any word if demonstrators in Egypt or Tunisia went after bankers?

[yurbud]

If you've read THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, it's pretty clear that no matter how well intentioned the revolution, economic oppression is not going to end unless the banking and finance sector gets their deadening hands off the steering wheel.

The same is true here. Until those who engineered our economic collapse are in prison or on the run, nothing will change here.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Banks have been common targets in these things

after hosni leaves, watch who parachutes though... globalizaton is part of the reason behind this.

[yurbud]

2. parachutes in or out?

[nadinbrzezinski]

Both... I am almost betting an IMF visit

or two.

[yurbud]

7. somebody there must know the cost of IMF generosity

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Yep, they know

why I am expecting it. They have been there already, over the last fifty years, especially the last thirty or so.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. wonder about the oil?

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7425

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. repeat after me.... PEAK OIL

:-)

and yes, part of the problem.

[leftstreet]

5. Army repel protesters at Egypt Central Bank related building

CAIRO | Sat Jan 29, 2011 9:47am EST

CAIRO Jan 29 (Reuters) - The Egyptian army used tanks and fired shots in the air to force back hundreds of protesters who were attacking the entrance to a building related to the Central Bank in a suburb of Cairo on Saturday, a witness said.

The protesters, who were using wooden planks to try to break into the building, which prints paper money, fled after seeing the tanks approach and hearing the shots.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/29/egypt-protest-bank-idUSLDE70S0DM20110129

[Hannah Bell]

6. the army, which has showed reticence in defending mubarak, defends the banks.

big surprise.

[yurbud]

10. good

[Kalun D]

8. They Went After Banks

Literally, burning and smashing windows and cash machines

(near the end of the vid)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DItdYAN_I-8

[Occulus]

11. Why am I totally unopposed to their actions in that regard?

I should be.



But I'm not.