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Is This What Cyprus Has To Look Forward To?
In Greece "Cribs" is known as "Caves." Watch the following video to understand why.
Just a year after Greece's 'bailout', and with equity markets surging, bond yields plunging, and the politicians proclaiming victory, the reality for the man on the street is simply dire. As this clip and images from News.It show, Greece is in trouble (as we recently noted its unemployment rate continues to surge higher). Is this what Cyprus has to look forward to?
Via News.It, (Google Translate)
Unfortunately it is not fun. Our fellowmen by overnight lost their jobs, they prefer to live in the caves of Filopappos only owe rent who can not pay. As they say - its better than being homeless.
These people who until yesterday were householders had their home, their fine clothes and a normal life.
Yet their lives brought them so they lost their job and slowly - slowly began to lose everything ... except dignity. Their dignity also led them to the caves Filopappos. From owe rents and charges, preferred the canyons and caves of rough paths of the historic hill.
Characteristic is the case of Mr George who became unemployed 3 years ago. Their economies had managed to maintain his home until 2 years ago, then he was out into the street. One day he heard the mess of Saint Nicholas Filopappou from other homeless people to say about the caves of the hill and decided that from now on will be a cave is home to the villa ... on accuracy.
So got that furniture had not had and brought them to his new home. 
The difficulties of course are many, especially in winter. As much as it covers a cave with tarpaulins and nylon, the cold will crawl says Mr. George who only DESIRES is to find a job to leave the road.
Caves Filopappos living today, about 15 people, among them a pair.
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You really need a mediterranean climate to dwell in such a cave comes winter ....
All that guy needs is a government pension, government healthcare, SNAP, and a mortgage.
I suspect he had them, especially the mortgage.
Perhaps the Flintstone's was a prophacy?
PM's getting donkey kong punched right now. Time to load up bitchez
"Oh, look honey! They're having a sale!" BTFD.
Well, the "Maine Hermit" pulled it off for 27 years alone in the woods, and the weather in Maine sucks.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/11/17705163-maine-hermit-a-model...
never understood why homeless folks were homeless in cold climates...
Just hitchhike a load train down to florida and become a beach bum.
A real cave (more than a rocky outcropping or little indent in the earth) does not drop below 8 celsius (or rise above that, really) which is not a terrible temperature; you need wool socks and a sweater, for sure. Moisture, and flooding are more of a problem.
Potash caves apparently make the best caves, since you can carve them pretty easily, and make flat floors and arched ceilings, plus they seem to stay dry, and it is like a natual plaster, all white inside. Like the people in China:
http://inhabitat.com/more-than-30-million-people-in-china-live-in-eco-friendly-caves/
The Una-Bomber did the same, he repeatedly tried to bring government pressure upon himself.
yes.. but a lot lower
The way gold is getting pounded this morning, I'll soon be joining them. Down over $50..., WTF?
Did you sell any? If not, enjoy the day, you haven't lost anything ...
No..., but I am beginning to consider ringing the register on my hedge (DUST) though.
As long as Jeff Berwick has installed a Bitcoin ATM near my cave I should do okay. I will just get coupons and shop at Cavemart.
Those guys better be careful. You know what the drones do to people living in caves. By definition, anyone living in a cave is considered an "enemy combatant."
Fringe EU countries are already marked as axis of evil debtors who must be financially defeated.
why do you need drones when you have deposit confiscations and currency resets.
Gold is SO yesterday.
Guns, lots of ammo and a scope better than the other guy's are the new gold.
I'd happily take his situation [& not being a debt slave to ANYONE] over the creature comforts of the opposite...
its all greek to me
and cypriot, spanish, italian, irish, and to be continued
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I know what you mean.
nEVER mIND
Do ya think he is still paying on that zero down 30 year mortgage? ...or the 97 month car loan?
Fortunately for this guy Maine has an ok economy.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/10/us-usa-maine-hermit-idUSBRE9390NE20130410
That poor homeless dude will go to jail because he stole to survive. He shoulda been like all the Wall Street assholes and stole for sociopathic reasons. He'd still be walking around a free man, possibly with a new job in government.
Jail will be good for him.
He'll get 3 hots and a cot along with a job.
cave vig
a new economic "efficiency" coming soon
Yeah but he will get full medicare (under Obamacare) when he gets out of jail - it is only fair eh?
did you read the comments on that article?
lotsa sympathy
wish i could quote it, but much of it roughly says, the real thieves make the laws but this guy will be the one who goes to jail
That poor man is amazing for surviving outdoors through 27 winters in Maine!
He should be "sentenced" to be a survival trainng instructor for the military.
Or better yet, he would be an excellent spokesman for LL Bean!
I'm a tiny bit familiar with that area. Not too far from civilization and institutions of higher learning (Waterville). It's got some great woods and lakes. My sister in law was a camp councilor at one of the local summer camps there on nearby East Pond. It is amazing that nobody ever stumbled across him there. Ironic that he is in jail even as some of the offspring of banksters attend summer camps nearby...
An' I gitz me dem Obamphone! Errybody in Cleveland gots Obamaphone!
If people living in fucking caves doesn't scream "DEVOLUTION," I don't know what will.
Cue "Mongoloid"
And he wore a hat
And he had a job
And he brought home the bacon
So that no one knew
Time to dance the poot!
are we not men?
we are devo...
If this is a preview of coming attractions, then we all better start selling all our stuff (cept camping equipment) and migrate to the southern USA, then find a cave. Question: Can the gubmint make you pay property taxes on a cave you're squatting in?
Son, they can make you pay a tax for BREATHING. What do you think?
Governor of Maryland is gonna tax your rain now.
No lie....rain.
Boycott Maryland and their nanny libtard laws that violate your rights!
Northern Kentucky is already doing that. I pay a "sanitation/stormwater runnoff" fee of about 5 bucks/month for rainwater that runs from the street in front of my home down a ditch and into the creek behind my home. From there, it flows about 20 miles into the Ohio river. The local sanitation district enforces payment of this water management fee with the threat of disconnecting our tapwater (which goes into my septic system). We have no sewers but must pay this "fee" so that old sewers in a town 15 miles north of me can be replaced. I am told it is a fee and not a tax and therefore not deductable even though I get zero benefit from any direct service. These a&&holes are great at confiscating other peoples money at all levels.
They can make you pay taxes for stopping breathing!
"Question: Can the gubmint make you pay property taxes on a cave you're squatting in?"
Yes, of course. You did not build it, you know... ;-)
1525 didn't hold. +64 and widening.
You are tied for the lead! Again!
$1400 next?
god, i hope so
bad if you are in paper
better if it is in mattress
Huh? EXCELLENT if you are now in paper, and you are interested in PMs. I am in PMs and paper only. Now is the time to move some paper into PMs. Well, maybe not now, to avoid catching a falling knife, go into PMs at the next bounce.
We have rolling crises, requiring liquidity to close out losing positions. This drives up the value of cash and down PMs to be liquidated. This is how deflation works. The central bank will respond with more printing. Just before this happens the price will pop.
O.M.G. ..... i just woke up after a sleepless night & this is what greets me! $1507 !!!!
if you thinnk gold is getting hammered look at Main Street ....jobless soaring....food stamps all time highs....grandpa digging into his 401 so he can eat....
Looks like we are heading into a worser depression....
Hope & Change.
@Freddie [without the olive grove]... I'm going long transporting olive trees to Detroit...
As things really start to get ugly I would not be surprised to see PMs get kicked in the nuts as traders liquidate positions, weak hands join the action, and paper PMs decouple. Could take some time to unwind. That will be the real buying opportunity.
Centerline is paying attention! "As things really start to get ugly I would not be surprised to see PMs get kicked in the nuts as traders liquidate positions, weak hands join the action, and paper PMs decouple. Could take some time to unwind. That will be the real buying opportunity." The price of PMs is dictated by paper, when traders have to sell their paper positions during the next financial meltdown PM prices will drop like a rock and you'd better be ready with cash to buy physical at the dip... it will be a real buying opportunity (for a SHORT time before the sheeple are done licking their wounds and take what's left of their paper positions and invest it in safer alternatives (like physical).
Cyprus must be not selling its gold.
You forgot your /s.
"Holla! City of Squala!"
Cave living, coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
No caves around here, so I call dibs on the railroad underpass down the street.
Fucking 'bums' are smarter than bitcoiners...
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At least they understand the utility that the air pockets in cardboard material represent in the science of thermoregulation...
Hey fonestar ~ build me a cozy hut out of your digital wallet...
rmemeber, you didnt build that cave
The Ghost of America Yet To Come speaks Greek?!
next stop war...
Oh Nooooooo, Debt is good!!!!!!!!!!! Debt is Gooooooood!!!!! everything is fine!!!!!
Bernake, stop down voting all the comments. You have money to be printing.
This could NEVER happen in America.........land of the free fiat and home of the brave Ponzi banksters.
/sarc
The pictures remind me of what I see commonly in Central and South America. IMO, Corruption is always the underlying cause of any widespread poverty.
Corruption could NEVER happen in America.......land of the.......ah shit, never mind.
Land of the soon to be Hoovervilles?
What's up with the red one-down on every single decent post today? Hasbara playing solo?
The drive-by Junker strikes again. It really is quite pathetic for someone to feel the need or desire to down vote every post as they come through.
Then again we all have had our bad days/weeks/months/years/lifes. :)
coming soon to the USSA
Long Rocket Mass Heaters and Aquaponics!
http://www.richsoil.com/rocket-stove-mass-heater.jsp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics
Looks amazing, thanks for posting.
Its already in the USA....NY sewers and Las Vegas storm drains...
just this week there was an article on the Kansas City underground... a city of people living underground... not a hip music movement. I'm guessing there are a lot more of these than people realize.
Hmmm....can't picure the muthafockers of West Philly to be obsequious when their governtment benefits are ultimately taken away.
My heart goes out to them, the Greeks that is, not the West Philly muthafockers....
They can eat their spinner rims.
when do they go back to wearing togas and eucalypus leaves?
when their cheap chinese made clothes wear out
I'm sitting all soaked in my PMs blood, with my final breath, my heart giving its last beats....
molon labe
Hell you can find those in Kansas City lol. Not to mention other parts of the US. The police promptly kicked them out and told them to go to overpopulated homeless shelters with food shortages because they'll be safer. It's ok to be homeless........but go somewhere else.
Problem with all of this is the insistence on gov'ts to continue operations as normal which means welcome to tent fucking city.
Shit we already have people living underground here.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/10/police-discover-kansas-city-homeless-living-in-subterranean-city-and-the-images-are-amazing/
Imagine what we will have when shit really gets ugly.
We will have the penthouse, out of which's window we'll have tossed a bankster beforehand ...
Go look at Americas campgrounds and you will see the same thing. Whole families living in cars and tents.
Seen it!!! Must be a Hasbara who gave you a thumbs down.
I think the Fed have finally written a little python script that just down-arrows every comment
What a disgrace, behind all the numbers, all the obfuscation, all the lies, there are real people whose lives are being utterly destroyed. All ZHers know this. With everyday that passes the PTB are creating more and more mortal enemies.
I think Florida is a potencial candidate, but caves maybe hard to find, only golf courses. Or you can try San Diego....
A cave (or even a sand trap on the gold course) in Florida woulld be below sea level.
calling PEAK evolution
it's all downhill from here, couple hundred years we will fight over caves and fighting with men who supposedly took down a couple tall buildings and are now hiding in caves .. oh wait
Gold miners taking another beating. How much longer before they shut down operations partly and gold becomes even less available? That's when you want to buy with both hands, not when there's so much money thrown at gold exploration and gold mining.
Does the Fed know how much more valuable they make gold by destroying the price of gold?
We can laugh but Barrosso, Von Rumpoy and the rest of the eurocrats need to hung from lampposts
our local drug induced police officials would be on these camps like a dog on a meat wagon
Homeless were chased away in Arizona from tunnels they had dug for lack of shelter.
current phony paper prices -
Gold $1508
Silver $26.42...
hilarious....
Hiarious? I think this country s finacial markets are a fucking disgrace!
of course they r friend...
but the hilarious aspect of it all is their attempt to motivate those who possess real money to capitulate and rejoin their debt based currency slave camp with these manipulative phony paper price slams.....
u got to give them the middle finger with a smirk and simply refrain -
FUCK YOU BERNANKE ALL YOUR BITCH ASS SOCIOPATHIC MOTHER FUCKING BANKER BRETHREN....................................................................
no go out and by more Physical!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leave the money in the bank and get hit with a 40 to 60% haircut some day or buy physical gold and silver.
What's there to think about?
The banksters are making cash a depreciating asset.
Absent mindedness will get the West nowhere, stupid bastards are dropping the price of PM's and the EAST is rubbing their hands together and celebrating. They are yelling buy buy BUY.
We cannot trust Gold and Silver priced on Paper values, sure everyone is getting out of the GLD to get into physical. They need to price it on the the physical demand not paper demand.
There goes our gold and silver to the East, kiss our ass good bye !
Cheers
Ya I know, good luck trying to buy it for that price.
and let me know where I can buy the physical for spot. Silver in particular--it's either "out of stock" or has a $2+ premium--per oz. Incredibly bent markets.
maybe NewsIt could take their annoying logo out of the centre of the screen so we can see the pictures a bit better. They must
be obsessed with copyrighting issues.
so who's the jackass -1 ing everyone?
fonestar or mdb i assume
He used to be a marble & tile worker in the housing industry. Looking for just a small job to survive he is saying
How about that
Cyprus gold sale profits must be used to pay back ECB, orders eurozone
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9990325/Cyprus-gold-sale-profits-must-be-used-to-pay-back-ECB-orders-eurozone.html
"The decision is going to be taken by the central bank. What is important, however, is that what is being transferred to the government budget out of the profits made out of the sales of gold should cover first and foremost any potential loss that the central bank might have from its ELA," Draghi said.
You didn't think the ECB was going to let them keep any of the cash from that sale did you?
So far it sure looks as the most blunt claim on a country's gold reserves by ECB. We didn't see that with Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy, did we?
He maintains his sense of humor. The Greek sign in the picture says "George's Villa". Gotta' laugh at something I guess.
I am fucking astounded.
What the fucks it take to get people angry enough to hang these cunts?
Living in fucking caves? This is 2013 not fucking 1213??
I am fucking fuming here, people of Greece, get off your knees and give these fuckers war.
its something the persecuted do..."hiding in dens and caves of the earth" Hebrews 12. Also something the faithless do, hiding in caves and crying, "fall on us" at the appearing of Messiah.
So what this article is really saying is that Bin Laden and Tora Bora were actually real estate concepts way ahead of their time.
Every single comment has a -1? WTF LOL
Kevin Henry's button doing double duty, I guess...+ES/-ZH.
A 30-year mortgage for a pile of bricks. Don't support this boomer's Ponzi scheme, live in a tent !!
This is such bullshit. I live in Cyprus and I was just in Greece. More than 99% of people DO NOT live like this.... In fact Greece comprises of mostly forigners, who DO NOT have jobs, yet find ways to get by.... This is just a video of a guy who is lazy and homeless.. Don't think Greece is like the pits, life still goes on and people still have a good time... Since the "collapse" there is little to no diffrence except for the additon of class warefare People Vs. the Elites.
That doesn't look lazy to me - someone had to hump all that shit up there.
Nearly every comment here has a -1 rating. Maybe someone is bitter that they, soon, will also be living in a cave.
I remember the article from the DHS LEAK [RosebudU that when you see the metals tanking no its about to come about.Life for the avg American will change significantly come April.
'Don't Cry for Me America !?'
(think of churchill's bravery as he proudly tells his sub-minion's dwelling amongst, 'above ground bomb shelters',... we shall overcome-- whilst 'eight [8] stories' below in his personal fortress [cave] liquer'd-up to the gills... smoking his cuban cigars- Bravo)
Osama bin Laden...america's 'manchurian candidate' ???
911: Mission Accomplished... was nothing moar than a deliberate encryptic message to the NWO's Cabal-- a palindrome... a non`sequitur purple passage of diabolical treachery!!!
Ps. in the end we find out that osama was living the good life-- not in a cave as told by the MSM [MIC's mouthpiece?], but, rather under the internationals cabal umbrella-- a long known sanctuary collaborated by our own FBI/CIA & ISI, period!
Ps2. no body... equals no kill... equals BS!!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver
Ps3. What does this have to do with cyprus, greece, slovenia?, et.el., ??? Ask the Bush's #41 & #43-- the Clinton's-- the Carter's-- the Nixon/ Ford's-- the Reagan's-- the Johnson's, and all our foreign born Secretary's of State, Secretary's of Defense, and Personal Foreign Advisors [Kissinger/ Brzezinski]???
God Bless You... Julian Assange!!!
beginnings of the coming dark age...
The poor guy was just looking for work in the video =/ he wanted to lay some tiles down so he could pay his rent/house.... he couldn't find anyone who wanted tiles put down so he went and moved out into this little ditch.
Is his name Diogenes and does he have a barrel to live in?
May be searching later for an honest man.