Police brutality escalating. The pain in Spain is now in Barcelona.

Ah, Barcelona.  Gaudí.  La Sagrada Familia.  The architecture.  The history.  The pickpockets.  And now, of course, the F$%*^g militarized police hitting people in the face and upper body with their batons just because the unemployed young people are protesting nonviolently.  Modern video cameras and the Internet give you that "I was just struck in the face by a fascist cop" feeling anytime you want it these days (watch in full screen for best vicarious viewing experience):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geg_6Xoy04s&feature=player_embedded

What gives the right to a public employee of any class to strike someone else in the face with a hard wooden baton when such person is sitting on the ground making no threatening moves?  This is how ranchers herd their cattle.  It is not how supposedly civilized people should treat nonviolent protestors in this day and age.  I know the cops are tired and that they have been working long hours but I say TOO BAD.  It comes with the job.  I work long hours too and I get frustrated too but if I took a stick to someone who was bothering me I would be in jail for 10 years.  Police have every right to defend themselves but they have no right in any civilized country to hit someone in the head with a heavy baton who is just sitting there .  Shame on you, Policia de Barcelona.  El mundo está mirando ustedes. Cuidado con lo que haces en la cámara.

So what drives these young people to sit there and take beatings to the head and upper torso?  Clearly they are passionate about something.  Clearly the herd is now in risk taking mode.  Participating in that demonstration is high risk behavior - not something normally associated with herd-think.  How easy it would be for any one of them in the front row to have an eye bashed out or to lose their teeth as the result from a blow from one of the Centurions.  A wrong blow could even cause concussion or coma.  It has happened before...  Where would they get medical care?  No job=no benefits. Yet there they sit bleeding.  Truth be told, only 5% of them have any real clue why they are there.  They know they are unemployed (unemployment among young people in Spain is 41%).  They know that bankers screwed them somehow but they really don't know how.  Their main sense is that bankers "messed up" and then used political connections to get bail outs and that's what they are pissed about.  If only it were so simple.

The problem is not bankers but a corrupt global banking system which enables fiat currency and fractional reserve lending.  Anyone who is part of this system who does not play the game gets creamed or becomes irrelevant.  As Chuck Prince reminded us "you have to dance while the music is playing".  This corrupt con game swells the money supply when people are borrowing and the resulting larger money supply creates booms.  Then, when people decide to stop borrowing, the money supply deflates again causing busts. 

Each inflation/deflation cycle clearly results in more net inflation because governments try to battle the deflation by printing money.  Once the bad debt is written off the next credit cycle begins on top of a larger monetary base.  Of course, bankers know the timing of all this and they take advantage of it to concentrate the wealth of the land into very few hands.  Con men end up rich, hard workers end up face down in the gutter, destitute.  How many people really understand this scam?  In my experience, 5% or less.  Most people still roll their eyes when I tell them our banking system is a scam waiting to collapse under its own corrupt weight.  They don't want to think about the facts because the facts are scary to them.  They don't want to traverse the Kubler-Ross grief cycle so they are stuck in denial.

So, that's the scam, pure and simple and it is global.  It works the same way in Spain as in Greece as in the US, albeit with different timing.  The scam is criminal in nature.  In fact, I believe that it is treasonous.  I labeled Greenspan a traitor 5 years ago.  Yes, Alan "Maestro" Greenspan, I want to live to see you tried for treason against the United States and for financial crimes against humanity.  Please don't die until your scams catch up with you.  That would just be too easy.  Those running this scam should be tried for all of the global pain and suffering they have caused.  They are as bad as any war criminal when you add it all up.  Central banking based on fiat currency and fractional reserve lending is a crime against humanity.  That may sound extreme today but wait and see, folks.  The big crash is still coming and when it sets in the damage and pain and human suffering that it will cause will make many past human tragedies pale in comparison.  It's already worse on a global basis than many people thought possible just 4 year ago...

What is a young person in Spain (or elsewhere) supposed to do if (s)he can't get a job because the con men have fraked the credit system so badly that we could be a decade or more in the repair of it?   Yes, folks, that's what we are looking at.  So the 25 year old unemployed person could end up being 35 with no skills, no experience, no prospects and at some point perhaps even no food.  Good lives wasted by the con men of money.  I'm sorry to say that nobody is going to be that patient to wait for 10 year or 20 years.  In fact, taking batons to the face is going to make them run out of patience much sooner.  The whole Eurozone is quite likely on the brink of a Tunisia style revolt yet the US headlines barely have a word of it.  The online news is now as tightly controlled as the printed media has been for years.  Google et al. have been told not to frighten people and to avoid topics of contention for the sake of the people.  Of course the reality is that this is like France or Germany bailing out Ireland or Spain or some other PIIGS.  If they do it, they do it for themselves, not someone else.

If the bloggers get cut off then be afraid.  Be very afraid.  If the day comes when government can't shrug off the stinging words of seemingly inconsequential bloggers then it should be taken as one of those many trigger points I have often written about in the past.  I believe it could likely happen within the next decade.  Perhaps that's why facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is now slaughtering his own meat and learning about farming.  Learning subsistence living techniques.. does this seem like typical behavior for a tycoon?  Perhaps he's just smart enough to know that in a worst case scenario his billions in funny money wouldn't be worth the green toilet paper they are printed on.  A reversion to honesty would mean there is no such thing as billionaires because nobody can possibly work that much harder or produce that much more economic output than his fellow man.  Billionaires are an artifact of a corrupt money supply.