Remember, readers, where there is VIOLENCE that is BULL-HORNED by the MSM there is a CONTROLLED-OPPOSITION OUTFIT of GOVERNMENT AGENT PROVOCATEURS!!!
"May Day protests in Greece erupt in violence; Demonstrations target anticipated cuts and tax hikes" by Demetris Nellas, Associated Press | May 2, 2010
ATHENS — Hundreds rioted in Athens yesterday, throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at police, who responded with tear gas at a May Day rally against austerity measures being enacted by the cash-strapped government to secure foreign loans to stave off bankruptcy.
Police made at least nine arrests, including six people suspected of looting a shop. Seven officers were injured along with two demonstrators.
Responding to calls from the country’s two main labor unions, several thousand people marched in major Greek cities against the anticipated spending cuts and consumer tax hikes.
In Athens, groups of black-clad anarchists in hoods and motorcycle helmets smashed three shop and hotel windows and set up barricades of burning trash bins.
Yeah, THAT IS THEM!
Anything that GIVES PROTEST a BAD NAME -- especially when the AGENDA-PUSHING MSM FOCUS on it!
Around 17,000 people took part in the march, according to police estimates.
Leftist and anarchist demonstrators heckled and threw plastic water bottles at former parliamentary speaker Apostolos Kaklamanis, a governing Socialist lawmaker, after spotting him among pedestrians on the sidelines of the Athens march.
Kaklamanis, 73, was hit and kicked but suffered no major injuries and was eventually whisked away by police....
Greece’s center-left government is set to announce more sweeping spending cuts through 2012 to win support for an international loan package worth $60 billion this year alone.
The Cabinet will meet today to approve the measures, with Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou expected to announce them and then fly to Brussels for an emergency meeting of euro-zone finance ministers.
The International Monetary Fund has said it will provide the money over three years, along with Greece’s partners in the euro zone. IMF and EU negotiators began talks in Athens on April 21 and continued yesterday at an Economy ministry building away from the protesters.
TV channel Mega said the Greek delegation, led by Papaconstantinou, Economy Minister Louka Katseli, and Defense Minister Evangelos Venizelos, had agreed on the essential measures and was still negotiating over the text of the law that will be submitted to Parliament as an emergency measure immediately after today’s Cabinet meeting....
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said yesterday after a meeting of French government officials that she was confident euro-zone finance ministers would approve the package by the end of the weekend. Governments are discussing a package of up to $159 billion over three years, she said.
So much for protest coverage, huh?
Amazing how the focus of the agenda-pushing article changes like the New England weather.
In March, Athens announced belt-tightening measures aimed to save billions this year through cuts in civil service pay, higher indirect taxes and a crackdown on widespread tax evasion. But these proved insufficient, and additional austerity measures will be likely to include further hikes in consumer taxes, and deeper cuts in pensions and public service pay. Unions are furious.
“These measures are death. How people are going to live tomorrow, how they’re going to survive, I do not understand,’’ said Nikos Diamantopoulos, who was participating in a rally organized by pro-Communist unions.
Union members held a peaceful march to the Athens offices of the European Union and continuing to the US Embassy.
In the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, where more than 5,000 people demonstrated, anarchists briefly clashed with police and smashed a few storefronts and ATMs. Greek unions have called a nationwide general strike for May 5.
Conservative opposition party New Democracy and the right-wing populist LAOS have been critical of the government but are seen as likely to support the package of measures. Left-wing parties have vowed to escalate protests.
“The Greek people do not owe anything to . . . those who have brazenly robbed public money and pension funds,’’ Left Coalition leader Alexis Tsipras said at one of the Athens rallies.
Yeah, HE IS RIGHT!!!!!!
That's why I SAY DEFAULT!
FUK BANKS and FUK "INVESTORS!!"
Accountant Virginia Kalapotharakou, who joined striking seamen and dockworkers rallying in the port of Piraeus, called the potential measures “very reactionary. They’re trying to do away with all the rights we gained through struggles in previous years,’’ she said....
YUP!
Tens of thousands of workers marched in cities from Hong Kong to Istanbul to mark international worker’s day, demanding more jobs, better work conditions, and higher wages.
That gets ONE SENTENCE, 'eh, MSM?
NO ARTICLE or NOTHING, 'eh, corporate puke press?
--more--""Greek unionists protest deeper cuts; Demonstrations expected to continue today" by Nicholas Paphitis, Associated Press | May 5, 2010
ATHENS — Angry Greek unionists took to the streets yesterday to protest austerity measures imposed under an international bailout to save Greece from bankruptcy, while financial markets were far from assured that the $144 billion in promised loans could douse Europe’s smoldering sovereign debt crisis.
They WANT EVEN MORE, huh?
About 4,000 striking teachers and students marched in Athens to protest the cuts, carrying black flags, while some scuffled with police. Earlier, about 100 Communist Party supporters broke through the gates of the Acropolis, the city’s chief ancient monument, and hung banners in Greek and English reading “Peoples of Europe Rise Up.’’
Greek Communist Party members protested at the Acropolis yesterday against measures that will cut into civil servants’ pay. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images)
Yeah, I'M JUST WONDERING why the "protesters" didn't write the sign in GREEK!!!
Yup, ONCE MORE the HAND of CONTROLLED OPPOSITION and AGENT PROVOCATEURS rears its ugly head!
Market reaction to the bailout deal was “lukewarm at best,’’ as Greek and peripheral bond yield spreads narrowed, the euro slipped against the dollar, said analyst Mitul Kotecha at Credit Agricole CIB Research.
A Greek default would be a serious blow to the shared euro currency and inflict losses on banks holding Greek bonds in France and Germany. The bailout is intended to reassure markets Greece will not default and thus prevent the debt crisis from spreading to other financially shaky countries such as Spain and Portugal.
I thought this article was about protests.
Euro zone governments loaded up on debt and ran large deficits during the recession and financial crisis of the past two years. Fears that their economies will not grow fast enough to enable them to pay those debts have led markets to fear they will default. As a result, bond investors are demanding higher and higher rates of interest to lend to what are increasingly viewed as risky borrowers.
The new Greek measures will cut deeper into pay for the country’s estimated 750,000 civil servants, reduce all pensions, and further increase consumer taxes. State employees, including teachers and hospital workers, began a 48-hour strike yesterday, which led to several domestic flights by Greece’s Olympic Air and Aegean Airlines being canceled.
Larger protests are expected today, when a general strike will halt air, sea, and rail transport....
--more--"So HOW DO YOU WRECK a PROTEST and give it a bad name, folks?
"3 die in rioting over Greek austerity steps" by Elena Becatoros, Associated Press | May 6, 2010
ATHENS — Rioting over harsh austerity measures left three people dead in a torched Athens bank and clouds of tear gas drifting past Parliament, an outburst of anger that underlined the difficult struggle Greece faces with painful cutbacks accompanying an international bailout.
The deaths were the first during a protest in Greece in nearly 20 years....
Many Greeks realize some cutbacks are necessary to pull their country, which has a massive debt of $387.7 billion, back from the brink of default. But with people beginning to feel the pain of austerity measures, anger boiled over. Economists say Greeks face years of living with less to have even a chance of avoiding national bankruptcy.
So LOOTING BANKSTERS can GET PAID!!!!!
An estimated 100,000 people took to the streets during a nationwide general strike that grounded flights, shut all services, and pulled news broadcasts off the air.
Translation: It is the ENTIRE POPULATION of the COUNTRY against the BANKSTERS and their SLAVISH SERVANTS of GOVERNMENT!
Three bank workers died of smoke inhalation after demonstrators torched their bank.
Thank you, AGENT PROVOCATEURS! Now you are MURDERERS, too!!!!
A senior fire department official said demonstrators prevented firefighters from reaching the burning building. “Several crucial minutes were lost,’’ the official said.
Oh, DEFINITELY AGENDA-PUSHING AGENTS of GOVERNMENT!
In Brussels, EU officials tried to calm fears that Greece’s crisis was spreading, insisting it was a unique case.
Even though it is not!
Hey, if EU globalists told the truth their tongues would turn to sand.
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"Protesters clash with police as Greece passes austerity bill" by Elena Becatoros, Associated Press | May 7, 2010
ATHENS — Greek lawmakers approved drastic austerity cuts yesterday needed to secure international rescue loans worth $140 billion, as clashes briefly erupted in the streets outside Parliament, forcing police to use tear gas.
The new clashes came a day after violent protests left three people dead after a bank was firebombed in Athens.
Greek lawmakers voted, 172 to 121, to approve the austerity measures — worth about $38.18 billion through 2012 — that will slash pensions and civil servants’ pay and further hike consumer taxes.
The rescue loans are aimed at containing the debt crisis and keeping Greece’s troubles from spreading to other countries with vulnerable state finances, such as Portugal and Spain. The money will come from the International Monetary Fund and the 15 other governments whose countries use the euro.
Meaning TAXPAYERS of the WORLD!
Yup, ANOTHER BAILOUT for BANKERS!
Fears of Greek default have undermined the euro, and while the current package should keep Greece from immediate bankruptcy, its long-term prospects are unclear. The country’s growth prospects are weak, and the population’s willingness to accept cutbacks may wane, leading some economists to predict an eventual debt restructuring somewhere down the road.
I think they ALREADY HAVE!!
But just keep deluding yourself, AmeriKan MSM.
Opposition parties lambasted the government for imposing measures that are too harsh for the population to bear.
“The dose of the medicine you are administering is in danger of killing the patient,’’ conservative opposition leader Antonis Samaras said.
Clashes in Athens broke out at the end of a main protest that drew tens of thousands of people as police pushed back a few thousand demonstrators outside Parliament.
We know who is who.
The violence was quickly contained by riot police, who fired tear gas as protesters who pelted them with stones, oranges, and bottles. Several small fires burned in surrounding streets. No injuries or arrests were reported.
Demonstrators banging drums and shouting antigovernment slogans through bullhorns unfurled a giant black banner outside Parliament earlier yesterday. More than 30,000 demonstrators filled downtown streets, chanting: “They declared war. Now fight back.’’
Prime Minister George Papandreou expelled three Socialist deputies who dissented in the vote, reducing the party’s number of seats to 157 in the 300-member Parliament.
Hey, there is that WESTERN DEMOCRACY and TOLERANCE at work!!!!
“We have done what was necessary, not what was easy,’’ Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said after the vote. “Without these measures, we’d be thrown into the deepest recession this country has ever known.’’
Yeah, they had to make sure the bankers were paid.
Samaras also expelled a dissenting lawmaker, former foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis, reducing his share of parliamentary seats to 90.
The bulk of yesterday’s protest — organized by the Greek Communist Party — quickly dispersed, leaving about 5,000 demonstrators outside Parliament before police pushed them back.
I don't trust Communists.
Not since I found out they were financed by Wall Street.
Could it POSSIBLY BE that all your "enemies" have been CREATED FOR YOU, America?
COULD IT BE you have been LIED TO for CENTURIES now?!!!
Protester Thodoris Mougiakos said he was angry the IMF would control Greek finances.
“It’s blackmail,’’ the 32-year-old engineer said. “There is money, but they spend it on things like armaments and businesses. The church has money too. If we had been drawing money from all these sources, we wouldn’t be in this situation now.’’
But the protest remained peaceful, in contrast with Wednesday’s rioting, which left three people dead, 59 injured, and 25 people arrested. Police said 50 stores, banks, and offices were damaged and seven vehicles damaged or burned.
What, NO PROVOCATEURS at THAT RALLY?
Papaconstantinou said Greece would default on debt payments this month unless it received the bailout loans from the International Monetary Fund and 15 euro-zone countries that had remained divided for months on how to aid Athens.
“Today things are simple,’’ Papandreou told Parliament before the vote. “Either we vote and implement the deal, or we condemn Greece to bankruptcy.’’
“Some people want that, and are speculating on it, and hope that it will happen,’’ he said, referring to speculative attacks that have been blamed for raising Greece’s borrowing costs to unsustainable levels. “We, I, will not allow that. We will not allow speculation against our country, and bankruptcy to happen.’’
Look at him now talking tough to the banksters ruining his nation!
How do you say hot fart mist in Greek?
PFFFFFFFTTT!
That's the UNIVERSAL EXPRESSION that EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS, readers!
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