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Protesters brace for confrontation with police at upcoming NATO summit in Chicago

By Ruth Ravve

Published May 11, 2012

FoxNews.com

The battle drums can already be heard in Chicago, as police and protestors plan for the NATO summit later this month.

"War is going to break out on the streets," one demonstrator excitedly told Fox News. “Big plans are being made.”

It's anyone's guess whether such bluster is mere pre-protest posturing or the prelude to a serious confrontation. But Chicago is shaping up this month as the latest focal point in the debate over economic policy and the movement known as Occupy.

Chicago initially was to host the G-8 meeting, as well, but it was moved for security reasons to the presidential retreat at Camp David, which poses fewer logistical hurdles than a city of three million people.

As for the NATO summit, it's only scheduled for two days, May 20 and 21, but dignitaries will begin arriving in Chicago days earlier, as the city prepares by closing roads and some buildings.

Big-name protestors, like the Rev. Jesse Jackson and 1960s radical Bill Ayers, are expected to be among the demonstrators.

In order to prepare for police confrontation, training sessions are being held for protestors around the city, which include educating dissenters on “non-violent direct action,” said Zoe Sigman, of Occupy Chicago.

At a press conference Thursday, held in a grungy building in Chicago's Chinatown neighborhood, a group of mostly white 20-somethings lined up to take their turns speaking to the media about their various causes for protest, which include war, poverty, health care and jobs.

“Welcome to the Chicago spring!” said a smiling Sigman, apparently making reference to the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East.

Occupy Chicago is not obtaining the permits that the city required to protest because “its our right to walk down any street," member Rachael Perrotta said. “We’re bringing in people from all over the country, so expect huge crowds and huge crowds will happen.”

Another group leader, Andy Thayer, from the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda, or CANG8, urged supporters to ignore threats from Chicago officials. “Don’t believe the fear-mongering of Mayor (Rahm) Emanuel," he said.

Thayer promised they’d stand up to authority. “If there are any violations of free-speech rights, we’ll place the blame first and foremost on President Obama,” he said, “This president has got to say to Rahm Emanuel …cut the [beeep] out, guarantee the rights." Supporters cheered.

It's estimated that tens of thousands of people are going to arrive by plane, car and bus for what the demonstrators said will be “10 days of action” in the Windy City.

The “action” includes mass marches down city streets, including the ones closed by police for the NATO summit. When asked whether the group plans any confrontations, Perrotta said, “If the police get violent with us, we’re prepared”.

Perrotta also said Occupy Chicago will attempt a shutdown of Boeing's headquarters, and "there will be events that pop up that have not been disclosed yet".

On the website AnarchistNews.org, which has worked to boost up support for the protest movements, one posting calls for “a united mass mobilization” during the summit.

At the Thursday event, protest group leaders handed out a packet which listed websites where supporters and the media could get the latest information on where and when to follow the action.

“We plan to show Chicago what democracy looks like," one speaker said.

It all begins this weekend with “The People’s Summit” scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. The People’s Summit is touted as "a democratic counter-summit” and will include workshops to “educate our communities” on how to “mobilize for radical democracy.”

The highlight of the weeklong extravaganza will culminate on the Sunday of the conference, when demonstrators will join together for the big march “to fight NATO along with all of our allies."

"Instead of funding death and destruction on the other side of the globe, our tax dollars should support services in our community," Occupy Chicago member Jackie Spreadbury said in a news release handed out to media. "We will resist NATO, the military arm of the 1 percent."

If any of the demonstrators find themselves in legal trouble after its all over, protest leaders claim members of the National Lawyers Guild are standing by, to work pro-bono for them.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/...s#ixzz1ug9C5KmN
 
Originally Posted By: HunterBear71A whole lot of smoke and no fire.

There will be plenty of smoke and fire there HB. But this is just a rehearsal for the bigger one's to come this summer and fall that will lead O to declare martial law and establish his dictatorship. You don't really think all of the groundwork he's been laying is without a plan do you? Just think the United Socialist States of America, that should give a lot of Progressives a wet dream.
 
If this does blossom into a Chicago Spring I wonder if O will praise the executives of Google for helping to orchestrate it. O proclaimed the Arab Spring could not have succeeded in Egypt without Google's help. Have you noticed who the two candidates are in the election to anoint a new leader in Egypt? Both are members,or were members of the Muslim Brotherhood.


"As Egyptians approach their first widely contested presidential election, the country, filled with a mix of anxiety and enthusiasm, is struggling to affirm a vision of itself in a field of candidates bearing promises. The candidates face a similar struggle, in reading the mood of a public muffled for years under Mr. Mubarak.
Parliamentary elections last fall, the first real test of the political mood, handed an overwhelming majority to Islamists, with roughly half the seats going to the mainstream Muslim Brotherhood and 25 percent to the ultraconservative Salafis. Mr. Moussa’s leading opponent is Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a former Brotherhood leader who describes himself as a liberal Islamist and who has received support from both leftists and Salafis. The Brotherhood’s candidate, Mohamed Morsi, is also seen as a contender, along with Ahmed Shafiq, who briefly served as prime minister, and Hamdeen Sabahi, the founder of a Nasserist party."


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/world/...;pagewanted=all
 
Originally Posted By: HunterBear71A whole lot of smoke and no fire.

HB you are such a typical liberal. Totally predictable. Part of the problem with liberal thinking is not having the ability to retain life lessons from years past. I seriously doubt that anyone who read your post did not immediately think "where there's smoke, there's fire." But not you, huh?
 
Go easy on HB,he's actually an asset on this board. He may have done more to emphasize the idiocy and intent of the
Left than all the rest of us combined. I say,keep up the good work HB.
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Originally Posted By: ADKGo easy on HB,he's actually an asset on this board. He may have done more to emphasize the idiocy and intent of the Left than all the rest of us combined. I say,keep up the good work HB.
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Exactly... I've come to rather appreciate HB's perspective. Knowing that a large part of the country, although seemingly intelligent otherwise, is that far out of touch with reality, is truly an eye opener!
 
Please don't misunderstand my post(s). I too am somewhat fond of our pet liberal. It's just that if you don't speak up and set the record straight, it is almost tantamount to agreeing. I sometimes visit liberal forums just to try to understand the flawed thinking. Some of the liberals are downright nasty and aggressive, HB is flawed, but he is not an angry lib. That makes him somewhat amusing to me. I have never been one to bite my tongue and never expect too. But HB, I think we understand each other to some extent, huh?
 
HB Will you please explain to me how is it in west virigna
a prisoner in Texas got 41 % of the vote when it was between him and The White House half wit ?
When asked the voters stanard reply was " any body but Obama".
Just wondering how that works.
 
Originally Posted By: pdhunterHB Will you please explain to me how is it in west virigna
a prisoner in Texas got 41 % of the vote when it was between him and The White House half wit ?
When asked the voters stanard reply was " any body but Obama".
Just wondering how that works.



Someone spiked the Kool Aid! They must have, that "fine man" is certainly more worthy and deserves more praise than getting his @ss kicked in the Democratic Primary by a convict, with severely limited campaign funds!!
 
Blasta, we are good. You contribute many topics that I enjoy commenting on. I seriously appreciate everyones opinion. I do believe that you guys are often just plain wrong. However, I do realize that my opinions could possibly be incorrect...just not very often.

West Virginia is an example of a state that has been inundated with the coal industry telling folks that their jobs are going away under Obama. The state went to McCain in 2008 and will not likely be an Obama stronghold in November.
 
Originally Posted By: HunterBear71 West Virginia is an example of a state that has been inundated with the coal industry telling folks that their jobs are going away under Obama. The state went to McCain in 2008 and will not likely be an Obama stronghold in November.



Quote: EPA emission regulations shut door on coal

By John Kemp

LONDON, March 28 (Reuters) -

Proposed emission rules for new power plants unveiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on March 27 spell the gradual demise of coal-fired power generation and entrench the current cost advantage for natural gas.

The agency's proposed rule, signed yesterday, would set a standard well within the capability of modern gas-fired plants but impossible for coal-fired units to meet unless they employ (unproven) carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.

Rest of article here: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/28/column-epa-coal-fired-power-idUSL6E8ES90R20120328

And

Quote:EPA CO2 Regulation Effectively Bans New Coal Facilities

Romina Boccia
March 27, 2012 at 5:40 pm
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a new rule to regulate CO2 emissions from power plants, which would effectively ban new coal power plants, as its emissions standards are too low to be met by conventional coal-fired facilities.

This stands in stark contrast with the President’s supposed “all of the above energy approach” and sends a strong signal that coal is not part of the President’s energy vision for America.

Rest of story here: http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/27/epa-co2-regulation-effectively-bans-new-coal-facilities/

HP, if you do a google on EPA coal regulation and you'll find 26+ pages of EPA coal regulation related articles (before I got tired of looking). Why in the world would anyone in a coal mining state get the idea that this administration is killing their livelihood? Beats me, but if you do a little reading, you might be able to see where they are comin' from.

Regards,
hm
 
Coal will survive. Jobs in the coal industry will survive. Folks are free to vote how they like. I do have some knowledge of the coal industry and the extensive regulations involved.
 
Originally Posted By: HunterBear71Coal will survive. Jobs in the coal industry will survive. Folks are free to vote how they like. I do have some knowledge of the coal industry and the extensive regulations involved.

But you'll have to admit that if "Coal will survive", it will be in spite of, rather than because of 0's energy policies.

Regards,
hm
 
The Plot Thickens:

Private Investigator Doug Hagmann said reliable sources told him that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was preparing for "massive civil war" in America.

This was all in a radio interview on TruNews from May 2, 2012.

“Folks, we’re getting ready for one massive economic collapse,”

“We have problems . . . The federal government is preparing for civil uprising,” he added, “so every time you hear about troop movements, every time you hear about movements of military equipment, the militarization of the police, the buying of the ammunition, all of this is . . . they (DHS) are preparing for a massive uprising."

“It’s going to get so much worse toward the election, and I’m not even sure we’re going to have an election in this country. It’s going to be that bad, and this, as well, is coming from my sources. But one source in particular said, ‘look, you don’t understand how bad it is.’ This stuff is real; these people, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), they are ready to fight the American people.”

“What they [DHS] are expecting, and again, this is according to my sources, what they’re expecting is the un-sustainability of the American dollar,” Hagmann said. “And we know for a fact that we can no longer service our debt. There’s going to be a period of hyperinflation . . . the dollar will be worthless . . . The economic collapse will be so severe, people won’t be ready for this.”
 
If the worst case scenario does occur it will not be a civil war caused by an economic collapse. The collapse of the dollar and the economy will be the trigger but the communist takeover will be caused by decades of progressive social and economic policies put in place to engineer an artificial collapse. Our Republic's political,economic and social system must be destroyed before it can be replaced and the communists know it.

The communists will need a scapegoat for their heavy handed methods for conrolling or eliminating the resistance and that scapegoat will be the republicans,G.W.B.,the 1%,capitalism and the white man.
 
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