Protests in London Against the Financial Bailout Plan for Banks
60Angered Brits Protest Their Own Financial Bailout in London
A couple weeks ago on Sept. 25 Americans protested on Wall St. to convey the collective anger of the country against the pork-filled $700 Billion bailout of financial institutions. Click here to see the videos from that protest, which received scant coverage from the mainstream news media. Now here we sit with Dow Jones down about 2,000 points from where it was a couple weeks ago (sits at about 8451 pts). Banks around the world are in crisis and recession is a certainty. In fact we may actually be on the precipice of a depression. Glad to see the bailout worked so well to restore confidence in the markets!!! I know, I know, it's going to take time for the bailout to have effect etc. etc. and for all the junk assets to be bought up with our tax money so as to have some counter effect on the credit crisis blah, blah, blah.
It seems that our counterparts in Great Britain are expressing their collective frustration and anger by staging protests of their own. On October 10 a large protest group stormed the London Exchange (next to the Bank of England) and made their feelings known to the occupants thereof. The protests in London were quite spirited and filled with vitriolic chants such as "The Rich, The Rich we gotta get rid of the Rich!" etc. etc. People are extremely angry to say the least and who can blame them?
The Associated Press reported this story, however, I will be very surprised if the U.S. news media even bothers to mention this event, let alone do an in-depth report on it. They will collectively choose to ignore this story, just like they ignored the bailout protest in New York City on Sept. 25. Why? The only reason I can think of is that they don't want to give publicity to these types of protests out of fear that they make grow into something much larger. If the financial and economic situation worsens and there are more bailouts, then there may be nothing to stop the protests from growing larger.
WAKE UP AND LOOK AT WHAT THE MEDIA IS NOT SHOWING YOU!
(Well at least the Associated Press cover it anyway!)
WATCH THE VIDEOS BELOW.
Video 1: Protests against the Bailout in London
Video 2: More Raw Video of the London Bailout Protest
AP News Story about the British Bailout Protests
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Socialists... No wonder they weren't on the news. Isn't the government meant to be socialist too? I hate socialists.
And I hate Jolly Jim.. and morons like him. The real reason is because you don't have a news media in the USA. Just something called CNN which spends more time reporting cats stuck up trees in local communities than world affairs. Try watching the BBC and you'll learn something about the rest of the world you live in. Floods in India, earthquakes in China, heads of state you've never even heard of and that your own bloody president can't even pronounce. You're a joke.
Obama for president!
i have to disagree as 95 % of the worlds media is controled by the same people, who you may ask the same people that own the banks and more than half the worlds positive wealth. The rest of us including the goverment are in dept to this private network of familys/employees.
The building the protestors are trying to enter is not the London Stock Exchange, but the Royal Exchange which was once a stock exchange, but is now a luxury shopping centre. Perhaps they were looking to pick up an expensive handbag on the cheap.
Daniel says:
14 months ago
Ive just seen this from a link from housepricecrash.co.uk
I have to say, I find it absolutely amazing that this recieved no coverage in the mainstream media?
Why is that?