[longtermmemmory]

The background picture behind the police is the Tomb fo the unknown and part of the parliament building.


These latest measures caused anger because the abrogate all collective bargaining agreements for two years and create union law changes. IOW you can be fired. .....theoretically.

These riots all occured in and area roughly the size of a football field. The CNBC reporter has move to a different rooftop but it is suspiciously close to one of the best pastry shops in athens. AND not too far from Starbucks...

[Nonstatist]

Greece needs a new population with a better work ethic. The one it has now sucks.

[GeronL]

How many government employees have been laid off?

[cherry]

who's fighting who here?...the black robbed mob vs the communists?....

also...what do these people expect?...their country has no money....they are bankrupt.....you can't get blood from a turnip.....

[Darksheare]

So you've decided to sit this Freepathon out, eh?

Aren't you Precious.

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For the perpetually offended, click here instead.

[C210N]

If the Greeks can grow olives on trees, why not Euros?

[Buckeye McFrog]

EU are a bunch of fools if they think this will stand.
The Greek people are going to boot this government from office at their first opportunity. Repudiate the Debt will be the one and only issue. This deal will be dead faster than you can say Stephanopoulos.

[goldstategop]

Greece’s Socialist government had no choice. Europe would have turned off the money tap.

Economic meltdown was staring them in the face. All the protests by communists and radical anarchists wouldn’t have altered that fact.