Pushback

in the last week, we have seen videos of working class stiffs grabbing eco demonstrators who were trying to block trains until one of the locals grabbed one of them by the legs and pulled him off.

Then there were the California types (affluent white girls) blocking a highway demonstrating against global warming, causing people to be late for work, until one guy grabbed their banner and threw it away and opened the road.

Then there was the unknown people who picked up a set of pagan idols from inside a church in Rome and threw them into the Tiber. The Vatican refused to clarify if these statues were a folk carving of the Virgin Mary, a pagan idol, or just a symbol of "mother earth", but the ceremonies suggested it was being treated as a pagan idol, so a lot of us are cheering that someone took a stand.

being the modern world, and since most of the pushback against aging hippies are from the tech savvy "yutes", we have videos of all these things.


But there are also demonstrations all over: Hong Kong, France, Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria etc. that don't get in the news.

One trouble: it's easy to "astroturf" a demonstration, and the left is very good at doing this.

But which demonstrations are true grass roots demonstrations, and which are fake? Hard to tell.

I know here in the Philippines, the going rate to hire a demonstrator is 500 pesos a day plus lunch. (ten dollars).

Of course, if the unemployed and underemployed don't like what you are demonstrating against, they won't do it. (just like vote buying: They only take money to vote for who they want to vote for, the problem is that when all those running for office are seen as crooks, it means the highest bidder wins).

back to the Vatican: the idea behind the present synod is to remake the church, and if you follow the money it's coming from Germany and international organizations. Then there is a move to implement a socialist statement that the liberation theology types signed back during Vatican II.

The problem; a lot fewer people are poor statistically today than back in the 1960s/

and it is due to capitalism.



and the areas of extreme poverty, such as in Africa, are due to socialism (e.g. Zimbabwe), corruption and tribal wars.

But never mind.

here's another video: