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Mutiny On The Acropolis: Greek Protesters Seize Finance Ministry
Someone keep an eye on Waddell and Reed at all times. Repeat: all times. Because once they, and the market, and the Troica realize that the passage of Bailout 2 will lead to a revolution, it will get very, very interesting.
From Press TV:
Protesters belonging to the left-wing
The All-Workers Militant Front (PAME) union unfolded a giant banner from
the roof of the finance ministry building on the central Syntagma
square, calling for a nationwide strike against the new austerity
measures that the government agreed to take in return for the new
bailout package.
"From dawn today forces of PAME have symbolically occupied the
finance ministry, calling on workers to rise, organize their struggle
and prevent the government's barbarous and anti-popular measures from
passing," the front said, AFP reported.
Angry citizens in the country have now, for a tenth consecutive day,
held anti-government demonstrations against the austerity measures.
Protesters have set up a camp in the central square of the capital,
in a move modeled after the Spanish M-15 movement and the uprisings in
the Middle East and North Africa.
The new bailout plan will mean harsher austerity measures, as it is
aimed at reducing the 2011 budget deficit by EUR 6.5 billion. PAME said
the new plan would “turn workers into slaves.”
The plan, however, is set to be approved by EU finance ministers on
June 20. Additionally, the government will also commence its EUR 50
billion privatization program.
Greece received a EUR 110 billion EU-IMF bailout loan last year, as
it faced a massive debt crisis, but did not manage to resolve its
financial problems.
Since last year, Greece has witnessed massive anti-government
protests which turned violent at times and left scores of protesters and
security forces dead or injured.
A poll conducted recently found that the
majority of Greeks no longer have confidence their government can pull
the country out of its national debt.
h/t Econometrist
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Long Ouzo, short Jägermeister.
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!! OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!!
Get the banksters!!!
Wherefor art thou, fake "Fed"???
A celebratory song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gROfnYCSBhw
"Man will never be free until the last Banker is strangled with the entrails of the last Politician"
Even that is too kind.
Hard for me to feel sorry for all these leeches, who are angy at losing their free lunches. No able bodied adult should ever get a free ride. In a free society, there is no justification for forcing productive people to work hard for their own families, and have to subsidize lazy losers. That applies to corporations and individuals.
Let them starve if they don't want to support themselves.
Correct usage of 'leech':
Bankers continue to leech off working people!
I feel the same way, but it's a more complex issue than that.
The propensity to connect events into a wholesome picture will fail as providing for the daily needs becomes impossible. Who will have the right then? The people who are protesting without understanding the more “complex issue” or you? It’s going to explode soon.
I can't help but wonder, (honestly) are these people aware of what's being done to them, or are they pissed because they can't squeeze more blood from the turnip?
It's quite easy for us to cheer for default. Easy to want to see the bankster's rolled. But is that what these people are after, or just the "free lunch"?
If/when the U.S. is faced with the same choices, will the rioters be pissed at TPTB/TBTF, or just pissed that Obama's stash ran dry? Is this any different, or do we just want it to be?
It will be both.
I just happened upon this tonight, which makes me sure that at least some of the Greeks are aware of what is being done to them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKpxPo-lInk
allowing Greece into the EU was due to the expected bonanza from the "restructuring" of E-European economies ... they were to pay for the extra costs to the EU. it's consumed and gone now. no exit fo Greece
What do you care if a bank doesn't get paid back?
Whether it's Greeks or USA homeowners, the deadbeats are not the problem. The bailouts are the problem.
Taxpayers and dollar-holders must stop paying for the madness.
As much as I agree that 50ish is to young to retire... Shit I will only have been working for 15 years at that point (med student). I suggest we hang all of the bankers, financiers and politicians first, then lets figure out how to reform the welfare state particulars. There are bigger parasites in this world than citizens.
+1
There are bigger parasites in this world than citizens.
Well said. Austerity measures for everyone except the banks is their agenda. They made bad loans and refuse to accept the consequences.
WOW...you are an ignorant SOB
ignorant?
In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
---Benjamin Franklin (1772)
Greece received a EUR 110 billion EU-IMF bailout loan last year, as it faced a massive debt crisis, but did not manage to resolve its financial problems.
It didn't resolve their problems because Greece has a structural budget deficit that is used to a large extent to pay government workers and for transfer payments to its citizens. That being said, the Greeks are right to protest against further bailouts because loans from the IMF only make the Greek structural budget deficit worse. What the Greeks should do is a total default on all of their debt. Wipe all of it off their books.
See, the Greeks are intelligent and more realistic than the IMF, EU, ECB and foreign banks.
You've got to wonder though, who's pulling the strings over there.. that poster and plan of attack didn't come from some casual meeting of regular citizens and just anyone's PC and Lexmark printer.
It came from a Union Printer's shop. Just guessing.
You act like the people are as worthless as the bankers.
Bankers don't create anything of value for the people. The people do. Whoever made that owns a print shop, obviously. It's not a "difficult" (of course, it takes a lot of effort!) task to organize a rally using social media anymore, either. This is what's going to happen in America soon I'm afraid. It's only a matter of time until we're rushing the capitols demanding what's rightfully ours.
This can't go on forever, eventually there will be a revolution the world over doing everything possible to remove this scum from the earth. It will be a hard, long battle, but it has to happen otherwise (financial) slavery is going to come around full circle.
To abstain asking questions because you hate the banksters is a dangerous precedent. Let us not forget what happened in Russia, circa 1918. To trade the yoke of one tyrannical master for another is nary a worthy cause.
This may or may not be what is happening in Greece, but color me suspicous. The current of revolutionary communism flows wide and deep in that society.
Yeah see this is what worries me. If it does go full on then do they know who to revolt against? Politicians might get hit and maybe the odd local banker, and then the army gets involved etc. But in the end what will happen will be what always happens, Rothschild Rockefeller et al will draw an entirely irrelevant line in the sand, split the population evenly into two teams, fund them both and then buy the winner, who are already up to their necks in debt anyways as civil war is frightfully expensive. If there was a surgical strike against the few at the top we mightn't need a revolution at all.
Are there any young, hot-looking Rothschild women? I think I'd like to marry into this all-powerful family that has ruled the Earth throughout the ages.
Yes and they are considered the most beautiful women on earth.
However you need to provide a dowery of at least 10 tonnes of gold, a stable of unicorns and 3 greek islands.
Nonsense - http://seductivejewess.wordpress.com
Yeah, it looks like Colonial Capitalism is dying as it has finally run its course and is now in a gradually escallating fight for its life. I wonder how much collateral damage we will see through all this?
i fucked up my first interview in a while(long while) today, my hands were shaking too hard to lay the metal down. taking the process off my resume because of the shame.
it's not organisation that's difficult, it's avoiding the shots to the head that follow.
"You act like the people are as worthless as the bankers."
The shit you leave in the toilet is much different when you eat salads and drink mineral water than it is when you eat chili dogs and drink cheap beer. They're both shit, they just look and smell different.
"Demand what's rightfully ours?"
The people who are most likely to be rioting the soonest are those who are simply mad that the tit has run dry. Demanding what hasn't been earned, in one form or another, is what's gotten us here in the first place.
Even of those who may be rightfully pissed, only of handful of them will even know at who. We have allowed ourselves to be swaddled by the State for so long, we have lost all grasp of what is "rightfully ours".
You give the human race too much credit.
[The people who are most likely to be rioting the soonest are those who are simply mad that the tit has run dry.]---ColonelCooper
Good post, Colonel.
The ends do NOT justify the means.
(As an aside, I can't think of a single poster---myself included---on ZH giving a pass to the bankers, financiers, and Greek politicians. Criminals all.)
Guess you could say that of anything, huh? Who organized Egypt? I am sure printshop owners are capable of donating time and effort if they back the cause. As for taking over a building? It is happening ALL the time. Google the "Occupy" movements. Easy to do. There is even a manual on how to do it.
Kurrently we kannot eat Sauerkraut here.
We have EHEC.
We are Germ-ans.
First bird flu, then pig flu, then dioxine, now this.
Btw, few people if any in Germany eat Sauerkraut
Most eat Döner or Dürüm, thanks to the ~3.0 milion Turks living here.
Bockwurst, Bratwurst or Schnitzel is also not bad.
Here is your typical aryan German:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGizPODp6GI&feature=related
The real disease is turkjewitis combined with a malignant form of pc liberalismus. hate to be the breaker of bad news.
The Turks in Germany are a bulwark against too much American / Jewish influence and dominance in Germany.
They're sunni and alevit muslims.
i'm american, living in america.... america needs bulwarks against americans. send us some turks please.
you already have them. Check TYT (TheYoungTurks)... they are cool
Thanks for giving us Rammstein, perhaps the best metal group of all time.
now thats funny
hasn't happened here and will not because the Govt is = Unions....
Short Southern Comfort! ;-)
Saving Greece is not mainly an EU Bank bailout, it's all about not to activate CDS contracts, says the Schaeuble ministry.
http://translate.google.de/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.welt.de%2Fwirtsc...
And who gave these credit insurances?
Revolution Bitchez!
Strange thing about people who have nothing to lose...
whatever somebody promises them, is always a gain.
The Greek situation is still under control. As long as we see large groups and not 1 leader of the pack singing what should and could, there is still a chance it will pass.
Look at Portugal, they have been in a depression since 2004 and still everything is going down, and still no rebellion. They lack a real leader to rebel and the low wages over there are keeping the lemmings in line.
It's the demographics of the group that actually matter. And the winning country in Europe that actually meets all the criteria for a rebellion isn't Greece but Spain where the revolts come from the young people who aren't bound by family and providing for them.
Maybe but the greeks have a well proven track record when it comes to rioting. It is like a form of fine art to them.
Think of it this way would you rather go to the opera/gallery or a good old fashioned riot in the centre of Athens wiht plenty of firebombs, teargas, sticks, rocks.
I mean come on, it may have started in Spain but I realy expect the greeks to take it to whole new level. Might even outdo themselves this time.
[blushing] we try our best ....
I still love that picture a few weeks back of the guy in all black with a helmet and goggles on. He was carrying a big stick with a red flag on one end and using the other to swipe at a cop. Best wishes to the Greek revolution, hopefully an informed and legitimate leader will emerge and start to cut the throats of those complicit in selling their country out.
The foundational cornerstone of western "civil""I"Z(at)ion is shaking. Kind of fitting. Sideshow though. The tipping point countries, for which greece is the local tunisia will be Portugal/Spain.
The pillars of atlas are going to see another sinking...
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/the-video-trailer/
Greece is giving the IMF the middle finger.
A big F U to the IMF, lol damn IMFeeers so you say you want a revolution? I was sick of all the alphabet networks, so I created my own. To hell with ABCBSNBCNBCNN from now on it's WRN.
http://www.youtube.com/user/zedgehero
Greeks, default and do the austerity anyway.
Yes, that's what I have been thinkinng too.
Is that what's known as a Lose-Lose scenario?
It's what's known as keeping what's yours to keep.
For fuck sake the bonds were not collateralized so why in hell should they be selling off state assets to pay them back?
Exactly, public debt is the ultimate unsecured debt.
Article title of the week!
Hurray! Go Greeks go... power to the people not the banksters!
#worldrevolution now! Democracia Real Ya, the Spanish movement which organized the May 15th demonstrations, which in turn caused all the campings in many cities' main squares (still ongoing, by the way, despite police brutality), is organizing a worldwide day of demonstration at october 15th. Take good note!
So the Greeks will end up showing the Irish how to have a spine?
Nah and I'll tell ya why.. Flouride. Same reason why ye yanks aren't on the streets yet either. My thesis consists of this: America, Ireland - flouride in the water - no revolution.
Spain Greece - no flouride in the water - getting warmed up nicely
Bill Black on Irish radio today....
Go to part 1 at 31 minutes
www.newstalk.ie/programmes/all/lunchtime/listen-back
Dork I don't know what to tell ya, this is something thats been said before in the media but no-body seems to be listening. I'm fed up preaching, I'm fed up ranting, its like a lethargy in the country. A lot more people are wise to whats happenin as time goes on but there's no groundswell, no momentum, just a shrug of the shoulders. At the end of the day its their choice, how they meet the coming times. Better to take care of you and yours and help those that want it.
Here Comes your Coupe...Rise UP!
http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_6892019
This time, the revolution WILL BE TELEVISED.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaRtqrlGy8
This is the place to meet when(alas, if) the US slobs ever decide enough is enough.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
20th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20551
(202) 452-3000
Www.deanhenderson.wordpress.com
The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths. But their monopoly over the global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch.
According to company 10K filings to the SEC, the Four Horsemen of Banking are among the top ten stock holders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation. [1]
So who then are the stockholders in these money center banks?
This information is guarded much more closely. My queries to bank regulatory agencies regarding stock ownership in the top 25 US bank holding companies were given Freedom of Information Act status, before being denied on “national security” grounds. This is rather ironic, since many of the bank’s stockholders reside in Europe.
One important repository for the wealth of the global oligarchy that owns these bank holding companies is US Trust Corporation – founded in 1853 and now owned by Bank of America. A recent US Trust Corporate Director and Honorary Trustee was Walter Rothschild. Other directors included Daniel Davison of JP Morgan Chase, Richard Tucker of Exxon Mobil, Daniel Roberts of Citigroup and Marshall Schwartz of Morgan Stanley. [2]
J. W. McCallister, an oil industry insider with House of Saud connections, wrote in The Grim Reaper that information he acquired from Saudi bankers cited 80% ownership of the New York Federal Reserve Bank- by far the most powerful Fed branch- by just eight families, four of which reside in the US. They are the Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers, Lehmans and Kuhn Loebs of New York; the Rothschilds of Paris and London; the Warburgs of Hamburg; the Lazards of Paris; and the Israel Moses Seifs of Rome.
Fix it for ya!
Well done Zaknick.
Look into 5 Arrows and RIT London.
Kudos Sir !
RIT I've heard of slightly somewhere. Five Arrows I'll look into.
Thank you kindly!
You two are gonna get a personal tour of Gitmo............a three hour tour, a three hour tour!
I'll be the guy disabling the electric fence with a seagull feather in his cap. See you in SUNNY CUBA!
Mary Ann or Ginger?
NY branch of the Fed is a Zionist money-laundry.
Greece, leave your cameras at home. You will need your hands to take freedom.
I am jelous....why can´t we do this here.....oh thats right...we will..
Patience, it will come your way. In the mean time, better utilize your time by preparing your inventory of molotov cocktail, slingshot, spikes, ski mask, gas mask........
.... encrypted radios, autonomous ordinance delivery, thermal image targeting, LIDAR perimeter security, electrical energy weapons, differential GPS navigation with jammer nulling....;-)
Eleftheria i thanatos.
ZHTO
Sh*t! This could be problematic. Glenn Beck was right, as usual.
When the name is "Grease" (pronounced), you must expect a slippery slope... it just started.
People are rising up and taking matters into their own hands. This is unavoidable.
http://silverliberationarmy.blogspot.com/
Who do you root for? The libbies who think their job is owed to them, or the libbies in the upper echelon of Greek gov't who spend recklessly? This is like watching a one-legged ass kicking contest. Either way, the ending is not going to be pretty.
Yeah, ultimately Weimer spawned Adolf. Probably want to be careful about cheering on a revolution. Most revolutions turn out bad.
Power to We The People!
Good call. Long rope on margin, Short ammo 3X.
They must have hit the ouzo hard today. Yamas!
WHERES THE MONEY LEBOWSKI!?!?
"what fucking money?"
There never was any money. Just Walters 'whites' in the ringer......... the ringer cannot feel empty. This is what happens.........
+1 LOL ..
Think I'll make a White Russian...
Make two of those, and post your address
Our spooks, errr reporters on the ground are interested in interviewing the PAME leadership
They are SPARTA !!!
Now this what I'm fucking talking about!
Always nice when you get other people to fight your battles for you, I have to admit.
U-S-A!
Why are we such dumb bitches?
Why are we such dumb bitches?
Partial answer:
http://www.rense.com/general79/hd3.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl99zO2Zw4k
http://www.fluoridealert.org/statement.august.2007.html
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8VADOP80
You were okay until your last link.
Is that the same Andrew Breitbart who substitutes for Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Michael Savage?
If you're more concerned about the name in the link than the information it contains, you are part of the problem and should kill yourself.
I have a hard time believing that the Greeks would go for selling assets that are literally timeless to the EU. Tell them to go to hell, you'll take your chances with bankruptcy.
Yeah. They fight for "civilization's" earliest assets. I see guns coming into this . . . hell, I'd show up for that one--who wouldn't? This will end well. Too bad the scripts are so limited.
Thank god the EU didn't work. It will be hard to sell US/canada/mexico bs to the people. Although im sure they'll try. Once they have a plan they proceed and if you get in the way you are roadkill.
Other thoughts---we need to pull out of Afghanistan and invade Mexico.
Look at the bilderberg group and you see all of the leading politicians and all of the ultra-wealthy of the world.
Does anyone think we the people have any real voice in our democracies unless we find other politicians to replace these criminals ?
You can say thank you to the Rockefellers, Kissinger, George H. Bush and the CFR as well as the Rothschilds.
Ben Bernanke is also a guest at those Bilderberg meetings.
Have a look here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfgGm2QEzyQ
Why politicians? Why "representative democracy" when the infrastructure to connect We the People online already exists?
THINK outside the bankster Matrix.
Dont know why you got junked. Basically I agree.
Although the online world is FAR from being fake or deceptible.
Haven't you heard? Junking is the new black - like that's shit's junk man. That's some serious junk ... you don't want to be left out.
Jeez, I hope someone cares enough to junk me.
I care man. This junk's for you.
Because democracy is dictatorship of the majority without explicit recognition of human rights and limits on government.
Democracy in its purest form is no better than any other authoritarian form of government.
Right, which is why there are no pure democracies inthis world that I am aware of. They (democracies) may masquerade as such but they are all representative republics just different flavors
What if they pass a law and no one obeys?
There are times when I think it might have been a better idea to have just let Germany go during WWII...
Better not.
I'm not aware that Hitler was an outspoken "friend of mankind".
Germany just should have done nothing in 1914 and it would all have been alright.
This war was the root cause for all ills of the 20th century.
A lot of needless bloodshed could have been spared.
Millions wouldn't have had to die.
you are a Germsn IDIOT and you only know the history they taught you at school, aren't you?
Please don't talk rubbish.
What do you know about what I learned at school ?
Nothing.
Please don't talk rubbish.
What do you know about what I learned at school ?
Nothing.
Try reading a book like Conjuring Hitler to get a balanced opinion. Germany had no choice in the matter.
Too True. Germany fought to break the Red Empire, and was backstabbed by the Anglo-American Empire. Then, they were a great people. Now, having lost, they are w/o a soul. Perhaps they, and us, will yet find one.
I would say, root for the people who do not wish to be owned by a parasitic foreign agency.
Global reversion to the mean just getting going. Get small, get very small..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rERTb1c1ndI
Ha! that Steve Martin moment was going through my head even as I typed it out. too funny.. Edit: the real Steve does it better.. but, now I'm rambling...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htTLWC1unMc
Until the people actually toss these bums out this is all a nothing burger
Ask the Tea Party how that is working out for them.
If we can just get enought Republican to control the house, senate, and Presidency.... /sarc
Leftists .... unions ..... that's who's protesting?
Does that mean that everybody else is in bed witth the government and the banksters?
Trick question, right? No, actually, it's just people advocating their own honest interests. Some weird kinda democracy thing, I guess. Those Greeks . . .
Yup, the (few) Greeks that had a negative relationship with their government (ie: paying more in taxes that they were taking out) are not represented in those protests.
I think that's where the whole plan went wrong. By enforcing strict austerity to the country they actually attacked the middle class quite brutally, hence the riots are no longer a leftist thing. They have managed to get a large part of the formerly silent middle class majority out on the streets.
Well done IMF/EU/ECB. You are you own worst enemies.
Well, I sure hope it's not just the leeches out there.
it is sexy to be greek... go Greece ! ! ! ! wootz
May the Greeks have the balls of the Icelanders!
it was only because they had a more direct form of democracy, Icelandic politicians wanted to take bailouts and make bankers whole but the people didn't let them, but i don't blame the politicians so much, most of them have kids. and accidents do happen
Golly, I hope Jimmy and Zorba are gonna be ok.
Their Finance Minsitry looks like a flea ridden motel. Would have been best to just burn it.
At the same time while stripping nations out of their assets and forcing austerity on the working people the EU-kleptocrats show how they live in these hard times. (funded by the european tax payers of course)
http://thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/06/01/eu-commission-squanders-mill...
That is one big-ass expensive banner! How could they afford such a sign?
Funny, no "Breaking News" about this on CNBS.
Or anywhere else ever. I'm in South Anerica watching DirectBS' international signal with channels from all over the world and only Telesur (Venezuela's network) covers it.
Bankster Matrix to the core.
revolution my ass. the march on varsailles brought crowds with cannons and head-lopping. all i see in greece are a bunch of pushovers with a pretty banner. shit, my high school football games brought tougher crowds. no revolution going on in greece, as much as zh would like to dream of one...
+1
When food become inaccessible, you will get your lopped heads.
Are you saying ..... Tyler is a Doomer™ ... ?
dont get your silver spoon all twisted up spalding (or is it spaulding?)--this isnt even a whiff of a revoltion, nor was spain's pansy protest last week--which left their poitical paradigm quite happily in tact. we havent even remotely approached a good ol' fashioned latin american peoples revolution, where the president is forced to flee the palace by helicopter due to the mobs breaking down the palace gate. as much as i enjoy this site, the whole revolution bit has been overplayed. lets reserve the word "revolution" for appropriate circumstances.
Funny how revolutions are appreciated in their fully appropriate circumstances only in retrospect.
History: an industry where revisionism allows you to double through on an initial investment.
Just sayin'
Guy has to be a bankster troll. Probably comments in between masturbating at his windowless cubicle at the SEC.
lmao
When people are aware they're being raped the banksters are losing. Why do you think they expend so much energy and fiat on owning the media? They've been doing this to countries for a long time and learned long ago that in your face blood spattered banksterism doesn't work.
zaknick, dont forget to take your debit card from the atm machine...we hate having to mail out new ones all the time, really cuts into our profits..
Good one.
'Not much seems to be happening on the live video. Well apart from those deathly green lazers being branded about. Does anyone know what time the kick-off starts?
awwwww, all the people masturbating to the scene in greece, waiting to blow their caps at the precise moment the greek government falls to the masses, are junking me!!...better double up on the vaseline because its gonna be a while...
Kito throws a cup of cold realititty on the thread and gets junked for his efforts. That's what you get for telling the truth.
all i can say is that its been a very long time since i have seen M80's and cherry bombs......i am jealous.........