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Angry Greeks Occupy Siemens Office; "Won't Become German Colony"

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Earlier today we reported that German FinMin Wolfgang Shaeuble has now suggested that the best alternative for Greece’s embattled socialist ‘savior’ government may be to put euro membership to a referendum. In Shaeuble’s words, Tsipras should “ask the Greek people to decide whether it’s ready to accept what is necessary or whether it wants the alternative.” 

What is “necessary” of course, is the implementation of more austerity measures, as the country’s current fiscal reform efforts have fallen well short of what’s necessary for creditors to unlock the next tranche of much needed financial assistance. The “alternative” to which Schaeuble refers, is redenomination risk or, more simply, the introduction of a parallel currency which will promptly collapse in value and wreak havoc across the country’s already beleaguered economy. 

Greeks, of course, aren’t even the slightest bit interested in subjecting themselves to further belt-tightening and as the following from Reuters makes clear, Greek citizens are at their breaking point not only with austerity, but with the Germans as well:

A small group of demonstrators occupied the Athens headquarters of German industrial group Siemens on Monday, police and company officials said, in a protest against the austerity policies imposed on Greece by its lenders.

 

About 30 people entered the building in a northern Athens suburb, occupying the Siemens offices and hanging a banner outside the main entrance ahead of a scheduled rally to the German embassy planned for later this month.

 

"We are not negotiating with domestic and foreign capitalists," read the banner. The protesters also threw flyers saying: "We won't become a colony of Germany or any other Imperialist power".

 

Many Greeks blame Germany for the harsh austerity policies that the country's international lenders have demanded in exchange for 240 billion euros ($268 billion) of bailout funds since 2010.

 

"It's a peaceful protest," Siemens Hellas spokeswoman Mari Agaliotou said. "The protesters are expected to leave within the day."

 

Greece has a history of anti-establishment protests by leftists with frequent skirmishes between police and youths during rallies.

 

Anti-austerity protesters occupied several public buildings in Greece and briefly entered the grounds of parliament in Athens last month, calling for the release of jailed members of a Marxist group.

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Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:18 | 6082048 ZH Snob
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good.  siemens is definately in the club.

this is not a capitalist v marxist struggle.  it is the people of greece v the western financial mafioso struggle.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:21 | 6082081 Wolferl
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Throw those pathetic Greeks out of Europe already.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:39 | 6082154 Mike Honcho
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Since pathetic is the cut, Tyler revoke this joke.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:52 | 6082209 Four chan
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can greece smell what germany is cookin?

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 16:24 | 6082339 Bangin7GramRocks
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Would the term "European Jamaica" make the Greeks feel any better? It will become a dirt poor country that hosts tourists. Get ready to be a nation of servants.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:58 | 6082222 Kirk2NCC1701
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Tyler, what do the signs say?  It's all Greek to me.

But then, so is everything they do.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 16:46 | 6082423 Panayiotis
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To WOLFERL---You are becoming monotonous and obviously clueless....

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:22 | 6082092 ZippyBananaPants
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Do the lambs get a vote?

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 16:45 | 6082427 Sudden Debt
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Yes! The Stew or the Grill! Their pick!

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:34 | 6082132 Shizzmoney
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RE

this is not a capitalist v marxist struggle.  it is the people of greece v the western financial mafioso struggle.

GREAT way to put this.

I'm using this for <insert next future economic fail here>.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 19:25 | 6082975 seminal1
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this is not a capitalist v marxist struggle.  it is the people of greece v the western financial mafioso struggle.

Well, Greece is being run by far left Marxists...

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 17:08 | 6082506 Butterflying
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My last pay check was $9500 working 12 hours a week online. My sisters friend has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 20 hours a week. I can't believe how easy it was once I tried it out. This is what I do... www.jobs-review.com

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:16 | 6082052 Joebloinvestor
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FUCK UM.

 

Greece needs some Russian debt collectors to know what real misery is.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:21 | 6082082 Hype Alert
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Just cut them loose already.  I'm tired of this.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:29 | 6082109 new game
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for the greeks to blame germany says it all. fuck greece. fuck greeks, fucken tit suckers...

freeloading mutha fucking ass sucking fuckfaced baby assed cockbits...

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:17 | 6082061 ted41776
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those are heavy looking banners, did someone bring a nailgun?

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:18 | 6082068 kowalli
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Im waiting for americans with banners

"Won't Become Federal reserve Colony"
Mon, 05/11/2015 - 16:48 | 6082442 Sudden Debt
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PAinted on the back of banners that say: WHERE’S MY FREE PHONE BIATCH! & OBAMA’S GONNA PAY MY BILLS!

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:20 | 6082072 Kaiser Sousa
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""We won't become a colony of Germany or any other Imperialist power"...."

too fucking late...NOW WHAT THE FUCK R U GREEKS GONNA DO ABOUT IT???

AYE........

death to the MoneyChangers....

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 21:18 | 6083322 Panayiotis
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The Greeks have just been invited to become the 6th member of BRICS bank. Stay tuned...

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:22 | 6082085 semperfi
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"Won't become a German colony"

Don't worry, you won't.  You're already under fEUdalism.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:24 | 6082096 CHC
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One building does not a revolution make. 

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:26 | 6082101 Smegley Wanxalot
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. . . . "How do you fucking germans give us greeks jobs!"

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:29 | 6082112 Irishcyclist
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In another life I worked for Siemens. The various international offices of Siemens were summoned to Munich in 2000 to attend a weeklong presentation about SAP roll out.

The people from Siemens Athens were there and a nicer bunch you couldn't wish to meet. Even then you could see the cultural differences between the German and Greek perspectives, within the same company!

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 17:29 | 6082600 Condition 1SQ
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Same here.  It's a great company to work for.  All these people are doing is driving away employers.  Their mentality equates employment with exploitation.  If you don't want to be exploited, fine .. stop doing commerce with each other and see how well things turn out.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:32 | 6082121 101 years and c...
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"domestic and foreign capitalists"  

no need to worry.  Europe (and the US) have destroyed capitalism.  you will be negotiating with the new order of communists.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:36 | 6082138 The Bell Rang
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Right on, Power to the people.....Just print your own paper

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:36 | 6082140 Seasmoke
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WILL CLEAN FOR SIEMENS. 

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:37 | 6082141 WTFUD
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Siemens the Americano G.E. Spies are Us!

What we need is for these 'skirmishes' to take on a more violent nature just like the Neocons' sponsored in Ukraine.

Enter Soros and Cookie Women right of stage . . . Snipers with itchy fingers assume positions . . . . FIRE INDISCRIMINATELY _ EVERYONE'S GUILTY

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:53 | 6082211 Catalonia
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Won't swallow any more Siemens

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 16:23 | 6082216 earleflorida
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The USSA (EU) doesn't want 'instability' and Greece is on the precipice of anarchy?

Russia and China will instill calm to the Aegean.

Fuck, Erdogan[!], and fuck Salman w/o a SISI!?! He's playing to many sides against each other, esp., abandoning the MB, which can really come back and bite him from North-South & East-West... if you get my drift!?!

Addendum: Today>    "Once Untouchable, Egypt's Sisi faces media attacks"      http://news.yahoo.com/once-untouchable-egypts-sisi-faces-media-attacks-174659035

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 15:55 | 6082221 Jacket
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Tyler you forgot to mention that Siemens has been involved in various scandals in Greece, most of them about bribing politcians. There's a reason they picked that building to protest and not the german embassy.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 16:21 | 6082330 NoTTD
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Only Germans would name their company after "semen".

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 17:00 | 6082480 Wolferl
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It´s a variant of the old Saxon name "Symons".

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 16:26 | 6082337 teslaberry
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hahaha. 

a 'referendum'. just liek the scottish 'referendum'. 

 

the voting is rigged. even if it isn't the demographics are rigged with old people who will die tomorrow voting their pocketbook. and future generations being saddled with the debt of the geriatric voting base. 

it is like this around the west. 

 

you cannot vote yourself out of the chains of the retiree population older than 60. 

 

greece will be never be "allowed" to leave the emu  through voting, they can only take their departure through  violent revolution. and the young folks are not yet starving enough to kill for food and for life.  it is possible they will not even put up a fight but mostly accept their situation and become refugees or totally impoverished, while a select few martyr themselves like massada-----taking the brunt of a violent counter-repression by the EU paramilitary army that kills and maims the uncooperate 3-5% of the population willing to blood fued with government.

 

don't worry, it will get there. it just takes time. and then when the european union army begins to fight the young people, the question will be wehther the greek youth population can be cleared out by a forceful diaspora to the rest of europe, while they flood greece with more non-greek speaking africans who will do as they are told .

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 16:26 | 6082346 False Capital
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"We won't become a colony of Germany or any other Imperialist power". Should have thought about that before you took on their currency then.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 17:09 | 6082432 Sauerkraut-Opinion
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Grexit weather-forecast: 

The mood in Germany has defenitely changed: The compulsory sunny Greek weather in the endless number of German polit-talkshows has vanished into a convention of speech about how to manage the grexit. 

The public mood finally forced the helmsmen of German propaganda channels (...in a synchronous dance with their invited political delegates owning standing subscriptons...) to adjust. Greeks tragically didn't appreciate their attorneys in German televison, in German politics and (blissfully) German population - now it seemes definetly too late: To many Nazi-banners in the streets of Athen or Thessaloniki, to many demands about fresh money on the pretext of outstanding German accounts in Greece. 

To screw back this wheel back is quite unrealistic. Ones you know her way to play policies out of the second row (...solely orientated to the barometer of mood...) Merkels timetable is easy to forecast: After years of pronouncing the continuance of Greece in the eurozone without alternative (...meanwhile banks shifted their debts to the German tax-payers under Merkels protection...) - she will finally switch her canon into "there is no alternative for a Grexit" (...and pay for it). On time when summer holiday starts and peoples brain regions become numb. 

 

 

 

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 21:57 | 6083440 Joe A
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"On time when summer holiday starts and peoples brain regions become numb". While holidaying in Greece...

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 17:31 | 6082599 SquadronVBF94
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Well if this keeps up the Germans should just close the door on every German based operation in the country.  OK so they don't want to be "colonists" to foreign capital.  Let's see how they do being "colonists" to hyper inflation and the garbage can smorgishboard.  I guess these morons think they can build a socialist paradise without capital.  I can see their motto now; "Everyone consumes, no one is made a slave to producing anything, ever".  Yeah that'll work out great.  A giant Detroit on the Medeterannian Sea.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 19:39 | 6083000 emorybored
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"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy."

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." Churchill 1945

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 17:51 | 6082683 SquadronVBF94
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England was once know as "a nation of shopkeepers".  Greece is about to become a nation of waiters, bartenders and bellhops.  Well that and street beggars. They want a socialist paradise? They'd better give  Venezuela a close look first. They're sitting on a lake of oil and they still managed to turn it into a shithole of poverty and crime.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 18:46 | 6082876 Bazza McKenzie
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I thought the US was becoming "a nation of waiters, bartenders and bellhops".  That's what the jobs stats ZH keeps running show.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 18:07 | 6082744 Niall Of The Ni...
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Too late. Greece already is a German colony. Once the Germans had  control of the money supply, it no longer mattered who in Athens made the laws.

Moral of this story is: you want to be taken seriously, join the nuclear club, not the euro.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 18:50 | 6082890 walküre
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Siemens is restructuring big time. They will probably close the Greek facility anyway. I'm surprised they're still operating in Greece to be honest. They closed some real good facilities in Germany last couple years.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 19:27 | 6082978 Irishcyclist
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Siemens bribery scandals during the 2000's didn't do the company much good. Siemens have been in restructure mode ever since.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 19:28 | 6082977 JenkinsLane
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Whiny Greek bitches. If you don't want to be dependent upon others why was your debt to GDP ratio already at 100% in 2006? Is not running

fiscal deficits year in, year out, ad infinitum being partly dependent upon others for your standard of living?

 

Greece is just the first of a new type of long firm fraud whose time has run out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_firm_fraud

 

Fuck the Greeks.

 

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 19:34 | 6082993 emorybored
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The "Protest" would have been far more notable if they papered Seimans with Dracmas.

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 20:08 | 6083081 dag
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One can only have contempt for a people who blame others for the mistakes, stupidities, and errors committed by their own government.

GREEKS (former government leaders) put their country in this bad situation.

Greeks should shut up and pay the price or default and leave the EU.

 

Mon, 05/11/2015 - 22:03 | 6083449 Joe A
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Protesting doesn't solve anything. It is a lazy or coward man's way of pretending that he is doing something against a situation. In the end they go home and Siemens goes about its business. The protester feels better about himself because he thinks that "he showed them something".

Tue, 05/12/2015 - 01:59 | 6083866 asfffasfff
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but siemens is jewish

 

 

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