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LOCK YOUR DOORS, LOAD YOUR GUNS AND GET YOU A BARKING, BITING DOG
Is this a sign of what is coming for the rest of the nation? In Martin County, Kentucky times are very tough right now. Thanks to severe budget cutbacks, there are only two paid law enforcement officers covering a deeply impoverished 231-square-mile area that sits right in the heart of America’s raging opioid crisis. Needless to say, Martin County Sheriff John Kirk feels greatly outnumbered by the thieves, sexual predators and drug dealers that he has to contend with on a daily basis, and he recently issued a very ominous warning to the citizens of his county…
Before making a wave of cutbacks across his department, Martin County Sheriff John Kirk delivered a grim warning to residents of this hardscrabble Appalachian community.
“Law enforcement as we have known for the last four years will not exist,” he posted on Facebook last month. “WE ARE BROKE… LOCK YOUR DOORS, LOAD YOUR GUNS AND GET YOU A BARKING, BITING DOG. If the Sheriff’s office can’t protect you, WHO WILL?”
So why can’t Martin County afford more law enforcement officers?
Well, like so many other local communities all across America right now, they are deep in debt and flat broke…
The county has accumulated $1.4 million in debt — a surprise to many of its new officials.
“I don’t sleep well,” said Susan Hale, the county’s new treasurer, who is sifting through the bills left by the previous administration: $230,000 to a regional jail that houses its inmates, $140,000 to a state association that provides liability insurance, plus dribs and drabs for mundane items such as office supplies and toilet paper.
As economic conditions continue to deteriorate, we are going to hear a lot more stories like this all over the country.
And the truth is that things will ultimately be far worse in our major cities than in our rural areas.
Just take a look at Chicago. Today it is a war zone, and the growing poverty in the city has fueled the rapid growth of criminal gangs.
According to a study conducted at the University of Illinois at Chicago, approximately half of the city was considered to be “middle income” in 1970, but now that number has dropped to just 16 percent…
UIC’s maps show that fully half of the city was middle income in 1970, including large swaths on every side of town. Today, just 16 percent of the city’s 797 census tracts are considered middle income. Those middle income areas are confined mostly to the corners of the city, and to thin strips between areas of wealth and poverty.
Those numbers are absolutely staggering.
Right now, there are about 12,000 law enforcement officers and more than 100,000 gang members in the city of Chicago.
That means that the gang members outnumber the police by an almost 10 to 1 margin.
Things are not quite as bad in other major cities, but trouble is definitely brewing. For example, the murder rate in New York City is up 37 percent so far this year, and more gang members are moving in with each passing day.
Philadelphia has also seen the murder rate rise substantially, and this is something that Jim Quinn commented on in his most recent article…
Facts are always inconvenient to welfare state Democrats, but the ignorance of their constituents is what keeps them in power. The narrative of Philadelphia getting safer is obliterated by the 351 murders in 2018, up 43% since 2013, and the highest level since 2007.
Assaults involving a gun totaled 2,327, up 13% since 2014. There were over 14,000 violent crimes and 63,000 robberies and thefts in 2018. The vast majority of these crimes occur in West and North Philadelphia, as local news stories lead with multiple murders and shootings every night (average of 4 shootings per day).
If things are this bad already, what are things going to look like when economic conditions get really bad?
We live at a time when Americans are becoming increasingly pessimistic. And even though economic conditions have been relatively stable in recent years, the combined national death rate from alcohol, drugs and suicide has been steadily rising…
Feelings of hopelessness and despair are overwhelming many in the U.S. So much so, that people are turning to alcohol, drugs, and suicide to numb the pain of their lives. Government enslavement and the stranglehold on the economy are making life even more difficult on those already struggling to get by. And this is seen in new death numbers released.
The national rate for deaths from alcohol, drugs, and suicide rose from 43.9 to 46.6 deaths per 100,000 people in 2017, a 6 percent increase, the Trust for America’s Health and the Well Being Trust reported Tuesday. That was a slower increase than in the previous two years, but it was greater than the 4 percent average annual increase since 1999, reported USA Today.
The big reason why people are turning to alcohol, drugs and suicide to deal with the pain in their lives is because they don’t have any hope. And as this country continues to literally fall apart all around us, unfortunately a lot more Americans are likely to give in to anxiety, depression and despair.
If we want to turn this nation around, we need to act now.
Illegal immigration has been one of the biggest factors behind the explosive growth of gang violence in America, and a new report in the Washington Times is telling us that the number of people trying to come across our borders illegally is currently at an all-time record high…
Illegal immigration continues to break records on the southwestern border — and they’re not good ones.
The number of families snared trying to sneak into the U.S. soared by 50 percent in one month alone, setting an all-time record with more than 36,000 family members apprehended, Homeland Security officials announced Tuesday.
The government has also encountered some 70 groups of at least 100 migrants during the first five months of the fiscal year, shattering records and placing new challenges on Border Patrol agents.
Bad choices lead to bad consequences, and we have been making really bad choices for a very long time.
If we are not able to reverse course as a nation, you may want to take Sheriff Kirk’s advice and “lock your doors, load your guns and get you a barking, biting dog”…
286 Comments on "LOCK YOUR DOORS, LOAD YOUR GUNS AND GET YOU A BARKING, BITING DOG"
Estamos Jodidos on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 10:51 am
Akbash dogs here. Wonderful animals, and very, very, very protective of everything on the place: a small goat herd, a cow herd, sheep, chickens, and geese and turkeys. The sign at the road into here says, “NO TRESSPASSING BEWARE OF DOGS”. The sign isn’t kidding, and neither am I. 70 miles from the nearest interstate highway, 180 miles from the nearest town/city with a population over 5,000, and I’m concerned with what’s coming. I’m old, but also a retired military and cop. Once upon a time, I could handle myself. Maybe I still can. Maybe I’ll get to find out. I’m still a damn good shot. I think I need more bullets.
Davy on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 10:52 am
“Dogs can be taken out by a single bullet. I would prefer a shotgun over a dog, as well as 1000 “like-minded” (read: white) neighbours, to help me through the difficult times ahead, aka “The Grand Finale of Multicult”.”
I have guns, dogs, good home placement, and motion detectors. The combination makes a multiplier. The other important variable is a routine with security efforts. As far as guns over dogs, a dark night with barking dogs is different than the day time with a clear shot.
Cloggie on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 11:08 am
Today, trip to Malaga, 571,000 inhabitants, 5th city of Spain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Málaga
As good as 100% white.
Catholics never really accepted the Protestant idea of “freedom of religion” (which the Protestants needed to create a “safe-space” for them-selves in a majority Catholic Europe” during the Reformation). Hence Catholic Italy and Spain and Ireland are still largely white, even the big cities, where “stupid Protestants” have lost their big cities (first Jews, next Muslims as a consequence of the former).
Spain, nice refuge. A bit warm.
Antius on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 12:02 pm
In Britain, owning a gun will land you in prison. The government wants the populace to be unarmed. It isn’t about public safety; it is about control. An unarmed populace cannot remove an evil and unjust government.
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 12:33 pm
Davy can I borrow your old lady as my attack dog?
Don’t worry, Ill keep that bitch on a choke chain!
LOL
Yorchichan on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 12:42 pm
Antius
The process in Britain of obtaining a shotgun licence takes a few months, but it is simple enough and, as long as you don’t have a criminal record, you will not be refused. The police are not even supposed to ask you why you want to own a shotgun but, if they do, wanting it for clay pigeon shooting is a perfectly acceptable reason.
Obtaining a firearms licence is a lot more difficult and you must have a legitimate reason for owning each firearm. Gun club membership is usually required before a firearms licence will be granted.
Davy on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 12:48 pm
MOB, my wife is from the Italian mountains. She is a tough girl. I am pretty sure she would kick your ass and take your name. Hanging out in mom’s basement is not a way to get tough.
Gaia on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 1:04 pm
I don’t need to live in fear (I’m not paranoid). I live a quiet life and am non-confrontational.
Anonymouse on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 3:47 pm
Davy turd, you dont need to start another one of your fake ‘fights’ with your I AM THE DAVYMOB sock. We all know your ‘Italian wife’ is just another element in the elaborate fantasy life you’ve created for yourself. Like that fantastic ‘farm’ of yours, the ‘wife’ and I AM THEY DAVYMOB of course, none of them exist, except in your fevered imagination.
While you can get help for that, I dont really believe you can ultimately be helped in any meaningful way. But you should still make the effort and get off the internet and start living in the real world. Or a rubber room. That would work too.
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 4:24 pm
Davy
I bet your daughter will moan like a whore when they rape her..
makati1 on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 4:56 pm
A couple of poison steaks and a few Molotov Cocktails at 2 am and you have no protection.
If someone wants what you got, they will take it. There is no place on earth that is totally safe except, maybe a deserted island accessible only by boat across hundreds of miles of ocean. But then, what kind of life would that be? Zero.
I prefer to interact with my neighbors, help them when possible, share what I can and be their friend. Also, it is smart to NOT make your preps known to anyone outside your family. You may trust someone, but they may/will probably disclose your goodies in conversation with someone you do not know.
Other than that, you do not know when or where you will die, so don’t worry about it. Twenty years from now, in your sleep, or today by a 16 wheeler on the highway. Life is to be lived not just experienced.
OAC_AKA_fmr-paultard on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 5:23 pm
anontarded
what ur problem with supertard anyway
u need to get ur head checked
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 5:25 pm
We’re edging closer to nuclear war
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/03/07/edging-closer-nuclear-war/upTrxiHlrXiO0Xo40EqsfM/story.html
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 5:35 pm
China economy: Superrich worry it could turn into next Venezuela
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-economy-super-rich-worry-it-could-turn-into-next-venezuela-2019-3
Cloggie on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 5:37 pm
The Moneymen switch from Labour to the Independents:
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israel-lobby-funders-back-breakaway-british-mps
“Israel lobby funders back breakaway British MPs”
Best politicians kosher money can buy.
intellectual nematode Alert! on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 6:08 pm
Davy on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 5:23 pm
Davy Sock Puppet on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 6:13 pm
OAC_AKA_fmr-paultard on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 5:23 pm
OAC_AKA_fmr-paultard on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 6:57 pm
im not supertard
supertard makes fun of (((supremetard))) calling him “sky daddy”.
I don’t do that.
OAC_AKA_fmr-paultard on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:02 pm
“To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it… Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning… one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.”
-Milton Mayer, “They Thought They Were Free”
does anyone know what this (((supertard))) say?
if you don’t think the muzzie has radicalized, u need to stew a bit more on what i quoted of (((supertard)) above.
give a few more minutes
http://www.twincities.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ilhanomar.jpg
that was the old muzzie
the new muzzie shows no neck, no skin. and it looks like an uncut peanis
the change in headress is very slow and very inperceptible
Ban anonymouse on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:10 pm
Anonymouse on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 3:47 pm
JuanP on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:10 pm
intellectual nematode Alert! on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 6:08 pm
Davy on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 5:23 pm
Davy Sock Puppet on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 6:13 pm
OAC_AKA_fmr-paultard on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 5:23 pm
Davy on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:12 pm
“I bet your daughter will moan like a whore when they rape her..”
Her boyfriend would beat you to an inch of your life first.
OAC_AKA_fmr-paultard on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:18 pm
superard could you retract ur statement calling (((supremetard))) “sky daddy” please
do one for teh gipper fmr-paultard
notice i likened myself to reagan
i’m 10x reagan
makati1 on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:18 pm
MOB used the word “they”, Delusional Davy. And if one of “they” happen to hold a gun…BF will likely be dead. You never seem to understand that you are losing the war on intelligence.
Davy on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:24 pm
Mob here is how you reference an article:
“China’s superrich are losing faith in the country’s economy, with some even worried it will turn into the next Venezuela”
https://tinyurl.com/y2vvdwbp Business Insider
“According to a paper published in January by Hurun Report, a Shanghai-based research firm, just over one-third of the superrich Chinese citizens in a survey described themselves as “very confident” about the future of the Chinese economy. On the surface, that seems like a solid number, but it is startling when compared with the same survey two years ago, which showed that nearly two-thirds were very confident in China’s economic future. It is also the lowest number in the 15 years the survey has been produced, Hurun said. The same survey from Hurun also found that the number of wealthy Chinese who had “no confidence at all” in China’s economic future had doubled from last year’s survey to 14%. Hurun’s survey of 465 superrich Chinese citizens also found that almost half were considering emigrating or had already made moves to emigrate from China.”
fmr-paultard on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:27 pm
i don’t get it, supertard is wholelistic he presented counter arguments and often comment on china and their schemes
and he said collapse is global.
he has demonstrated superior knowledge over the eurotard and makato
so i really think the anontard is an intellectual menatode. i know a supertard when i see one.
Davy on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:28 pm
“MOB used the word “they”, Delusional Davy. And if one of “they” happen to hold a gun…BF will likely be dead.”
Well, the guy is an ex Marine and has guns so I imagine he has been trained for such eventualities.
“You never seem to understand that you are losing the war on intelligence.”
makato, you are pushing 80 and each month your mind is shrinking. I have noticed in the last year just how much you are slipping.
fmr-paultard on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:29 pm
another difference
supertard is a muzzie lover
i’m not
i’m an adherent of supertard hughe fitzgerald
Anonymouse on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:38 pm
Delusional Davy piddled this out….
““You never seem to understand that you are losing the war on intelligence.”
makato, you are pushing 80 and each month your mind is shrinking. I have noticed in the last year just how much you are slipping.”
Translation:
“mak continues to moderate and neuter my delusional extremism on a near-daily basis. Against his sharp and insightful moderation of my lunacy, I have little to say or offer except my patented projections, put-downs, and stamping my widdle feet, and generally carrying on like a dumbass.”
But hey, it beats working on my ‘farm’.
annonymouse-the-tard-aka-fmr-paultard on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:42 pm
but anontard, supertard actually has a farm
and makato/aswang has virtual farm and a plot of barren land 80 miles away
and he also explain away food source saying “forrage” but this is where infectious diseases and the lack of medicine in collapse is going to make forraging not a good proposition
i fail to see the worshipping of makato
the real object of workship is supertard
but hey people are confused. they say supremetard is “sky daddy” so there’s blame all around
Davy on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:49 pm
“Why Kyle Bass Is Doubling Down On “Big Yuan Short”
https://tinyurl.com/y29avgwd Zero Hedge
“Bass repeats his long-running thesis, and says that it’s just a matter of time before China’s deteriorating economy “changes the whole narrative, spurring a weaker yuan and forcing policy makers to eat into foreign-exchange reserves to support it.” Bass also expects that China’s $3.1 trillion FX stockpile – the world’s largest – can only fall so far, and he believes that a drop below the $1.5 trillion-to-$2 trillion range would impede the flow of trade, much of which is financed in greenbacks. More importantly, the Hayman Capital founder believes that China’s secular slowdown also means Beijing will have no choice but to abandon any pledge for currency stability, sparking a sizable yuan depreciation. “The Chinese can say they’ll do whatever they can do to keep it stable, but in the end, they’re losing reserves,” Bass told Bloomberg (even though overnight the PBOC announced that reserves rose to a 6 month high of $3.09 trillion) adding that “there’s a number at which the Chinese economy will actually come to a halt, meaning they won’t be able to operate imports and exports.”
“As a result of what Bass perceives as China’s accumulated imbalances, the yuan will slide 30% against the dollar in the next two to three years. This call echoes a prediction he’s been making since 2015, a period in which other hedge funds abandoned bearish yuan bets.”
Ban Anonymouse on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:50 pm
Anonymouse on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:38 pm
Ban Dumbass Davyscum on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 8:16 pm
Davy on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:28 pm
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 8:29 pm
Eurozone growth outlook reduced from 1.7% to 1.1% as the euro economy flutters on a Q2/3 recession
http://www.cityam.com/274317/eurozone-gdp-growth-falls-below-expectations-confirming
Europe can’t get the spruce moose off of the water!
Within ten years growth will be over..And then comes the deflationary collapse!
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 8:30 pm
Davy
Stop spamming this site with your ZeroIQ articles..You uneducated hick..
fmr-paultard on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 9:53 pm
I’m back……
The self-identified retard//Davy alter-ego and sock puppet known as “fmr-paultard” returns to defend his master, DavySkum in a truly pathetic attempt to gain sympathy.
Reverend Cleophus Robinson on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 9:54 pm
Be SILENCED ye Whore of Babylon, for inscribed on DAVY’S scalp is the Beast’s true identity and shall forever be known, DAVY, MYSTERY, BABYLON the GREAT, the FATHER of PROSTITUTES and ABOMINATIONS of the EARTH.
makati1 on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 10:04 pm
Davy, my first bro-in-law was an ex-marine and I could have taken him any time. He was all arrogant mouth and bullshit. Similar to yourself. Fortunately for my sister, he died in his 40s. She was smart enough to dump him even before that happened. Then she married a real Marine, who is a perfect gentleman, and she has been happy for the twenty-plus years since. Most Marines are jar heads…empty jars, that is. My uncle was one. I have known many.
As for “pushing 80″…Hm…I’m 75. Midway between 70 and 80. I live a healthy life and fully expect to pass 80 and even 90 before my clock winds down. You will not see those numbers. Alive, that is. When the drugs stop and the chaos begins…
BTW: I like Anon’s translation. LOL
Cloggie on Fri, 8th Mar 2019 2:06 am
E-vehicles need to drive 700,000 km in order to be “green”:
https://www.autoblog.nl/nieuws/na-700-000-kilometer-is-ev-groener-dan-benzineauto-121628
Reason electricity comes from fossil and so does the embedded energy of battery and chassis.
Once electricity would come from renewables, the CO2-break-even point would be 30,000-40,000 km
Source: university Liege, Belgium
Cloggie on Fri, 8th Mar 2019 2:08 am
Reading through this thread, this board has mostly become a sort of Facebook Ersatz for frustrated, angry men.
Cloggie on Fri, 8th Mar 2019 2:19 am
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6784495/Sickening-cartoons-jibes-lay-bare-Labours-institutional-anti-Semitism.html
“The dossier of shame: Sickening cartoons and jibes that lay bare Labour’s hate as equalities watchdog prepares to probe allegations that the party IS anti-Semitic”
Article proves two things:
– something significant is happening within the Labour party
– The press, as always, is on the kosher side
Why is this happening?
It is the long term effect of the press no longer holding the monopoly on information.
#internet
Cloggie on Fri, 8th Mar 2019 4:48 am
Italian government about to fall (good news!).
Issue: to be built high-speed rail connection between Lyon in France and Turin in Italy, reducing travelling speed between Paris and Milan from 7 to 4 hours and 4 million trucks/year less through the Po valley. Project includes a 57 km tunnel under the Alps.
Salvini and right-wing populists want to build the track.
“Five star” leftist populist don’t (“too expensive”).
Interesting detail. The government is built on a coalition of Five Star (32%) and Lega Nord (17%).
The polls however are now markedly in favor of super star Salvini (33%), where Five star has merely 22% left.
Laughing third: Berlusconi.
Salvini won’t mind to break the government because after a new election he will be PM and start a coalition with old political fox Berlusconi and start a real right-wing coalition, very pro-Russia and very pro EU-as-new-superpower.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/07/berlusconi-campaigns-for-centre-right-in-regional-italian-election
Berlusconi will moderate Salvini’s Euro-scepticism.
Add to this a maximum Brexit chaos, with a likely rejection of the May-deal (for now) and all the ingredients are in place for REAL GEOPOLITICAL CHANGE.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-america-talk-turns-to-something-unspoken-for-150-years-civil-war/2019/02/28/b3733af8-3ae4-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html
Davy on Fri, 8th Mar 2019 4:58 am
“Davy, my first bro-in-law was an ex-marine and I could have taken him any time.”
I am happy for you makato. LOL. Of course you are going to have a makato anti-American twist to it. Your brother-in-law is not the boyfriend of my daughter. The guy is kind and humble. He was shot in Iraq and carries some issues with that but he is mostly over it now. He took his time in the military to help him get an engineering degree. He is now following in his father’s footsteps and hoping to take over his small business. The guy is not perfect but I am glad he has an education and a plan.
As for “pushing 80″…Hm…I’m 75. Midway between 70 and 80. I live a healthy life and fully expect to pass 80 and even 90 before my clock winds down. You will not see those numbers. Alive, that is. When the drugs stop and the chaos begins…
Makato, your time is limited so you better get with enjoying it. Any day could be your last once 80 hits. Maybe you live past your eighties who knows. You are so concerned about living it makes me wonder about what is wrong with you. Always telling us how healthy you are and how good the genes are. Truthfully people like you are worthless. Going into old age and not being around the kids and grandkids. Joyriding a lazy end of life with no family and broadcasting how wonderful it is and how wonderful a person you are for doing it. You actual tell people to be like you. LOL. You are the quintessential narcissist low life. I know I would never want to become what you are.
JuanP on Fri, 8th Mar 2019 5:03 am
Ban Dumbass Davyscum on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 8:16 pm
Davy on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 7:28 pm
JuanP on Fri, 8th Mar 2019 5:04 am
Reverend Cleophus Robinson on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 9:54 pm
Be SILENCED ye Whore of Babylon, for inscribed on DAVY’S scalp is the Beast’s true identity and shall forever be known, DAVY, MYSTERY, BABYLON the GREAT, the FATHER of PROSTITUTES and ABOMINATIONS of the EARTH.
JuanP on Fri, 8th Mar 2019 5:05 am
fmr-paultard on Thu, 7th Mar 2019 9:53 pm
I’m back……
The self-identified retard//Davy alter-ego and sock puppet known as “fmr-paultard” returns to defend his master, DavySkum in a truly pathetic attempt to gain sympathy.
Davy on Fri, 8th Mar 2019 5:12 am
“Reading through this thread, this board has mostly become a sort of Facebook Ersatz for frustrated, angry men.”
You are front and center too clogged and you support the bad behavior of juanP and makato making you complicit. I agree with you and it is a pity because the message of energy and the potential for collapse is so great. I am tired of it but JuanP enjoys causing shit. I am part of it because I attack those who attack me. I Call it self-defense and a resistance to censorship with a backbone fighting cowards. Ever notice JuanP says nothing. Anon says nothing.
Davy on Fri, 8th Mar 2019 5:16 am
“Salvini won’t mind to break the government because after a new election he will be PM and start a coalition with old political fox Berlusconi and start a real right-wing coalition, very pro-Russia and very pro EU-as-new-superpower.” “Berlusconi will moderate Salvini’s Euro-scepticism.”
Ran it by my Italian wife says you are full of shit. LOL.
Davy on Fri, 8th Mar 2019 5:21 am
Clogged’s Europe
“French City Firebombed In 4th Night Of Protests After Cops Blamed For Teenage Deaths”
https://tinyurl.com/y6mhgb36 Zero Hedge
“The young men, aged 17 and 19, were killed on Saturday after they refused to pull over for police who had flagged them down for not wearing helmets. A chase ensued, which ended quickly after the scooter collided with a bus. Riots broke out the following night as approximately one hundred hooded youth took to the sreets, hurling around 30 molotov cocktails, while around 2,000 angry citizens marched on Tuesday in memory of the boys, Adam and Fatih.”
Davy on Fri, 8th Mar 2019 5:26 am
Clogged’s Europe:
“Default Or Exit: A Battle Between Italy And The EU Is Inevitable”
https://tinyurl.com/y6e8k7bf Oriental Review
“There is a dual Italian crisis brewing in the European Union. On the one hand, it is a political, or even geopolitical, crisis. Italy is undermining the unity of the European Union; blocking the EU’s recognition of those behind the coup in Venezuela as the legitimate authority; preventing the expansion of sanctions against Russia; and even supporting the ‘yellow vest’ movement in France, which is arousing the anger of the French government. On the other hand, the crisis is economic in nature. Italy is once more sliding into a recession (economic growth was negative in the country); Italian banks are again facing financial problems; and the business media has already estimated that the Italian economic crisis could blow up the entire European banking system. There is a strong possibility that the EU’s leaders will soon be faced with a choice: try to save Italy (and the whole of Europe) from yet another crisis or set an example by punishing the Italian government for the country’s independent economic and foreign policies. In turn, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s government will most likely have its own dilemma to deal with: bow down and sell its principles to get help from Brussels or go all out and regain Italian independence. The choice will not be easy and either decision will be painful. Neither ending to this Italian drama could really be called happy.”
“Ironically, the worse hit by such a scenario will be French banks, which Bloomberg estimates have Italian loans worth hundreds of billions of euros on their balance sheets. What’s more, such a shock could see foreign investors (and many European ones) beginning to flee the eurozone, adding a currency component to the banking crisis. Time will tell whether the European Commission is willing to take such risks to punish Italy’s freedom-loving politicians, but we can already agree with Luigi Di Maio, who, after meeting the French ‘yellow vests’, declared that “the winds of change have crossed the Alps”. For those who lived through the collapse of the USSR, the symbolism of the Italian politician’s phrase, whether intentional or not, cannot but evoke certain associations with what was said in the Soviet information space in the 1980s. At that time, the “winds of change” were blowing through every single crack in the Soviet Union, and we know it never ends well. Populist politicians in Europe love comparing the European Union to the late USSR, and this comparison is starting to ring true like never before.”