[timmac]

10's of thousands protesting in the streets and the mainstream media is rather quiet, unless its about the Gaza strip the media is quiet..

However it appears that inflation is starting to hurt the middle class and poor in Israel, they are tried of their Gobberment as well..

http://youtu.be/t8u8cjS-TiM

[Sixstrings]

Yeah it's weird MSM has been nearly 100% silent on this. A couple brief mentions.

Interesting huh.. the "Arab Spring" wasn't just for Arabs. These are socialist revolutions, working people fed up with rising prices, falling wages, and unemployment.

[Pretorian]

Yeah it's weird MSM has been nearly 100% silent on this. A couple brief mentions.

Interesting huh.. the "Arab Spring" wasn't just for Arabs. These are socialist revolutions, working people fed up with rising prices, falling wages, and unemployment.

Yeah, they do think their next overlord (or a bunch of fat pigs), meaning whomever their deaths are bringing to power as we speak, will feed them better then a previous one. Good luck with that. Especially for Libyans, there is no coming back to the old fancy lifestyle for them. It's over.
I can't help but grin when stupid people like that led by the blind and hopeless greed lose what they have already. I find it to be very entertaining.

[papa moose]

If it's not too much trouble could someone give a better definition of "this", on some other links? I can't veiw youtube from work so have NFI what you are discussing... maybe the MSM is reporting it here but i can't tell without knowing what "it" is

[Shaved Monkey]

NY times from 4 hours ago

On Saturday, approximately 150,000 people flocked to the streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba and many small suburbs and towns to protest the rising cost of living. It was Israel’s largest demonstration on any issue in over a decade, and organizers are calling for an even larger protest this weekend, mimicking the snowballing weekly rallies of the Arab Spring.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/opini ... -high.html

[americandream]

Yeah it's weird MSM has been nearly 100% silent on this. A couple brief mentions.

Interesting huh.. the "Arab Spring" wasn't just for Arabs. These are socialist revolutions, working people fed up with rising prices, falling wages, and unemployment.

I'm not sure that the masses have yet arrived at a rejection of capitalism so I tend to see these uprisings as liberal in intent with perhaps a few social democratic objectives (or in the case of Islamic countries, socially liberal). I think we've a lot more pain to endure before demands for major revisions of how we distribute resourcing appear on the radar.

[Keith_McClary]

NY times from 4 hours ago

On Saturday, approximately 150,000 people flocked to the streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba and many small suburbs and towns to protest the rising cost of living. It was Israel’s largest demonstration on any issue in over a decade, and organizers are calling for an even larger protest this weekend, mimicking the snowballing weekly rallies of the Arab Spring.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/opini ... -high.html

The big gripe is high rents due to their booming economy:

Ironically, all of this comes just as Israel’s economy is being praised for managing to escape the worldwide recession: unemployment is at a 20-year low, terrorism is down and tourism is thriving.

It's rough being the worlds highest per capita foreign aid recipient.

[AgentR11]

Wonder if its not an Israel avoidance topic this time, but an avoidance of something closer to home... The misrepresentation of the inflation experienced by typical middle class consumers. That a bunch of regular people overseas would get mad enough to protest OVER RISING PRICES might not be the easiest story to jive with the US Govt report of no significant US inflation, the low growth, and the overly apparent inflation felt by your average laborer in the US...

Might give him ideas.
Might make the media seem even less trustworthy.

If Bob doesn't trust the media, he won't buy the soap he's been told to buy.

[Plantagenet]

the "Arab Spring".....these are socialist revolutions, working people fed up with rising prices, falling wages, and unemployment.

Actually, both Assad's regime in Syria and Gadaffi's regime in Libya ARE socialist. The Arab spring is actually a hybrid revolt involving an uneasy coalition of disaffected tribes, new pro-western youth and your classic Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamicists.

[Quinny]

To say it's the thing you seem to fear so much you just don't have a clue what it means do you!

the "Arab Spring".....these are socialist revolutions, working people fed up with rising prices, falling wages, and unemployment.

Actually, both Assad's regime in Syria and Gadaffi's regime in Libya ARE socialist. The Arab spring is actually a hybrid revolt involving an uneasy coalition of disaffected tribes, new pro-western youth and your classic Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamicists.

[EnergyUnlimited]

Yeah it's weird MSM has been nearly 100% silent on this. A couple brief mentions.

Interesting huh.. the "Arab Spring" wasn't just for Arabs. These are socialist revolutions, working people fed up with rising prices, falling wages, and unemployment.

Remind a bit a revolution of passengers on an ailing aircraft, which is heading for rocks regardless... or an uprising of economy class passengers on sinking Titanic...

Peoples will demand a lot and get nothing, except of bullets from desperate TPTB trying to save their own lives...

No, socialism has nothing to offer in collapsing economy... laws of Nature are not working that way.

[Sixstrings]

The big gripe is high rents due to their booming economy:

Ironically, all of this comes just as Israel’s economy is being praised for managing to escape the worldwide recession: unemployment is at a 20-year low, terrorism is down and tourism is thriving.

It's rough being the worlds highest per capita foreign aid recipient.

Actually they have a lot of income disparity in Israel, it's gotten much worse since the Netanyahu government enacted Bush-like far right policies. Israel used to be a more socialist place. Now they're getting a taste of the what the USA feels like, and the poorer Jews (and disappearing middle class, gee sound familiar?) don't like it.

Ultra orthodox Jews make up half the poorest class in Israel. To be fair by the way, another problem is the settlements -- without expanding settlements housing prices are going up.

[Sixstrings]

No, socialism has nothing to offer in collapsing economy... laws of Nature are not working that way.

It's funny.. conservatives have been saying their ideology is required by the "laws of nature" since the 1930s. It wasn't true then, it isn't true now. It's a choice.

[Fishman]

Why is the Mainstream Media not reporting this, well perhaps, everyone around the world is upset about prices, so 15 k peaceful protesters, protesting in a democratic coutry that's not running them over with tanks, like next door in Syria, doesn't make the news. Just a thought

[Sixstrings]

Why is the Mainstream Media not reporting this, well perhaps, everyone around the world is upset about prices, so 15 k peaceful protesters, protesting in a democratic coutry that's not running them over with tanks, like next door in Syria, doesn't make the news. Just a thought

It's news (or should be) because everyone thinks of Israelis as being right wing. Also.. it's significant that protests have spread, not just Arabs but Jews now too. Will conservatives still love Israel if it goes socialist?

[EnergyUnlimited]

No, socialism has nothing to offer in collapsing economy... laws of Nature are not working that way.

It's funny.. conservatives have been saying their ideology is required by the "laws of nature" since the 1930s. It wasn't true then, it isn't true now. It's a choice.

Ech, well,
It was true then and there... but in 1930 we had a plenty of nearly free energy in form of cheap and abundant oil and other FF to waste.
We had also only about 1.5 billions of peoples, abundant, fertile land, healthy, vibrant ecosystem, plenty of minerals, abundant fresh water and peoples wishing to work, not whining that they are entitled to get something, just because they are peoples...
So comparing these days to now is like talking about another planet.

No longer the case... so sorry man, can't be done.
As I have said - socialism has nothing to offer except accelerated decay to an ultimate ruin which will come regardless, socialism or no socialism.

[TITAN]

If there is even a fraction of a chance that corporate profits could be negatively affected, the MSM won't report it.

[peripato]

10's of thousands protesting in the streets and the mainstream media is rather quiet, unless its about the Gaza strip the media is quiet..

However it appears that inflation is starting to hurt the middle class and poor in Israel, they are tried of their Gobberment as well..

http://youtu.be/t8u8cjS-TiM

Re: Why is the Mainstream Media not Reporting this?

Because they're Satan's handmaidens'?

[timmac]

10's of thousands protesting in the streets and the mainstream media is rather quiet, unless its about the Gaza strip the media is quiet..

However it appears that inflation is starting to hurt the middle class and poor in Israel, they are tried of their Gobberment as well..

http://youtu.be/t8u8cjS-TiM

Re: Why is the Mainstream Media not Reporting this?

Because they're Satan's handmaidens'?

Who the media or the Jews, can you define please..

[evilgenius]

They are reporting it, as long as you consider the BBC to be mainstream.