remark to, say, “Hating Blacks is perfectly natural for Whites. We have plenty of reasons to hate Blacks,” I’m sure you’d find those who agreed and found it a reasonable formulation. But it isn’t reasonable, whether the gist is to “punch upwards” or “punch downwards”. Where Hatred and Generalization overlap you get Shit-Stirring Propaganda. Which you are clearly purveying… while shielded by a(n ironically patriarchal) Media Culture that has a vested interest in spreading inter-gender conflict.
Government Troll sowing discord in a too-harmonious page of comments… or Deranged SJW? Impossible (and not entirely necessary) to tell. But I kind of suspect they’re getting your ineffective services for free.
“Whem women hate men, they want to stay as far as possible from men,”
Except in comment threads…?
You’re making a lot of assumptions about me. I think it’s time to leave you arguing with yourself.
Superb job of PC misdirection and silencing, ‘Someone’.
You should ask your handlers for a raise!
Gaaaahhh.
“silencing” lmao the projection, Jesus Christ.
Gaaahh indeed.
“Cows and apes are animals. Women are human”
Yep, nobody has ever called a male human a “pig” and if someone has, I’m sure the sexist fiend received a savagely proper course of Twitter Gender Right-Think Korrection! Laugh.
fascist twats it is, then.
Epidemic Preparedness Act 2006 (NZ)
Section 5 (4)
The Prime Minister must not give the notice except on, and after considering, the written recommendation of the Director-General of Health…
A role currently played by Ashleigh Bloomfield.
Oof! Good one, covidiot.. Ardern’s a real [fascist] peach, no?
Inflexible law, like stop signs?
“Stool Pigeons”?
Or a “rat” for informant?
“Shark” for predatory lawyers?
You’re beginning to make a case for semantic Nazism, justice or good decorum notwithstanding.
Proportionally, ‘cow’ and ‘cat’ seem very similar… No… Cow is worse.
But how do we know that you or male much less black Steve? Have you always been black or is this an affectation you have adopted in later life? Why, you could be like that Bad Orange Man. He’s not orange, he’s faking.
It’s true. He’s not really orange at all! He never was! It’s just fake news Steve. There are no orange people. That’s absurd isn’t it? It’s some sort of dye or something that he uses.
I dunno. I guess if an entire planet hated me I’d where a disguise too.
Anyway. Maybe you are an androgynous purple dwarf, how would I know? One never really knows these days. You can’t be too cautious; that’s what I say!
“Maybe you are an androgynous purple dwarf, how would I know?”
Hmmmm. Two out of three… good guessing, man!
It depends. It is not apt to refer to Obama as an ape AND his wife as being a cow.
That would be an interspecies relationship and thus offensive this week. Only a jackass would say that.
Besides that, I would never refer to Obama as an ape. I have far too much respect for apes!
you didn’t say if you were in London, or Berlin.
wave at the RT camera, so we can see you.
Are you going to answer my question or not? And what are YOU doing online?
get over yourself.
No. YOU get over the fact that women are human.
who are you, the internet Gestapo? or the diversity Stasi?
Nevermind, my bad. I didn’t see that reply was to someone else. You’re *still* dodging my question though.
Berlin! Since 1990.
(Someone… no pun intended… down-voted the fact that I live in Berlin? Cool.)
I made a disparaging remark about myself a couple of weeks ago and someone down-voted it! I suppose I should have been grateful but I doubt that was their intention. 😀
Well, I wasn’t the down-voter. But yes, I’m sure that in a perverse way they saw the downvote as an oblique, clever way of boosting your self-esteem.
It was tough love, JudyJ! (not from me, though)
I hardly come across anyone I’d call ‘left’ under the age of 50.
Gramsci quoting Millennials (the cohort most indoctrinated by the mass-expansion of university education) are not left. However much they quote the right names and brandish their familiarity with postmodernism – they are desperately conservative. I only have to open my mouth to see them flinch.
Sorry if that goes down badly but we are going to see a generational split – as the Covid scam falters the governments and media are going to fall back on the cohort that gives them the greatest support. You know who that is, and it ain’t the Oldies, the Boomers or even the Karens.
It’s the group that can’t see past The Guardian’s lies. Don’t believe me? Just look at The Guardian to see who its readers are. There is a reason that Hitchens is writing for the Mail — it has to throw some stories to the sceptics among its readership. The Guardian doesn’t. There aren’t any. They’re all beleevahs.
“It’s the group that can’t see past The Guardian’s lies. Don’t believe me?”
Oh, I do. They aren’t “Left,” though: they’re (Neo) Liberal. Middle Class… in other words, things are bot so bad for them (yet), so they can afford to believe in the utter crap they’re fed by their Daily Show Imaginary Friends. But most of the people I’m referring to are much older than the demographic I’m referring to. I know plenty of brainwashed 30-somethings but it’s the brainwashed (so-easily-duped) 50-somethings, and 60-somethings, who really exasperate me. We should know better by now! After Vietnam? After Reagan? Thatcher? Clinton/ Blair/ Iraq/ Kosovo? Puh-lease.
Yes, those of our cohort who’ve seen tyranny in our lifetimes have least excuse of all. Agree.
erratum: “But most of the people I’m referring to are much older than the demographic YOU’RE referring to” (should have been)
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There are many otherwise intelligent people who live on the edge of poverty and still cling on desperately to the belief that the Graun is not the evil that it blatantly has become. I think they just can’t handle the realisation they have been duped for so long. They must just tune out all the tell-tale signs of rot.
The Brits have yet to wake up from their consumerist “basking in the afterglow of the empire” fantasy and realise what the island is turning into – an overcrowded, regimented, shitty corporate sattelite of the US (and despised by all of Europe at least), with militarised police, in a constant state of emergency. Sirens, flashing lights, hi-vis jackets, all for “safety”.
They cannot bear to think that neither the Tories nor Labor have any intention of ever anouncing that the threat is over- even if a vaccine is “discovered”, a new threat will emerge a few years later, for which they will warn us well in advance.
Those Graun readers prefer to bury heads in sand, and do it in style. Avocado canapes, anyone?
No coincidence the Graun turned towards a US audience in recent years and the US president is often referred to as just “the President”.
When someone invokes Gramsci™ I immediately start getting sleepy. Ever tried to read that dude? Why the People Don’t Win, Number 1187-2b..
Almost like that was the plan
I know plenty of academics who are busy every day generating meaningless word-salads: if nobody can really understand what you’re saying, nobody can prove you wrong. And, as you imply: what better way to keep The People away from investigating your actual crimes than to tie them up arguing about whether we’re all in a “simulation”…?
WELL SAID…. very insightful …. and most helpful !
We are joining together… in force… peacefully… Our
weapon is truth..
Thankyou… from Ottawa Canada
Dave…..M.D.
Greetings from Ottawa Canada….home of the suppressed and the subterfuged…like the homes of the rest of you..the entire world.. I’m protesting daily out in public….together we’re going to turn it around..put these tyrants to the ground. We are brothers and sisters standing up against the global gangsters.. the medical mafia…and all the shills who do as they’re told..and… WE ARE gaining forces..each and every hour .
Dave Brown MD
Big Hug, Dave Brown MD!
I see that after his initial over-exposure to create discrediting talking points, the intelligence asset, the Son of Icke, has been deployed to discredit the London protest. It’s all too easy for UK Government.
live coverage of the Berlin and London demonstrations on RT, here:
https://www.rt.com/on-air/499391-protesters-rally-covid19-measures-berlin/
https://www.rt.com/on-air/499413-unite-for-freedom-protest-against/
better:
better:
Mental health professionals sensibly discourage loose use of the term “schizophrenic” in a general, non-clinical sense– and I certainly don’t want to inspire more tangential identity-politics contretemps on this thread.
So I’ll say that RT’s Megadeath Virus of Doom coverage is ambivalent at best. I credit them for providing extended real-time coverage of the scamdemic protests.
But one of RT’s favorite hobby horses is presenting endless sensationalized, scandalized reports of Western domestic turmoil– especially in Germany and the UK. Their principal German correspondent, Peter Oliver, has a sort of breathless, incipient eye-rolling delivery down pat.
If, say, some alleged “North African immigrant”, “known terrorist figure”, or even just “Allahu Akbar!”-shouting person with a history of mental illness knocks over Christmas decorations in a German town square, rest assured that Oliver will be on hand to report it, oozing schadenfreude and setting up the obligatory vox pop or interview with a German right-wing politician.
I bring all this up to say that in a week or so, RT will doubtless flog the other side of the story with stories about the spike in COVID cases attributed to the protests.
I credit them for providing extended real-time coverage of the scamdemic protests.
indeed, and that is what I referenced, without in any way endorsing the free advertising they often provide for the Megadeath Virus of Doom.
Agree in full with your comment, Ort.
Angles, angles; as far as the eye can see..
Now we need to look closely at that “Berlin Senate” and study what kind of people get to be in that position.
Just think, what is happening all over the place these days is that all discourse is typically controlled by:
a) politicians
b) politicians
c) politicians
when, in fact, it ought to be guided by:
a) qualified, independent and experienced law makers
b) qualified, independent and experienced scientists
c) qualified, independent and experienced journalists
not to mention wise philosophers, artists and other thinkers, whose heart and mind are principally concerned with the cultural future of the human race.
Hello wardropper: I agree. I submit that mankind’s history has been largely dependent upon the cowardice and mental lassitude of following some “other” discourse. I’ve never understood how masses of civilians can stomach the blind following they allegedly admonish. The mental aerobics alone must be exhausting…
I agree that serious discourse is a necessary evil… The future of the human race has failed to be addressed in the discourse of married couples and lovers for thousands of years. Who’s going to feed the offspring? Who’s going to house them, clothe them?
Law makers, scientists, and journalists should not raise or influence the children of those who wish to procreate. What are “politicians”? The term should be made an obsolete artifact…
You have a choice, between:
The FAKE-left, their Covid scam, vaccines, with their masks, Global warming scam, and Corporate exploitation, cold war with Russia and exaggerated gender politics.
OR
You can have the far-right with their racism, homophobia, delusions of national greatness, armed militias, exploitation of the working class, more homelessness, more poverty, more police violence and a big war with China.
First they destroyed the left-wing and now they have covered all the exits, this is going to go only one way, whatever your choice the CIA have decided for you.l
I think you’re short-changing the fake left, because they also offer more homelessness, more poverty, more police violence and a big war with Iran.
indeed they do, with no medical care as well. But the far-right also offer religious values and looting of the countries treasury on a massive scale.
well, it’s a tough choice, for sure. but the fake left has one thing you can’t get anywhere else: endless servings of transgenderism, all you can eat, or probably more than you can eat, actually. it would be hard to pass that up, in return for mere evangelical Christian fascism.
There’s always a third choice: Show them all your middle finger, and think for yourself.
Human beings have remarkable powers of imagination, and we’d better start using them soon.
I bet not one of the selfish protesters or tinfoil heads here can explain if this was a fake pandemic then WHY is the whole world fighting this deadly virus, which if you people had your way would wipe us all out before Christmas. Why would the world be united in this fight? everybody loses here, noone is profiting from this so WHY is the whole world fighting covid19 if it was not real?
noone is profiting from this
wow, you really are clueless. you think that Billy Eugenics and the vaccine manufacturers are in it, just for their selfless love of humanity?
the whole world isn’t fighting anything. the billionaire ruling class and their various puppet regimes have decided that now is the time for the global dictatorship they’ve been planning for decades, and have rolled out a spectacularly fake pretext for instituting it. they’re hoping that the masses of clueless idiots like you won’t notice what’s up, until it’s too late. so far, the plan seems to be going fairly well.
There is no “deadly virus”. The test finds chromosome 8 human DNA.
Too gentle, George.
The age of political correctness is coming to an end, and the truth will out.
This must be satire. Otherwise you must have come here by mistake.
“noone is profiting from this”
Jaw hits floor.
If the people in the UK and France want to know who to blame, then pick up a mirror. It is YOU who are allowing this tyranny. The politicians are pushing at an open door.
The Germans are showing us what freedom is, and it is not even hijacked by the far-right assholes there like it is here. Well done the German people.
BBC PSYOP DU JOUR V. BERLIN PROTEST:
‘As we’ve just been hearing, police have ordered thousands of people protesting in Berlin against Germany’s coronavirus restrictions to disperse. But what do we know about those taking part in the demonstration?
The demonstration was organised by the Stuttgart-based movement Querdenken 711 (or Lateral Thinking 711). The group has more than 16,000 followers on Facebook and communicates largely through encrypted messaging service Telegram. It believes that coronavirus regulations infringe on basic rights and freedoms enshrined in Germany’s constitution and wants them to be lifted.
The group previously organised a protest in Berlin on 1 August dubbed the “day of freedom”. Thousands (sic) joined, including some from the far right and some conspiracy theorists who do not believe Covid-19 exists. German news site Deutsche Welle reported that flags and T-shirts supporting the far right could be seen among the crowd today
The protests have also gained support from anti-vaccination campaigners. Prominent anti-vaxxer Robert F Kennedy Jr – the son of assassinated US Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F Kennedy and nephew of assassinated US president John F Kennedy – said he was set to speak at today’s event.”
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I saw a rather nice, much-larger-than-life portrait of 1960s-era John Lennon… that traditional symbol of the Far Right! (laugh)
Odds are he was their tool and hadn’t been told. I know a Zappa who thinks so.
Frank was their tool, too; we’re all instrumentalized, in one way or another; it’s a structural hazard of being lower on the pyramid (and, remember, I’m talking about an image of Lennon that predates Frank’s unfortunate run-in with J and Y… or, as I call them, “Joko”). And, yeah, obviously: “Imagine” is a Globalist Anthem. But lots of other actions/ creations weigh heavily in Lennon’s favor, I think.
Whatever they are, some talented Liverpudlians, but they lost some starch after all the acid. The 5th Beatle gave them more bite. Had the more serious musical polish and punch, RIP.
Lennon was gifted, but I argue they were pretty fond of their 💰 💰 💰, too much do anyway. A little of that goes a long way.
May Lennon be blessed for his more Leninist leanings, not a few.
Check out “Orange Sunshine” by Nick Schou, 2010. I actually KNOW, personally a number of “characters” in that book, but it helped me to connect about a million or so dots in my very own life to read his backstory. About my literal backyard (Laguna Beach in the age of Flower Power).
John Lennon figures in, and I know a good friend from those days of Klaus Voorhees (Revolver cover art, etc). Help, the world is SHRINKING!
The interesting paradox being that something like “Twist and Shout” had more force to it, and dealt with more mature themes (blue collar/ working class concerns) than the fey period of make-believe and satin costumes and paisley-painted Rolls Royces that followed, as they aged. They were suddenly making the most sophisticated Children’s Music in the world (my artistic admiration for I Am The Walrus notwithstanding), as good a way as any to render them harmless. They very nearly fought their way out of that psychedelic trap, and returned all the stronger, from the digression, with the very-mature “Revolution” (so much deeper than The Stones’ boyish “Street Fighting Man,” which is not much more than a pandering pose) but by then Lennon had got himself completely kidnapped by the mega-twee (essentially bourgeois) pretensions of the New York “avant garde” (in the form of You-Know-Who) and that was it. Imagine how great “Dig a Pony” might have been if the forthright version of the angry, acid-tongued, experienced and clear-eyed Lennon had written it? Number Nine Dream was his last great, if fairly somnambulistic, gasp, in my opinion.
It’s worth knowing, for those using encrypted services, that there’s really no such thing, imho…
Since the Utah Data Center (NSA Mission Data Repository, which takes almost 2 million gallons of water a day to cool, and some dozens of tons of refrigerant, to boot) was built in 2012, governments can hack anything. And WILL (even more notably).
Encryption is a fairy tale for school children.
Just sayin
In fact, if I wanted to read the communications of a certain kind of “suspicious” character, I would (would I not?) offer “encrypted” communications and “incognito” browsing/ emails… and then just collect the suckers. Amazing how naive we still can be…
This in the NY Times…
”Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday that she believed the pandemic would worsen as colder weather drives people back indoors.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/world/covid-19-coronavirus.html
For fuck’s sake! They have been locking people in their homes to prevent the thing spreading. And now this cow changes her narrative to warn about the dangers of remaining indoors!
This spoof is so transparent. And yet still they do not see they are being conned!
Please, make your point without calling women cows.
I am not calling women cows.
I am calling the glove puppet Merkel a cow.
And for her involvement in this virus fraud, resulting in the destruction of lives and livelihoods, she has been called far harsher names.
She is a disgrace to the people she is there to serve.
I don’t care. It could be Margaret Thatcher. Misogyny is never acceptable.
Or do you think racism is acceptable when it’s against right-wing black people?
A Metaphor is a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics. In other words, a resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single or some common characteristics.
In simple English, when you portray a person, place, thing, or an action as being something else, even though it is not actually that “something else,” you are speaking metaphorically.
The following phrase is an example of metaphor, “My brother is the black sheep of the family,” because he is neither a sheep nor is he black.
However, we can use this comparison to describe an association of a black sheep with that person.
A black sheep is an unusual animal, which typically stays away from the herd, and the person being described shares similar characteristics.
https://literarydevices.net/metaphor/
Ahem, cool. Is it acceptable to call black people apes? It’s just a METAPHOR, amirite?
“ It’s just a METAPHOR, amirite?”
No, Dr. Strawman McSophistry, “ape” is a traditionally racist metaphor for a Black person (historical precedent counts in determining context). Calling Merkel a “cow” is about as sexist/racist/ hate-speechy as calling Obama an “ostrich” (if he were avoiding an issue) or a “judas goat” if he were betraying his cohort, and so forth. Animals are a traditional resource for metaphorical speech in the arsenal of political satire. “Dogs,” “Donkeys,” “Loons,” “Mice,” “Sheep,” “Cows,” “Chickens,” “Sharks,” “Cocks,” “Pigeons,” “Goats,” “Snakes,” “Pigs,” et al… these are gender-and-race-neutral insults. It takes a singularly literal-minded virtue-signaler to derive, from the “plodding stupidity, or malleable docility” ascribed to cows (or cattle, in general), a gender-specific offense, merely because cows are “female”. Learn the language and its nuances before climbing on your SJW high horse with a comedy-nub for a lance. “Amiriiiite?”
No. “Cow” is not any more “gender-neutral” than “bitch”. Which also happens to be a female animal and also a misogynistic slur… gee, I wonder why…
Yes, indeed, the people who sling the nasty old pejorative “bitch” (especially the Queer folk I know) use it interchangeably with “cow,” (same register) and both are used very pointedly because the animals invoked have female reproductive organs, not as an incidental connection to the biology of said animals. Because they all “hate women,” just as the people who use the word “dick” hate men. Right? Of course. Makes perfect sense. And the people who say “fucker” hate sex. And so on! It’s like the people who use the word “dark,” in a negative way, are spittle-flecking racists. Because language is simple that way, yes?
(And please tell me you aren’t older than 17… and don’t have a position of any social responsibility in the world).
You’re the only one saying language is simple, dude.
Yes, cow and bitch are misogynistic slurs because they compare women to animals. You can know that they refer to women, not men, because these are words specific for female animals. No, I don’t know if all people who use these words hate women. I haven’t asked every one of them.
I don’t know what’s so hard or controversial about any of this.
Well, not strictly airtight arguments, but point made. The whole semantic shambles here can be niftily avoided by invoking SPCA and make a lateral argument that cows are being insulted. A sort of metaphorical guilt by association.
Bad enough. Enough cruelty to Cows, all right!
We’ve been gulled with impressionistic non-logic into accepting the notion that misogyny (literally meaning: the hatred of, or aversion to, women) encompasses any critique of a specific woman that acknowledges the fact that she is, in fact, a woman. But, in order to be “woman-hating,” the critique of said woman would have to insinuate, at the very least, that the critiqued-woman’s flaws are tied directly to being a woman (as opposed to being a certain kind of woman). Is George Soros a problem because he’s a man… or because he’s a certain kind of man? Those questions are as “air tight” as you want.
The descriptive and analytical powers of the language are destroyed by popular abuse (with political motives). The Media are blunting and blurring and mushing up the tools we actually need to be sharpest to counter the brainwashing. I think we need to stop worrying about giving “offense” to each other (the Serfs), so much, and use the power of these tools to hurt the Ruling Order.
Logic-twisting and definition-creep are big parts of the psychological war being waged against us. Obama (hired as Left/Liberal cover for Bushite policies) couldn’t be criticized without his criticizers being labeled as “racist,” and HRC can’t be criticized without her prosecutors being labeled “misogynists” and Israel can’t be criticized without… etc. You get the picture. Do you see how the language of critique has been masterfully undermined by the quasi-therapeutic culture of logic-leaping sensitivities? Life is tough, Snowflakes.
During OWS, when Lennon’s song “Woman is the N—er of the World” (a title/concept he got from Ono), was cancelled as “racist” by earnest sophomores, with IQs of 95, who never ‘cancelled’ a single thing George W. Bush ever said, and who couldn’t possibly get the irony of their error, I thought: yeah, just keep scoring goals against yourselves, kids, and the whole thing will be over quicker than we ever thought possible. Unwitting “Accelerationists” all.
In the end, being “nice” and being “liked” are not worth as much as we are being hypnotized into thinking they are. I say: fight the rot on whatever front we can or must, fight it frankly. Language is primal/ primary and framed heavily by context and obvious intent. Something “sounding” racist and/or sexist is not enough to deputize the plaintive as an authority on the matter. Whatever the plaintive feels.
Calling Angela Merkel a “cow” is no more “sexist” than calling Anthony Fauci a “strutting cock”. Think deeper. And, please: enough with the blatant (and blatantly sexist) double-standards.
(ach: “plaintive”? Plaintiff! That was nagging at the back of my mind since yesterday…)
Franz Kafka update: with apologies to poor put-upon Grego Samsa, who awoke one morning to find he was a gigantic insect, we might speculate, abstractly or fictively, of course:
“Angela Merkel awoke one morning to find she had been transformed into a gigantic Cow.”
Hey, it could happen: states are allowed by their puppetmasters to let a Magic Virus do things just like that, to chancellors who may have outlived their usefulness (cf. JFK & Magic Bullet, a sort of steel-encased deadly virus, if only in the Pickwickian sense). And then she’d probably be subject to strict quarantine, you would think.
All things being equal. Holy Cow, in some lands she might even become an object of worship, so where’s the mens rea. No harm no foul.
But this is beside the point to address in this forum. Given her “leadership” on this, maybe we should put her under Mao’s rubric with “…running dogs of the enemies of the People.”
That’s so generic and ideological, and almost culturally passé, who could fault it, who could shame us, almost like, but substantively different from, some mere garden-variety mask Nazi?
Besides, why insult cows?
That’s the better argument.
Calling anyone an animal, literally, some kind of animal is not nice and almost always bad form.
But what if we closely followed a plotline of a fantasist author who wrote a variation on Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” where Gregor Samsa “awoke one morning to find he had been transformed into a gigantic insect.”
What if, in our variation on a Brothers Grimm fable, “Angela Merkel awoke one morning to find she had been transformed into a gigantic COW.”
Then we could call for her indefinite quarantine, presuming in advance, which governments allow, that she was test-positive for Covid, since a Magic Virus can do things to you.
Its state-based Science, dammit.
Works for me. It would be sweet.
what about Rachel MadCow?
Is it acceptable to call Obama an ape? Yes or no? Quickly, Nathan.
who’s Nathan?
as for O’Bomber, it’s acceptable to call him a mass-murdering fascist war criminal, the same as Killary Klingon.
But not an ape, right?
Then why should I see a woman being called a cow and stay quiet?
would you prefer “fascist twat”?
“Then why should I see a woman being called a cow and stay quiet?”
Because referring to a specific woman as a “cow” is remarkably similar to referring to a specific man as a “dick,” and neither insult encompasses the entirety of either gender, or implies that either target’s flaws are structural results of their respective gender (not that calling anyone a “dick” even makes sense; what does the insult mean, logically? Nothing… or it means that “dicks” are so awful, as organs, that to be compared to one should sting: which is, surely, “sexist,” although, being a grown-up, I don’t choose to take it that way).
Having said all that… I suppose we can get you on record declaring that to call Mr. Mussolini (or Mr. H) a “dick” would be “wrong” because it’s “sexist”. Or something vapid like that. Let’s just make sure to remove the sharp edges off everything here in the crypto-hypocritical, pastel-tinted Sunday School of your tightly-controlled Quingdom.
So you’re literally making a case that I should STAY QUIET about a man calling a woman a cow, because Steven Augustine from OffGuardian is the ultimate world authority on what is or isn’t misogyny.
No, thanks.
“So you’re literally making a case that I should STAY QUIET”
Nah, I’m making the case that if you spout lazy, bog-standard, unexamined SJW bullshit, it may or may not receive rapturously herdthinky applause, depending on the virtual space you’re spouting it in. Hey, you tried. But you got your furious little head handed back to you with tweezers. Maybe critical thinking is coming back! One can only hope.
And, srsly: nothing personal. Perhaps you meant well.
If I call you stupid, does that make me misogenous (assuming you area woman) . If you say yes then you prove my point.
The point you made up to feel good about yourself?
Margaret Thatcher not a cow?
My God, man! You should choose better examples. Really, you should.
I’m a woman, stupid.
really? I would have guessed “womyn”.
Especially since Angela has not given milk:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Angela_Merkel
Perhaps we should call John a pig for calling Angela a cow?
Cow, bitch, etc., are direct references to femaleness. Pig is not. Pigs can be male or female.
But I digress. No, I don’t think we should call John a pig. I think we should just stop calling women cows. Is that really SO HARD?
Well, as far as women go, you shouldn’t stay quiet. You should defend them early and often, as should I, and I do, and will.
But we are talking a lot here about Merkels, so why antagonize Cows?
You do have a point here mate, but I think you missed mine. There’s a plethora of insults one could direct to Merkel, or Obama, without slipping into misogyny or racism. It shouldn’t be so hard.
“There’s a plethora of insults one could direct to Merkel, or Obama, without slipping into misogyny or racism.”
One could use the gender-neutral insult “pig,” against Merkel, and remain within your guidelines for “misogyny”-free protest, I suppose. Yes, “cow,” because cows are female, is so much worse (more insulting) than “pig”: right? Or maybe the fact that a cow is female is irrelevant to the intended pejorative (that is, its gender doesn’t amplify the insult), when calling a specific woman a “cow,” and you should do some deeper (non-SJW) thinking on Language. Maybe the differences between calling Merkel, eg, a “cow,” “snake,” “jackal,” “spider” or “worker bee” have nothing to do with gender, per se, and everything to do with the folkloric/ narrative characteristics of the animals…? Just a (nuanced) thought to consider…
as long as you don’t call women “pigs”. that would be fat-shaming.
She is not a cow! Cows have big udders and she looks fairly flat chested to me…
And Eff bombs….
So unfathomably stale and wearisome to have the “F” invoked like some sacred talisman always to dispel the demons of repression and overbearing parents, rulers, or whatever other irritant du jour (fill in the __________________!!)
Sérieux.
(Basta!(
But then that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong LOL.
Covid cult are racists. Their germ theory harms people of colour most due to vitamin D deficiency being deliberately gernerated to promote their ‘virus’ using masks, lockdowns etc.
https://vitamindwiki.com/Even+small+amounts+of+UVB+result+in+increased+vitamin+D+levels+%E2%80%93+March+2012
This highlights how stupid the normie is. I think when the leaders close the door on their meetings they roll around laughing for a good ten minutes.
Agreed. They don’t have to bother distracting most people, for they self-supervise in that discipline.
It’s got to the point where they could think up anything, no matter how outlandish, and the normie would believe it.
Or if they came out and said we must reduce the world’s population by a third, the normie would start solemnly preparing for that necessity.
I fear that you are not far from the bull’s eye with that observation, ZenPriest. Independent thinking has been replaced by collective thinking.
In short, nobody’s thinking…
One has two choices under tyranny. Believe the lie even if they don’t truly believe it (doublethink), or feel oppressed every single day. Those who live the lie escape the feeling of oppression, though technically they are insane for they exist in fantasy, not reality. Who knows what dysfunction that causes deep down. One would imagine (or hope) God or nature has a befitting punishment for those rejecting honesty.
“We are not far right. We are just right. All people have the right to freedom, sovereignty and self determination. The fight with the globalists is not a political struggle. It is a struggle between good and evil”
— from the Berlin speeches
The absence of the Left in these protests is a gift to the ruling class.
they are the left. don’t be dumb. the right wingers are in the countryside counting their monsanto shares.
the “Left”, with a capital “L”, and their shrieking hysteria about “conspiracy theories”, are a very large part of the reason that we are now in this situation. their absence, as they meander off into delusional irrelevance, pontificating about transgenderism and other burning issues of the age, is a very large gift to the growing movement against the billionaires and their fascist agenda. the “Left” are very welcome to go f*** themselves, sideways.
I’m ‘the Left’ – so I’m dismayed by everything you say. As society is being systematically destroyed, the Socialist Workers Party is obsessing over nurses pay. To laugh or cry..
They can indeed f*** themselves.
I don’t think you are “the Left”, actually; your presence in this discussion proves that you’re much smarter and more principled than they are.
the real left died, or was infiltrated and subverted, a long time ago. we have to let them go, and reconstruct a real left among those people who are still capable of thinking for themselves. the natural constituency for such a project, is the people who showed up for the demonstrations in London and Berlin, today.
as for the SWP, be grateful that they’re agitating for something as substantial as nurses’ pay. in North America, the burning issue of the age is transgender toilets and preferred pronouns.
my usual reaction is cynical laughter; I feel it’s more constructive, or less personally destructive, than incoherent rage. I’m not the pretentious, delusional asshole, they are.
“the real left died…. we have to let them go, and reconstruct a real left“
Really though: why this obsessive attachment to this inherently divisive self-label?
because I’m actually quite keen on dividing myself from supporters of fascism, war, imperialism, environmental destruction, and class exploitation. all that good stuff that the right traditionally stands for. they don’t seem to be at all confused about it, actually.
The thing is, just as you associate, rightly or wrongly, “The Right” with fascism, war, imperialism, environmental destruction and class exploitation, “The Left” can be just-as-rightly-or-wrongly associated in precise parallel: collectivist totalitarianism, domestic depredation, globalization, eco-fetish austerity and class warfare.
I’m actually entirely in favour of class warfare, from one side, anyway. I take it that you’re not.
What is CLEAR is that even for “protesting” modern slaves MUST ALWAYS OBEY the jesters, Billionaires and SRF ORDERS!
Another live stream from Berlin.
This is showing the bottleneck where the police aren’t allowing the march to proceed. Just heard one of the organisers saying that it is their democratic right to demonstrate. Heard him refer to “Nazis” but trying to put a humorous slant on it.
The video is unavailable…
Hi Hope
Sorry, only just seen your comment. Underneath where it says video unavailable, it says it can still be watched on Youtube – so just click on the link. Just checked and it is still broadcasting.
There’s currently a stand-off, now over 2 hours long, between police and protestors on, I think, Friedrichstraße in Berlin Mitte. The police, under orders from Berlin’s Innensenator Geisel, are refusing to allow the planned march to begin. They are demanding that the crowd, pressed together by the police’s kettling, adhere to social-distancing guidelines of 1.5m. But the police are deliberately blocking the side streets, so the crown cannot obey.
One of the demonstration organisers’ lawyers, Markus Haintz, is reasoning with the police, but to no avail. The police actions are unlawful, as the protest has been (twice) approved, after 2 attempts to block it (a second attempt was made, and refused by the courts, last night). He is demanding that Geisel resign.
Just now, Haintz invoked Article 20, Para 4 of Germany’s constitution, namely the right to self-defence once all other measures have been blocked. It seems the authorities are hell bent on violence, so are doing their stubborn best to incite it. The crowd on Friedrichstraße – I suspect hundreds of thousands strong – has sat down in defiance of the police.
I’ll be back with further updates as they develop.
So ‘GEISEL’ is the new name for fascism and the police have shown their true colours.
The MSM will spin this is a far-right protest, when the opposite is true. The repression of peaceful protest is ‘far right’.
Again, as I’ve said over and over – the absence of the Left is amplifying the voice of the Right. The Left’s absence is a betrayal of humanity.
Shame on Geisel. Shame on the Berlin police.
Respect and gratitude to the peaceful demonstrators who are trying to prevent a future dystopia.
There is no true left for a long, a very long time. They killed the true left Rudi Dutschke. They killed Olaf Palme. The list is long…
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the actually-existing “Left” are agents of the ruling class and the state, whether or not they’re consciously aware of it. if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be shilling so hard for the Megadeath Virus of Doom.
No use calling the police Nazis. They’ve all had their trans-whatever training and firmly believe that they are progressive.
This is how the bureaucracy has been co-opted in the UK… Leadership courses from Soros’ Open Society and Common Purpose have brainwashed the police, military and civil service.
They are now capable of sticking anything to the ‘ignorant and unenlightened’ people.
Now, that’s just what the Nazis and, above all, the Bolsheviks did. TPTB have found a way to deliver exactly the same disciplinarian brainwashing to a new generation, under the label of ANTI-Nazi.
Goes to show that the ideology is irrelevant. All you have to do is promise them admission to a secret club, that the end justifies the means. And leave the ‘end’ a little vague.
there’s plenty of use in calling the police nazis, because they are, in fact, nazis. who gives a shit what they think of themselves? they’re the hired thugs of the billionaires, just as they were in 1942.
The police are attempting to disband the protest, but the protestors are staying put. In their attempt to end the protest, the police are breaking the law. This signals a switch into a dictatorship, and triggers Article 20, Para 4 of Germany’s constitution; the right to self-defense. At the moment, that defense is to stay put, peacefully, until they are allowed to proceed and planned, or until Merkel resigns.
Amazing developments on Friedrichstraße!
There are noises the police will soon attempt to disperse the peaceful crowd with water canons.
I’ve been watching a livestream of the massive protest in Trafalgar Square, listening to Piers Corbyn and others – havn’t looked at the Berlin protest for a while. Bloody hell… thanks for these updates Toby👍
Seems the police has gone! Masses of people walking peacefully on FriedrichStrasse
I know!! Karlsruhe decided against the police after an Eilantrag was submitted by the movement’s lawyers.
There is hope!
It seems that the court in Karlsruhe has just decided against the police’s attempt to disband the protest. Judging from the livestream on Friedrichstrasse, the crowd there has marched on and is likely headed for the Große Stern, where the demonstration will continue and thousands are already gathered. How many is very hard to tell.
Basically, the Berlin Senate has just been slapped down yet again, and the protest continues, legally. Police are currently departing the scene at Friedrichstrasse.
Toby Russell, thanks so much for your fantastic reports on the developments on Friedrichstraße! They held us there for almost 5 hours. Of course, we had no idea about the planned water canons at the time or that all these legal proceedings were taking place. This Querdenken group is amazing. Do you know if there are reports of the court proceedings in Karlsruhe? It’s an inspiring success story. Would like to share it with the lawyers of our protest groups.
You’re very welcome!
I haven’t heard of any, but neither have I searched. The Karlsruhe decision was, I believe, relatively trivial legally but hugely significant politically in that the Berlin Senate’s and thus the government’s multiple attempts to block the demonstration failed. Querdenken’s lawyers obviously know their stuff and are nimble and effective under fire. The constitutional protections regarding the right to protest/gather would be the legal principles behind the court’s decision. More than that I’m not really qualified to say.
I hope that helps a little.
thanks!
Toby, thanks for replying to my previous question. I have two more:
dissidents who precisely for this reason dont use FB)… We will certainly fail in our endeavour if we always keep hiding behind pseudos and dont come out under our veritable identities. Also I think that especially in countries with little to no opposition its essential to connect with the organizations in Germany and UK.
Hi hope,
11.25 a.m. BBC just showed live footage from Berlin with the comment that 20,000 are expected to turn up. No mention of London!! No surprise there then.
The bulk of the demonstration is being blocked by police on Friedrichstraße, see my comment above.
Just seen a livestream of London and the police have moved into part of the crowd in an attempt to provoke. The person livestreaming was yelling at people not to fall for it and to ignore them. Massive huge crowd in the Square. In Berlin, a couple of my Dutch FB friends are livestreaming, and a lot of people are just sitting on the ground. As Toby says, it’s a standoff.
God give them the strength.
Different video footage from the Berlin rally on 1 August, with English sub-titles, supplementing the footage already widely shared.
https://www.facebook.com/derrickbroze/videos/353821012313936/
How many comments blocked here today? It looks like a form of automated censorship they are experimenting with here, at this GCHQ site.
Perhaps they could start by blocking your own fact-free comment.
Priceless.
I hope you stick around 🙂
Oh he will. With a different name. But still him…
You’d think his supervisor would have briefed him before dropping him in here.
I blame the defence cuts!
It’s Saturday.
You can’t get the staff, you know😉
It certainly seems that way 🙂
Looks like quite a lot of people are arriving.
Thanks Simon!!
The chant is called out whenever the police pass by. It says “Schliess euch an!” Join!
For anyone interested, Russia Today are livestreaming the protests in Berlin. I don’t know what time they start, it’s about 11.50am Berlin time; but already a huge crowd there. One of my Dutch Facebook friends is also livestreaming on his phone, and theres a large contingent who have travelled from The Netherlands for this protest also. Excellent! Makes my evening!
Robert F Kennedy jnr in Berlin yesterday with Heiko Schoening of German ‘Doctors for Enlightenment Group’ (ACU).
https://www.facebook.com/stefan.diemschnig/videos/1348933121962332
For those wondering about his voice he suffers from spasmodic dysphonia which affects the muscles in the larynx.
LIVE aus Berlin: Protest gegen die Corona-Politik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i22DKeln1mY
Live-Stream aus BERLIN! #89 #FREIHEIT #WIRSINDDASVOLK
Nurse Kate Shemirani video filmed this morning on her way to the London Event. Only 6+ minutes, well worth watching. She is listed among the main stage names in attendance, but not sure if she herself will be speaking there.
https://www.facebook.com/kay.shemirani/videos/10224023348361746/
In South Africa, where I live, there’s a huge groundswell happening in reaction to several causes: the fallout from one of the most draconian lockdowns in the world, the ongoing genocide of SA farmers, and to the daily despicable actions against ordinary citizens by one of the most corrupt regimes running any country.
Today, thousands of bikers have taken to the roads in protest against the farm murders, as well as to bring more awareness to their plight worldwide. Activists from the Move One Million group have joined the bikers today.
Next week on 5 September, Move One Million will be protesting countrywide the plight of all those affected by destruction of the economy here in SA, among other things. Thousands, if not millions, will join them worldwide…it will be a global event. Has anyone else heard of Move One Million?
Hello WeeCoo: South African peoples have been the testing grounds for more forms of genocide than any other. Unfortunately, it will take much more than a million marchers to bring down the puppets of South African banking and trade agreements. The UN is no ones friend… Best regards.
Mahatma Ghandi once said : “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall… think of it, always.”
One of Nelson Mandela’s famous quotes was: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
The groundswell which is happening as mentioned above in my post is so much more than just a few peaceful protests – many other collaborative actions are taking place behind the scenes. It’s so very difficult to remain positive here everyday, Paul, but somehow we have to find a way, as those two activists did. But I agree, the UN etc is no ones friend…
I was too busy over the last three days to get to this piece of the German puzzle (my translation):
That’s two of the article’s (penned before the ban was announced) three opening paragraphs. Basically, the process to complete/renew Germany’s constitution was to have been initiated on Thursday. The current version is apparently temporary. My understanding is that, after the fall of the Wall, the current constitution was written as a stop-gap until a more fundamentally democratic one could be written. Anselm Lenz, author of the above linked-to article and founder of the new weekly newspaper Democratic Resistance (“Demokratische Widerstand”), was to have been at the meeting initiating that long awaited rewrite.
Basically then, this protest/demonstration, which will extend over coming days and weeks, is in part meant to complete a new constitution that will have elements of direct democracy baked into its cake. It would take Germany, I suspect, out of the Euro, and most likely out of the global neoliberal framework. Should this indeed be the case, that would be a very heavy blow to NWO/globalist ambitions – likely a fatal blow. How the timing of this process is now looking – having been disrupted by the now-overturned ban –, I’m not sure. But that is the basic direction of travel.
Germany is thus the focal point of global transformation, at least in potential. Large numbers will set up camp around the Straße des 17ten Juni and will remain in occupation until their goal – the collapse of the Merkel regime – is reached.
It’s possible sections of the police will switch to the demonstrators’ side. Certain rumours suggest a turn of events along such lines. We will find out soon enough…
Thanks Toby for this update. Indeed, that is what is needed that the police begin to switch sides. I should here say that my mother was a companion of Gandhi in her teenage, and he used to make her sit next to him during meetings.
She is no longer living, but am sure she is in spirit with you, as I am, from a country that is moving towards full lockdown again…
May God bless us all today, May God bless humanity.
Police switching with the demonstrators is crucial – only one name I know of thus far: Michael Fritsch.
Police and the military need to be reminded of their children’s and grandchildren’s potential future if the current direction continues as it is – a dystopia for all.
This weekend would have been the Notting HIll Carnival.
Mark Devlin looks ahead to Saturday’s protests in London. https://youtu.be/6RLRAFIDbTw
Mark warns that there will be rival demonstrations by BLM and the Antifa-affiliated Extinction Rebellion who have coincidentally chosen the same date.
Bristol gathering on Sunday.
I warned against the toxic nature of Extinction Rebellion when they first emerged – no one listened.
The photo of Greta Thunberg shaking hands with Obama, who dropped 20,000 bombs on seven different countries, should have woken people up. The US military is the world’s number 1 polluter.
I saw thru them as a fake ‘activist group’ almost right from the start.
I noted that it was mainly the hipster – yuppie types, the faux left liberals who were getting involved (the ones who support BLM).
Cory Morningstar at Wrong Kind Of Green, Kim Hill at Medium and The Acorn called them out very early on amongst others. There was an article here last year at OffGuardian on ER (from memory?)
It’s no coincidence Extinction Rebellion and BLM are staging a protest in London at the same time. Its done very deliberately.
He simple fact they dont berate all the polluting companies tells you they are controlled by the companies. As if i would listen to an autistic teenage girl on serious matters.
Extinction Rebellion was involved with the overthrow of Evo Moralis the indigenous socialists president of Bolivia.They are disgusting and should be ashamed of themselves.Blood and murder on their hands.
Oh my goodness! That’s shocking and disgusting. I didn’t realise.
Hopefully Extinction Rebellion will be unmasked to such an extent that most people will begin to see their dark heart and cease supporting them.
Excellent, informative and revealing overview. Thanks for the link. I have just submitted my request to become a member of the CovidTruthers Tour Facebook Group.
Article posted on BBC news app asking ‘is it time to move on from coronavirus and return to normal life’, the next narrative emerges.
Well said Mark.
Listen up, Australia…
Thanks JohnEss. Have shared this important video. I like his passion and clarity.
You are most welcome👍
Some god news here :-
https://mobile.twitter.com/grasshopperxcc
PS , didn’t notice it’s been posted already .
Wonderful news. Germany has become a beacon of liberty. No wonder the far-right wanted Britain out of the EU.
Exactly, can you imagine that happening here in ‘taking back control ‘ UK ?getting our democracy back, regaining our sovereignty, ha ha ha ha ha haha ha
This was sent to the site ‘a different bias’ August 28
Seeing the likes of you crying and whinging , I genuinely don’t care if we’re poorer, so long as the likes of you are dragged kicking and screaming from your beloved EU , I just want to win now and would happily see the country burn so long as the remainers get burnt too.
This is where we’ve got to now, this is all the leavers have to offer, bit different than a couple of years ago, idiots
Unfortunately, your beloved EU is no beacon of liberty either.
This is the broadcast to energize your march.
Thank you to those who introduced me to Sacha Stone. It applies to any government but especially the Five Eyes tyrannies of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Britain and the United States and the NATO and U.S.-occupied lands such as Germany, Italy and Japan.
“You have a structure of government in Australia that is impermeable. You cannot speak to the government. There has to be a whole new method of engaging that Medusa, that Leviathan. It is going to take a lot of people stepping up and stepping out the same day.
“The rules in Australia are a whole lot worse than what was done in the first couple of years of Nazi Germany. This is spooky, this is creepy. The liberal intellectual class is what props up the evil. It props up the wickedness of the bureaucracy and the technocracy. I found the same thing in Manhattan and in Hollywood.
“The pulse of middle America for me is the most beautiful, grounded patriotic soul. Then, on the East and West coasts, you have this liberal intellectual elite class that is utterly perverse.
“There are things going in the underground military bases that are connected to how that country has been weaponized. Australia has been weaponized for 75 years and while people were allowed to amble around on the surface, actually the country was being set up in the same way as Canada.
“Five Eyes is a trans-national compact of intelligence agencies. Why do you think it is that those five nations are the ones that are in the thrall of this attempt to roll out the New World Order: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Britain and the United States?
“The U.S. is being somewhat retrieved by the Trump administration and look how the liberal intellectuals are shrieking along with their Satanic media but Australia is in the grip of that culture and the people will have to wake up to that tyranny. It has had five generations of planning.
“Everyone is in a state of chemical toxicity and there is a dream spell on the media.”
“Australians do not own Australia. That is how your prime minister, this salamander, is able to slither into office and take power. He has no conscience, he is not a statesman, he has no leadership skills, he is a bureaucrat, he is a pen pusher who gets ahead because he eats canapes and swills cognac with the right people… that’s how they get ahead.
“They are terrified of the unified people. The crown, the state, the Vatican complex, the pedophiles, the satanists are in a state of trauma themselves because they and their overlords are losing grip for the first time in a thousand years. It is an old story of greed and harvest and sacrifice of incidents but it’s over.
“No one should be paying taxes to the government that is about to plunge syringes into your babies and pumping chemicals and toxins known to harm the auto immune system. Nor to any creature that is bandaging my face up with a mask and prohibiting my intake of oxygen. And that is the what these deviants are terrified of.
“Anyone with the IQ above that of an apricot knows full well that this is fraud.”
Sacha Stone. https://youtu.be/YgSkHAqHXAI
sacrifice of incidents = innocents.
Google would like to write my every word, of course.