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  • Super market expropriation and money burning

    06/21/2010 8:04:36 PM PDT · by citizenredstater9271 · 14 replies
    A few anarchists from Greece thought it would be "fun" and "rebellious" to walk into a supermarket, steal food and money from the register and burn the money to protest the already dead capitalism in their country. Please tell me antics such as this won't happen in America any time soon. I have no other comment beyond that.
  • Greece puts its islands up for sale to save economy

    06/24/2010 4:35:37 PM PDT · by Mere Survival · 98 replies · 2+ views
    The Guardian ^ | 6/24/10 | Elena Moya
    There's little that shouts "seriously rich" as much as a little island in the sun to call your own. For Sir Richard Branson it is Neckar in the Caribbean, the billionaire Barclay brothers prefer Brecqhou in the Channel Islands, while Aristotle Onassis married Jackie Kennedy on Skorpios, his Greek hideway. Now Greece is making it easier for the rich and famous to fulfill their dreams by preparing to sell, or offering long-term leases on, some of its 6,000 sun-kissed islands in a desperate attempt to repay its mountainous debts.