Attacks on Journalists at the G20

whitecoast

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It seems like during the G20 meeting in Germany last week there was an incident where a left-wing journalist took pictures of several journalists together, one of which was with Lauren Southern (who works for Rebel Media, a right wing Canadian news channel). This resulted in several of the journalists there being targeted by Antifa and the Blac Bloc rioters and "protestors" for harassment, assault, and death threats.


A discussion between Tim Pool and Lauren Southern:

An interview with another journalist:


Apparently during the G20 protest a law was passed to reduce the allowable phone data for (I think) foreign journalism for some reason to squelch observations of the scene in another way, it seems. Between this and the left wing media using antifa to squelch the alternative media (who see past the spoon-fed left-right dichotomy) I have to wonder what the heck is really going on. :huh:
 
I really liked Sargon of Akkad's deconstruction of the Young Turk's coverage of the riots at the G20. They draw a lot of comparisons between how the bloc would have been treated in the US versus in the EU. The way the police are heavily militarized and have a toxic machismo culture in the US would likely mean such a protests would not gain much ground, unless they got asked to stand down to foment a false revolution of some kind. Sargon points out that neither of these extremes is good, and that there's really no excuse for violence against journalists and looting of local businesses and unprovoked attacks. From what I hear there were more police hospitalized than protestors. :rolleyes:

 
whitecoast said:
I have to wonder what the heck is really going on. :huh:

There is old footage from Montabello, Quebec (2007) when at that time it was just a small Summit meeting on security issues between G.W Bush, Harper and the Mexican president. The usual co-opting or direct agent provocateurs (AP's) were out against people just wanting to protest peacefully. The AP's were caught and exposed by regular people whereby the then ran off and hid behind the police lines ( http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/quebec-police-admit-they-went-undercover-at-montebello-protest-1.656171 ). In comparison to the G20 in Toronto or in Germany, this was very small, but it is a tactic used time and again.

I don't know what exactly is going on, yet it seems that on the one hand you have political theater in the form of the G20 -1 (Putin) and on the other you have the agitator block. In between you have people who are just a wee bit perturbed at the state of affairs and want to raise a few signs and speak a few words. In Toronto, to services that G20 meeting with police etc., a billion plus dollars was spent. Without formalized agitation i.e the block or whatever they are, you just have a simple protest. Violent agitation reminds people who are watching why you need greater authorities, hence spending billions of dollars to keep everyone safe, or so it seems.

It could be said that Lauren Southern and co. were simply marked by professional intelligence insiders, whereby they spread the word to their followers; their little created block army? Most of the police probably don't really know what's going on, they are just doing the job they are told to do, but the embedded intelligence operatives sure do.

Have to think on this some more.
 
The antifa in Europe are not the same as those in the USA .
I suspect some of them are genuine,
and resent Rebel medias Overt Racism.
along with the Overt Intellectualised Racism of Sargon of Akkad.

Perhaps in fact maybe some people saw Lauren Suthern's attempt to stop refugee boats from landing as attempted Murder.

Add to this the fact that one grazed Knee was the only Injury.
and Lukes Shilldowskis duping delight , and invisible Bruise.
I suspect the whole thing was a set up.


HOW long until people Truly Understand that a Hegellian Prison
Consists of Both Sides being Controlled-

TYT and rebel Media are 2 cheeks of the same arse.
 
There is old footage from Montabello, Quebec (2007) when at that time it was just a small Summit meeting on security issues between G.W Bush, Harper and the Mexican president. The usual co-opting or direct agent provocateurs (AP's) were out against people just wanting to protest peacefully. The AP's were caught and exposed by regular people whereby the then ran off and hid behind the police lines ( http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/quebec-police-admit-they-went-undercover-at-montebello-protest-1.656171 ). In comparison to the G20 in Toronto or in Germany, this was very small, but it is a tactic used time and again.

I remember these provocateurs were used by the police to justify clampdowns on the legitimate protestors many times in the past. I can only assume similar individuals exist in the black bloc present in Hamburg as well. Oddly enough it seems like it has grown extraordinarily large, large enough to the point that they can injure more police officers than the police officers themselves injure them back (or vice versa). So if they're not being used to justify an immediate clampdown during the G20 protest/riot, it definitely seems plausible there's a larger game being played. Perhaps there will be calls to militarize the police more? Personally, I am a bit skeptical they could have stoked such a massive crowd of anarchists and radical leftists on their own... which is why I suspect it may be more "organically ponerogenic" in nature. Is the major "defeat" of the police something that was anticipated? Certainly it will be exploited, but it may also make bystanders wake up more to the genuine threat that paramilitary activities pose to law and order in the country.

It could be said that Lauren Southern and co. were simply marked by professional intelligence insiders, whereby they spread the word to their followers; their little created block army? Most of the police probably don't really know what's going on, they are just doing the job they are told to do, but the embedded intelligence operatives sure do.

Have to think on this some more.

Whether they are agent provocateurs or a genuinely misinformed mob stalking and beating up journalists, or a mixture of both, it seems obvious that many people on the left (both radical paramilitaries and their more moderate apologists) are being ponerised into helping destroy alternative media. :/
 
SocietyoftheSpectacle said:
The antifa in Europe are not the same as those in the USA .
I suspect some of them are genuine,
and resent Rebel medias Overt Racism.
along with the Overt Intellectualised Racism of Sargon of Akkad.

Perhaps in fact maybe some people saw Lauren Suthern's attempt to stop refugee boats from landing as attempted Murder.

Some indeed would be genuine, and they have legitimate beefs of course. People and families also live in these areas and they would not want to make things more difficult for them by inciting needless violence that only stiffens the resolve of the PTB troopers.

As for Lauren, that's interesting, I did not know she was actually doing this sort of stuff _https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIkyQspRDlc Had seen her rant about Muslims while making blanket statements before, and know of whom she works. On the other hand, some things they have done (the Rebel crew) I've thought were examples of asking good questions too. In that respect, they can, as you infer, play to the crown and the divisions therein.

Add to this the fact that one grazed Knee was the only Injury.
and Lukes Shilldowskis duping delight , and invisible Bruise.
I suspect the whole thing was a set up.

Yes, point taken

whitecoast said:
There is old footage from Montabello, Quebec (2007) when at that time it was just a small Summit meeting on security issues between G.W Bush, Harper and the Mexican president. The usual co-opting or direct agent provocateurs (AP's) were out against people just wanting to protest peacefully. The AP's were caught and exposed by regular people whereby the then ran off and hid behind the police lines ( http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/quebec-police-admit-they-went-undercover-at-montebello-protest-1.656171 ). In comparison to the G20 in Toronto or in Germany, this was very small, but it is a tactic used time and again.

I remember these provocateurs were used by the police to justify clampdowns on the legitimate protestors many times in the past. I can only assume similar individuals exist in the black bloc present in Hamburg as well. Oddly enough it seems like it has grown extraordinarily large, large enough to the point that they can injure more police officers than the police officers themselves injure them back (or vice versa). So if they're not being used to justify an immediate clampdown during the G20 protest/riot, it definitely seems plausible there's a larger game being played. Perhaps there will be calls to militarize the police more? Personally, I am a bit skeptical they could have stoked such a massive crowd of anarchists and radical leftists on their own... which is why I suspect it may be more "organically ponerogenic" in nature. Is the major "defeat" of the police something that was anticipated? Certainly it will be exploited, but it may also make bystanders wake up more to the genuine threat that paramilitary activities pose to law and order in the country.

The G20 in Toronto is a pretty horrendous example of "clampdowns," and in that case the police and intelligence seemed to have orchestrated conditions i.e. premeditated mass detention facilities, planned gauntlets to steer the crowds, agent provocateurs and that trickery established, banging clubs against shields, gas masks, peeper spray devices, nylon wrist restraints and all their other tools of the trade. In Toronto's G20 more than 1,000 people were arrested and detained in stark wire cages. The provocateurs or overly enthusiastic people that lead to violent acts, served the purpose for all that pre-emptive planning it seems. The state will generally do what the state does, which is to put down resistance and show the other states that they mean business.

The following screen shot was from Montabello, Quebec (2007), and you can see the Sûreté du Québec troopers lining the cemetery gauntlet in a show of resolve. Lining a cemetery was in some eyes was indeed 'sacres' religious - yet the message was psychological and macabre to any who dared.
 

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Another video of a journalist (Marco Dipaola) getting beat up and having their property taken:
More info on that here: _http://heavy.com/news/2017/07/journalist-attacked-g20-protest-pov/

Add to this the fact that one grazed Knee was the only Injury. and Lukes Shilldowskis duping delight , and invisible Bruise. I suspect the whole thing was a set up.

That seems like extremely tenuous evidence to me. And they're not the only injuries, as the link shows of Luke, unless of course the paramedics were in on the joke as well. Add to the fact that a lot of these independent journalists have diverse political views, someone would have leaked something if there was any type of collusion to misrepresent the situation (and failing that, there were hundreds of phones on the protestors and rioters, I'm sure). The alternative media certainly is no monolith.

_https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/883371978295566336
SocietyoftheSpectacle said:
The antifa in Europe are not the same as those in the USA .
I suspect some of them are genuine,
What does sincerity on the part of the black-clad have to do with anything? Genuine about what? About hunting down and beating up people because someone on the internet accuses them of being fascists based on zero evidence? About wanting to give communism a try?
and resent Rebel medias Overt Racism. along with the Overt Intellectualised Racism [sic] of Sargon of Akkad. Perhaps in fact maybe some people saw Lauren Suthern's attempt to stop refugee boats from landing as attempted Murder.
Those (true or not) seem more like things that you resent, which you then transfer as motivations to the mob. There were many there who were targeted, not just Lauren, and Sargon wasn't there. It's odd that you paint the aggressors in the situation as sincere or "genuine" (positive verbs) and to the victims of stalking, violence, and death threats all you offer are your suspicions and suggestions that they somehow either faked it or at least deserved it, because Nazi (or at least, being photographed next to someone that someone somewhere called a Nazi).

HOW long until people Truly Understand that a Hegellian Prison Consists of Both Sides being Controlled-TYT and rebel Media are 2 cheeks of the same arse.
Are you sure you understand it yourself?
 
https://youtu.be/uAV0eI6MnrA?t=5m32s

A Search of Rebel media for the word Israel,
Turns up quite a few Results,

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGy6uV7yqGWDeUWTZzT3ZEg/search?query=israel
You might like to Wiki the Owner of rebel madia Ezra Levant too,

And while you are at it,
A search of rebel media for the name Tommy Robinson,
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGy6uV7yqGWDeUWTZzT3ZEg/search?query=tommy+robinson

Still it's to be Expected that "INDEPENDENT" journalists will have preferences i suppose.

Do I even KNOW what a hegellian Prison is ?

Same bricks painted different colors.

Some a soothing white and red with a Black spangle .
 
I still think you're missing the point SocietyoftheSpectacle. Nothing about Lauren Southern is generalizable to the group of journalists that were attacked. There is no justification for the violence and harassment they endured. None whatsoever.
 
I read a paper from the Anarchist Library a while ago,
which is heavily controlled by provocateurs,
but for theory , there are a Lot of good works.
Kropotkin for example.

Anyway , this paper spoke of how those fighting Capitalism are Not helped by "jornalists" that simply want to catch some action on Film ,
and would not hesitate to expose the identities of people.
Many of the black Block are anarchists in the purist form.

You have to realise that the Occupy the Banks movement scared the powers that be .

From that FEAR they created multiple controlled movements.
For the Tech Minded and greedy
Bit Coin , ( the alternative to the evil bankers right ? )

Black lives matter, and the LGBT movement distracted many well meaning people.

We Are Change grew out of that , and are not independent OR anti capitalist,
or anti establishment.

If you have Bought into the Illusion that trump is somehow an Alternative
then that only proves how successful their ops have been.

Bottom Line is Lauren and others that Rub shoulders with Tommy Robinson
conceal their Racism behind the excuse that they oppose Islam.

Funny that the most Violent form of Islam is found in Saudi Arabia,
the country that great REBEL and Champion of the people,
Trump just did a multi billion Dollar Arms deal with.
 
SocietyoftheSpectacle said:
Anyway , this paper spoke of how those fighting Capitalism are Not helped by "jornalists" that simply want to catch some action on Film ,and would not hesitate to expose the identities of people. Many of the black Block are anarchists in the purist form.
Well it does make sense that those who want to destroy rule of law and private property would also want to also repress freedom of the press also, since the majority of people would be against their aims. Also, I don't see anything wrong with exposing the identities of people engaging in violent anti-social behavior like beating up journalists or looting businesses.

You have to realise that the Occupy the Banks movement scared the powers that be . From that FEAR they created multiple controlled movements. For the Tech Minded and greedy Bit Coin , ( the alternative to the evil bankers right ? ) Black lives matter, and the LGBT movement distracted many well meaning people.

I seriously doubt they had anything to fear from the Occupy movement, as it was swiftly neutralized with the same tactics as those used against the Tea Party. Almost by the textbook. Also, Bitcoin was founded in 2009, well before the Occupy movement.

We Are Change grew out of that , and are not independent OR anti capitalist, or anti establishment.
But somehow the black bloc and antifa are pure and faithful righteous servants? If this was actually true they would not be engaging in anti-social behavior that I highlighted. Maybe they're not being directly paid or influenced by the banking cartels in an obvious way, but that makes them no less subject to the Powers and Principalities (read: 4D STS) that actually govern the world. Have you read Political Ponerology, or The Wave?

If you have Bought into the Illusion that trump is somehow an Alternative then that only proves how successful their ops have been.
Why you pull Trump into this is beyond me-- it has nothing to do with anything. You can just as easily replace "Trump" with "those fighting capitalism" and arrive at a perfectly sound perception of reality.

Bottom Line is Lauren and others that Rub shoulders with Tommy Robinson conceal their Racism behind the excuse that they oppose Islam.
No, the bottom line is that you're overlooking and excusing pathology in the ranks of a movement you identify with and support. You're still stuck in an irrelevant tangent and missing the crux of the matter.
 
whitecoast said:
SocietyoftheSpectacle said:
Anyway , this paper spoke of how those fighting Capitalism are Not helped by "jornalists" that simply want to catch some action on Film ,and would not hesitate to expose the identities of people. Many of the black Block are anarchists in the purist form.
Well it does make sense that those who want to destroy rule of law and private property would also want to also repress freedom of the press also, since the majority of people would be against their aims. Also, I don't see anything wrong with exposing the identities of people engaging in violent anti-social behavior like beating up journalists or looting businesses.

With regards to the Black block and such, this clearly smells like an epic psy-op. Kind of like Jihadi mercenaries, just with a different ideology. Divide and conquer at its best, and it works like a charm!

Why the police and security services don't just lock these guys up is totally beyond me. They follow them closely for years, probably know all the identities of the leaders and probably have tons of evidence to lock 'em up, block their entry in case they are foreigners etc. They even have embedded their spies in these movements. And here, it gets murky, as always - where do the security services end and the movements begin? Hard to tell!

Suffice to say that these violent thugs who set cars on fire, plunder supermarkets to get drunk and are just about enjoying their little 'violence party' are absolutely deplorable and disgusting, whether they are stirred up by agents provocateurs, 'just' pathological thugs with an anarchist touch, or both. My 2 cents.
 
Hmm,it's interesting.The fascists in Italy during the 1920's wore black and even rioted in similar ways.Another curious thing is the kinds of cars and shops they're trashing.They're not audi's and bmw's.They're working class cars.On twitter they happily post of smashing up a small restaurant for having expensive food and because ''it was probably frequented by upper class yuppies.''

There's plenty of videos online of people filming Hamburg from the rooftops and all you see is smoke and fire.I'd wager that the ''leaders'' of this movement are alphabet types while the vast,VAST majority are usefull idiots.I mean idiots literally,they're happy smashing up the place,but if you ask them precisely why they're doing it and what they're hoping to achieve,they reply with slogans if even that.You can find some antifa interviews online and boy, are they dumb.They are priviliged kids playing at being revolutionaries.Too bad that they're fomenting a real revolution.
 
whitecoast said:
If you have Bought into the Illusion that trump is somehow an Alternative then that only proves how successful their ops have been.
Why you pull Trump into this is beyond me-- it has nothing to do with anything. You can just as easily replace "Trump" with "those fighting capitalism" and arrive at a perfectly sound perception of reality.

Luke , Lauren and Most of the other ALT Right that used the pizzagate MEME to
gather numbers ,
All moved to supporting Trump.
and effectively broke much of the truther movement apart.

They are not independent.
 
voyageur said:
As for Lauren, that's interesting, I did not know she was actually doing this sort of stuff _https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIkyQspRDlc Had seen her rant about Muslims while making blanket statements before, and know of whom she works. On the other hand, some things they have done (the Rebel crew) I've thought were examples of asking good questions too. In that respect, they can, as you infer, play to the crown and the divisions therein.

Just wanted to offer what Lauren said in defending her position that day: _https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-fNuROjj4M

Lauren Southern On Stopping Refugees and Getting Detained

Whatever the case as things tend to get proportioned, to one extent or another - whatever the true underline motive of exposures she is trying to ultimately make; and she is pointing out a few obvious things on sovereignty (not that there is any true sovereignty), this is bound to create a further rift, and of course peoples lives are at stake. There is, though, much going on behind the scenes as anyone following Libya knows of Gaddafi's warning, and the EU paying off Turkey to keep refugees there and then the mass release to the EU, the rest is history. However, plenty of people and their families have been caught in the political crossfire. I'm not so sure that Lauren has ever mentioned the fact that a lot of homes in other countries were obliterated and peoples lives amputated from communities that once thrived in their own way.

As for antifa, here she is again in NYC _https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVORaw0_PpA during a counter protest.

As luc said:

With regards to the Black block and such, this clearly smells like an epic psy-op. Kind of like Jihadi mercenaries, just with a different ideology. Divide and conquer at its best, and it works like a charm!
 

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