Greek protestors Fire-Bomb Bank

[acidhead]

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/05/05/greece.strikes/index.html?hpt=T1

May 5, 2010

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.

The European Union announced a 110 billion euro ($145 billion) aid package for Greece on Sunday. Soon after, Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou announced the tough cost-cutting measures to meet European Union and International Monetary Fund conditions for the deal.

Three people died after 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.

Protesters were throwing bottles at police guarding the burned-out bank, shouting "torturers" and "liars" because they don't believe people were killed inside.

Garbage bins and cars were set on fire around the city. Flames shot out of two public buildings and a fire truck was ablaze near the Temple of Zeus, the fire brigade said.

All over central Athens, 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.

Thousands of protesters were still waiting to get into the square in front of Parliament Wednesday evening. Unions said about 10,000 people were on Stadiou street waiting to get in, but police put the number at a few thousand.

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 lawmakers come outside and face them.

The protests happened amid a general strike by thousands of public sector workers unhappy with the austerity measures, which largely target them. Private sector workers joined them on the picket lines Wednesday, along with thousands of transport workers -- which brought transportation services to a halt.

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Goldmas Sachs is responsible... they set up the scams and schemes that brought the Greek Nation down.

-than the IMF, its accomplice comes in and offers the solution...$$$... like the mafia would do.

Edited May 5, 2010 by acidhead

[stevewinn]

its all going pear shaped in the Euro Zone. and the best is yet to come. Spain, Portugal Ireland and Italy are all stuck in the U-Bend turds which ever way they go. its bloody marvellous watching the euro and EU die a death by a thousand cuts. EU - future super power. not on your nelly.

[keithisco]

I derive no pleasure at all from people dying in Greece through rioting.

The Unions and Communists / Socialists should look at what they are supporting and encouraging. The last thing that Nation needed was a general Strike, they need to be working to repay their debt.

[MARAB0D]

I think on Greece "they" tried what a modern mass protest can deliver. Now all EU governments would take it into account. Means, they would be paying anything just to avoid being pelted - so we must expect a sharp fall in the value of all leading currencies.

[SlimJim22]

Anyone looking to research deeper might be advised to look into the history of the Onassis family and the history of the Alpha and Ionian banks.

Probably not so relevant is that Sarkozy and Prince Phillip are both of greek descent.

I agree that rioting is of no use and austerity measures must be taken but the IMF must look at writing off significant portions of the dead as the renewed crisis will only lead to higher rates of interest being charged. I can't blame the greek people for not agreeing if the size of the debt is unmanageable. They are exercising the little power they have left but took it too far.

Out of interest which bank got firebombed?

[itsnotoutthere]

Riots in the streets over savage government cuts & increased taxes......coming to a town near you, very soon.

[itsnotoutthere]

p.s.

Can somebody please explain something to me. This is a genuine question & i am not being flippant.

1) The banks lose billions of investors money (i.e. their customers money) in bad investments & dodgy deals, & as a result some of those banks

approach collapse.

2) The government give the banks billions of tax payers money to save them from collapse & as a result there is now a big black hole in the countries finances

3) The government now tell us that WE must pay back that money in higher taxes & cuts in services. Meanwhile those banks are now showing profit, so much so that they can afford to pay their staff millions in bonuses.

So my question is simply :- Why does the tax payer have to pay this back (i.e. pay twice in effect) & not the banks who have had the benefit of this money (and are now in profit).

[Cradle of Fish]

I see two options:

1. Vote more thoughtfully next time.

2. Come to a better country. Who really wants to live in Europe anyway?

Rioting and killing civilians isn't social change. If you want to live in a socialist, theocratic or libertarian utopia then go to North Korea, Iran or Somalia.

Sure, democracies screw up, but that's what elections are for.

[SlimJim22]

I see two options:

1. Vote more thoughtfully next time.

2. Come to a better country. Who really wants to live in Europe anyway?

Rioting and killing civilians isn't social change. If you want to live in a socialist, theocratic or libertarian utopia then go to North Korea, Iran or Somalia.

Sure, democracies screw up, but that's what elections are for.

What have banks got to do with democracy? The only thing they care about democracy is how much it will cost to buy the influence they need.

It is a disgrace the way the banks can keep disging out bonuses when their practices have been so unethical. They were effectively loaning money they did not have or at least specualting with money that did not have the capital behind it. If an indivdual does this it is fraud so why can banks get away with it. I don't think there should have been any bail outs, instead they should have been wound up like all other businesses and the creditors paid. The honest banks would have survived because they would have had the capital. The whole system stinks and when you start bringing the IMF into play I think you are in for trouble. If Greece defaults on it's loans then the IMF will surely move in and take ownership of the counrty and it's resources. Other countries would follow and we are on our way to a US of Europe. How can an election help the problem if both sides are in the pockets of the IMF, banks and the media. Taxi!

[Corp]

Banks are part of the problem but killing people isn't going to solve anything. If the Greeks want to get out of this mess they're going to need to clean out their corrupt government and start paying taxes (which I understand many do not do). Either way this will only get worst before it gets better. I only hope countries like Italy and Spain clue in and make changes before they fall apart too.

[acidhead]

p.s.

Can somebody please explain something to me. This is a genuine question & i am not being flippant.

1) The banks lose billions of investors money (i.e. their customers money) in bad investments & dodgy deals, & as a result some of those banks

approach collapse.

2) The government give the banks billions of tax payers money to save them from collapse & as a result there is now a big black hole in the countries finances

3) The government now tell us that WE must pay back that money in higher taxes & cuts in services. Meanwhile those banks are now showing profit, so much so that they can afford to pay their staff millions in bonuses.

So my question is simply :- Why does the tax payer have to pay this back (i.e. pay twice in effect) & not the banks who have had the benefit of this money (and are now in profit).

Answer:

-because this is how the NWO does business in the 21st century.... they are the mafia.

It cannot be morally justified.

They want to collapse the whole global financial economic system and once its collapsed offer the solution for everybody to obey.

They hold the cards because they own the banks and the banks are collecting all the chips on the table in each nation who have engaged in their dirty, deceptive tactics

through investment casinos such as Goldman Sachs.

They have gambled away the sovereignty of Greece just as they wagered against the investors in America.

These people are a gang of crooks who use the 21st century style of investing through gambling on the stock market.

What they have done is legal by law but cannot be morally justified when the end result is everybody is forced to pay for their deceptive practice.

Goldman Sachs is in bed with the International Monetary Fund(IMF).

-Goldman pulls off the deal and the IMF is there, in waiting, to cash in on it by offering the finds necessary to claim the sovereignty of the nation.

Betting on stocks should never had been reversed in 99' when Clinton signed the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act that reversed the Glass-Steigal Act.

-this allowed investment institutions to act as holding banks when they were only investment banking institutions........ in effect they became Casinos over-night and we all

witnessed a BOOM in the early 2000's.

But it also allowed brokers to become gamblers enabling them to make millions over-night even though the money they made never produced a product or created

any labor at all......... It was money created out of thin air!....... money that devalues the dollar and bankrupts nations when the governments who were suckered into

gambling their coffers away...... Coffers that were there for their people in their country.

Listen, I was raised fully understanding that gambling wasn't a moral thing to do. Everybody was who was born before 1990 realize this. Its unhealthy and has no business

being involved in any government... period......... so how did we get there?

They think they are playing god because they have the cards and they own the house at the same time........ in this form of business the house always wins and the

player always loses and is forced to pay or he is given an offer he cannot refuse.

In this global case its surrenduring your nations sovereignty.

I say burn it down. Burn it all down. If you are inside a large bank or financial investment casino simply doing your job - get out because its going to burn baby.

-save yourself and get out.

Edited May 6, 2010 by acidhead

[preacherman76]

I see two options:

1. Vote more thoughtfully next time.

2. Come to a better country. Who really wants to live in Europe anyway?

Rioting and killing civilians isn't social change. If you want to live in a socialist, theocratic or libertarian utopia then go to North Korea, Iran or Somalia.Sure, democracies screw up, but that's what elections are for.

MM what the hell are you talking about??? Yea NK Iran and Somalia are just over run with libertarians.

[acidhead]

MM what the hell are you talking about??? Yea NK Iran and Somalia are just over run with libertarians.

-I thought exactly the same thing and bite my lip.

[Cradle of Fish]

MM what the hell are you talking about??? Yea NK Iran and Somalia are just over run with libertarians.

You don't read much do you? North Korea = Socialist, Iran = Theocratic. Somalia is a libertarian paradise.

[Caesar]

I derive no pleasure at all from people dying in Greece through rioting.

The Unions and Communists / Socialists should look at what they are supporting and encouraging. The last thing that Nation needed was a general Strike, they need to be working to repay their debt.

How can they be working if the government can not afford to pay them?

[MARAB0D]

Banks are part of the problem but killing people isn't going to solve anything. If the Greeks want to get out of this mess they're going to need to clean out their corrupt government and start paying taxes (which I understand many do not do). Either way this will only get worst before it gets better. I only hope countries like Italy and Spain clue in and make changes before they fall apart too.

Just wondering if you are aware that the Greek bankers joined the general strike? Check with BBC on this matter, do not trust CNN.

[acidhead]

The global economy has been built like a stack of cards with the too-big-to-fails....

The too-big-to-fails were made even bigger and one little slip or deal implodes the whole market.

Its been engineered this way.

Save yourself and get out now.

Obama™ may self-proclaim he and his advisors saved the globe from financial ruin...

-but he didn't save the financial system - he only saved the too-big-to-fails.....

And 'the bigger they are the harder the fall will be'

[Corp]

Just wondering if you are aware that the Greek bankers joined the general strike? Check with BBC on this matter, do not trust CNN.

Yeah heard about that. Weird that they would join with a group of people who had just killed their fellow employees.

[olympic1]

there was 4 dead two women and a man ,one woman was 4 months pregnant.very sad times for the greek people. the politicians and the rich and powerful of greece have sucked the country dry with corruption ,the people are very mad because there the ones who are paying for it while they wacth the politicians and bankers getting away with this crime

[olympic1]

Just wondering if you are aware that the Greek bankers joined the general strike? Check with BBC on this matter, do not trust CNN.

yes true there was some bankers from the bank wich got attacked at the rally but returned to their work

[olympic1]

Anyone looking to research deeper might be advised to look into the history of the Onassis family and the history of the Alpha and Ionian banks.

Probably not so relevant is that Sarkozy and Prince Phillip are both of greek descent.

I agree that rioting is of no use and austerity measures must be taken but the IMF must look at writing off significant portions of the dead as the renewed crisis will only lead to higher rates of interest being charged. I can't blame the greek people for not agreeing if the size of the debt is unmanageable. They are exercising the little power they have left but took it too far.

Out of interest which bank got firebombed?

marfin egnatia bank , its a merger of 3 banks marfin egnatia and laiki wich is a cypriot bank