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Video Of Burning Greek Policeman As Class Warfare Escalates - Protesters Scream "Don't Obey The Rich—Fight Back"
And Wisconsin thinks it has it rough..."Youths wearing hoods ski masks hurled rocks and fire bombs at riot police as clashes broke out Wednesday in Athens during a mass rally against austerity measures, part of a general strike that crippled services and public transportation around the country. Police fired tear gas and flash grenades at protesters, blanketing parts of the city center in choking smoke. Thousands of peaceful demonstrators ran to side streets to take cover. A police officer was attacked and his uniform caught fire in the city's main Syntagma Square, before he was rescued by colleagues. His motorcycle was burned. More than 30,000 protesters had attended the Athens rally, which had been calm before the clashes. Protesters chanting "Don't obey the rich—Fight back!" marched to parliament as the city center was heavily policed. A brass band, tractors and cyclists joined the rally."
And for the visual learners:
More from AP:
The rally was part of Greece's first major labor protest this year as Prime Minister George Papandreou's Socialist government faces international pressure to make more lasting cuts after the nation's debt-crippled economy was rescued from bankruptcy by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
The sporadic clashes lasted for more than three hours. About 500 protesters gathered outside parliament after the march and vowed to remain there until the government agreed to make concessions. Protest organizers at that gathering said they had been inspired by ongoing revolts in North Africa.
Prime Minister George Papandreou, on a visit to Finland, said he sympathized with the peaceful protesters.
"Economic situation (in Greece) is very difficult, and sometimes even I myself feel an urge to join the ranks of protesters," Papandreou was quoted as saying to Finnish national broadcaster YLE. "But mere protesting leads nowhere. We need decisions that can genuinely help fixing the problems."
The 24-hour strike halted trains, ferries and most public transport across the country, and led to the cancellation of more than 100 flights at Athens International Airport. The strike also closed the Acropolis and other major tourist sites.
State hospital doctors, ambulance drivers, pharmacists, lawyers and tax collectors joined school teachers, journalists and thousands of small businesses as more middle-class groups took part in the protest than have in the past. Athens' main shopping district was mostly empty, as many small business owners shuttered their stores.
Unions are angry at the ongoing austerity measures put in place by the Socialist government in exchange for a euro110 billion ($150 billion) bailout loan package from European countries and the IMF.
Greeks have endured months of pay cuts, sales-tax hikes and other drastic spending cuts, but protests have been revived by longer-term reforms including involuntary transfers for civil servants and new market rules to end protective job practices for truckers, lawyers, pharmacists and others.
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off topic: geithner has it under control.....not sure what planet he is living on
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-23/geithner-says-world-is-in-a-bet...
American Tim = Baghdad Bob
And Cramer is singing the praises of QE2 on his joke website which is always good for a mid-morning laugh. What a parasitic asshole.
Hey Tyler,
In Madison, the only thing being BBQ'd is bratwurst grilled and shared by cops and protestors alike.
The Brotherhood of the Brat rulez!
That incident in Greece is sick.
activisim... what dont they have xboxes?
Guess the generational tax imbalance isn't going so well... a nice warning shot for the boomers here.
We need to recruit the kids on TV who are experts at trick shots to throw our Molotov cocktails at our police state thugs.
OK, this is seriously fucked up.
Wow! Burning Man moves to Europe...
+ for burning Man reference. A wild party like no other.
And very very telling. The significance. Tunisia began with a Burning Man.
So will Italy.
But I see a spark jump to the center...cue Vatican Trouble straight ahead.
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/ihumor-for-un-funny-days/
I'm on fire.
I am Chumbawamba.
fuck....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10BbpGKLXqk
Peace.
Let's hope Waddell & Reed took an extended President's day vacation or we could have problems.
Soo coool! Flaming authority!
Argh, the pig barely caught fire.. Come on you can do better than that!
I will have this song playing in the background as I sit on a shady hilltop, sipping a martini and watching civilization burn in the valley below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMMV_RoEMxE
coming soon to a theater near you
That's a hell of a trailer for the movie.
It's called World World 3 in HD.
Order to receive never before seen footage behind the American Fascist Party and much more!
The European version of that movie was already performed.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171741/
The American version will not be a movie. It will be played out in real time.
the biggest criminal fraud & scam in the history of the world / biggest group of criminal syndicate bankers in the history of the world.... bring them down, not one single human life should be sacrificed for this . BANKING CRIMINAL SYNDICATE / our day here in the U.S. is coming ...
buy xtra food & share with those less fortunate.
Lynn,"buy xtra food & share with those less fortunate."
Unless they are Jewish right?
hehehehe..
Don't worry about the Jews. They are way ahead of us already!
Maybe they will take pity on us poor goyim.
This has nothing to do with jewish people or religion. The banking syndicate is firmly controled by Horus / Lucifer cult whose symbol is the eyeball triangle. Only blaming and revolting against the real problem will result in a better world.
Junked by us Horusians!
You rang ?
That may very well be so.
But if I were an honest Jew or Israeli, I'd beat feet out of Israel and I wouldn't say anything pro-Zionist for about twenty-five years or so.
I don't believe I see a jew reference in Lynnybee's post.
....not in this comment; however, i've referenced ___ bankers in my other postings & i guess i've now got a reputation. ROBERT RUBIN ........ BILL CLINTON ........ BLANKFEIN...... GEITNER ...... BERNANKE ......... DIMON ........ never forget .
Altho, I've been reading the ROAD to ROOTA guy & he presents a theory that GREENSPAN is secretly a "good guy" . If this plays out that GREENSPAN & BERNANKE are secretly good guys who are crashing the system deliberately to bring us to a new gold standard & ridding us of the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ...... well, I'll eat my car & personally apologize.
Yup - I've heard that theory before about Greenspan. I think it's because he wrote a paper in the 60s discussing how statists hate gold.
Then he he became Fed Chair and blew bubble after bubble.
So either he was intentionally trying to crash the system or he simply became drunk with power and/or was swayed by political influences. I vote for the latter.
Greenspan belonged to the inner circle of Ayn Rand, Atlas shrugged she wrote ... (libertarian)
Griftopia has a whole chapter on the asshole
Greenspan and Bernanke are secretly horrible guys who do anything and everything to maintain and hold onto power and the US military is not the most horrible bunch of terrorists they have to impliment their power. They'll offer any murderous nutjob a chance a legitimacy that they can pull off.
They are going to let the dollar crash, let the euro crash and hope they can install the IMF , world bank and bank of international settlements as the central bank to the world. Your car is not worried. It knows you ain't going to eat it.
I've been reading the ROAD to ROOTA guy & he presents a theory that GREENSPAN is secretly a "good guy"
I read an odd piece someone asked my opinion on. It was a strange interview with a being of sorts, maybe a human being, I forget. Basically it was saying that the "illuminati" is doing the bad things they do because it will make us want to become better people and that they are really making great sacrifices being the bad guys.
The article was cleverly presented to make you consider this as a possibility. I dismissed it as the kind of unethical argument some seedy but talented lawyer might present to a gullible mark.
In short, I think it's clear Green span sold out his integrity if ever he did have any. Bernank seems to me to be a self-deluded pawn.
It's an interesting excuse: "I was evil so that you would learn to be good."
But they won't stop and they will kill off all the people they claim they are benefitting (if they are allowed to, that is).
...draw your own conclusions from that.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Supposedly all the misery and human suffering that has been caused and is going to be caused is in the name of making humanity evolve.
Just make suffer, kill, and/ sacrifice billions of innocent human souls all for the greater good of humanity. That really sounds like the voice of old scratch himself.
I am all for human evolution, I want to see technology and humanity achieve great things now and in the future, but not at any cost. Humanity without a conscience or a soul is a monster. We are not gods. History has shown time and again when men believe they are gods the greatest evil occurs.
now, now ........ i love all people, especially the innocent ..... we do need to take care of the innocents (children, elderly) . HOWEVER, ROBERT RUBIN & THE REST OF THE GANG, they've got plenty ....... & just who is the "rest of the gang" ? ....... hey .......... you do the research...... there seems to be a high percentage of jewish people in that gang ...... just stating the facts, jack .
They might have jewish surnames, but they are converts to the Illuminati or Illuminati controlled. The Illuminati have successfully blamed jewish people in the past (see: Blood Libel). But make no mistake, the real power in the world are the eyeball triangle worshiping Illuminati. Channel your anger at them.
Bullshit. The Rotschild zionists are thick with them. Intertwined.
Who could forget the German people's cry of jooden fetzen!
The Rothschilds are no longer Jewish. They are converted members of the Illuminati religion. Zionism (ie. the rampant support of Israel) is just a movement started by the Illuminati to cause wars that will depopulate their world and keep us "useless eaters" from using up their resources.
Luciferianism (I believe that's the correct term for the Illuminati religion) borrows from alot of older religions like Babylonian , Egyptian, Pythagoreanism, and Judaism to validate itself, but is it's own separate religion with it's own religious rites.
Over the past few hundred years they have behind the curtain amassed great wealth and power, to achieve their ultimate goal: ruling unopposed and getting rid of the useless eaters.
The first step in stopping them is informing people about them, and firmly laying the blame where it is so richly deserved, with them.
PS. If any illuminati are reading this, I sincerely hope you can see what you are doing is wrong and help stop it. There is still time, and our Creator is forgiving, and none of us live forever. Thanks.
Will you read my post above and comment?
Fuck your fnords.
+1
I think Lucifer is actually an emergent, self-aware hive mind manifested by the interactions of all the corruption in the world. When one act of evil inspires another, that is one of Lucifer's synapses firing. Nothing supernatural about it. The Illuminati are those who are aware of being part of this Overmind, and they use their occult rituals to gain power and discern its will. Its ultimate will is to bind us all in an eternal Dark Age of serfdom and ignorance.
potato, potahtoe
Does Cthulhu get a say in any of this?
Hey lynnybee,
You've got real purdy ellipse...........
its not the jews, its the zionists, the fucking queen of england, and large corporate elites. these fucking elites dont give a fuck if your jewish,white, black ,asian etc. all they care about is you continue being their financial slave
there is an easy way to beat these people. stop buy things on credit. that includes your house. the asians do pretty well by all living in a house together and everyone working for the family
It's on like donkey kong!!!!
I guess in a way living in the south in a smaller town has its advantages even though it is boring.
Anybody carrying a molotov will be shot by the police.
I get to watch this from the comfy of my own geographic area!
I live in liberal Austin, and if someone lit a cop on fire, the rest would start clubbing protesters to death like baby seals with an expiration date.
Now that is funny!
pods
Fellow Austinite here. Home of itchiest trigger/tazer fingers in the land.
I saw that video. The old bag was asking for it.
I met an old (in his seventies??) retired cop from Austin in a bar one night. He got to talking about his cop days, and told story after story after story... Every dam non eof them ended with, "..so I whacked him with my dang old flashlight."
I have to admit this old SOB had me laughing my ass off for an hour and a half.
I also live in Austin. The police love handing out traffic tickets for everything. Instead of taxing us, they ticket us for everything. This on top of the fact we have roads for a population of 300,000 and have over 1,000,000 citizens in the metro area.
Police = Revenue Officer
Move on nothing to see , now give me your firstborn as i believe they are showing signs of criminal tendencies http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8339772/Child-brain-scans-to-pick-out...
The perfect slave is the one who believes they are free.
"don't ever tell anybody that they're not free"
"it's real hard to be free when you're bought and sold in the market place"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EpvRvaki-E
I would expect things to make the rounds to your neck of the woods in time...no gas, no grass, might have to sell your ass!
I would expect things to make the rounds to your neck of the woods in time...no gas, no grass, might have to sell your ass!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4s0nzsU1Wg
dems are watching and urging their guys to get alittle bloody
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/145627-dem-lawmaker-on-...
non-stop shill coverage by the obama/union business channel
lets break away for another glowing eamon javers report on "hard-working"
union thugs
Burn the pigs! BBQ...will we ever have roasted pig on our sidewalks? Here's to hope!
Obama/Palin 2012!
JESUS LOVES AMERIKA
Is that the riot dog at 1:17?
that dog is an adrenaline junky.
We're going to have to mail that riot dog some fireproof gel for his hair. They are tossing out molatav cocktails like it's happy hour.
Direct hit. That's why I say hey man nice shot!
+1 they should have just played that track over the vid. The chorus hits as the molotov does.
A brass band, bitchez! Got to have one of those.
Geithner is out there tearing down the goal posts... but from where I'm sitting this looks like the bottom of the second inning.
mix and match sports analogy fail
Um... that's the point, tough guy: Timmy doesn't know what game is being played.
Coming to West Mifflin Street in Madison soon.
My old stomping grounds!
You should be watching this closer then and be aware that (last I checked) they only head about 10 arrests in 7 days.
Madison PD issued a statement praising protesters for their behavior and restraint. They are policing themselves.
Madisonm PD arrests more people than that--on average--after one Badger game.
Most of what you remember from Mifflin St. are alcohol fueled student clashes with cops.
Are you guys sacred?
Is this not what this blog is about?
Where is the folks telling everyone where to make a profit off this?
And my biggest question - why do I think this is all part of the plan? This Bix Weir guy is just a prayer I had that came true:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwkpr8D-Fjc
I am
http://www.luminous-views.com
"Every sperm is sacred."
stop drop and roll dumbass....
ask the guy in the wheelchair
and how much is gas in greece right now?
adjust cost of oil to create demand destruction in molotov markets
Stop, drop, and roll, bitchez!
The bankers and the communists are not my friends, I don't want to be divided into a camp like that police man. Burned defending a globalist banking cartel against his own interests.
Did anyone else have the Elementary School "Stop, Drop, and Roll" song playing through their head when they saw him running afterwards ?
Eat The Rich (they are high in fat content tho, so slow roasting over an open pit may be best).
He's just a guy but he damn well better take that uniform off for the last time, he's on the wrong side.
Looks like silver is closing on $34/oz again.
The Greeks decided to bypass shoes and go straight to molotovs.
Whatever happened to Leo 'liquidity tsunami' K?
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Du5TF-61Or-Y&sa=U&ei=3j1lTYPkCoSKlwfpxOjZBg&ved=0CCEQtwIwAQ&usg=AFQjCNE_6ALsKE52fYcnW-5_V8l4neV4OA
when the flames are all around your head, it's hard to tell how much is still on you and if it's safe to drop and roll.
OK Beck... lets see you demonize these "folks."
They're not Muslim, Teachers playing hooky with fraudulent notes (never fear, he's investigating the notes and those involved will face charges...lol), women in need of an abortion, President Obama's "people," or worse... Dems (run for the hills).
Of course they do like to take it up the... No, he wouldn't go there, would he, would he?
What, you didn't notice that Soros was holding the camera?
Beck's a profoundly sick man--Adolph Hitler playing it as Mr. Rodgers.
Beck is a twat who uses his schtick to sell a narrative to a demographic. He's just another paid hack on the idiot box.
Ah, but he's got a million people tuning in each day to sit raptly at his feet for Monster Story Hour. You hear plenty of the narrative around here.
It's a fucking cult.
Bingo.
Rough times ahead for the rich. Think carefully about the causes you champion here on out--and who you shit on. It's gonna come back around . . . hard, very hard.
Why send the police at all if they are forbidden to use force? Looks like a troop of girl scouts, with sore feet, would have been as effective.
Looks more like the typical protest/performance art that got a tiny bit out of hand.
Like U.S. soldiers sitting on their hands with the clips out of their rifles in Afg, police do the bidding of those who never touch the streets.
The police chief needs to loosen the reins next time around or he faces defections.
The wave of blue to follow this one in Athens will not be so gentle, guaranteed.
Oil screaming higher. Gold holding its own. This shithouse could fall apart fairly quickly, gentlemen.
One option open to the police to to mention to the protesters is that if all the cops are out witnessing the protest, there are not many guarding the police station.
Winkwinknodnod.
Might even get a raise from the suddenly pale leadership.
"The police chief needs to loosen the reins next time around or he faces defections"
are you advocating gadhafi style repression on behalf of Bankers against the people?
Predicting != advocating
It's Soros' New World (Dis)Order! Misery for all and chaos everywhere! And only his godship Soros has all the answers through his "open society", whatever nebulous idea that is!
I wonder if Obamm and Hill will speak out against violence by commie protestors. Doubt.
Don't obey the rich? Who's "the rich"? The commies in Greece have been making the rules, that's why they're broke? The marxists are itching to start the violence and unrest in the USA too.
I was wondering how these bovine stupid fools expected socialism to save them from their socialist government.
"The rich" are those who are having the shovels they gave the poor to dig their own graves turned against them. How oddly reminiscent of the Taliban. We used to front guns until we learned to front credit. Much more deadly, and having the added advantage of being legal and easier to repossess.
We're so high and mighty here in the US. Oh so peaceful and respectful. What happens when protesters DON'T get what they want? Tensions escalate and someone does something stupid. Then the police retaliate and the thing escalates. We don't have it bad enough here YET to see these sorts of things, but I'm afraid it will very likely come.
you need to be re-conditioned... your brain is working in a way not helpful to the printing of dollars out of thin air... the next thing you know.. you will not want to make interest payments on those dollars printed out of thin air.
How dare you Sir? How dare you? Be a good American...
Quit yer bitchen, bend over and take it like a man and pay the bill like you fore fathers did.
Be a good lil stupid sheep, thats what Ber-Nake needs more of!
Isn't it ironic that coverage is coming from Russian TV?
imagine what people here will think of freedom when they get some of it on them... when freedom is in thier face? what would the regualr sheep think of that?
I bet they would want to move to Saudi or somewhere, where there are controls.. if freedom was here. they need it, they want to be stepped on... it is familiar to them... being held down and officialy raped... all the while listening to the official excuse for doing it... <--- look I said doing it!
http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2011/pr1137.htm
Hirohide Yamaguchi: Japan’s economy and monetary policy
http://www.bis.org/review/r110223c.pdf
Liberty needs to be nourish with the blood of patriots and tyrants from time to time. Power to the people!
I think the patriots of Printing should offer up thier blood, instead of the sheepeople offering up thiers.. AGAIN! or MORE OF!!
Anyone who wants to protect the printing press should feel good about refreashing / nourishing others freedoms as needed as of late.
Michael Jackson dressed in a Village People outfit?
+1 Pepsi
someone's gotta do it..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_sY2rjxq6M
Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin for you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utTrbSo3hS4
Van Halen - I'm On Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ljRD-I_wkQ
"IF YOU FEEL LIKE A RIOT THEN DONT YOU DENY IT!"
Props for the 'Crowes reference
Lots of overtime pay for the cops? Check.
New motorcycle? Check.
Flaming cop due for a lifetime of "disability" payments? Check.
In one sense: Quite ironic.
Hrmm....
wow that was perfect ......aaron rodgers couldnt complete a "bomb" to gregg jennings any better
note that RT is one of the 2 only real news stations anymore
Its quite incredible isnt it. Western media is worse than shit. The sheep really are spoon fed and brainwashed to an extent i didnt think possible.
Did lead him pretty good there. Nice arc on the throw too.
The cop ran a beautiful button hook on his motorcycle too!
The cop ran a beautiful button hook on his motorcycle too!
BLACK SWAN underway.
Go Greeks-you have finally awakened to see that the democracy you created for a thousand years has become a corrupted sham and at least you're willing to stop playing with your ipads, get off your lazy butts and take action.
I think you misunderstand what they're rioting over.
Created democracy yes, too bad it devolved into
Socialism. Socialism = Cluster F
north korea still begging for food.
http://nakedempire.wordpress.com/
If the conservative folks in South Korea are staging banks runs, then the people in the North must be freezing in the dark. If the American consumer retrenchment and related financial blowout is knocking off our suppliers like S.K., how long does China have?
Rage Against the Machine - Sleep now in the fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzAQlIZd5Kc&feature=
Fuckum... letum burn.
+1
Tom Morello made some good revolution songs post-Rage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stAJZKadKgc ("Whatever It Takes")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrBfPLUm5so ("Road I Must Travel")
And some nice work with Audioslave as well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LRK2SNY6cg
Last time I was in Austin some idiot personally delivered his 1040 EZ via airmail directly into the IRS building kamikaze style. Whatever happened to civil disobedience? Now its all set people on fire and blow shit up! This is the WORST hotel I ever stayed in.
if the un-armed people who are murdered by the armed police... wish to be reincarnated, they will need to fill out the proper forms as China will have surely bought the world by that point. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9mUR3b_IQw&feature=channel
He nailed him right in his mind.
Looked like he was ok afterward.
His bike not so much.
When I watched it there was a google ad called "Survival guide to Athens"! ROTFL. Linked to hotels and restaurants but no shops selling fireproof suits, gasmasks or kevlar vests.
They should have left the EU months ago. Bring back the drachma, invite tourists back to pay lots of money to look at old rocks. Love the feta!
No one was hit in the head with a molotov cocktail in Iceland today! Coincidence....I think not.