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Athens - The Morning After: 48 Buildings On Fire, 150 Looted, Hundreds Arrested
Zero Hedge ^
| February 13, 2012
| Tyler Durden
Posted on 02/13/2012 5:56:19 AM PST by Zakeet
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Athens last night after the police ran out of tear gas ... in case you missed it because the Mainstream Media nitwits focused exclusively on the far more important (to them) Whitney whinny ... coming soon to a country and cities near you when we face even more severe austerity measures ... with absolutely nobody on the planet able to bail our butts out.
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posted on
02/13/2012 5:56:23 AM PST
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
the burnt buildings that included the neoclassical home to the Attikon cinema dating from 1870 The year of the Paris Commune. How appropriate.
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posted on
02/13/2012 5:59:24 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(I am pro-Jesus, anti-abortion, pro-limited government, anti-GOP.)
To: Zakeet
Look at this picture. This is the end result of the Welfare State. When the gravy train stops because there is no more "other people's money," the dependent class riots. They feel so entitled to a handout that they resort to violence to keep it. And anyone who refuses to pay for the handout is a "Nazi" or "greedy" or "selfish."
Then look at a picture of Detriot. That also is the end result of the Welfare State. Everyone sits around expecting someone else to take care of things and an entire city -- an entire metropolitan area -- reverts to a state of nature. The productive people leave and the buildings fall into disrepair. Entire sections of a city that once had one million people are grown over and revert to nature.
And yet people are so addicted to the heroin of government spending that they can't get off this path.
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:03:21 AM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Zakeet
And let’s destroy our tourist industry like Egypt,Tunisia and the Maldives.
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:05:31 AM PST
by
Dr. Ursus
To: Zakeet
Ahhh Athens, the cradle of Democracy...... Learning the forgotten lesson of thousands of years ago.
Democracy fails when the riff raff vote to give themselves that which is not theirs.
It’s deja vu all over again.
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:07:32 AM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
To: Zakeet
I bet our MSM refuses to call this a riot.
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:08:32 AM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Bingo! You nailed it perfectly.
To: Opinionated Blowhard
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:11:53 AM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: Zakeet
"Greece: once the origin of Western civilization. Now, a burned-down debt penal colony"...
Greece is the vanguard. What happens there spreads across the rest of the West.
Brace yourselves! It's going to be a bumpy night--and a long, dark night too!
"There is a silver lining to Athens' ever uglier transition to a third world country"
Yes--if seeing the future can be considered a "silver lining".
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:16:24 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
(Only a powerful intellect and internal moral compass can resist the incessant barrage of propaganda.)
To: Zakeet
Cassandra didn’t think so. But what did she know? She was a Trojan.
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:18:14 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
(Only a powerful intellect and internal moral compass can resist the incessant barrage of propaganda.)
To: Zakeet
Hope 'n' Change goes global.
How's that working out for ya, Greece?
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:18:43 AM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Entire sections of a city that once had one million people are grown over and revert to nature.Detroit's population was at the 2 million mark in the late 50's, early 60's. It currently stands at approximately 750K. A tribute to the welfare state, racial politics and political correctness.
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:20:09 AM PST
by
TruthFactor
(The Death of Nations: Pornography, Homosexuality, Abortion)
To: Zakeet
Last Fall I went on a cruise and visited the Pyramids and the Parthenon.
I figured it might be time to see them quickly and get the hell out of there before things got worse. It’s hard not to be pessimistic about what lies ahead for that whole area.
Luckily, the timing worked out for me. Things were pretty quiet when I was there, except for a garbage strike in Athens.
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:20:45 AM PST
by
NRPM
(We have to come to terms with the fact that governments have made promises they will not keep.)
To: Zakeet
In the inverted, perverse world of decadence (aka "liberalism")--Greece is The American Dream!
Well for starters. First Greece. Then North Korea. Then Zimbabwe.
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:21:38 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
(Only a powerful intellect and internal moral compass can resist the incessant barrage of propaganda.)
To: Zakeet
In the inverted, perverse world of decadence (aka "liberalism")--Greece is The American Dream!
Well for starters. First Greece. Then North Korea. Then Zimbabwe.
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:21:38 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
(Only a powerful intellect and internal moral compass can resist the incessant barrage of propaganda.)
To: Zakeet
In the inverted, perverse world of decadence (aka "liberalism")--Greece is The American Dream!
Well for starters. First Greece. Then North Korea. Then Zimbabwe.
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:21:38 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
(Only a powerful intellect and internal moral compass can resist the incessant barrage of propaganda.)
To: Zakeet
In the inverted, perverse world of decadence (aka "liberalism")--Greece is The American Dream!
Well for starters. First Greece. Then North Korea. Then Zimbabwe.
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:21:46 AM PST
by
Savage Beast
(Only a powerful intellect and internal moral compass can resist the incessant barrage of propaganda.)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Multiply that entitlement mentality by 1000 fold here and you’ll see how bad it can/will get.
You’ve got the entitlement mentality multiplied by generations of “they owe you because of slavery/racism”.
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:22:38 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
To: Zakeet
This is so telling. And here if this keeps up, these freeloaders that burn us down are the slaves we let come here for labor but don’t respect them as humans by making them keep to responsibilities here. We have glorified And coddled the non American underclass and it will kill us in the end.
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:24:07 AM PST
by
Yaelle
(.Go Santorum!)
To: Zakeet
And this what most major American Cities are going to look when the time finally comes that we have no other choice but to implement austerity budgets here (and it’s not a matter of if it will happen, but a matter of when). Imagine, food stamps, welfare, housing allowances, unemployment all cut by 80% and the salaries of federal, state and local government employees cut by 50%.
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:24:45 AM PST
by
apillar
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