The Revolution Against The Global Economic Elite Spreads To Germany As Protestors Torch The Cars Of Hundreds of “Fat Cats’” Across The Country.

While  British Politicians continue to insist the riots in the UK were not political there has been a strong rebuke against those claims.

Take for example the recent article I reprinted from the Guardian newspaper that puts the blame of the riots squarely on the shoulders of the openly blatant looting of the public by the economic elite.

Guardian: Pols Say Riots Weren’t Political But Looters Knew The Elite Commits Robbery In Broad Daylight

The Economic Elite Have Enslaved Freedom With Banker Bailout Debt

Looting with the lights on

We keep hearing England’s riots weren’t political – but looters know that their elites have been committing daylight robbery

I keep hearing comparisons between the London riots and riots in other European cities – window-smashing in Athens or car bonfires in Paris. And there are parallels, to be sure: a spark set by police violence, a generation that feels forgotten.

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This is said in all seriousness. As if the massive bank bailouts never happened, followed by the defiant record bonuses. Followed by the emergency G8 and G20 meetings, when the leaders decided, collectively, not to do anything to punish the bankers for any of this, nor to do anything serious to prevent a similar crisis from happening again. Instead they would all go home to their respective countries and force sacrifices on the most vulnerable. They would do this by firing public sector workers, scapegoating teachers, closing libraries, upping tuition fees, rolling back union contracts, creating rush privatizations of public assets and decreasing pensions – mix the cocktail for where you live. And who is on television lecturing about the need to give up these “entitlements”? The bankers and hedge-fund managers, of course.

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Of course London’s riots weren’t a political protest. But the people committing night-time robbery sure as hell know that their elites have been committing daytime robbery. Saqueos are contagious. The Tories are right when they say the rioting is not about the cuts. But it has a great deal to do with what those cuts represent: being cut off. Locked away in a ballooning underclass with the few escape routes previously offered – a union job, a good affordable education – being rapidly sealed off. The cuts are a message. They are saying to whole sectors of society: you are stuck where you are, much like the migrants and refugees we turn away at our increasingly fortressed borders.

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Those protests have now spread to Germany and the Germans are making it absolutely clear their actions are political. In fact, they are further making it clear the are revolting against the globalist fat cats who continue to rob the middle class and poor specifically by embarking in a campaign to torch the cars of the “fat cats” all across the country.

Clearly the outbreak of political violence in Germany does not bode well for the rest of Europe as Germany has the best economy in the entire continent.

A Zero Hedge report follows.

The Benz Burners Arrive: Protests Come To Germany As Arsonists Burn Down “Fat Cat” Cars

Following the recent riots in the UK, it seemed there was only one safe bastion from the marauding bands of indignants, labor unions, and  general hooligans: Germany. That is, alas, no more. During the past two days, German protests against globalization, read Germany’s undertaking to trade export strength for a joint European currency and a bailed out Club Ded periphery, have begun manifesting themselves albeit with a twist. As Bloomberg reports, in the past two days, arsonists have set fire to 26 cars in Berlin, mainly Mercedes, BMW, and Audis, which brings the total number of torched cars to 138, more than double all of 2010. “The arsonists want to hit what they say are ‘Fat Cats,’” Berlin police spokesman Michael Gassen said. A special unit is investigating the fires as political crimes after the police received letters claiming responsibility that derided globalization, gentrification and rising rents, he said.” It appears that while the Arab Spring was started by the self-immolation of a fruit seller protesting more or less the same things, that level of self-sacrifice is strangely missing in Europe’s (and maybe the world’s) most prosperous, and entitled, nation. As such we doubt much if anything will come out of this, suffice to way that Joe LaVorgna will promptly raise his German GDP due to replacement costs associated with rebuilding the burnt down “fat cat” cars. Also, if this is the apex of protesting, we doubt that Italy and the rest of the insolvent PIIGS has much to worry about Germany pulling away the subsidized methadone IV drip.

 

From Bloomberg:

Mercedes Targeted as Luxury Cars Burned in German Globalization Protests

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The fires come amid worsening economic data and political discontent in the country. German growth, last year the motor of Europe’s recovery, almost ground to a halt in the second quarter. Gross domestic product, adjusted for seasonal effects, rose 0.1 percent from the first quarter, the Federal Statistics Office in Wiesbaden said yesterday.

While the attacks are spread out over the year, police usually see a spike during the summer months. In some cases, arsonists have placed barbeque charcoal lighters on tires and ignited them, Thomas Neuendorf, a Berlin police spokesman, said today. Arsonists have in the past also lit a car’s hood on fire after hosing it with accelerant. No arrests have been made in the most recent string of attacks.

 

The fires come amid worsening economic data and political discontent in the country. German growth, last year the motor of Europe’s recovery, almost ground to a halt in the second quarter. Gross domestic product, adjusted for seasonal effects, rose 0.1 percent from the first quarter, the Federal Statistics Office in Wiesbaden said yesterday.

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The rise in Berlin car burnings coincides with widespread lawlessness that erupted last week across England. More than 1,500 people were arrested as rioters looted shops, attacked bystanders and burnt autos. In Berlin, far-left extremists are specifically targeting German luxury cars, symbols of the country’s wealth and export prowess, police said.

“The arsonists want to hit what they say are ‘Fat Cats,’” Berlin police spokesman Michael Gassen said. A special unit is investigating the fires as political crimes after the police received letters claiming responsibility that derided globalization, gentrification and rising rents, he said.

In Germany, it’s hip to have flare:

 

“In Britain you have the phenomenon that people are predisposed to jumping on the bandwagon,” Becker said. “They see that something is up and want to be part of it, to add some fuel to the fire, as it were. With these cars in Berlin, they are in contrast consciously trying to send a message.”

“It is not necessarily the financial crisis which is the main motivation for these attacks,” said Carsten Koschmieder, a political scientist at the Free University in Berlin. “The perpetrators see themselves as being from the left, and protest against capitalism, globalization and gentrification.”

Just wait until the perpetrators realize that they benefits have gone poof following a few years of an ongoing Germany-funded European rescue…

Also, even in Berlin, it is all about location, location, location:

The attacks in the past happened mainly in eastern Berlin districts where more affluent tenants had pushed out squatters who arrived there after reunification in 1990. It’s a “new trend” that arsonists have now moved west, targeting areas such as Westend and its upscale neighbor Charlottenburg, said Michael Maass, a Berlin police spokesman.

Pensioner Wolfgang Lambrecht inspected a burned-out silver Mercedes yesterday afternoon that was parked next to a tree, its trunk blackened by the fire. Lambrecht, who has lived in a nearby apartment for 16 years, woke up in the middle of the night when the smell of burning tires crept through his open bedroom window.

“In the morning, when I saw all the damage, I was so upset that I told my wife, ‘Let’s pack our bags and get out of here,’” he said. “But that would be giving in to the radicals, wouldn’t it?’

At least they don’t call those Germans who protest against the generosity of globalization (with other people’s money of course), terrorists.

Yet.

Update: it appears the situation is a little more serious than we thought. Courtesy of @Jacobmbr, here is a map of all the recent car infernos (via Brennende Autos)

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Note: The site referenced above contains a historical list of burnings, so make sure you are viewing the 2011 data. Note the Map only references attacks in Berlin and clearly you can see that there has been massive outbreak of “fat cat” cars in Berlin. It is also note worthy that the Bloomberg article only refers to cars burned in Berlin over the last two days.

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Addendum

As I previously explained, the media and critics can ignore the protests all they want and balk at the reference to the protests as a “revolution”.

The fact is, however, the corporate media’s refusal to cover the story or to reference it as revolution does not mean it is not a revolution.

When you have millions of protestors taking to the streets all over Europe saying their protests are a revolution it is hard to deny it is a revolution.

The wave of revolution in Europe started in Spain with the media initially carrying the story and then burying it.

The revolution has started in Spain as tens of thousands take to the streets in protest of high unemployment and draconian austerity measures.

Note: Since this story is being buried by the press in several nations, please use the #SpanishRevolution in Tweets to help spread the word. Clearly, governments don’t wont the revolution spreading to there own nations, which explains the media silence.

The revolution has started in Spain as tens of thousands take to the streets in protest of high unemployment and draconian austerity measures.

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And here is Corporate media coverage.

• Democracia Real Ya! Revolution comes to Spain
• Youths defiant at ‘Spanish revolution’ camp in Madrid
• Egypt-style rally grows in Spain
• Madrid protests continue
• Revolution Spreads to Spain: Youth Occupy Puerta del Sol
• “Spanish Revolution” of 2011 Explained

Of course, following the initial media coverage word was put out to stop covering the story. But that didn’t stop the protests in the name of revolution.

In fact revolution protests then spread to Greece which was followed by revolution protest camps being set up all over Europe. But again, the corporate media ignored the story.

The revolution that has started in Spain has spread all over Europe with over 676 protest sites popping up in many nations including several here in the US while the media ignores the story

Spain Is In Open Revolt

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Regardless of the lack of coverage, check out this map of protests sites that have popped up around the world in the name of protest against the corrupt bankers and governments (details on the map below).

 

Camp Sites Around The World That Have Popped Up In The Name Of Revolution Calling For Real Democracy

 

To be fair, as I pointed out in the post above, there has been coverage on this story –  which has been buried –  in several corporate media publications but none that reveal that there is a worldwide call for revolution breaking out around the world.

Indeed the #SpanishRevolution has quickly grown beyond just being Spanish. First it grew into the #EuropeanRevolution with revolution protest sites being set up throughout Europe. Then with in a matter of days it has  become the #WorldRevolution as protests sites spread across the US. (More on these #hash tags below) (Yes.. the media hasn’t ran any stories but there are plenty of YouTube videos confirming #WorldRevolution protests through the United States… Come on Wake UP! Of course the media is going to bury this story)

In fact 676 different camp sites – locations in which revolutionary protestors have set up camps, including tents (see story above for details), in public owned areas – have been set up worldwide, with dozens of places of protests calling for revolution set up here in the United States and all organize online through sites like Facebook.

The media can ignore the revolution all they want but the fact is over 22 million citizens from around the world have joined the call for revolution because they are fed up. When you have this many people coming out in full force saying the revolution against corrupt governments and bankers has started you don’t need a mainstream media story to confirm it. Media coverage or not, over 22 million people hitting the streets saying this is a revolution, and as those numbers continue growing daily… well I call it a revolution.

With or without media coverage, people are organizing and spreading the word through online social networking tools. Here is a map that that has been set up to track revolution camp sites around the world and the number of revolution sites has grown to over 676 around the world with several sites here in the United States alone.

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Clearly, the protests in Germany are for the same political purposes and a continuation of revolution protests that have been seen across all of Europe.

Remember, the revolution will not be televised.