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Welcome to Toronto, world-class city

It’s interesting that one of the Toronto media’s exercises in the waning hours of the G20 is to check the coverage of the rest of the world’s media.

How do they see us? What do they think of us? Do they think of us?
It’s funny and sad at the same time. Don’t worry Toronto, if there was any doubt before, you can now call yourself a world-class city.

It is also interesting to hear and see the coverage of the G20 protests and riots. There is one thing that puzzles me. Whatever do those people think they will accomplish, whether they are socialists, communists, anarchists, globalists, anti-globalists, greenies, or any other of the various and sundry special interests that regularly populate these things? Are they naive enough to think they might affect policy?

Propaganda

Here’s what this all is about. Propaganda. Why do they need a G20 or G8 or any other summit? It is a publicity exercise. Those leaders can and do accomplish any deals or real work in conference calls and meetings, unannounced, over the period of time between summits. Actually, the bureaucrats and lower level representatives do most of the real work. Anything that gets done is merely ratified at these summits.

So it is a public show. Likewise the protests. They are merely a public show response to the public show of the leaders. They affect nothing and they never have. Moreover, even without the rioting and violence, there is such a mish-mash of groups and special interests and pet peeves that it is all a blur for the average person anyway. And the leaders have made sure they are isolated from it. That was the reason for the large fence.

Add to that mix the professional thugs and violent anarchist types and voila! We see what happened Saturday in Toronto. Then, when the police have been throoughly humiliated, we see the totalitarian style reaction on Sunday.

Does anyone, other than the protestors themselves, remember a single thing that anyone had to say in protest? Is there any one theme that emerged? Does anyone really think that those protestors in any way represent anything approximating the average hard-working Canadian?

So now we have the extremists of every stripe, from the Communists to the far right libertarian doom sayers agreeing on one thing. The police are fascists. Doesn’t that have a nice flavour from the sixties? And all for what? For a billion dollar publicity event? What a waste of time and money. But, Toronto is now a world-class city, because they have had a world-class riot and a world-class protest event.

The Exercise of Power

The exercise of power goes on behind closed doors anyway. There is only one way that the people have really had to have an impact and that is in elections. If there is a real wide-spread concern of the real people in the real economy who go to work everyday just to feed their families and get through another week, another month; that movement will manifest itself at the ground level where the people are and the system will work the way it was intended. A bloodless revolution in the voting booth.

That is the way it is supposed to work. When that ceases to work, then there is a bloody revolution. Either way, the idiots that think there is anything to be accomplished by protest at one of these G20 meetings is out of touch with the real people. If they want to move anything, they need to move the everyday people.

Their mentality is that the leaders are the power, and just like those people that they say they hate the most, the power brokers of the monetary or industrial world, they think that they can force special attention to their cause directly from the political leaders. Guess what, if these countries, like Canada, are truly democratic, then the source of the power is on the ground, with the people. The problem is, their ideas usually don’t fly with the people, and that is why they want direct access to the political leaders, to by-pass the process of having to sell their ideas to the people.

Likewise, the large corporations and banks should not have direct access to bypass the people and affect policy. There is far too much of that going on as it is. But in the end, once there are no politicians left that can be trusted, then the revolution is not far away. Are we close to that? Some people think so, and with some justification.

Forces of Right and Left

There are those right now, as there have been for years, who see conspiracies and false-flag operations under every rock, and believe that we are being manipulated into accepting a totalitarian society. Some of them look at the events on Sunday in Toronto and gleefully believe that their theories have been confirmed.

There are those at the opposite end of the political spectrum who have been making a concerted effort to change the entire west into an entirely “progressive” political structure. They are communists and their history is one of undermining and de-stabilizing. It is a pattern that has been repeated all over the world, so we need to be aware of it and watch for it. Are we there yet? Not quite, but I can see that this summer is heating up in the U.S.

A New American Revolution

The greatest political movement that the U.S. has ever seen is underway right now, as a response to the far-left of the Obama administration and the Democrat/progressive Congress and Senate. Those on the radical far-left are aware of it and can see that the window of opportunity that they have had to influence the slower-moving progressives in power is rapidly getting smaller. They will try something or a broad spectrum of things to try to destabilize America enough that emergency powers will be required on the part of the Obama administration. The only way to avoid the public back-lash from the right is to subvert the elections of November. In order to subvert the normal election process, something on the order of a large national security emergency is required.

We will be watching. One way or another there is a revolution coming in the U.S., either a peaceful one at the ballot box, or something that gets very messy. I’m hoping for the peaceful wresting of power from the hands of the freedom-despising progressives. If conservatives gain control once more, there will be a great sigh of relief around the world among those that don’t want to see that beacon of freedom go out, and have to watch as the rest of the world slips into the new dark ages of totalitarianism.

In the meantime, the propaganda displays go on and the hard-working people who can least afford it get to pay for it. But Toronto is now a world-class city.

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