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This episode of It's the End of the World

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As We Know it and I Feel Fine

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was made possible by contributions

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from slaves like you.

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Spank you very much!

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I'm a capitalist.

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I'm simply following the law

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of free enterprise.

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What law is that?

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Survival of the fittest.

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Maybe some people don't see it that way.

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Maybe they don't see it as survival

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of the fittest.

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Maybe they see it as survival

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of the fattest!

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Oh Katie... why are you so hard on me?

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Because you're not nice.

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Since when do you have to be nice

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to be right?

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You're not right.

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You're what's happening.

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One day we'll smarten up

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and pass some laws and put you

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out of business.

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They can pass all the laws they want.

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All they can do is change the rules,

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they can never stop the game.

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I don't go away. I adapt.

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Goooooooooooood morning slaves

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and welcome to another sedition of

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It's the End of the World as we Know it

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and I Feel Fine...

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the show where head-shots

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are worth 10 points![br]

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EXCELLENT!

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I am your host the Stimulator, and there's

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a saying that in this world, nothing

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is certain except for death and taxes.

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And despite the round-the-clock efforts

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of some of the world's top

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biotech engineers, scientists,

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and medical professionals,

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it’s true that even the rich fucks

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who rule the world still can't

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buy their way out the inevitability

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of ultimately becoming worm food.[br]

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Can I ask you a question?

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What?

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How can we all have died at the same time?

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The salmon mousse.

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Buuuuuuuuuut they sure as shit

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don't pay fucking taxes.

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Yachting and equestrian competitions aside

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billionaires have one concern in life.

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And that's how to hang onto what they've

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got, and turn it into even fucking more.

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Here.... one dollar.

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And so it's no surprise that

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the super rich motherfuckers who,

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through their political puppets,

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crafted the international banking system

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made sure that it included an intricate

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network of shady fucking tax havens

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set up in countries all around the world.

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This way, they can rest comfortably

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in their mansions, secure in the knowledge

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that their vast fortunes

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won't be wasted on trivial things

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like helping to fund roads,

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What are you doing to the street?

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We're fixing it!

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What the hell does it look like?

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clean drinking water,

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and public schools

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for all of us dirty proles.

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Four years ago, a report was published

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that estimated the total value of assets

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stashed away in off-shore tax havens

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at upwards of 32 TRILLION fucking dollars.

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You could write off the world's debt

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in a day... in an hour... in a minute.

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That's around 42% of the combined GDP

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of all the countries on mothafuckin earth.[br]

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Three quarters of the world's cash

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is hidden away in places exactly

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like this.

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This incredible pool of

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idle fucking wealth

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is shielded from public scrutiny

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by an army of corporate lawyers

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through the accounting magic of

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shell corporations, which are

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fake fucking companies set up

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to manage assets, and to hide

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exactly who owns what.

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An entire alternative economy

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and the only entry qualification

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is the services of a good tax lawyer.

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Buuuuuuuuuuut on Saturday April 3rd

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us lowly proles got a sneak peak[br]

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behind the gilded curtain

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when 11.5 million confidential documents

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were leaked from the corporate law firm

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of Mossack Fonseca.

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Welcome to Panama.

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Casablanca without heroes.

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The so-called Panama Papers exposed

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the directors and shareholders of 214,000

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off-shore shell corporations

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- a list which directly implicated five

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current heads of state

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with forty more linked via

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family members and close associates.

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In Iceland, the country's Prime Minister

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Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson

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was the first casualty of the leak

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when he was ambushed by

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a Swedish journalist

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who questioned him about his ties

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to an off-shore shell corporation

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Wintris Inc, which had a direct

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financial interest in the Icelandish banks

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that failed during the 2008

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financial crisis.[br]

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What country you from?

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Uhh... what's... what's it called... the..

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WHAT ain't no country I ever heard of!

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They speak English in What?

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Uhh... if I recall correctly...

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Go on!

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Well... uhh... it's a...

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The day after the crisis broke

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peeps in Iceland took to the streets

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in the largest protests the tiny nation

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has ever seen.

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Over 10,000 peeps surrounded parliament

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in the country's capital Reykjavik,

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hurling eggs and fruit, and demanding

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that the Prime Minister resign.

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And, in fact, he tendered his resignation

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the next fucking day.[br]

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You're fired!

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Protests have also taken place

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in Argentina, after it was revealed

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that the country's right-wing president,

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Mauricio Macri, who was elected

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on a platform of fighting corruption,

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had failed to disclose his connections

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to two off-shore companies [br]

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named in the leak.

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He has too many off-shore companies,

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which shows his interest has always

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been money laundering.

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And in Europe, Britain's posh

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pig-fucking PM

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Why would you call me a pig fucker?

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Well.. let's see.

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First of all... you fuck pigs!

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Oh yeah!

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found himself also in the hot seat

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What country you from?

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I think it's the wrong premise

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of the question.

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after leaked documents revealed

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that his father, Ian Cameron,

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used a shell corporation in

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the British-administered Virgin Islands

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to avoid paying tax

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for more than 30 fucking years.

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In a hilarious display of

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tone-deaf arrogance,

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and solemn fucking indignation that only

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rich Brits are capable of pulling off,

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Cameron responded to the scandal

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One of the country's leading tax lawyers

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Graham Erinson QC, has stated,

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unequivocally, that this was, and I quote,

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a perfectly normal type of collective

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investment fund.

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Englishmen - you're all so fucking pompous

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On Saturday April 9th, thousands of

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members of Britain's lower classes

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held a protest outside 10 Downing Street

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to demand Cameron's resignation,

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which led to some minor clashes with the fuzz.

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EXCELLENT!

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Protestors have vowed to continue holding

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protests until the pig-fucker resigns...

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so it'll be interesting to see[br]

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where this goes.

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The Panama Papers were just

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a tiny fucking peak into the greasy world

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of finance capitalism.

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Buuuuuuuuuuuuut the reality is

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that shell corporations and

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off-shore banking are a completely

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common fucking practice.

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And while it's fun to watch

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individual politicians squirm

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as their personal connections to

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this vast ponzi scheme are revealed,

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at the end of the day it's just

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a drop in the bucket.

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Capitalism doesn't produce bad apples...

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the whole fucking system is rotten

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to its core.[br]

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I'm from a little place called

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Great Britain.

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But I don't know if I love

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or hate Britain.

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These words upon my page written

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the things that make or break Britain.

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You see I'm from a little place called

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Great Britain

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But I don't know if I love

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or hate Britain.

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These words upon my page written

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the things that make and break Britain.

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One inch... to the left to the left

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coulda been the difference between

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life and death

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Knife wound to the heart

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or the side of the chest.

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Could have been one statistic less.

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See sometimes Great Britain

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ain't that great.

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Kids get stabbed at an alarming rate.

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Press with a passion to exaggerate

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increasingly clueless heads of state.

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You see knife crime

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knife crime ain't about knives.

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It's about young Britain and ways of life.

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You don't solve knife crime

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by taking knives to hand.

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You solve it by instilling new hopes

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and plans.

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You've got positives though,

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I swear it's true.

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North, south, east, west

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and the middle too.

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Got diversity that shines right through.

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Who makes the best music in the world?

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We do!

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Two weeks ago, me and my subMedia slaves

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put out a brief report on

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the insurrectionary fever gripping France,

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where multiple flashpoints of resistance

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had just converged into a massive

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fucking general strike on March 31st.

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Buuuuuuuuuuuut, it turns out

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that shit was just getting started![br]

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After more than a million fucking people

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took to the streets of France

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on the 31st, a sizable crew from

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the Paris contingent decided to

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keep the party going,

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and launched an occupation of

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the Place de la République,

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dubbed Nuit Debout,

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which in English roughly translates into

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Rise up at Night.

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Similar to the M15 plaza occupations

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that swept across Spain in 2011

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the Nuit Debout movement has transformed

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public squares into vibrant hubs

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of collective activity, where participants

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hold general assemblies,

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then spend the night debating politics,

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and hosting free skill-sharing workshops,

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film screenings and concerts.[br]

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In a cute fucking nod to

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the French Revolution...

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Nuit Debout participants have even adopted

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a new revolutionary calendar,

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with the second day of the occupations,

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April 1st, rechristened as March 32nd...

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and April 2nd renamed March 33rd...

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and... uhhh.... you get the fucking idea.[br]

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Math problems.

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Anyway, these occupations spread quickly

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across France, and have since

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hopped its fucking borders.

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The evening of mmmmm.... March 40th?[br]

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saw Nuit Debout occupations in 33 cities

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across France,

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as well as cities in Belgium, Germany,

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Portugal and Spain.

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And while the occupation sites themselves

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have so-far remained relatively

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family friendly spaces of

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collective revelry and [br]

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revolutionary joie de vivre,

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the streets surrounding them

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continue to be flashpoints of

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militant fucking resistance.

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Every...body... hates...the...police![br]

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All across the country, rowdy night demos

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have taken place, striking students

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have blockaded their schools,

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militants have choked railways,

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occupied train stations,

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smashed up banks and shops,

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redecorated the offices of the

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ruling Partie Socialiste,

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barricaded roads, and fought

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pitched street battles with

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the French fucking po-po.

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Masked street-fighters have made

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excellent use of projectiles,

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relentlessly pelting the pigs with bottles

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rocks, and flares,

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and have demonstrated an incredible

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proficiency for pyrotechnics.

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Check this shit out!

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Yup... France has been throwing down

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fucking hard for over a month now

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much to the delight of revolutionaries[br]

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and riot porn junkies worldwide.

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And the situation of generalized unrest

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still shows shows no signs of stopping

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anytime soon.

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Much to the dismay of France's

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mopey faced President, Francois Hollande,

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whose government has been scrambling

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to come up with the right mix

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of repression and political concessions

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to bring things back under control...

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to no fucking avail!

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While this movement first crystallized

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around shared opposition to

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the so-called Loi de Travail,

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it has since transformed into

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a generalized insurrection

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against capitalism, the police,

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and the entire political system

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that upholds the miserable

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status fucking quo.

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And through their shining example

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peeps in France have captured

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the imagination of millions of pissed off

0:11:24.703,0:11:26.371
peeps around the world.

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Je suis Paris.

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Je suis Paris.

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Nous sommes unis.

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Ensemble...

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Je suis Paris.

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Nous sommes touts Paris.

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Soooo... to learn more about

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just what the fuck is going down,[br]

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I recently caught up with the members of

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Désaphilliation, a crew of autonomous

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troublemakers currently occupying the

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Phillia building at Nanterre University

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west of Paris.

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Hey y'all.. how the fuck are you?

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We're fucking great!

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Since the general strike of March 31st,

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we've seen the spread of public occupation

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and general assemblies known as

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Nuits Debout, or Rise up at Night.

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What’s the composition of the peeps

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taking part in these occupations? [br]

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And what types of discussions

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are taking place at these assemblies?

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Well... peeps from all places,

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social conditions and political opinions

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from far left to far right.

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The dynamics behind is very anticapitalist

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but not essentially anti-authoritarian.

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Mix of marxists and libertarians.

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There's discussions about everything

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but there's very little idea of developing

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autonomy. It's mostly about how to

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reform the State and our society

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in general to fix all our problems.

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Still, there's interesting connections

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being built with squatter communities

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and other militant collectives in general

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to organize daily lives on the camp

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- discussions, popular kitchens, etc...

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Many peeps have pointed to the[br]

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Nuits Debout as France's version of

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the Spanish Indignatos, or

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North American Occupy movements.

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Both of these earlier movements

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were hampered by the widespread

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pacifism of many of their participants.

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That said, the occupations in France

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grew out of a pre-existing movement

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that has and continues to regularly engage

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in direct action and

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militant street tactics.

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How has this affected the dynamics of

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the occupations and assemblies themselves?

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Are there still lots of arguments

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taking place around violent

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vs nonviolent tactics?

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The question of so-called violent action

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fully divides these occupations.

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But this violence doesn't come

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from nowhere.

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For decades, police abuse has been growing

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and targeting specific communities...

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immigrants, women, people of colour...

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Young people destroy banks

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and police stations to protest

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the dictat of money and police.

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Many of the voices heard at #NuitDebout

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- commenting livestreams

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or talking at GAs - oppose these

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violent protestors, but they are just

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the talkative minority and most people

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really don't have a problem

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with burning banks and rental cars.

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Also the division around violent action

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is interesting in the case of

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oppressed minorities.

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In Lyon, for instance, a few days ago

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for their first #NuitDebout,

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women and non-binary peeps

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tried to organize a safer place outside of

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patriarchal domination,

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but they faced a shitstorm of angry men

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- but not only - who felt like they were

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trying to divide the movement

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and create new top-down systems,

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when they were just trying to organize

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against a system of domination

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that we still find in

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anticapitalist movements.

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France has been living under

0:14:25.428,0:14:26.851
a state of emergency since last

0:14:26.851,0:14:28.586
November's terrorist attacks.

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What effect has this had

0:14:29.934,0:14:31.280
on peeps' day-to-day lives?[br]

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The state of emergency barely

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brings anything new.

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It's about generalizing and normalizing

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of practices that were already present

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- mass surveillance, searching and

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patting people on the streets,

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controls based on the colour of

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their skin, or their clothes.

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Demonstrations are still illegal,

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unless you declare people

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responsible for them,

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but the repression of spontaneous demos

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has been accentuated.

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It's not very common for peaceful protests

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just hanging around to face teargas

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and sticks,

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and to be rounded up and all taken to the

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police station for identity verification.

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French youth have played a strong role

0:15:08.657,0:15:09.918
in the current movement

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with tens of thousands of high school

0:15:11.955,0:15:13.369
students taking part.

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What is driving teenagers in France

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to take to the streets in such numbers...

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and how has their participation affected

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the tone and the orientation

0:15:21.082,0:15:22.259
of the broader movement?

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It's a very French thing for young people

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to be mobilized in social struggles.

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This is reinforced by the French

0:15:28.611,0:15:31.173
scholar system, in which high school

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is the last school with true social mix.

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High schoolers are usually more aware

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of the misery, chaos and repression

0:15:37.672,0:15:39.916
happening in France than the average

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French workers.

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The mobilized high-schoolers do not really

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fight for a specific political

0:15:45.413,0:15:47.612
and social project, but they are

0:15:47.612,0:15:49.244
always among the first mobilized

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to fight and tear down the existing

0:15:51.155,0:15:52.903
oppressive structures.

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Regarding work law reform in particular

0:15:56.112,0:15:58.174
high schoolers usually see Work as

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an oppressive institution and not

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a tool for emancipation.

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They have parents, or friends' parents

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who suffer daily from their

0:16:05.492,0:16:07.531
working conditions, and they don't want

0:16:07.531,0:16:09.399
such situations to be generalized

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and accepted by everyone.

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I think it's very interesting to see that

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the vast majority of them are not

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organized or affiliated to any

0:16:16.569,0:16:18.808
political organization in particular.

0:16:18.808,0:16:21.172
There's small groups of very organized

0:16:21.172,0:16:24.258
young people making GAs

0:16:24.258,0:16:26.286
and protests happen, but when

0:16:26.286,0:16:28.575
the police come to beat everyone up,

0:16:28.575,0:16:30.162
a lot of high-schoolers just find it

0:16:30.162,0:16:31.993
very normal to throw stones and bottles

0:16:31.993,0:16:33.095
at the police,

0:16:33.095,0:16:35.117
without even masking their faces.

0:16:35.117,0:16:37.490
It's a very dangerous practice for them,

0:16:37.490,0:16:39.195
but it reveals something deeper

0:16:39.195,0:16:40.535
in French society.

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Violence from the police is so deeply

0:16:42.608,0:16:44.519
entrenched in our daily lives

0:16:44.519,0:16:46.632
that fighting the cops doesn't require

0:16:46.632,0:16:47.765
any preparation

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or extraordinary circumstances.

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They just do it.

0:16:51.507,0:16:52.842
What roles have French trade

0:16:52.842,0:16:54.154
and student unions played

0:16:54.154,0:16:55.574
in the current wave of unrest?

0:16:55.574,0:16:58.424
Unions supposedly organize the struggle,

0:16:58.424,0:17:00.742
at least legally and mediatically.

0:17:00.742,0:17:03.100
But they barely do anything out of

0:17:03.100,0:17:05.299
their own little interest as the elite of

0:17:05.299,0:17:07.403
the workers and students movements.

0:17:07.403,0:17:09.740
They develop arguments against labour law

0:17:09.740,0:17:11.575
reform but refuse to see further,

0:17:11.575,0:17:13.853
as they fear their goal of massifying

0:17:13.853,0:17:15.683
the movement will be contradicted

0:17:15.683,0:17:17.638
by a coherent and complete list

0:17:17.638,0:17:19.177
of revendications:

0:17:19.177,0:17:20.887
abolition of wage slavery,

0:17:20.887,0:17:23.172
autonomy and cooperation.

0:17:23.172,0:17:25.601
Their only goal is to defend their own

0:17:25.601,0:17:26.862
political interests,

0:17:26.862,0:17:28.127
to just be part of the show

0:17:28.127,0:17:29.503
as long as they can.

0:17:29.503,0:17:31.390
In the end they're all about bureaucracy

0:17:31.390,0:17:32.365
and reform.

0:17:32.365,0:17:34.070
How has the recent situation in

0:17:34.070,0:17:35.047
the Calais jungle,

0:17:35.047,0:17:36.632
and the migrant crisis in general

0:17:36.632,0:17:38.381
affected the current unrest?[br]

0:17:38.381,0:17:40.935
The migrant crisis has been a revelation

0:17:40.935,0:17:43.313
to those wanting to see the true nature of

0:17:43.313,0:17:46.146
the Socialist regime and its police state

0:17:46.146,0:17:48.509
that's just as terrible as what we had

0:17:48.509,0:17:50.415
with Sarkozy - similar to

0:17:50.415,0:17:52.902
the Obama administration in the US.

0:17:52.902,0:17:55.107
For years now, migrants have been

0:17:55.107,0:17:56.655
targeted by low-intensity

0:17:56.655,0:17:59.142
counterinsurrectionary measures.

0:17:59.142,0:18:00.760
They were not systematically

0:18:00.760,0:18:03.901
physically abused - although it is not

0:18:03.901,0:18:05.732
uncommon for migrants to be assaulted

0:18:05.732,0:18:08.131
and mugged by representatives of the State[br]

0:18:08.131,0:18:10.366
- but every time they try to organize

0:18:10.366,0:18:12.803
and build camps to gather solidarity,

0:18:12.803,0:18:14.959
their tents and stuff are taken,

0:18:14.959,0:18:17.116
until they're all sleeping on the streets

0:18:17.116,0:18:18.535
without blankets again.

0:18:18.535,0:18:20.975
This is something we can particularly see

0:18:20.975,0:18:22.683
with the House of Refugees,

0:18:22.683,0:18:24.431
a squat where hundreds of migrants

0:18:24.431,0:18:25.775
were living in Paris.

0:18:25.775,0:18:27.888
There had been negotiations with

0:18:27.888,0:18:30.081
city officials under the supervision of

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the Human Rights League.

0:18:31.380,0:18:33.778
The officials had promised to provide

0:18:33.778,0:18:35.689
housing to everyone regardless of their

0:18:35.689,0:18:37.888
administrative situation - refugees...

0:18:37.888,0:18:40.286
undocumented... and that the eviction

0:18:40.286,0:18:42.476
would be a voluntary evacuation

0:18:42.476,0:18:44.835
without any intervention by the police.

0:18:44.835,0:18:46.748
Two days before the legal date set

0:18:46.748,0:18:48.256
by the Judge during the trial,

0:18:48.256,0:18:50.736
hundreds of armed police officers,

0:18:50.736,0:18:52.572
riot police, civilian police

0:18:52.572,0:18:54.892
and anti-terrorist units, closed off the

0:18:54.892,0:18:56.964
whole square and rushed the building,

0:18:56.964,0:18:58.722
destroying much equipment

0:18:58.722,0:19:00.266
and making sure all the migrants

0:19:00.266,0:19:01.807
boarded buses without knowing

0:19:01.807,0:19:03.413
their destination.

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The presence of the army in Calais,

0:19:05.472,0:19:07.492
the formation of special units of the

0:19:07.492,0:19:10.224
riot police to handle the migrant crisis,

0:19:10.224,0:19:11.768
and the fact that European

0:19:11.768,0:19:14.239
and Turkish military regularly attack

0:19:14.239,0:19:16.804
migrant boats on the sea to let them drown

0:19:16.804,0:19:19.446
is just symptomatic of the police state

0:19:19.446,0:19:22.587
emerging throughout European democracies

0:19:22.587,0:19:24.539
and of the way we treat people falling out

0:19:24.539,0:19:26.487
of the mold of the French white man

0:19:26.487,0:19:28.396
working and paying bills.

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Thanks y'all. And that about does it

0:19:30.594,0:19:32.058
for this sedition of It’s the end of

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the world as we know it and I feel fine.

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Mezcal![br]

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The following slaves are the newest

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Pulque!

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With that said, give em hell,

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don’t stop believing and burn it all down!

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Hasta la pasta mutherfuckers!