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Person Trampled As Fight Breaks Out At Greek Free Food Handout
In yet another day marked by simply unbearable propaganda, about an hour ago an EU official pulled a Lanny Breuer and was quoted as saying that "things are going well" in Greece. Oh are they? Then perhaps the same official can explain why a clip of a scuffle breaking out at a free food handout in Greece, where one man was "trampled and injured", and where a "Reuters photographer was hit on the head with cauliflower heads" has been the most watched item on Greek TV in the past day?
From Reuters:
Hundreds of Greeks scuffled for free vegetables handed out by farmers on Wednesday, leaving one man trampled and injured and prompting an outcry over the growing desperation created by economic crisis.
Startling images of Greeks struggling to seize bags of tomatoes and leeks thrown from a truck dominated Greek television, triggering a bout of soul-searching over the new depths of poverty in the debt-laden country.
One man was treated for injuries after being trampled when he fell to the ground in the commotion. A Reuters photographer at the scene was hit on the head with cauliflower heads.
The farmers said they gave away 50 metric tonnes (55.11 tons) of produce in under two hours
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"These images make me angry. Angry for a proud people who have no food to eat, who can't afford to keep warm, who can't make ends meet," said Kostas Barkas, a lawmaker from the leftist Syriza party.
Other lawmakers from across the political spectrum decried the images "of people on the brink of despair" and the sense of "sadness for a proud people who have ended up like this".
"It's difficult. I never imagined that I would end up here," said Panagiota Petropoulos, 65, who struggles to get by on her 530-euro monthly pension while paying 300 euros in rent.
"I can't afford anything, not even at the fruit market. Everything is expensive, prices of everything are going up while our income is going down and there are no jobs."
Well, at least Greece has the Euro, as a result of which the only way to resolve the competitve imbalances is to continue with internal devaluation which means another 25% drop in Greek wages as shown previously all else equal. Which means many more incidents of "trampling" to come.
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...every african nation is one election away from a Mugabe.
Yeah, but according to you, here in this N. American nation, we've already GOT ONE. There's obviously no escape.
I do still wonder, though, because I don't think you've ever answered this: how can it be that the inferior/stupid/grossly-outnumbered minority of Negroes can destroy a country run by the superior/smarter/wealthier/more-powerful white majority?
Intuitively, I'd have to assume it's some kind of conspiracy being implemented by some other group.
They don't. Blacks have no real power.
Go and research organizations with political power like NAACP and see who runs and funds them. But I think you already know the answer here.
And that group has a significantly higher average IQ than whites. So in a way, their class vs class rulership is somewhat meritocratic. However, I'm the biggest individual meritocrat there is. I don't give a shit what the fuck group you belong to; what matters is who YOU are.
Consequently, I would have a meritocratic elite composed of whomever belonged there, not the relatives of people who did.
lol, and I suppose that where you're at, will never go sideways. hhahahahaa Party On garth!!!
And that group has a significantly higher average IQ than whites. So in a way, their class vs class rulership is somewhat meritocratic. However, I'm the biggest individual meritocrat there is. I don't give a shit what the fuck group you belong to; what matters is who YOU are.
Consequently, I would have a meritocratic elite composed of whomever belonged there, not the relatives of people who did.
Well, glad to finally hear you say it.
Yes, of course. The Jew uses the black as muscle against the whites.
Given that the Jew is more intelligent than the white, however, it's hard to imagine how much more "meritocratic" the world could possibly become without completely eliminating what we might consider basic human socialization. It sounds like you'd seen an IMPROVEMENT to be gained from our species' socialization reduced to the level of ants or termites or something.
Given, too, that there are countries "unpolluted" by the influence of black DNA and the nepotistic Jewry, there are some pretty straightforward comparisons that should be made. Just for reference's sake. And posterity.
All this thanks to Uncle Ben, Uncle Van Rumpoy, Draghi and Aunt Merkel. May they rot in hell for the pain inflicted on the people.
Timemanagment... it's better to be 1 hour early than 5 seconds to late. On time is also 15 minutes to late.
"Reuters photographer was hit on the head with cauliflower heads"...could match his cauliflower ears.....
Similar happened at the local Popeye's when they gave out free chicken wings.
Terrible scene.
Although this makes me sad, I have no sympathy for the Greeks, as they still want to remain part of the Euro. No sympathy.
wont happen here. dat obama will just drone dem bitchezzz
Really, no sympathy. Have you no humanity?
They are hungy people not politicians.
How many of those people were masters of their own financial future?
Do you not see a possible future that includes you in this picture?
When Papandreaou (sp) wanted to offer the Greeks a referendum, which would have implicitly meant stay-or-go int he EU, he was promptly sacked by Gold-man-sacks. Cant have the people in the craddle of democracy actually deciding things for themselves, now can we? No, no. That simply wont do, wont do at all.
Time to ban attack brocolli.
These photos remind me of the worshiping crowds trying to touch Dear Leader. Chris Matthews gets weak in the knees whenever Dear Leader is mentioned or seen.
OT,
But, for all the people worried about Timmy’s job prospects after he leaves.
Outgoing US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner joining Council on Foreign Relations in New York - @AP
No shit dude. First page even.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-06/tim-geithner-joins-cfr-tireless...
those people are fkn hungry
I don't understand; do they not know that Dow hit 14000?
Right, every greek should buy 1000 apple shares, problem solved.
I hear that if they would just go back to work with no pay this would all work itself out.
of course things are going well, look at the equity markets across globe, near all time highs.
fucking joke these criminals are, i hope in the end they suffer so badly
Fuck You 'City of London'
A poem by an American, based on an oldie but goodie:
"First they came to inflate Argentina, but I was not Agentine and I didn't speak up.
Then they came to inflate Greece, but I was not Greek..."
(Poems still a work in progress, I'm trying to think of the ending...)
Yes, coming to a public school parking lot near you.
However, by that time, we will be able to control and shrink our crowds -
"ID please, sir. ...checking database...
Sorry, sir, but it seems you are flagged in association with a hate group. Now, step over here, please..."
The end is yet to be written. My ma bemoans how things are degrading, but I tell it her it will be a fascinating journey.
Actually, when I did a bit of traveling in Europe many years ago (1970's) I noticed that, outside of the UK, nobody in Europe (even the Germans!) knows how to queue. Theaters, train stations, everywhere, it's crowd around and jostle for position. Otherwise civil and polite, helpful people are elbowing each other for nothing. Survival of the fattest I guess.
So, add to that the desperation of hunger and the need to feed your hungry children, it would get explosive quickly.
It will be interesting (horrifically tragic, actually) to see the likes of the French jostling in "lines" like this with their burgeoning interloping north African Mohammedan population.
It's still the same today, when I lived in Italy people shoved each other out of the way to get in line for night clubs or restaurants. What is considered common courtesy in the US doesn't exist culturally in many areas in Europe.
I wasn't shocked by the video, that's really business as usual. Without the context they could be waiting for an iPhone for all I know.
China is the same. They will cut in front of you IF you let them. You have to be aggressive.
nobody in Europe (even the Germans!) knows how to queue..
That is not what I observed in Germany 87-90...
You were in East Germany.
in europe only the British know the high art of queuing. they are the indiscussed masters of it and have made a lifestyle out of it
Maybe some bankers could contribute some nice velvety ropes for an orderly serpentine queue, like in a slaughterhouse
Yes fascinating observation. As the queue is forming up would anyone from fight club toss random slices of ham and bacon into the crowd. What mayhem would ensue! The French would try to get the pork to eat it whilst the mooslims would do everything they could to avoid being touched by the pork. Hope everyone pads up.
And then you read the jeethner gets another top slot at the table of the CFR eh?
While self and same club enjoy the fruits of our labour, they have the Greeks rumaging like pack animals eh?
I have been told jeethner reads ZH?? If you do man-boy, take a good hard look at that crowd, because a crowd like that will eventually rip you apart you criminal cunt. You and all your parasitical inbred non-entities living off the back of mankind. Your card is marked and your days are growing shorter you dwarf low IQ twat.
You had better prepare accordingly you dwarf bastard, cos' a lot of other folk have, with long hard thought of why, and how we are here. Fucking filthy criminal.
If only their government were allowed to "print money", all their problems would be solved.
You know, that's a good idea! The Post Office lets us print our own postage, and it's working out great for them!
Maybe the Fed would let us each print our OWN money! Think of all the keystrokes they could save!
These pix seem to have been shot on the set of Romero's "Dawn Of The Dead" ( shot in... 1978).
Frightening...
Now this one really moistened my eyes and choked me up:
"A Reuters photographer at the scene was hit on the head with cauliflower heads."
Oh, the humanity!
Monty Python lives!
Must fell the tallest tree in the forest with....A HERRING!
A photographer hit with cauliflower! Such a tragedy!
Next it will be an economist hit with a tomato, or a politician hit with an egg!
Egads! What has the world come to!?!?
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Didn't know they had an IOS app. Now if I can only find my iTouch.
How's the Fed's Keynesian Ponzi version of economics working out for Europe?
The more Bernanke, Evans, Dudley and Yellen try and save everything the worse it will get.
Their bankster buddies are loading down all the young folks with massive school loans. Wait for it's SHTF moment.
I don't understand how this is possible. The ATG (greek index) has doubled since last Summer. Clearly EVERYONE greek is richer. Food should be abundant. Hmmmm. Let me read some more about how Hoover and FDR were idiots for not enough printing...ah yes! I told you my work at the University would prove my thesis...more printing means more food, no? No? Healthy bankers equals healthy shitheads? Bankers are shitheads? ahhh...now we are getting somewhere....
one banker's cufflinks could feed the lot of them....sigh....but the President gave me those cufflinks...
but, but, I thought the ECB was giving the Greeks bailout money!!!!! Where is the money going? Goldman-Sachs?
Why isn't the money going to feed the people? Burn the island down! Eat the fucking rich! Render the fat and make biodiesel. You can get 300 mile to the rich person (mprp)
"Angry for a proud people"
Hey can you find a people that's not "proud"?
Shit, these people don't even have the sunken in faces and dark circles under their eyes you normally see with people suffering from starvation.
Wait until they REALLY get hungry. That's when things will really get messed up.
Negative value debt based money at work. The debt holder bankers get payed, the citizen slaves get the soup line.
There is a food give-away going on right now two blocks from my house.
The have the arrivals stand in a line, then they let people in to a small marked off area of a parking lot where the volunteer workers continually make piles of food from the available supply. Much of it is surplus from farms and distributors. Each person when they get to the front of the line is walked over to a pile of food that they can pick up and carry off.Most of it is in plastic shpping bags for ease in carrying.
It is organized by the neighborhood church and is always well managed and orderly. I don't see everyon one of them, but they seem to be held about once a week or two at most. There are others around town as well.
and...
someday in the future, there won't be any food left at the church. Then they'll loot your and your neighbors houses for it.
Riot Dog threw the cauliflower.
'Where's the beef."
This shit only happens in the cities, like Athens where the people are living on social wel-fare like the clowns living off gambling on the stock-market in NY (they would of starved off a long time ago if not for the money printing the fed is doing to keep their scratch - off tickets winning).
The Dependent class of people (pretty much everyone in financial service industry) are going to be the first to die in any kind of long-term disaster scenario.
Greece was "bailed out" everything is fine.
Oohpaah!!
old addage about hunger. "were always 7 missed meals away from Anarchy."
Pass me the Kobe Beef, please!
They need to take hostage government officials.
who would ransom THEM?
Ransom? No no, for EATING. That will send a message loud and fucking clear.
best comment today so far.
Coming soon to the inner-city cheese eatin' shithole nearest you!
When a Greek tells you he has no money......he's lying. He has drachma. Under the mattress, in the basement, believe me baby....he has drachma.
How do you cook this drachma? Can you grill it or make a soup out of it or something?
One cup of drachma boiled for 6 minutes; put a little olive oil and parmassen on it; serves 3 people. Best thing about it - it wipes your ass for you when you shit next.
strangelly enough,i didn't see any hotties among the hungry crowd.....is this because they are bussy already?
http://www.naughtynomad.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=530&page=2
fortunately the hotties got pretty good jobs, much higher pays than the mininum wages, starting price eur100/hr escort service
Ahhh...yes, socialism. Utopia is at hand. FORWARD!
When you hand out food like that then for sure it will end up in the hands of greedy fat people who will elbow aside old grannies and single mothers with three kids.
The welfare state is a Ponzi scheme. It's legal only because the government is running it. But how can any Ponzi, legal or not, turn a profit when its potential marks (e.g. Greek voters above) have all been cleaned out by previous Ponzis?
Easy. Invite ten marks to dinner and feed all nine of them a hearty stew. Word gets around.
Ain't too proud to beg..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfyFI-4ZsaE
What an awful tragedy. It shouldn't matter if it was 1 person or 100. Someone was trampled while trying to gain access to free food. Greece's economy has been slowly and steadily spiraling out of control and all we can do is sit back and watch it happen. What's next?
In the US you get trampled on Black Friday at Walmart for a "Made in China" wide screen at a deep discount. Before you get maced or shot by other shoppers.
I actually feel for the Greeks, they're actually going hungry.
You.... may be next....
It sure would be a lot safer if Greece just hired JP Morgan to run their food handout program. Greece could even get a package discount if they added some debt-hiding derivatives to the mix.
IF not, Villa Erotica and Soula’s House of History will help them. They bailed out Greeces' soccer team in Voukefalas.
Hey it's a Brothel, but brothel money is real. Unlike value of JPMs CDOs, interest rate swaps, collateral that it's using to short silver with, etc.
Greece continues to warn us of Amerka's future unless things take a drastic turn for the better - REAL hope REAL change!
Most watched clip on Greek television? Nice to know that the Greek 'poar people' can afford televisions and cable TV - I thought only the American 'poar people' had those things. The Greeks also better figure out how to hand out EBT cards, because these grabfests never get the food to those in need, but rather the food goes to the tallest and strongest.
I'm posting my honest thoughts here. Even if you think this is absolutely nuts, someone here will at least find a way to entertain themselves with my conspiracy theories.
1. Greece had to increase it's military (which is backed by NATO) when it was already financially struggling in the aftermath of the subprime scandal. Goldman Sachs has record of two submarines listed on the supersecret military balance sheets. It's supersecret because both Goldman Sachs and the military are decent, honest, transparant and ethical people. This spending dropped Greece into deficit territory on their balance sheets. Of course Goldman Sachs is coming to collect whats' due to them on the Interest Swaps while the US military complex sells i believe jets to Turkey?
2. Greece increased it's military ops because Turkey increased it's military ops. THey did this because Greece has rights over Cyprus which would include it's oil. Turkey is not a part of the Euro which actually spared them from weak export markets. Turkey exports $22 billion to OPEC each year. Turkey is not financially struggling when it raising the spending on it's military because Turkey is fortunate enough to have a trade SURPLUS.
3. Turkey just helps themselves to Cyprus oil. THis is the same oil that Russia, US and Israel is interested in as well.
4. Me thinks that there's a tight relationship and some collaboration between the Islamic country of Turkey and OPEC. It seems as if the Islamic countries really want to push the oil prices up. Anywhere, any time, during any economy. To cut their markets' nose off despite its face.
But they're the geniuses that use suicide bombers to defend it's black gold meal ticket.
5. Cyprus must have A LOT of oil. If OPEC controls Cyprus, then it can halt production to prevent a threat of reduced oil prices. If Greece and non-OPEC countries gain control of Cyprus oil, there is plenty of it to push the prices down.
Greece is not that big of a country in itself capable of shaking the world's economy or tanking stock exchanges throughout the world if it defaults. There's something bigger that Greece is connected to which makes it significant. I know I'm playing Captain Obvious here.
On some level it seems as if Goldie Sachs is involved. Somehow they also dumped BP shares by the boatload right before the rig. I think Goldie Saches at least has a window view of what's going on.
MY question is, how the heck do you bet on it? What do you watch out for? Currency swaps? Petrodollar? This is going to be a fun puzzle.
I wonder how this will play out in the US ? Oh maybe this is why they want our guns ?
If they were passing out free ammo, the scene would be the same.
At least the Greeks trample someone to get food.
Here in Amurika, the masses trample someone to death at WalMart trying to get a new toy.
Constitution trampled as fight breaks out over god-given rights.
Damn recessions. Oops I meant massive economic recovery.
one person out of 13 is on disability now.... alifetime of welfare guaranteed.....no one can cut them off now...soon it will be one out of 5...this by the end of Obama´s reign....there will be no one to tax then...I bet income taxes drop in half by then...no incomes...at todays rates..now they might change the rates and what a tax is...asset taxes...a VAT...gold an silver taxes for sure..but we are slowly going down down down...no educations..no jobs...no future...only a new IPhone every so often...our health care will be gutted...we will all be pauing interest..that is all..no monies for doing aything..just paying debt...until it collapses