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CDS Speculators May Or May Not Be Cause For Riots In Greece To Turn Violent
More postcards from a post-austerity Greece where 10,000 protesters take to the streets. Pick the CDS speculators out.
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I know... I know... the CDS speculator is that one in the second last picture.... do I win a prize?
Nope thats the new CDS regulator shooting down the spec traders. The CDS trader is the guy in the brown jacket in the first picture - the one the looks like hes going to flash (except hes got his pants on) - you know they are all deviants!!
The CDS trader is the guy in the brown jacket in the first picture - the one the looks like hes going to flash (except hes got his pants on) - you know they are all deviants!!
That is some funny shit whydtinogo. Thanks much for the gut splitter.
Hey... who torched the Goldman company Audi in pic 3?
going after fine GERMAN engineering. tt coupe?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-LB94Kwlws
april 29, 1992 sublime rodney king riots
I'd give a buck fifty for him to go ahead and flash it.
You guys are all wrong. He's the guy with the white hair in the 3rd picture overlooking the "burning of someone else's car" - isn't that what CDS's are about?
C'mon guys... the CDS speculator is the kid with the motorcycle helmet and the slingshot.
Everyone knows that CDS speculators carry slingshots.
Actually I love the guy in the same picture showing up to the party with his handy dandy 5 lb. sledge hammer. It's amazing the things you can accomplish with a 5lb sledge. I've even used it to pound in 6 penny finish nails. Just ignore the dents in the wood casing.
The 5 lb. sledge, the portable persuader.
As long as the head is wedged well. I had one come off, spin and in a moment of retardation on my part I tried to catch it... right before it hit the ground with my finger between it and the pavement. Can you say Distal Phalanx Fracture? I knew you could.
No, this is the portable Persuader. 8 in the tube and 1 in the chamber will pursuade even the most reticent hooligan to cease and desist.
But yes, a 5lb. sledge is a close second ;)
I am Chumbawamba.
No, I think its the guy in the last picture. The one getting his head mashed into the stone railing. They got him! Now its all safe again, right?
Congratulations! You’ve just won a certified authentic yellow metal replica of Klugman’s Nobel Peace Prize, complete with multicolored European grosgrain silk ribbon!
And soon coming to a theatre near you.
Not an American theater. We have been completely conditioned and pacified. That was proven during the 2008 elections, when 96% of the incumbents were returned to office, which came on the heels of the Congressional middle finger given to the population a few months earlier.
Nope, the natives will give you no problems, other than the occasional squawk when the TV goes down.
Yep. There has never, ever been a successful revolution or uprising the the U.S.'s entire history after the first one from Britain.
The Feds have got it down pat when it comes to troublemakers.
The standard operating procedure for the past 50 years has been to let an area riot for several days. By the time the National Guard comes in, the natives are happy to see them.
You have to admit, this works pretty well for the Feds. Sucks to be caught up in it. But that's what you get if you're not one of the boyz.
Ummm... the Civil War?
He said successful revolution or uprising. As in successful.
Ask anyone below the Mason-Dixon line if the the Civil War was a successful revolution or uprising and you might be caught up in the latest skirmish, courtesy of your question.
In addition to the consent engineering aspects, imagine - government workers and unions rioting against government austerity... yes, that would generate boundless public sympathy in America.
The actual outcome would be, we would say "Wow, the entire DHS went on strike and I didn't even know anything happened!"
That is strange indeed. When you realize that the police has also joined the strike.
All government employees against the riot police, which are also government employees.
That tells me that the rioters are actually anarchists as it has been proven, over and over again in Greek rioting. They actually have their own political party.
And soon coming to a theatre near you.
Second from the bottom, with the sling shot. It's a new CDS speculating strategy.
It's called CDS Slingshot, where the shit gets blown back in your face and you're (once again) bailed out by the powers-that-be.
LOVE IT. LIVE FOR FREEDOM!
Uh, dude, that ain't freedom. That's spoiled children throwing a tantrum because the mean reality told them they won't get dessert. Perhaps you'd like to chip in to their "save our retire-at-60 fund"?
Here comes that wave of state jobs cuts I have been looking for the past year. Once those start getting slashed with authority its going to start a chain reaction beneath small business. Hold onto your potatoes Doca Jones..were gonna have a crash landing.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_closing_schools
I read the article. Covington looks to be the right medicine.
CMON It's obvious that the CDS speculator is the guy on the last picture. Why can't anyone else see this?
12 months pay (rather than 14) for 12 months work is fucking Draconian! Burn the Audis!
If there is a bailout, what will the Germans do? Gyros is already burnt.
I believe most the protesters are gov't union employees and retarded young anarchists (the same ones you see at every international event), so in that case f'em. Time for the parasites to eat their turd sandwich.
Amen.
Not sure which ones are CDS speculators, but my guess is that the Audi belongs to one of them...
Someone has kindly offered to check the tire pressure with a sledge hammer...
He left it there after his quick flight to the Caymans about two weeks before the story broke and the protesters came out and trashed some small businesses owned by a small family trying to make ends meet.
I am so relieved though to see people taking direct action. It could be messy and lots of mistakes will be made, but at least some people aren't completely owned by the Matrix. The down side is the possible appearance of a fascist demagogue out of this.
While the images are haunting, the reality is that most Greeks support the austerity measures and realize the gig is up. Private businesses in Athens opened up shop today (don't know why) as many need to work to feed their family. Public sector workers are on strike but what are they trying to prove? Are they mad at the socialist government? At the bankers? At Wall Street? At Germany? What???
I'll say this much for Greeks (and other Euopeans), unlike Canadian and US citizens, which are lobotomized by MSM, they have no problems protesting when they feel they're getting screwed. You'll never see that type of rioting in Ottawa or Washington. People here are like passive puppets.
They are mad at YOU, Leo...
Can't argue with you there, Leo--the US authorities would be seriously unnerved by a true street riot. American protesters, if they could ever be aroused, would likely be far more violent than the Europeans, for whom demonstrating is a type of game for both sides.
The American authorities would inevitably over-react, and there would be casualties, a bloody mess.
It'll happen, and so will all sorts of other things US society has no real experience with.
"No real experience with?"
Are you forgetting the Rodney King riots?
All it took in that case was one police beating to light up LA and several other major cities.
There were the WTO protests in Seattle, too (the "Battle for Seattle"), in which the leftist/anarchist thugs provoked the police into overreaction with violence and then smashed up the city when the police finally had to break out the tear gas.
I'm talking about protesters shooting back...
April 26th, 1992,
there was a riot on the streets,
tell me where were you?
You were sittin' home watchin' your TV,
while I was paticipatin' in some anarchy.
First spot we hit it was my liqour store.
I finally got all that alcohol I can't afford.
With red lights flashin' time to retire,
And then we turned that liquor store into a structure fire.
Next stop we hit it was the music shop,
It only took one brick to make that window drop.
Finally we got our own p.a.
Where do you think I got this guitar that you're hearing today?
Hey!
sublime
Yep... four dead in O-hi-o..
i was there!
love you headbanger
There are plenty of troops in Iraq & Afghanistan experienced in dealing with "insurgencies" who could be reassigned pretty quick.
There is a reason why Obama is "bringing the troops home"
That's a good take on things. Which is why America is no longer fit to lead anything.
But public support is crucial if these measures are to be carried out, and opinion polls indicate that initial support for the reforms has plummeted to around 40 percent from 70 percent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/world/europe/12greece.html?hp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8561311.stm
Nah, bunch of pussies and bureaucrats on those pictures. I can guarantee you that no privately employed person is striking in Greece. Only gov. jobs unions and college kids, joined by anarcho-tourists from various parts of Europe. But hey, that's better than nothing. If/When the start tearing down and burning their own places of employment and their schools then and only then will shit really hit the fan. Till then, just a bit of exhibitionism on the part of the so called protesters.
Cheeky, you Bastard. Long time no see. We miss your avatar, your caustic sarcasm and spot on laser wit.
Yeah, Cheeky, you fucker! You don't come around nearly enough anymore. Where you been?
anarcho-tourists
is there a group discount?
I think some European operators offer some sort of a "rioting travel" or some shit like that. It was popular some time ago when there were strikes in France and Italy. Bunch of people showed up and tear some Paris districts apart and then flew home first class.
car burning, is pretty popular in france. thats gotta help the auto industry.
Are there anarcho-tourist tour groups to serve that demographic like the gay/lesbian outfits? j/k
Nice to see you CB...
Greece has plenty of homegrown anarcho-hoodlums, too. Here they are rioting in late 2008, over non-economic grievances:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2008/1208/p06s02-wogn.html
"Greece's worst rioting in years erupted late Saturday night after an Athens policeman shot and killed a teenage boy in a central neighborhood known as the base of anarchist and other antiestablishment groups.
By Sunday morning, with the riots continuing, a trail of devastation had been blazed across central Athens – with the stench of tear gas and smoke from charred vehicles and buildings hanging over parts of the ancient city. The violence quickly spread to other parts of the country, including Greece's second-city, Thessaloniki, and the vacation islands of Crete and Corfu.
[...]
The last fatal police shooting of a minor in Greece, in 1985, sparked months of nearly daily clashes between police and anarchists. The terrorist group November 17 also bombed a bus full of riot police in retaliation, Kiesling says."
Anarkismo.net : 22.8% of visitors are from Greece.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/anarkismo.net#demographics
An anarchist perspective on Greece:
"Greece before the war [WW2] was a country ripe for social change with a small percentage holding most of the land and industry, major industries being foreign owned and a debt 150% of the annual national revenue. The allies released this and their major purpose after German withdrawal was to prevent any social revolution. Luckily they had Stalin on their side, at Yalta it had been agreed that Greece would be in the British sphere of influence.
The British forces re-activated the various forms of local authority set up by the Nazis with local fascist support. At the same time Papandreou forbade the ELAS from entering Athens and on 30th October declared EAM disbanded. All arms were ordered to be surrendered by December 10th.
Within days Athens saw a mass demonstration against the governments re-imposition of the old order and on 3rd November it was reported that 2000 textile workers had taken over their factory and appointed a management committee. It is difficult to access the extent of this movement now as everybody including the KKE deny it.
Churchill cabled the general in charge to act as if "he were in a conquered city, confronted by local rebellion"
http://struggle.ws/talks/greece.html
The problem with socialism is that you ultimately run out of someone else's money.
+1
Im sure CNBC has sent Erin Burnett in a thong to Athens cover this crystal ball for America.
Link? Please, link? Please?
Sounds a lot like capitalism. Haven't we just about run out of the Yuan?
We don't have a capitalist system anymore.
Tomorrow EU says it will ban enforcement of CDS swaps on companies within EU that go bad. Bloomberg says that will not work since CDS writting will go to NYC and London. But the Banks and large Companies will go to the EU for protection. This could be a big deal.
On Feb. 5th the market bottomed and turned higher as rumors spread of a Greece bailout over the weekend. Over a month later this is the outcome and any rational person saw it coming.
The question is not if, but when. What is going to push Americans over the edge? Somebody help with this point, but in Europe most people work directly or indirectly for the government. So, it is not suprising to see that the protesters/rioters are government workers. In America, all the pain thus far has been in the private sector. Government payrolls have at least remained steady to this point in time. (thank you stimulus money.) The cuts to government payrolls are coming. More pain to come for all. I still believe that when the American people fully understand that bankers have escaped this mess without taking a haircut of any size, and that they continue to profit at the expense of the taxpayers of America (and oversees countries that continue to buy our debt, if there are any left, why they would I don't know), the riots will begin, first in Washington then Wall Street. This is coming from a life long conservative. F Washington. F the fed. F Wall Street.
Witnessing government's response to protests in cities around the world, one is struck by the similarity in the faceless Darth Vader-type riot costumes of the police leaving their identities protected. When Americans revolt, I'm wandering if it'll be the citizens and the protesters wearing the masks and riot gear and the government's faces that will be showing.
"The question is not if, but when. What is going to push Americans over the edge?"
If the democrats have a supermajority in November..
If you print these photos on a transparency, then turn the over and look at them backwards, they all say "CDS... CDS...CDS...CDS..."
Hugh Hendry: We are your "friends"
What he meant to the wannabe crowd of followers:
Let them eat cake.
And: You shut up while I make money.
You think CNBC will air such violent scenes when they start happening here in the good ol USA??
"The revolution will not be televised"
FOX will. And they'll get market share for doing it.
Kind of hard to Operate business when the streets are on fire.. how will they service the debt with out tax receipts ?
The anarchists arent leaving anytime soon and have thousands of recently unemployed govt workers to join them.
Its a trick question. The CDS speculator is on a beach someplace nice.. drinking pina coladas. But there is a CDS spec position shown in the third picture. See that Audi?
*cha-ching*
business is good.
YOU KNOW YOUR GOVERNMENT IS BROKE WHEN YOUR POLICE FORCE IS USING A SLING SHOT
As a Greek, I am very insul-
No, wait.
LOL. Awesome.
As a Greek, I am very insul-
No, wait.
LOL. Awesome.
Don't think that was a policeman bro.
Essentially, it is all over but the shouting [besides ZH, check also Simon Johnson's "Greece, the Latest and Greatest Bubble", today at NY Times Economix blog]. Writing from Athens, I can only hope that people will not get killed, but protests turn angrier and uglier every day....
I love the smell of tear gas in the morning. BTW, they were not 10000, but well over 60000 in the streets today...
Since half the Greek population works for the government it is good to see the Police earning their money!
If you notice the Police are always protecting the Bank's property.
"Who runs BarterTown?"
I bet that roadside gyro guy is making a killing!! nothing makes a person hungry than a violet protest!
On a more serious note, we need more anarchy porn here. This was such a tease.
protest by all means but isn't it stupid to trash your own country?
They are the ones taking the pictures. They only get paid if they have proof that the government was totally destroyed. That's why the govt is paying those people to riot.
Quid pro quo.
I could have sworn that I saw Soros, Griffin, Paulson, and Cohen enjoying their Greek coffees somewhere in one of those pics.
40 years ago, a sad prophecy by one of the true poet of our time, the revolution will not be televised....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3QOtbW4m0
Stop pretending guys, you should all know by now that the revolution will not be televised....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3QOtbW4m0
A sad prophecy by one of the great poet of our time.
In ancient Rome they had the Gladiators, the spectacular coliseum and fantastic live death re-enactments of famous sea battles.
Today, we have ancient Rome. The entire city. The entire city will be turned into an open conflict contest of survival!
But wait, there's more. It won't be just ancient Rome. It'll be every city, hamlet, town, village, and cul-de-sac on the planet! Gladiatorial entertainment at it's finest!
Fueled by 1600 years of repressed violent tendencies, bitter disappointments, and failed systems of belief, these men are angry! This ain't your Daddy's Gladiatorial death match! This is the newest, the best, and the finest.
Complimentary front row seats for everyone!
courtesy Goldman Sachs.
-MobBarley
Greece, you kick ass! Thank you for setting an example!
One of the discussions I had last night at the Men's Club with those Marxist professors is how far can societies flourish as wealth is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few:
Forbes List of World's billionaires 2010
I got nothing against billionaires, but my redistributive side tells me that no individual should have a net worth that exceeds a billion (or far less). In the past, America's richest families built things and donated huge wealth. Not any more. Now it's all a beauty contest of who makes it on top of some silly list of the world's richest people.
The super rich are not like you and I. They have huge egos that need to be attended to or else their whole existence is put into question.
wrong leo, my daughter has been teaching pilates for 10 years to forbes #536 billionaire. very nice kind man.
I also heard Spain's richest man, Amancio Ortega (#9 on the list), founder of Zara is a very nice & humble man.
I think that is because being rich now has almost nothing to do with working hard and its more about who you know close to the money spigot.
The war against the globalization elite has started. We will have globalization of the people, by the people, and for the people. It will be messy and last years but the people of the world are coming together against their common enemy. Don't be scapegoated into accepting the govenment imposed solutions. We the peole are the only solution. Take the bull by the horns. Carpe Diem!
I wish I could afford a larger ego.
WORDS OF FAMOUS GREEKS: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wkgIzuqJM0w/S5lEkzFBJ6I/AAAAAAAADBE/cpd9tGpOTQ...
Looks like diesel cocktails to me. Can't they afford petrol?
OpenCongress
The “Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010,” introduced by Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday with little fanfare, “sets out a comprehensive policy for the detention, interrogation and trial of suspected enemy belligerents who are believed to have engaged in hostilities against the United States by requiring these individuals to be held in military custody, interrogated for their intelligence value and not provided with a Miranda warning,”
(definition of “belligerent” – … “inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness” synonyms belligerent, bellicose, pugnacious, quarrelsome, contentious ) = “dissent”?
The bill does not distinguish between U.S. citizens and non-citizens, and states that “suspected belligerents” who are “considered a “high-value detainee” shall not be provided with a Miranda warning.”
A person is considered a “high value detainee” if they fulfill one of the following criteria.
(1) poses a threat of an attack on civilians or civilian facilities within the U.S. or U.S. facilities abroad; (2) poses a threat to U.S. military personnel or U.S. military facilities; (3) potential intelligence value; (4) is a member of al Qaeda or a terrorist group affiliated with al Qaeda or (5) such other matters as the President considers appropriate.
As the need for revenge simmers on the back burner of the minds that are just waiting to snap.
Belligerence is now a crime??
This does not bode well for Americans held in custody by other countries.
Gee, this would be a great time for an insured property owner to have their failing shop unfortunately burn down due to rioters...get the molotov cocktails out gentlemen...
Better check your policy, moron. Riots are generally NOT covered.
Time to stockpile your choice of weapons, boys!
Anything will do, really....
You know these kinds of things have a habit of spreading to other communities.
The EURO rally I warned of has started.
http://www.zerohedge.com/forum/market-outlook-0
I can't believe no one else has called this...it's obvious the CDS speculators are the three mannequins behind the cracked (but still intact) glass...they are cold, heartless creatures who show no emotion, and try as you might, you just can't get at them to stop their reckless behavior.
Also, check out the mob/police clash pic right above the slingshot dude...is it just me, or is the carrot top in the striped shirt a scared little kid clinging to an adult for dear life?
WTF? Who brings junior to a riot?
@ Delacroix and Agent P. Brilliant.
Don't worry this will all settle down when the masses realize they can now have 3D tv in their very own home or an i-pad... with advances in technology like that...who has time to riot?
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