Barcelona's Anti-Tourism Campaign
Whenever we see large numbers of protestors converging on a ‘leftist’ cause, we are usually skeptical about how organic these movements are. The Soros Open Society Foundation has been linked to many protest movements over the past few years. I scoured the internet in vain trying to find any direct evidence of Soros’ Open Society Foundation funding the CUP (Popular Unity Candidacy) party - the party which claimed responsibility for the anti-tourism campaign in Barcelona back in 2017.
Via The Guardian (August 2017):
The youth wing of a Catalan political party has posted a video of its members vandalising bicycles, days after it slashed the tyres of a tour bus near FC Barcelona’s stadium and sprayed the windscreen with the slogan “Tourism kills neighbourhoods”.
Arran, the youth wing of the radical CUP (Popular Unity Candidacy) party, has claimed responsibility for the anti-tourism campaign. CUP, which is propping up the centre-right nationalist Catalan government, has been criticised over its refusal to condemn the attacks.
Fast forward to July 2024:
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CBS News reported:
“Video showed diners being forced to change tables at some restaurants to escape the protests on Saturday, while other restaurants were symbolically taped off by the demonstrators.
Carrying banners reading “Tourists go home,” protesters called for a reduction in the number of foreign visitors to Barcelona, stopping in front of hotels and restaurants to confront tourists.
‘I have nothing against tourism, but here in Barcelona we are suffering from an excess of tourism that has made our city unlivable’, one of the demonstrators told the French news agency AFP.”
It stinks of Globalist meddling. The parasite class does not want us to travel, often leveraging climate alarmism to curb our ‘carbon footprints’ and laying out the closure of airports over the next 30 years in the Absolute Zero document commissioned by the UK government.
When we view the Barcelona anti-tourism campaign through this lens, along with the non-stop aviation accidents; notably the ongoing Boeing scandals - the pressure to put people off vacationing abroad is immense. Now add to the list, that you may encounter hordes of (paid agitator?) NPC protestors harassing and attacking you and your family as your try to relax on holiday. It also plays into the controlled economic demolition of places like Barcelona that greatly rely on tourism for their GDP.
Economic demolition policies in action from June 2024:
Tourism is being blamed for soaring housing costs in Barcelona, as many apartment units are rented out via AirBnB. Are there any other drivers that could contribute towards rising housing costs…? The protestors had some interesting priorities daubed on the walls of the city in Graffiti back in 2017:
If any readers can find links or supporting evidence of external funding for this latest anti-tourism campaign in Barcelona, or for other anti-tourism campaigns elsewhere in the world, please submit in the comments or email me directly:
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That tourist go home refugees welcome grafittistinks of an astrturf campaign. It all needs to be viewed through the lens of "We will own everything and you'll be unhappy" by those with money and power. Tourists support small businesses and private rentals such as AirBNB also help out locals. Refugees, meanwhile, are supported by NGOs, Corporate REITs, and government services funded by the taxpayer. I have been looking at your photo and wondering if it is a picture of Naithong beach or Surin Beach in Phuket. I am at Nai Yang beach staying at a camp site and the story from the taxi and shuttle bus drivers is that they are hurting right now. I've also been trying to wrap my head around the chemtrails/contrails debate on substack: I've never seen chemtrails in Thailand but airplanes are flying overheard for landing 400 meters from where we are sleeping. I would expect to a see a biodiversity loss at Sirinat National Park quickly if commercial airplanes exhaust is causing irreparable harm. to the ecosystem It looks the same as always to me though I could do with far less mosquitos...
Of all the problems Spaniards face, tourists pouring tens of millions of dollars into the economy isn't one of them. Of course anti-tourism isn't organic. No one would honestly and in good faith protest against tourism that way. *At best* people might go to city hall and whine about where the tour buses park.
When you see people reach first for short-sighted destruction, including self-destruction, you know you're dealing with statists. One of the defining characteristics of all statists, collectivists, tribalists, communists, socialists, fascists--whatever--is a compulsion to destroy. They're anti-life, which includes everything that adds pleasure to it, including the benefits of tourism: prosperity, cultural exchange (if you're into that kind of thing), education, jobs, infrastructure improvements, and, in the case of eco-tourism, conservation of animals and land at no cost to the locals.
The anti-tourism crap is part of a larger agenda of genocide for most and an existence as livestock for any survivors. Do the useful idiots vandalizing their own buildings know that? Maybe some of them. But they all *feel* it on an intimately personal level, which is why they readily respond to calls for destruction: Because years ago they started by destroying themselves.