"Do you know anything more about that incident? How was it resolved?"

From what I read, the kid arrested had been breaking windows at a bank/store on another road and they followed him.

Take from it what you will. The right is already trying to claim it was a hoax:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/g-20-protester-arrest-video-not-a-hoax/

-- K. Trout

Wingnuts are, by and large, the dumbest most authoritarian, lying motherfuckers on the planet. Just watch...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRcOgPS5rWI

Now, the thing could have been staged in terms of the person they snatched actually having been working with them. As a staged demonstration of force to scare people or give that snatched person some street cred but why?

It's for real and wingnuts prove once again that they don't know the first fucking thing about anything but being idiots.

I don't think it matters one bit what any of us think about Iran, how any of it pertains to Iraq, Israel and/or foreign affairs in general. The new and not improved Decider is going to decide. Meanwhile, here in America, people are being snatched off the street. SNATCHED OFF THE GOD-DAMNED STREET!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vda3IhKnrTA&NR=1

Snatch Squads.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kTqgQ8E5Ik

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kTqgQ8E5Ik

Snatch Squads.

And here is the actual video apparently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kTqgQ8E5Ik

No worries lose yourselves in talk of Iran and Israel for the day.

I wonder if our threats of sanctions are really more aimed at making sure oil trades in dollars?

-- rjcrane

Sure it is and that will be what the war with Iran will really be about also. People like gedicht will go a fight and kill for their slave-master's empire because they are the most ignorant, most propagandize people on the fucking planet.

G20 security officials took responsibility Friday afternoon for a video that seemed to depict US troops ‘kidnapping’ a protester.

The military was not involved in the incident, but G20 security did acknowledge that “law enforcement officers from a multi-agency tactical response team” had detained a protester they said was believed to be vandalizing a store.

http://rawstory.com/2009/09/video-appears-to-show-us-troops-kidnapping-protester/

More of the Police State in action:

http://rawstory.com/2009/09/videos-g20-police-break-assembly-university-pittsburgh/

Boy, I sure hope Accountability Now's replacement for Cooper can put an end to all of this type of stuff. I am sure s/he will.

In 1971, as it became clearer and clearer that the U.S Government would not be able to buy back its dollars in gold, it made in 1972-73 an iron-clad arrangement with Saudi Arabia to support the power of the House of Saud in exchange for accepting only U.S. dollars for its oil. The rest of OPEC was to follow suit and also accept only dollars. Because the world had to buy oil from the Arab oil countries, it had the reason to hold dollars as payment for oil. Because the world needed ever increasing quantities of oil at ever increasing oil prices, the world’s demand for dollars could only increase. Even though dollars could no longer be exchanged for gold, they were now exchangeable for oil.

The economic essence of this arrangement was that the dollar was now backed by oil. As long as that was the case, the world had to accumulate increasing amounts of dollars, because they needed those dollars to buy oil. As long as the dollar was the only acceptable payment for oil, its dominance in the world was assured, and the American Empire could continue to tax the rest of the world. If, for any reason, the dollar lost its oil backing, the American Empire would cease to exist. Thus, Imperial survival dictated that oil be sold only for dollars. It also dictated that oil reserves were spread around various sovereign states that weren’t strong enough, politically or militarily, to demand payment for oil in something else. If someone demanded a different payment, he had to be convinced, either by political pressure or military means, to change his mind.

The man that actually did demand Euro for his oil was Saddam Hussein in 2000.

[snip]

The Iranian government has finally developed the ultimate “nuclear” weapon that can swiftly destroy the financial system underpinning the American Empire. That weapon is the Iranian Oil Bourse slated to open in March 2006. It will be based on a euro-oil-trading mechanism that naturally implies payment for oil in Euro. In economic terms, this represents a much greater threat to the hegemony of the dollar than Saddam’s, because it will allow anyone willing either to buy or to sell oil for Euro to transact on the exchange, thus circumventing the U.S. dollar altogether.

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/12125

No idea how solid this article is but I remembered reading it a few years ago and I saved the link. It was written in 2006.

The question remains, is electing More And Better Democrats the answer? Or is the real problem deeper and more systemic?

-- Ché Pasa

No actually, the question does not remain. It has been asked and answered, repeatedly. And by Glenn Greenwald himself in his own writings. It was answered by Howard Zinn in this video:

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2606

It has been answered.

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