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100,000 Protesting In Athens Right Now
The first confirmation of protests expected to sweep across Europe tonight from Greece to Spain, France and Italy comes from Syntagma square where up to 100,000 people are protesting at this moment. Ekathimerini reports: "Greeks inspired by the Spanish “Indignant” or “Indignados” movement held
their largest protest so far in Athens on Sunday, which some estimates
put as high as 100,000 people, although a more accurate assesment seemed
to be that those taking part exceeded 30,000. No official figure was given for the number of people packing into
Syntagma Square in front of Parliament but it was clear that the protest
was by far the largest since the movement began on Wednesday." For now the Greek protest is peaceful, but with the US on vacation, and the EURUSD about to be very volatile, we urge readers to follow the real time update at the following live webcast.
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More from Ekathimerini:
Then, some 20,000 people were thought to have taken to the streets of the capital but it was clear that on Sunday, the numbers were much larger. The protest remained peaceful, as people sang, chanted slogans against the country’s politicians and austerity measures and aimed gestures at Parliament.
Greece’s deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos had earlier dismissed the significance of the country’s ‘Indignant’ movement.
“It is a movement without an ideology or organization, which bases itself on only one feeling, that of rage,” Pangalos told Ethnos newspaper.
Greece’s version of the ‘Indignant’ movement, protesting austerity measures and demanding that politicians are more in tune with citizens’ needs, has led to thousands of people protesting in front or Parliament in Athens, as well as in other cities, every day since Wednesday. Some have started camping out overnight as well.
On Sunday, similar protests were due to be held in other European countries, including Spain, France and Italy.
Famed Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis gave his public backing to the protesters and called for “the government of shame” to go along with “the politicians for destroying, plundering and subjugating Greece.”
The protesters also found an unlikely ally in Thessaloniki’s conservative bishop, Anthimos.
An MEP representing the centrist Democratic Alliance party, Theodoros Skylakakis said that the protesters would have to affect the political process if they want to have a real impact.
“These people have to become politicized and develop a greater political realization,” he told Skai TV. “They have to progress from “this is what I don’t like” to “this is what I like”.”
Organizers posted a message on their Facebook page on Saturday calling for the messages of the protest to become more specific. Suggestions included demands for the International Monetary Fund to leave Greece, for Parliamentary immunity to be lifted and for audit commission to be set up to establish how the country’s debt was amassed.
A "commission to establish how the country's debt was amassed"... and the commission is to be funded with more debt issuance.
Pure insanity.
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And now that im beat red I will turn off the internet and go outside and drink a 20 pack, take my shotgun on the 4 wheeler to the creek and shoot some crap.
Looks like the days of "Wine & Roses" are over.
You want a re-run of "Last of the Summer Wine" or "Wars of the Roses"? - both are in the offing.
Dolmades and Retsina for everyone!
Oompah!
“It is a movement without an ideology or organization, which bases itself on only one feeling, that of rage,” Pangalos told Ethnos newspaper.
that's hopeful! this sounds like it could catch on! even radioactive, biflationary BiCheZ can't co-opt The People In A Mindless Freaking Rage.
when i opened this page, i thought: what are they in the streets for? why?
stay tooned...when Pangalos talks to Ethnos, people listen.
Two words: spoiled brats.
Two words: Lazy Thoughts.
Let's see, a bunch of clown government employees who spend their entire lives doing nothing useful, getting paid with stolen money, with benefits and retirement promised based upon receiving more stolen money, from an institution that is insolvent, protest because this institution (government) is having a difficult time stealing more money, so they start rioting in hopes the government will keep stealing from people that are actually productive and destroying private property in the process. Then I call them spoiled brats, and I get a backlash on here from some imbeciles who probably are themselves government employees. That's cute.
How in the world can you jerk off Jamie Dimon at the same time as you type?
You need to see this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vXgUBxqBQI
The Republic is reforming and the military has a decision to make. Please spread this video, the first 10 minutes you have heard before, but it gets better after.
Very inspiring YouTube presentation...how does one get the state of North Carolina involved with this moment? And Louisiana?
Gee, I wonder how 100,000 could possibly be protesting in Greece this pleasant time of year?
Thing is, I don't feel sorry for the socialists and communists who knowlingly gamed an "evil" free market system so they could plunder it (Francis Bestiat's words) for themselves.
But.... I feel much much less sorry for the banks who knowingly gamed and enabled the socialists and communists down the road to serfdom -- so party on and protest folks!
Stiff the banks. Both the Greeks and banks will learn valuable lesson that way. Not fair to just slam the Greeks and reward the banks. Besides, we want to see what will happen because we're next.
Socialists?
Communists?
Dude what the fuck are you talking? They are the usual greedy bastards with no allegiance to any Country or any ideals ... just raping the people out of any resemblance of wealth ....
The same people who have built the financial house of cards in UK or the USA ... not exactly your socialist nations ...
so stop spewing the same bullshit ... it has nothing to do with socialism, and everything to do with a financial oligarchy screwing the whole world up!!!
I like the greece, i have spend some holiday there, as a populace they are of course not to be shamed.Just look at there governance in average over the last 40 years. that say`s all!
You can thank Uncle Sam, White Capital, and the CIA for their political trainwreck.
Don't mind 'gwar5': he's Avgidor Lieberman's pet retard.
Yeah, according to those labels, DSK was a "socialist" leader. Gimme a break.
Don't start stereotyping countries, you can't call greeks "communists"....It's like saying jews are thieves. It's primitive binary thinking. Yes they lived beyond their means and sold their testicles off just like americans pioneered the way 30 years ago.
Please, the crisis has showed us that "capitalists" and "socialists" are meaningless words, empty shells...Technically capitalist countries are much more in debt than other more "collectivists" ones, beggining with USA & Japan.
Be careful, they've lost their initial meaning, much like muslim, terrorist, communist etc...
Unless you're a redneck that is, and anyone from out of town is a "araboterocommunist" (choose your decade, 80 90 2000's), just as the Masters tell you on TV. Aliens with laz0rs are next.
Such a pity that Americans are brought up to fear the whole world by bankster-influenced polititians... Thank god for the good ones because they're really good.
target rich environment...
silver plus .30 cents
first hr..
OK maybe the Greeks are lazy bitchez but let's not forgot how this came about. The one-size-fits-all Euro simply doesn't fit any eurozone economy. It's too weak for the strong economies like Germany enabling them to grow on exports like motherfuckers. It's too strong for weak economies like Greece, Portugal, Spain and Ireland allowing them to act richer than they are and buy a lot of German shit. Throw in to low interest rates and before you can scratch your balls twice, the weak economies have loaded themselves up with debt so badly that they've become bitchez of the banks and the Brussels elite. When you get free money, you spend. That's what they did, lazy or not.
Look at all the hard working Americans who got shitload of free money on low interests. They bought Chinese shit until they were loaded up with debt so bad they are now bitchez too. Wall Street's bitchez.
There's no significant difference between Greeks and Americans - except the Greeks have the balls to go out and set fire to a few banks. They don't all sit at home watching Idol like sedated zombies.
Yay Greeks, when will the people here wake up?
Peaceful protesting is getting nowhere. How long until they start petrol bombing the banks?
Bullish on Alcohol/Burning rags.
This is why Zero Hedge is my first stop every day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHeeA-4o8kE
According to AlJazeeraEnglish some protesters molotoved a bank and burned 3 people inside.
Its incredible , this isnt making the news anywhere on Europes MSM channels. ..... the UK are still worrying about SuperInjunctions and Soccer players. Game Set Match. The sheeple will NEVER wake up.
Don't get too excited. The video is over a year old. Not exactly breaking news today.
A critical mass of angry people with nothing left to lose (but their bankster chains). Sweet.
They are protesting the awful realism that they might have to work and pay taxes--they don't want to give up their easy, lazy lifestyle and want more bailouts. Such a noble cause...
No - they're protesting that the Banker-Gangsters you serve have looted them blind with leveraged bets and credit default swaps.
Isn't it amazing how those lazy fucking Greeks have so much in common with all the lazy fucking freeloaders everywhere else in the world opposed to the Banker-Gangsters whose boots you lick. Mind you, it has nothing to do with a wretched, failing economic system that makes people paupers BY DESIGN!
Nope: it's all coincidence. The ENTIRE WORLD is lazy, and the Banker-Gangsters have a right to pillage them everywhere in the world. Because hey: Banker-Gangsters need their hookers.
Isn't it interesting, how the thoughtstyle of some posters, is a copy of precisely the mindset they claim to be opposed to? :) Some people here would be precisely the assholes they reject, if they had more power.
Glad to see somebody else gets it. The idiot below you fails to see the govenrment, not the banks, are what bankrupted Greece (though I am opposed to banks receiving any government assistance). He probably agrees with G'Pap that it's all those damn speculators and their CDS that caused the debt crisis.
The only way I know to tell a leader from misleader is their demonstrated record on labor.
The middle and "lower" classes share overwhelming, mutual interests, thus are the target of "divide and conquer" oligarchs.
Indeed. And nothing is more reviled by many who frequent these pages than the principle of collective bargaining, for the same reason. They hate the few remaining souls who still have protected rights as workers.
The Ron "John Birch Society" Paul groupies are permanently at war with the masses. Often they conceal it with oblique attacks on Banker-Gangsters.
Apropos here:
The only way I know to tell a leader from misleader is their demonstrated record on labor.
The middle and "lower" classes share overwhelming, mutual interests, thus are the target of "divide and conquer" oligarchs.
Timmay voted them down. Send in the 525. This is CONGRESS!!
Nobody understands the Greeks on this thread. Get it into your heads, these are not the Greeks of 2000 years ago, these are the Turk/Greek muts of today, Mediterranean Mexicans, the ones who will knife your ass in a second when you fk with their lifestyle. They live in the moment, and do not concern themselves with consequences when acting. Greek politicians know they better get to a safe place. You may not see it on TV, but there's going to be lots of blood.
LAST CHECK: 1.4301. Yawn. Yeah, very volatile...
So the Consumer wishes not to pay taxes over there.
Over here the black market is exploding. Why should they care here or there. Who can you trust? I trust my neighbors who get it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXbmG6WLu9I&NR=1
The Consumer is the final arbiter. Choose.
Principal investor called. Focus was lightswitch investments only. The last things that keep the lights in history...
Sacre Bleu! I was told zis was under control. So what the hell does the EU do when the Irish have 100,000 and 1,000 with bombs ready to go?
where do all them protesters
go to the toilet ....
greek portapotties