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Biggest Protest In Athens Under Way As Tens Of Thousands Ask "Where Did Our Money Go", Demand No More Austerity (Now With WiFi Access)
After 12 consecutive days of protests, the biggest gathering in Athens' parliamentary Syntagma square is currently underway. The FT reports: "Thousands of Greeks protested outside parliament on Sunday against a fresh austerity package agreed in return for the country’s second bail-out in 13 months by the European Union and International Monetary Fund. “Thieves, thieves….Where did our money go?” the protestors shouted, blowing whistles and waving Greek flags as riot police thickened ranks around the parliament building on Syntagma square in the centre of the capital...Frustration over the socialist government’s half-hearted reform effort has united diverse activists –from unemployed graduates to environmentalists and pensioners – under the umbrella of the new movement. George Papaconstantinou, finance minister, is due to unveil on Monday a €6.4bn emergency package of tax increases and cuts in allowances aimed at putting this year’s budget back on track....“What went wrong? We need answers right now,” said Rovertos, a volunteer computer technician helping provide wi-fi services at the protest camp. “The government promised there wouldn’t be any more tough measures but they’re about to announce new taxes and thousands of job cuts,” said Stefanos, a retired civil servant sitting outside a tent." What went wrong is that Greece is in the process of being colonized by the global banker certal. But with summer season in swing, and most Greeks hitting the beach, we doubt many will notice until it is too late. As for those who may have noticed, below is a webstream of the biggest protest before the Greek parliament in 2011. It is sure to provide some entertainment for when the EUR opens up in 3 hours, if not much else.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stJcQKJaAb0
I think they are afraid that if the patient dies, so does the doctor.
To bad the doctors are quacks.
Germans may re-try to re-taste what GREEK RESISTANCE means, maybe the've forgotten...
video from Syndagma Square Greek people singing the National Anthem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0BfUFL_iOY&feature=player_embedded
Αλλενακι +1000
anyone have the link to the zerohedge article with list of trading books downloadable free?
I remember reading some polls. Dont have a reference, but the majority of greeks still favor being in the eu and accepting the sacrifices.
There is a noisy activist minority, but the protests are still impressive.
Generally people should pay their debts, but if a corrupt governing class essentially stole the money and/or used it to buy votes then it is not a clear ethical issue.
Funny this should happen today, a friend just got back from Greece. Said she saw lot's of peaceful protests. he guides told her the people got little of the money borrowed by the gov't and that they never got a chance to say no to the euro zone. The gov't pushed it thru and cost's doubled over night.
Somebodies lying can you guess who?
The various cross currents and beliefs in greece are interesting to watch.
This is what happens when the punchbowl is taken away and a country is required to accept temporary deflation in hopes of a more sustainable, efficient economy in the future.
If anyone isn't sure who the enemy is, listen to a wise young man named Mike Prysner at the 9:19 mark in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWUQ_N_vHc0&feature=player_embedded
Wake up Americans!
We Greeks are a small nation but we stand united against Socialist traitors that try to rob our dignity.
Wake up and follow us
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05.06.2011
Euro-Kläger rügt Bundesverfassungsgericht.
"Namens und im Auftrag der Beschwerdeführer – 53 an der Zahl – bekunde ich mein Befremden über die bisherige Unterlassung des Zweiten Senats", heißt es in einem Schreiben Kerbers an Gerichtspräsident Andreas Voßkuhle.
Anti-Euro bailout suitor reprimands BVerfG
In the name and on behalf of the complainants - 53 in number - I state my puzzlement about the ongoing inaction of the 2nd senate, a letter of Kerber to the court president Andreas Voßkuhle reads.
Looks like the BVerfG has been bribed by TPTB, which would be the first time in its history.
http://www.mmnews.de/index.php/wirtschaft/7946-euro-klaeger-ruegt-bundes...
Whether or not they really know it, Greeks were dealing with the devil for too many years. If they default, they can at least be proud and say they stuck it to the IMF, Banks, EU, etc...but the days of a huge welfare state and sitting around doing nuthin' are done. Default is an option, but they shouldn't expect foreigners to rush in and pay for their retirement.
Greece is lucky. If you don't owe money you can't pay and have no oil, then nobody cares about you.
...just like iceland...god blessem.
Is that a bad thing?
Long, long after these protesters go home, all of Greece will be on permanent stealth strike (think underground, ie., free, barter economy). No, not so "efficient" as societally-recognized property rights, but to the extent it can be carried out it beats living like a debt slave to the money power. More power to non-tax eating Greek individuals. It is wonderful to watch the generational Ponzi scheme known as the welfare state - in all of its excrescence - collapse in on itself like a rotting corpse in the sun. The banksters are the flies. When they having finished consuming the corpse, they die. Another wonderful thought.
I am Greek,live in Greece and can tell you that the people have a huge responsibility for what happened to their country.For the last 30 years politicians borrowed huge amounts of money and used them to buy out votes.Most Greeks gladly and with no questions asked accepted these bribes and voted those corrupt thieves without thinking too much about it.But on the other hand,for the past two centuries Greece has been at war for the most part.That means that after the independence war against the Ottomans in 1821 we had the first and second balkan wars,the first world war,the second world war,the civil war and finaly dictatorship.Not to mention the fact that while the rest of Europe was having the Renaissance we were slaves to the Turks for 400 years.How can any nation achieve any level of progress when it is constantly at war or subordinate to another?. The Greeks have suffered a lot and perhaps that is why they were dazzled by all this money and promises offered to them by the politicians.That doesn't make things any easier for us though and we will pay for our past choises one way or the other.
It is a sad story, I personally love Greece but the USA is doing all of the same things - politicians borrowing money we don't have to pay-off special interest groups for their votes, fighting endless wars...we will be joining you soon.
no oil or jews.. so greece can be ruined
http://www.lepost.fr/article/2011/05/23/2503895_the-full-blown-return-of-anti-semitism-in-europe-by-guy-milliere-version-2.html
yperkeimenos:
"That doesn't make things any easier for us though and we will pay for our past choises one way or the other."
your past choices?? if the pols who got elected were selected (such as they are USA) what real choice did the greeks have??
the world elite banks love those who never see there was no choice( short of killing and revolutions ..) the west and much of the world has been forced into this financial slavery..choice had nothing to do with it.
I would agree with you,had i been living on another country but as it is i have seen first hand that the Greeks simply didn't wish to see reality.In the past, many times, i literally yelled at my friends and colleagues that bankruptcy was the only logical outcome for a nation that spends borrowed money and produces very little.The reply was always the same,"Do you really think they will let us default?".People had come to believe the lies that the Euro would protect us from everything.They knew nothing about it and didn't care to either.At some point you either admit you're an idiot and your fate is that of a slave or you do something about it,there is always a choice,it is just that sometimes a pat on the soulder is not enough but rather a sledghammer is needed to shake the people out of their fantasies.
It would be ironic of Turkey Bails out the Greeks....strange world we live in....eh.
Greeks should default - tell the bankstas to F - OFF
AbsoF...inglutely
Hope the protestors succeed in ending the rapacious initiatives that their politicans want to implement at the benefit of financial institutions over the unnecessary cost to their citizens.
We are not allowed to have guns (we, the citizens).
If you have a hunting riffle (which is allowed under licence etc) and you shoot a thief or murderer invading your house you go to trial and get sentenced even 10 years.
Guns have only the private guards of the political mafia, all the criminals and all the illegal immigrants (many of them were imprisoned in their countries who escaped and came to Greece.
ONLY THE LOYAL GREEK CITIZENS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CARRY GUNS FOR THEIR PROTECTION.
The Police has guns but it is not allowed to shoot directly on people, for instance in a bank robbery.
The Police doesn't have fuel for the cars, or bullets for the guns, or these vestas to protect the cheast. The policemen must buy them on their own money.