Athens By Night
The Troika went to bail out Europe's banks (for the nth time) and all we got was this postcard of night time Athens...
courtesy of Aris
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burn baby, burn...
Greece: once the origin of Western civilization. Now, a burned-down debt penal colony owned by Goldman Sachs...
Coming soon to American cities across the entire continent. When our coddled, spoiled entitled masses find out they will actually have to work for a living, they will become enraged. Think L.A. riots on an epic scale. It will be an order of magnitude greater than the crusades.
To poly to taka taka kani to pedi malaka!
Brute!
Paris by night ... still a lot prettier ... but for how long?
Greece has imported all of europe's tear gas.
When TSHTF in Paris, they'll have to use napalm.
French Fried?
you're sorta weird, aren't you?
Sorta?
Mmmmmmm, fried frog legs. Oh wait.
The French are verrry sensitive about their legs and feet.
They use them quite a bit ;-)
Greece is so ripe for Marxist takeover the old Soviet Union would have been licking their chops.
As if that's never happened before ;-)
Actually, I like the Greek people (all kidding aside)...it's the thieving pols & bankers I have the problem with. It's the same across the globe now...socialists allied with bankers and so-called capitalists allied with bankers.
Both intend for their failures to be born by any nations people while any success will be enjoyed by them.
Its pretty apparent.
so-called socialist - It's like a double negative without a postive result
I just got in and it's 10:18 pm eastern standard time U.S.
What's that you all say? Athens is in flames, riots are spreading, Greek riot police have run out of tear gas, and this is a mere preview of what's to come in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain & Italy (and probably France, at some point thereafter)?
I don't believe it. The local news made no mention, not a single iota of this, but the fine institution that is that which most Amerikans depend on to get their information did harp obsessively about the Grammys and Whitney Houston.
And Adele's 'Rolling In The Deep' won Federal Reserve/ECB song of the year, as the masses begin to awaken to the scam of fractional reserve globalist banking, and they sing in unison:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3CYpmfZ96c
U.S is in worst shape than Greece! --Nouriel RoubiniAthens in ruins again. Been that way for centuries. Kinda rhetorical if you ask me.
If you see the plume of smoke on the left, just in front of that is a square building with a flat roof. In there is a crackin' good kebab house...
I think pretty soon that's gonna be a crackin' good kebomb house.
Yeah, you can get some real hot stuff in there...
Don't you just love the smell of fresh charcoal in the morning...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1IdEhvuNxV8
I like the Greek people too! I think they eventually get the bankruptcy ahem, I mean freedom they deserve. I am constantly complaining about living in the US. We near BK ourselves.....and we demand the OWS to stay in line. The Greeks go out and burn the city! Who do you think will get their bankruptcy first?
Whitney Houston's death takes priority over sovereignty of Greek citizens
On sale this week: greek olive oil.
Yep. I was clicking through the cable news channels to see if any had coverage of Greece. Nope. All focused on mourning the passing of a burnt-out crackhead "diva." Made me want to throw up when I heard someone on the radio this morning calling for a global minute of silence. The only thing we should be morning is the death of critical and independent thinking.
Yeah ain't that funny that NOW all people care about Whitney Houston when nobody gave a fuck enough when she was alive to help her get out of her drug addiction? If all those assholes REALLY loved her like they say they are, they would have helped her instead of acting like they care now that she's dead... bunch of hypocrites, all of them.
Look. I feel sorry for Whitney and her addiction but nobody held a gun to her head, she held that proverbial gun herself, then if the reports are correct, she pulled the trigger. Nobody is responsible for me but me. Yea sure its sad, so is the poor guy who joins the Army because the civilian job market sucks right now, just to get his face blown off because of an I.E.D. explodes while he's on patrol. It's all very sad.
We all have choices. Some paths are easy, others much harder. You choose what you choose because life itself requires it. In the end we're all accountable...
The Western myth that free will accounts for the entirety of one's life is childish. Would that it were true.
- Former and Native Oregonian
Kind'a dense on your part, right?
Especially when you can be brainwashed through TV on priotizing bullshit over important matters.
Last month gay marriage, so gays can now get in five figure debt spent in <8hours in a ritual called "weddings"
Last weekend the superbowl, so advertisers can have a field day with attention from 1/3 of US population.
This weekend dope fiend clown "singer", so Americans ignore Greek austerity and the fact that US will need it also and portray OWS as the foreign problem.
This week, hallmark holiday called "Valentines Day" where you are pressured to buy shit to prove your love.
Seriously, MSM misleads you away from important things in life to being a consumer for corporate profit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=eSSKsi2U2c0
'This week, hallmark holiday called "Valentines Day" where you are pressured to buy shit to prove your love...'
I love me, no pressure...
There is no choice.
DO IT!
Fat people are confused by choice
om
So, what confuses you?
Finding fish in the treetops!
Stuck in a flood or what?
Tears manufacturing just kicks in ....
"Where do broken countries go?"
The Island of Misfit slaves.
To a Republic that thrives on bananas...
Fried frog legs are people!!!!!!
Opa!!!!
A great sense of humor is not correlated to weirdness...
Yes, the obese american will put down the Krispy Kremes, double lattes, flip off the plasmas and take to the streets, to the degree of the crusades!
Baaaaaa Baaaaaaa Baaaaaaa
They will when the SNAP cards aren't refilled, the power company shuts them down for non-payment, Krispy Cream and Starbucks barricade the doors against the great unwashed onslaught, and their credit cards are declined for the latest in a long series of plasma teevees.
Why attack the "americans"? Do you mean the U.S.? Chances are when the world has capitulated to the jackboot of the global banking cartel the citizens of the United States of America will be the ones who take up arms to overthrow the evil.
Ummm no chances are that your expectations kind of like Chris' expectations are not only inaccurate but are inaccurate to a degree not normally associated with anything or anyone who's prognostications should ever be taken seriously.
What's that shit you're smoking? I want some of THAT!
americans are just going to write their congressman, vote, and pay their taxes like always
It is the 'jackboot' that your fucking government continually sucks you dry for that is THE problem, dude
Please, wake up dear friend om
However, there is a high correlation to absurdity!
Hope the Germans brought sausages for the cook out.
Hah ha ha...
Just like their initiation (remember, it was France and the UK who started it) Arabian Spring is Sprung and the Grass is Green freedom incursion into Lybia when they ran out of bombs within the first two weeks and had to be resupplied by the Yanks ...
Jesus.
Why even try to continue with the Charade?
There is no European Credibility Left Whatdsofuckingever.
Arab Spring...ahhh yes, green shoots in the desert. Some people will believe anything knukles.
At least France and Italy's, errr Libya's oil & gas fields were spared ;-)
And yet there are gas shortages in europe.
People are dying by the hundreds frozen to death.
Those lucky to survive have managed to do so by burning worhtless euro banknotes to keep themselves warm.
I've seen that...
"The week-long cold spell, eastern Europe’s worst in decades, is causing power cuts, frozen water pipes and the widespread closure of schools, nurseries, airports and bus routes."
http://www.ireland.com/breaking-news/siberian-cold-front-kills-220-in-europe/637086
Someone needs to alert Brother Al.
Not to be misconstrued with siding with your pal Al, but clearly you're not understanding the Atlantic conveyor belt. It's all pretty simple. Happens every 12,000 years or so; hm, we seem to be running a bit overdue... until, that is, now (when melting glaciers pour fresh water into the circulatory stream and stall out the Atlantic conveyor belt, thus causing cooling in northern Europe). If you spent a few of your bash-Al minutes researching this you'd know all of it...
My good friend Seer,
The polar ice cap is expanding not contracting and so is the Antarctic. Both, no doubt, inconvient truths to Brother Al who does his dead level best to dump as much CO2 as he possibly can into the atmoshere flying around the globe doing his chicken little act.
But he is, afterall, just one man, on a statist mission to relieve the gullible of as many earnings as he can before he himself reverts back to primarily carbon ;-)
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/17/revealed-antarctic-ice-growing-not-shrinking/
Modern napalm no longer uses actual napalm for turning gasoline to jelly. Polystyrene is used instead. Sorry this isn't bullish for Dow Chemical.
"for turning gasoline to jelly. Polystyrene is used instead."
Polystyrene is also used within the neutron bombardment process of a thermonuclear detonation.
Poly Styrene was also the amazingly energetic singer for the band X-Ray Spex. Sadly, she lost her fight with cancer last year.
Debt Bondage, Up Yours!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAL_j-f8gmA
hahaha....
that was funny
As my wifie so accurately reminded me, these folks buring the buildings are the ones and the same who so joyously signed on to the initial program or 45 weeks of paid vacation.
Go figure.
And the bankers on the other hand Should Not be expecting repayment, for the original loans were clearly extended under duress of fraudulent conveyance.
Amazing to what a shortage of tear gas leads.
Greek wives are the ones burning buildings???
The gals get 49 weeks and a full back waxing. They're OK cutting the vacation time out all together. It's the guys got the problem. They don't want the gals at home bothering their asses. Ever try to tweezer shape the wife's back hair?
That's not a visual image I needed in the old memory core.
The gals need the whole 49 weeks to complete the wax job.
You know what? Tell your wife to shut up and advice her that, probably, she's in need of retraining programs which you should attend with her to build up her morale. After that you'll be amazing couple!
Goldman Sachs advises you bring austerity measures on your wife to obtain control.
Buy yourself a nice yacht, pay it with your credit, pay credit card with your wife's checking account, then initiate divorce proceedings.
The whole Eudssr population is waiting for Marine d Arc to bring down the EUSSR.
Not to mention Ann Barnhardt d'Arc. But first she needs to get laid. Suggested consensual sex, and she threatened me with arrest.
Wanklord, writing such weird stuff must make you an Iranian spy! I am reporting you to Homeland Security. (sound of door being smashed down) No, No, it's not me you idiots!!
Chased a gringo last night through a field
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzQApZWlxgw
The world is a Ghetto...
AND a "Ball of Confusion!"
hope all your shorts have a good night of sleep - or not.
Shorts are toasted! Too bad that no matter how hard this site has tried to bad mouth the market, the market didn't listen. Pathetic!
Just came back home from my glossary shopping at a local BJ's store in Boston. During the last 6 months, meat prices went up about 30%.
It appears that Americans at a breaking point when the FED & Government lies about inflation will become too obvious and very soon 45 millions of Americans on food-stamps will go hungry. As for people living on the Social Security, they are really for very hard times ahead.
People usually lose their civility when they see that their government cannot take care of them. IMHO, the Hell is about to get lose in America before this year election.
That picture bears an eerie resemblance to Warshington City, April 1968.
It's about fucking time. Getting tired of waiting. My fear is that they will find a way to drag this out for another 10 years.
U R douche bag. Shop somewhere else. Food prices are very elastic.
Gas prices are not, just so you know.
Nothing that the jack booted police and military here can't handle if the American people get uppity. The American forces crackdown on the people will make Syria look like a choir school in comparison once it gets started in the inner cities. Land of the free, home of the brave? We shall soon see.
@ Ancona
+ 1
Yes, this is coming here too. Once Greece defaults (which it will), then the speed of the contagion there in Europe will give us a rough idea of how long we have before the tsunami hits our shores. And it probably will be VERY BAD.
There might not be much time left for each of us to get ready. I hope ALL of you have at least started. There is much to do.
“Some people are amazed that some of the debt out there is from the Napoleonic Wars, others thank God for Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase” Look at a map of his campaign, it is no accident that he took Venice.
A few key differences ...
Greece is (relatively speaking) a lightly armed nation. The U.S. is heavily strapped. The police are militarized and carrying assault rifles. Stolen handguns are so common in the urban cores that they're used for barter. The government is itself involved in gun-running (see Eric Holder; Fast and Furious; ATF). In short, not only are we a heavily armed society but those guns are concentrated in the hands of the government & thieves and gangsters.
Also, Greece is fairly homogenous. The U.S. is a big multi-racial nation with pre-existing simmering hostilities and starker regional and class divides.
Greece is one nation among many in Europe. Nothing can really get "too" out of control there without intervention from neighboring nations that are more stable. The U.S. is the global superpower. We have a lot of people who hate us. Our military is too powerful for anyone to intervene. If things get very ugly here, the rest of the world is liable to wall us off and let it all go to pieces.
Yes, if you aren't worried yet (or even scared) you aren't paying attention. The sheeple are too busy watching TV tonight and mourning the death of a violent crackhead. What will you and your family be doing?
If you hung out with the people I do you'd know that the concentration of guns is NOT in the hands of the government, thieves and gangsters.
No, not if we're talking about light weaponry. Problem is, however, the BIG stuff, and, the banksters have ensured that the govt has lots of it.
Valid dude, up to a point. The lesson from Iraq, or any occupation/insurgency, is that any group that is serious will go "Mosul" on any occupational Gov's ASS. Your country, USSR, is way to big to cover with high tech drones, the standing police force and the very capable 'alphabet' agency tools.
Chris makes a very important point that I have been expounding on for years now about America. All of this multi-culturalism that liberals have been preaching about for the past 30 years will soon be back to bite them and us in the ass. You'll see how fast the people start walling themselves off in cultural cliques when the shit starts to hit the fan. Within 2 square miles of me in this shithole town of Manexico Park outside DC I shit you not I have people that are probably from 100 different countries. All with 100 different ideas about how things should be done and 100 different ways of doing them. Good luck building ANY kind of cooperative commune in that kind of environment when shit hits the fan. I can't wait to make some bleeding heart multi-cultural espousing liberal my footboy when the new world begins. It will be good penance for his ridiculous ideas and his part in the cultural destruction of the fabric of America.
" Nothing can really get "too" out of control there without intervention from neighboring nations that are more stable."
If it's the people against their own government (inlucind parliament) ,they will consider any intervention as a hostile opressive occupation. Who should do that ? Turkey or NATO as whole ?
"Greece is (relatively speaking) a lightly armed nation."
But as we have seen with yugoslavia, this is well enough for terrible civil war.
And there will still be enough guns around from those other balkan countries.
Just so I'm clear.....
The Keynesian overlords require nations to spend themselves into debt slavery. Once the burden of debt becomes so great that there is no hope for a GDP remedy, they then require austerity.......which is anathema to Keynesian economic philosophy.....in order to secure more debt?
So how did this philosophy make it out of 6th grade again?
"So how did this philosophy make it out of 6th grade again?"
Ask Thomas Jefferson and Abe Lincoln,and JFK.......