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Three dead as Greek strike grows violent (Eventually a strongman will have to quell this disorder)
CNN ^ | 05/05/2010 | CNN Wire Staff

Posted on 05/05/2010 6:29:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Police sirens and the smell of tear gas filled the streets around Greece's parliament building Wednesday after protests against government spending cuts turned violent, then deadly.

Three people died and four others were trapped when a fire bomb hit a bank in central Athens, the Greek fire brigade told CNN. The victims, two women and a man, were bank employees, they said.

Bins and cars were set on fire around the city. Two public buildings were on fire and a fire truck was ablaze near the Temple of Zeus, the fire brigade said.

Riot police in helmets and shields kept back protesters who threw bottles, sticks, and rocks. Booms pierced the air every time the police fired canisters of tear gas at the crowds.

A mass of protesters made it onto the steps in front of the Greek parliament building early in the afternoon before riot police pushed them back.

Members of the parliamentary economic committee are inside the building reviewing a package of austerity measures to contain Greece's spiraling debt. The measures are highly unpopular in Greece and the protesters on the steps demanded that the lawmakers come outside and face them.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anarchists; debt; greece; greenpeace; riots; strike; students
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To: xkaydet65

Yes, the 20th century began and ended with problems in the Balkans. It looks like the 21st century is starting the same way.

I also think Bismarck said the Balkans are not worth the life of one Pomeranian rifleman.


41 posted on 05/05/2010 7:01:11 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: GonzoGOP
The last two times they headed down there to quell local violence got messy.

Thank God it did, their intervention in Greece postponed Operation Barbarossa by a critical six weeks, they may very well had won the war had they attacked Russia on schedule.

42 posted on 05/05/2010 7:01:22 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Carley

“O blames the banks for all our ills. They took away our houses, cars, retirement, and college funds.”

There are a few posters on this board with the same mindset.


43 posted on 05/05/2010 7:01:24 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Chairman Mao was a community organizer)
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To: xkaydet65
My guess and fear is that Greece will develop a Chavez type strongman, blame the US for its problems and seek financial, economic, and military ties with Iran,Russia,and China.

My guess too.

44 posted on 05/05/2010 7:02:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: cripplecreek

The frightening thing is the fact that we aren’t far from seeing the same here at the hands of the SEIU/ACORN crowd and their inciter in the white house.

Yes, the hard Lefties in this country are always bemoaning the fact that they have not been successful in fostering “social movements” here. God help us if they ever succeed!


45 posted on 05/05/2010 7:03:28 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: meyer

One thing we’ve got going for us - the second amendment. If people start fire-bombing banks and such, they’ll be shot dead in the streets

Unless they do it at Citizens Bank Park. Then they’ll just be tazed.


46 posted on 05/05/2010 7:04:32 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind
"A strong man needed?"

The Greek military junta rule of 1967-1974 was known as the "regime of the Colonels".

It started in 1967 with a rightist coup d'etat led by a group of colonels of the Greek military. Their reign ended in 1974.

This was a culmination of decades of national division between the forces of Left and Right. After the liberation from the Axis powers in 1944 Greece had descended into civil war fought between the forces of the Communist-led Greek resistance and the now-returned Greek government-in-exile.

Just a revealing tidbit of post-WW2 Greek history.

Leni

47 posted on 05/05/2010 7:05:37 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Bill O'Reilly: 9/8/09: "Communism is not a threat to us anymore" - 10/20/09 "Obama is not a Marxist")
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To: agere_contra

Understood. Isn’t Britain part of the IMF?

I understand that Greece is asking for IMF funds as well. I could be mistaken.

Thanks for your observations and information.

Regards,
AR


48 posted on 05/05/2010 7:05:56 AM PDT by alarm rider (The left will always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)
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To: alarm rider

Oh, yes we would be part of a successful bailout. But things have moved beyond that. It’s now quite obvious that no bailout will work politically in donor countries, nor will it work in Greece.

Our detachment arises from the fact that the completely hopeless status of any PIGS bailout is going to crush the Euro.

Which is hysterically funny to Conservatives and Euro-skeptics in Britain, because we fought for the Pound and we kept it in the teeth of left-wing opposition. And now our maimed and distressed currency suddenly looks like a safe harbor.

In a year’s time our football hooligans may be the only people who can afford to buy beer in Europe.


49 posted on 05/05/2010 7:14:27 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: SeekAndFind

The MSM must be working overtime to come up with a meme that can explain Greece as something other than the failure of Socialism. Then they’ve got to explain the other countries about to go down. Each will probably have its own particular explanation, and the dots go unconnected.


50 posted on 05/05/2010 7:17:44 AM PDT by Plutarch
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To: SeekAndFind

Once the hoods and masks come on, it’s time to start treating rioters like uniformed combatants.


51 posted on 05/05/2010 7:17:57 AM PDT by Styria
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To: Buckeye McFrog

As Glenn Beck put it the other day.

“You don’t fundamentaly change something you truly love and cherish”


52 posted on 05/05/2010 7:19:07 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: agere_contra

Thanks for the information. (We hope to return to England next year for a vacation. At one time, Greece was on the agenda to visit, but it’s off now along with Spain).

Interesting situation and fascinating to me. As close as I am trying to follow it, I still am somewhat confused about the EU.


53 posted on 05/05/2010 7:23:24 AM PDT by alarm rider (The left will always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)
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To: Styria

These are some of Andy Stern’s ‘SEIU gone international’ thugs. As Andy said, “Workers of the world unite isn’t just a slogan anymore, it’s how we (the socialist unions) have to do our work.” Commies are getting there headway amongst the euro-trash, but soon to ‘do their work’ in AMeircan cities. ... Buy stocks in glass manufacturers. These scum deserve to be shot on sight with their clubs and ‘cocktails’, but will be protected at the cost of police deaths in the streets. And if anyone doubts it, look at the number of killed and injured police in Europe where these union scum ‘do their work’.


54 posted on 05/05/2010 7:25:02 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: meyer
One thing we've got going for us - the second amendment. If people start fire-bombing banks and such, they'll be shot dead in the streets. Not necessarily by the cops but by concerned citizens instead. Dead people don't throw Molotov cocktails, the don't destroy other people's property, and they don't kill.

And if the rioting hordes leave their inner cities to ravage the countryside they'd be culled on sight en masse @300 yards like feral dogs.

55 posted on 05/05/2010 7:32:49 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: alarm rider
As close as I am trying to follow it, I still am somewhat confused about the EU.

Imagine the United States as a country with 50 different cultures and tongues and fifty different value system, each state not pledging allegiance to the flag of the United States. Each state with each own constitution and each state not required to abide by the constitution of the United States of America.

That's the EU for you. Each country has its own way of running its economy, yet, they have all but ceded monetary policy to centralized bureaucrats sitting in Brussels.
56 posted on 05/05/2010 7:32:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind; All

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMyi6TBOo3c

youtube video posted today.

looks like anarchists AGAIN.

FYI:
The MSM (including FNC aka sky) are using tight angles.

ALL the pictures are from Syndagma square. aka Constitution Square. This is where the tomb of the unknown soldier is.

Across the street is the Grand Britagne Hotel, further down is a Everest sandwich shop, music/electronics store, and next to that is ..McDonalds. The whole area is BARELY the size of the steps of the lincoln Memorial frontage.

Beneath the square is teh Syndagma Metro station (very cool BTW with many art exhibits)

Many of these anarchists are the do-nothing-good-for-nothing student types who populate the smokey 3rd rate bars and nightclubs. (think green peace)


57 posted on 05/05/2010 7:33:43 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Maine Mariner

I believe the quote was,”The whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier” The Germans could be forced to test that maxim.Again.


58 posted on 05/05/2010 7:38:00 AM PDT by xkaydet65 (Never compromise with evil! Even in the face of Armageddon!! Rorshach)
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To: Jim Noble

Every greek family has at least one shotgun. You only have one major city one secondary, and a bung of smaller commercial types.

These anarchist types with the masks are just looking to cause anarchy to get other people to fight (die in) the battles.


59 posted on 05/05/2010 7:38:08 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: dfwgator

they did in the 60-70’s.

Perhaps whoever takes over will drill baby drill in the oil reserves of the agean.


60 posted on 05/05/2010 7:40:37 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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