[Major Matt Mason]

I see a couple of fires in that photo. But how is this different from Detroit on an average night, or any other trashy, big American inner city for that matter? Some of the reporting of this is pure hyperbole.

[JRandomFreeper]

But how is this different from Detroit on an average night

The lights are on.

/johnny

[NVDave]

In Detroit, there aren’t 100,000+ people in the streets week after week.

In Detroit, as bad as their economy is locally, they’re able to fall back on the state of Michigan.

In Greece, the M3 (widest possible measure) of their money supply is now contracting at 16% year-over-year. That’s money that is literally evaporating due to defaulted debt, and the capital from the private sector is being pulled out of banks, companies, etc and moving outside the country.

Here’s the lefty outlook on this, which I’m interested in reading because the lefties are behind this stuff:

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2012/02/12/athens-the-long-night-of-february-12-burning-and-looting-tonight/

The looting of a gun shop is interesting.