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Greek police use tear gas, stun grenades to quell anti-Obama protesters in Athens
AP via Fox News ^ | 11/16/16 | AP

Posted on 11/18/2016 2:52:55 PM PST by Hugin

ATHENS, Greece – Greek riot police used tear gas and stun grenades Tuesday in Athens to disperse about 3,000 left-wing marchers protesting a visit by President Barack Obama after they tried to enter an area off-limits to demonstrators.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiobama; athens; greece; greek; obama; police; protesters; riots; stungrenades; teargas
Anybody heard about this on MSM TV? Neither did I. I happened to see a story about it on RT (Russian) news. Just goes to show how tight the MSM filter is.
1 posted on 11/18/2016 2:52:55 PM PST by Hugin
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To: Hugin
The Greeks know that Obola is the EU’s good friend.

The Greeks also know that the EU is Greece's bitter enemy

So riots are a natural result.

2 posted on 11/18/2016 2:55:28 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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Rioters throwing Molotov cocktails at police is the stuff TV news normally loves to show. You can bet if it was Trump they were protesting you would have seen it all over the news as proof the world hates Trump.

3 posted on 11/18/2016 2:56:34 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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Does Zero know about this or will he have to read about it if/when the US msm reports it?


4 posted on 11/18/2016 3:05:12 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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Indeed. Hillary pushed for austerity as State Department hack so her son in law could avoid losing bets in Greece.

If I were the Greeks I would skewer Zero.


5 posted on 11/18/2016 3:11:17 PM PST by lavaroise (s)
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Seems the commies in Greece will use any available excuse to violently protest. They never have anything else to do. In a way I am glad this was not all over the nightly news, because I don’t want the BLM protesters who are ‘peaceful’ by comparison to start learning from the Greeks new ways to get their needed attention.


6 posted on 11/18/2016 3:11:27 PM PST by ri4dc (I am Deplorable. Trump is with me. Cable free since 1998. MAGA for all.)
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To: Hugin
Anybody heard about this on MSM TV? Neither did I. I happened to see a story about it on RT (Russian) news. Just goes to show how tight the MSM filter is.

I'd have to watch more of that TV to answer your question, but in case this thought isn't obvious to any readers, I'll mention it now:

Can you imagine how those channels would cover the news if this were a President Trump visit?

7 posted on 11/18/2016 3:11:42 PM PST by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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i guess these one’s weren’t paid

that’s a big no-no these days, if you want to be able to kill destroy and loot


8 posted on 11/18/2016 3:13:44 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The morning and the evening were the election day. People voted. The Lord saw, and it was good.)
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To: Hugin

By the logic that the media is applying to Trump for the US riots, Obama needs to condemn his supporters for these Greek riots.


9 posted on 11/18/2016 3:18:43 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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can we send those cops to a few places here?


10 posted on 11/18/2016 3:32:33 PM PST by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: Hugin

We have regular antenna TV. Every now and then we flip over to CCTV (WECTV) and listen to what they have to say about the U.S. They had a wonderful, rather lengthy discussion on Trump’s meeting with Abe and the granddaughter’s tribute.

Only about a minute or two about the problems in Greece, but at least they did mention it. Other than that and reading about it on FR, the world has been silent on the incident.


11 posted on 11/18/2016 3:53:23 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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Hey...did Obama tell the greeks to stop rioting ?


12 posted on 11/18/2016 4:02:50 PM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo smart)
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The Greeks should continue to speak out.


13 posted on 11/18/2016 5:03:01 PM PST by unlearner (11/8/2016 - a new beginning.)
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The MSM pimps and pimpettes just couldn’t bring themselves to report that the Greek protesters were shouting “Obama go home, we don’t want you here” .... now about that fake news purge MSM!


14 posted on 11/18/2016 5:20:06 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
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Even the left-wingers in Greece despise Obama....


15 posted on 11/19/2016 3:49:34 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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