Update: Greek Crowd Now Amassed In Front Of US Embassy - Live Video
Update: the Athens crowd has now amassed in front of the US embassy in Athens.
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Europe is FIXED!!!! Via Reuters:
Greek police fired tear gas at black-clad youths on Thursday as thousands marched through Athens to mark a 1973 student uprising against the 1967-1974 military dictatorship and protest bitter austerity measures.
Students and teachers, workers and pensioners marched beating drums and chanting "EU, IMF out" in the first public test for a new national unity government charged with imposing painful tax rises and spending cuts to avert bankruptcy.
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FTMFGLOBALW ? Tyler does that mean Fuk the mo fo global banker wankers ? What is that ?
OT: um...philly manufacturing?
The speed limit on the road to insolvency is has just gone from 55 to 65.
First the protesters chant / riot.
Now, the Greek police are chanting at the protesters, while they fire tear gas?
Any bracelets on Corzine's wrists yet?
Nigel Farage speaks truth to the EU. Absolutely hilarious as usual!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ULns-cSUeVs
And Corzyne Enjoying The Fine Life ...
With MF Global Money Still Lost, Suspicions Grow
Nearly three weeks after $600 million in customer money went missing from MF Global, the search for the cash has been hampered by the bankrupt brokerage firm's sloppy record-keeping, an increasingly worrisome situation that has left regulators frustrated and customers in the lurch.
The round-the-clock effort has consumed an alphabet soup of federal regulators and criminal investigators, with lawyers sleeping at open desks and each agency commandeering a different conference room at the firm's offices. But as authorities comb through some 38,000 customer accounts, they are growing more suspicious about what went wrong at MF Global, the commodities powerhouse once run by Jon S. Corzine, the former Democratic governor of New Jersey.
"The lost money is sort of like a lost child," said Bart Chilton, a Democratic member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. "Every day that passes is more and more concerning, and there's less and less hope."
At a bankruptcy hearing on Wednesday, a lawyer for the trustee overseeing the liquidation of the brokerage house would not speculate on the matter, acknowledging simply that the money was still missing.
After MF Global filed for bankruptcy in late October, hundreds of examiners descended on the firm's New York and Chicago offices. S
Nearly three weeks after $600 million in customer money went missing from MF Global, the search for the cash has been hampered by the bankrupt brokerage firm's sloppy record-keeping, an increasingly worrisome situation that has left regulators frustrated and customers in the lurch.
The round-the-clock effort has consumed an alphabet soup of federal regulators and criminal investigators, with lawyers sleeping at open desks and each agency commandeering a different conference room at the firm's offices. But as authorities comb through some 38,000 customer accounts, they are growing more suspicious about what went wrong at MF Global, the commodities powerhouse once run by Jon S. Corzine, the former Democratic governor of New Jersey.
"The lost money is sort of like a lost child," said Bart Chilton, a Democratic member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. "Every day that passes is more and more concerning, and there's less and less hope."
At a bankruptcy hearing on Wednesday, a lawyer for the trustee overseeing the liquidation of the brokerage house would not speculate on the matter, acknowledging simply that the money was still missing.
After MF Global filed for bankruptcy in late October, hundreds of examiners descended on the firm's New York and Chicago offices. Since then, they have been poring over records, verifying customer accounts and interrogating the skeleton staff that remains.
The C.F.T.C. is heading the search for the $600 million missing from the futures business, armed with at least 15 accounting and enforcement staff members on site in New York. The Securities and Exchange Commission is focusing on a separate MF Global unit, as workers report back to bosses in Washington in twice-daily conference calls. Federal prosecutors in New York and Chicago have issued subpoenas, according to one person with knowledge of the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mf-global-money-still-lost-115508872.html
It is patently ridiculous to reject the consensus on the necessity of the IMF and EU by top politicians, economists and financial professionals. All of these leaders agree that the IMF and EU both not only necessary but essential for the fostering of prosperity, peace, equality and liberty throughout the world. If you're going to criticise a professional entity like the IMF, then you should at least have a PhD in economics or some experience in the financial services industry.
Straight comedy is the most hilarious. :-)
Americans should drop ship every U.S. based top executive/agent of the Squid, JP Morgan & Federal Reserve 'Bank' (with red dots on painted on the members of the New York Branch) into Syntagma Square with a ginormous banner that reads (in Greek):
"Hank 'Tanks In The Streets Any Moment Now' Paulson fleeced the globe & made Robber Barons of his friends"
Hey, where is old pale-faced Paulson these days. Would I expect to find him in a corner office at GS or in the basement of the Fed? Or perhaps on a tax-haven island? I understand he burns easy.
MDB; Every down arrow adds to your status as a world class troll. Keep up the good work!
One day you'll slip up and your /sarc will be obviouse, then the jig will be up.
"The lost money is sort of like a lost child"
I believe they make some sort of ankle bracelet to keep track of suspects, sort of like a suspect relative...
"with lawyers sleeping at open desks"
And naturally the bankruptcy administrator is being billed several hundred dollars per hour for each hour they are sleeping?
This guy needs to stay away from all book depositories, and Korean Air flights over Soviet Air Space. He needs a security detail testing his food and drinks.
Spot on. Thanks for the link.
It would be funny if not sooo tragic.
"Nigel Farage speaks truth to the EU" ??
some is half-truth propaganda (nevertheless hilarious)
.
I'll start to really pay attention when the souvlaki starts flying with metal skewers.
"The speed limit on the road to insolvency is has just gone from 55 to 65"
No, no, that was back in 2009 that the speed limit got upped. We're now on the Autobahn, you see.
I'm with you carl. Why isn't Corzine bunking with Madoff? Better political connections?
EUROPE IS FIXED FOR THE MOTHER FUCKING GLOBAL WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
time to dust off this old gem...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAmPIq29ro
THE GREEKS APPEAR TO BE THE FIRST AGAIN TO BECOME FREE.
THIS IS A WAKE UP CALL TO ALL ITALIANS, PORTOGUESE, IRISH, AND SPANIARDS TO CONTINUE THE "NO PASARAN"
AS FOR YOU AMERICANS UNLESS YOU START SOON IT MAY BE TOO LATE.
VAMONOS
Greeks free? They are all slaves of the state. Take away the state and there's riioting in the streets. Similar things happen to drug addicts.
Free from outside debt
your shit's all retarded
"Fuk the mo fo global banker wankers"
IMFUBAR - a new term, used in the trenches, when a trader realizes how much of his portfolio is risk diversified with CDS crap hinging on European and Chinese collapse.
" Europe is FIXED!!!! "
How very true ... as in rigged of course
"Europe is FIXED!!!" as in "neutered."
As in...spayed and neutered.
Meanwhile the OWS movement is all balls right?
Berlusconi: Paid the Hootered...
Somebody please listen to them, please. For the love of god!!
i'm listening to the boobs, but i hear nothing! rioters making to much noise!
Don't worry, they'll get just as much consideration as did the people protesting the start of the Iraq war.
Nope...if you noticed the group behind them are packing.
Greeks are going for blood today.
Pace yourself, everyone. This party is just getting started.
fuck that...I got a designated driver. slice me another rail and fix me a shot.
Gas masks and crash helmets bitchez. Get some!
Pita helments?
The are indeed a pain in the ass to accessorize with. Luckily everything goes with black.
Ah, this is a great business opportunity. Head over to Alibaba and order 200 Anti-riot suits. That'll be the next fashion trend for 2012! Don't miss it out as a watchful citizen. ;) (Attenzione: It's "Made in China" - so some parts could break during a real riot!) And order some EU flags that can be burned in public spaces... and to prove that we are no barbarians - we shall play the Egmont Ouverture!
I'll prefer to use my old and rusty Panther Panzer... - no, not to invade Poland (or some other stupid stuff), just the ECB building in Frankfurt. This may even get me a ZH news article (and afterwards a "chamber" in the mental asylum...)
For now, it is better to hide under a rock. Winter is coming. Foggy, grey, cold - dark days ahead and we're already surrounded - debt is everywhere, even within. And I saw a swan today, not a black one though...
But after Egmont - we should behave like real barbarians and play a good old nordic song to honour our ancestors
Nice! The pipes, the pipes are callin'
<golf clap>
"Head over to Alibaba and order 200 Anti-riot suits. That'll be the next fashion trend for 2012!"
Occupiers should, given the states pechant for chemicals, get protection.
Anybody notice how all of the protests which incurred military intervention just 30 years ago are now handled by police or 'security' forces?
changing names doesn't change the substance... just sounds better on the TV.
yes but remember...Vietnam was a "police action" not a "war".
what's in a name but for the power to alter the perception of the passive observer?
Yes, the equivalent of today's 'humanitarian intervention.' War is such an unpleasant word to TPTB.
That's because Post 9/11, All Demonstrators Are Considered Terraists and a threat to TPTB. Opps, I meant a threat to national security.
30 years ago many protestors were willing to die for a cause and that cause was often the removal of the military. Give it time I can't see the end game for Greece not involving the military
Great...just great. If Italy shuts down Spaghettios production we may go the way of the dinosuars! Bring back Berlusconi!
Long chianti.
like i said, nothing that goats strapped with explosives can't fix! after they blow, goat meat on pita! delicious!!!
Quick everyone! Sell your gold!
Idiots.
WHAAAAT ? ... it's only 10:30 !
POMO is going on now.
All-out printing and pumping effort just to try to keep things even. This isnt going well.
The squid is inking to obscure the view.
This is OT, but anyone know what the reason is behind Hungary's 4.3% up move today? I remember something about a dwngrade to jnk, late last week or early this week.
WTF?
Over..
Hungarian 10y treasury bond is at 8.74%... in september it was at 7%...
<<The history of democracy traces back to Athens to its re-emergence and rise from the 17th century to the present day. According to one definition, democracy is a political system in which all the members of the society have an equal share of formal political power.>>
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/History_of_democracy
Yes. Pure Democracy = Mob Rule.
In general, when people today use "Democracy" as a catch-all phrase to describe Western political systems, they're referring to the benefits of democratic processes within those systems where everyone gets an equal vote on representatives and various issues; not pure Democracy. In a pure democracy, there's no limit to the type of issue that would be put to vote. If someone doesn't like what you've said, they can put your life to a vote and with a little bad press, down you'd go.
well said - it's about the democratic processes
it's the same discussion as with scientific method
Consensus is the new scientific method.
Pure Democracy does not preclude a formal system of law, all human societies have them; they arise organically. Systems of Law come into being to address the needs, or shortcomings, of consensus decision making and to prevent consensus systems from devolving into "mob rule" (I.E. the vigilence commitees of San Francisco). A pure, consensus driven, libertarian social structure does not preclude "The Rule of Law" or sophisticated legal structures.
The cornerstone of Anglo-Saxon common law, upon which excellent, and elegant, legal structures can be, and are, based, is the inviolable committment that any person, having been accused of a crime, and facing severe punishment, up to, and including, death, shall have the full metre of Justice, and due process, which is accorded to everyone equally and without question. (What, by the way, is it that the Zero administration, and Zero his own drooling self, simply don't get about The Rule of Law ?)
Anyone else but me noticed how fucking evil the EU logo is? That funky "e" with all the yellow stars hanging around it? On one hand it look real mickey Mouse stupid, then on the other hand it looks like it could be the cover of 1984. Is it just me?
If you Google EU Flag, most images don't have the contrived E symbol. Is it recently added?
fucking evil? why? I agree it's somewhat idiotic to add the "e" to the flag
the official flag is still the blue field with the stars
and I somehow like the official common currency logo
So when do the NATO strikes against the Greek evil regime begins? Oh wait, since a globalist controls Greece, it's not gonna happen.
When the Greek military or the people overthrows those corrupt bankers puppets, then they will be invaded.
'Unity Govt'....nah that names not workin out, lets change it to the 'Unicorns and Rainbows Govt'....there, fixed.
Stock market up 100 points on tear gas rumor.
Wow.
salomons conclusion . point of the day ...
Hey, do you need some clearasil for those zits on ur butt?
There is that man again buying the Russell 2000 like everything is all good. Seriously crazy how predictable.
A global police state run by bankers ... who are about to get very very angry. I'd be careful - they're going to get Sandusky on these people soon enough -
"See the guy in the photo there, dangling an ax from his left hand? That’s Greece’s new “Minister of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks” Makis Voridis captured back in the 1980s, when he led a fascist student group called “Student Alternative” at the University of Athens law school. It’s 1985, and Minister Voridis, dressed like some Kajagoogoo Nazi, is caught on camera patrolling the campus with his fellow fascists, hunting for suspected leftist students to bash. Voridis was booted out of law school that year, and sued by Greece’s National Association of Students for taking part in violent attacks on non-fascist law students."
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/11/mark-ames-austerity-fascism-in-gr...
Greek peacekeepers fire teargas at students… Yeah, this is never going to work.. Back 2 police it is.
These crooks have lots more up their sleeves - the grind will continue for some time (until it doesn't - yeah, I know). Patience.
Knucks nailed it. Peace in our time.
Hope the Technocrats don't fix my neighborhood.
People don't realize banks charge them to use currency. This is why prices rise so high, because the cost to use currency is so high. They don't have to riot, they could just use a currency that doesn't charge them as much.
Citizen action in Japan: Take radioactive soil from garden, put in box, mail to Environment Ministry saying 'here--please dispose of properly'. Government response: Prompt illegal dumping.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20111117_28.html
Govt official dumps radiation-contaminated soil
An Environment Ministry official has dumped radiation-contaminated soil near his home in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo.
Environment Minister Goshi Hosono revealed this at a news conference on Thursday.
He said a cardboard box containing the soil was sent to his ministry on November 8th from a sender who identifies himself as a resident of Fukushima City.
An enclosed message calls on the ministry to store and dispose of the soil collected from the sender's garden.
The Environment Ministry kept the soil in its warehouse, and the radiation reading taken close to it was 0.18 microsieverts per hour.
A section chief at the ministry said this is no higher than readings taken in many areas in and around Tokyo and suggested he could dispose of the soil in his own garden.
His subordinate then dumped the soil in a vacant lot near his home on Sunday.
This was revealed after another box marked as "ash" was sent to the ministry apparently from the same sender on Wednesday.
The ministry is said to have already retrieved the soil and plans to dispose of it appropriately.
Hosono said he takes the inappropriate dumping of the soil very seriously and apologized. He said it should not have happened, as his ministry has been playing a central role in efforts to clean up areas contaminated with radiation.
Hosono said he will punish the section chief and study taking punitive actions against other senior officials, including himself.
He also said sending radiation-contaminated materials to his ministry will not lead to a fundamental solution to the problem, and called on people not to do so.
Thursday, November 17, 2011 18:41 +0900 (JST)
Not sure if this has been posted or discussed. Pretty incredible article from the Spectator documenting how Merkozy is systematically replacing governments..."The Frankfort Group, Europe's Hit Squad": http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1175691-frankfurt-group-europe-s-hit-squad
Huge Wall St. protest in Downtown Los Angeles
I'm watching it from the 24th floor.
I'm expecting a massive tear gas attack, they will probably bring out the water hoses soon to clean these bums out.
By the way, millions of hedge funds who are shorting FSLR due to Euro bond weakness are starting to scramble to cover the biggest short play of 2011.
An Epic Squeeze is probably setting up, up 4% already today.
Anybody here going to play it?
oh you are watching it from the 24th floor? sure you are robo. sure you are.
that must mean his mother lives on the 25th floor.
RoboMomoChaserRearViewPaperTraderUltimateFader meant to say that he's watching from the 13th floor of his mom's basement and that Kraft Macaroni & Cheese is the cheesiest.
sounds like the late carl sagan: "billions and billions" of hedge funds.
robottrader: processing 1099's since 2011.
Never change, Robot. You Rock.