More than 16,000 people took to the streets of Brussels to protest against the high cost of living amid soaring gas and electricity prices. pic.twitter.com/86iO5mSYhw
— DW News (@dwnews) December 17, 2022
Thousands of Belgians protest the rising cost of living on the streets of Brussels this morning. pic.twitter.com/7eMukgYukc
— Venik (@venik44) December 17, 2022
🔸Thousands of demonstrators have rallied in the streets of Brussels to protest against the rising costs of living, disrupting public transport systems and disarranging this week’s European Union (EU) summit. pic.twitter.com/eTNLmomk0i
— PTV UK News (@ptvuknews) December 17, 2022
The Russian economy is breaking records. Their trade surplus is soaring and their currency has skyrocketed in value.
What that means is that these governments who are freezing people are not doing so to harm Russia. No one thinks the sanctions can possibly harm Russia at this point.
These governments are effectively putting their population on a kind of hunger strike. They are telling the people that they have to suffer, they have to harm themselves, in order to make a moral statement against a border skirmish in the former USSR.
RT:
Thousands took to the streets in Brussels on Friday to demand a freeze on spiking energy prices, and better pay, amid high inflation in Belgium and the EU.
Temperatures in the Belgian capital fell below zero Celsius on the day, but the rally still attracted more than 16,500 people, according to police.
The action was supported by some of the leading trade unions, which led to disruptions of public services and transport systems in Brussels and elsewhere across the country. The capital’s airport said that some flights had to be canceled.
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The unions believe that Belgian authorities should follow the example of neighboring France and cap energy prices. They said in a joint statement that they won’t stop protesting until the workers get what they demand.
“Thousands of people are sending a clear message to the government: things can’t go on like this,” leader of the Workers’ Party of Belgium Hedebouw Raoul insisted.
It sure doesn’t seem like things can go on like this.
The economies of Europe have been thrown into a black hole.
However, the amount of protest is so minimal, due to the inability of people to organize due to censorship, that it’s really not clear what would bring them back from the brink.
Meanwhile: Sino-Friendship Forever: China Gobbles Up World Economy, Russia Doing Great
Probably, this total shutdown of the economy of the peasants has made violence inevitable.
Of course, political violence is always bad, and has never once in history led to the outcome the people engaged in the violence were seeking. But if you totally cut off the ability of the people to air their grievances, you really do make violence inevitable.
JFK said that.
It’s not a fringe view.
Within this current paradigm, however, that violence is just going to give more power to the ruling elite. If I had to guess, I would suspect that the intelligence agencies of Europe (all of which are run by the intelligence agencies of the US and Israel) are currently organizing a violent revolt in order to preempt any kind of organic revolt.
Thousands of people in Brussels protest against rising cost of living in Belgium pic.twitter.com/ptRIzyRDrA
— TRT World Now (@TRTWorldNow) December 17, 2022