Police clash with protesters in northern Greece

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Greek riot police fired tear gas to push back protesters in the northern city of Thessaloniki before a economic policy speech by Prime Minister George Papandreou.

"We fired several rounds of tear gas against protesters who attacked police," a police official said. Eyewitnesses said a group of several hundred youths had broken off from the main body of thousands marching peacefully to protest austerity policies.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE68A09J20100911

[Lucky Luciano]

1. Isn't austerity fun? nt

[Joanne98]

2. Man arrested for throwing shoe at Greece's prime minister

Athens, Greece (CNN) -- A 49-year-old doctor was arrested Saturday for throwing a shoe at Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou in protest of the government's austerity measures.

The shoe missed its intended target and the man, identified as radiologist Stergios Pravazeris, was taken to a local police station along with his 15-year-old daughter and farmer Stavros Vitalis, who was with the pair at the time. Police said that all three have been released.

Pravazeris told Greek media that he is a member of a newly founded activist group called The Patriotic Front (PAM), which protests government policies.

On its website, the group "calls upon the Greek people to express their displeasure by throwing their old shoes along the Prime Minister's journey from the airport to the Thessaloniki International Fair."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/11/greece.shoe.throwing/

[defendandprotect]

3. K&R --

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. I wonder if any of the dogs were 'on duty'?

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. Did you read the article by James K Galbraith yesterday? There is no economic

justification for austerity measures against the public. It's simply a device (a 'con' in fact) for continuing to transfer still more of the people's wealth to the wealthiest, the very ones whose fraudulent shenanigans caused the economic turmoil in the first place.

[killbotfactory]

8. It's pretty much another case of corrupt right-wingers running the country into the ground

and forcing the people to pick up the tab.

[Joe Chi Minh]

12. Yes. Head they win, tails we lose. Run the country into the ground,

then call for more austerity to 'rebuild' it.

[defendandprotect]

6. Greek protesters confront government on economy

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_greece_financial_crisis

[DURHAM D]

7. Greece is not a country I would care to champion.

Everyone should read the article in this month's Vanity Fair. It is amazing.

[Prometheus Bound]

9. Thanks for pointing out that article.

Sounds truly hopeless.

One thing I didn't like was the author's blaming the American meltdown on homeowners who wanted more house than they could afford. What an idiot!

Americans wanted to own homes far larger than they could afford, and to allow the strong to exploit the weak. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers, and to allow their alpha males to reveal a theretofore suppressed megalomania. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish.
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/greeks-bearing-bonds-201010

[DURHAM D]

10. You are right. I just don't see a way out for Greece..

When a European country is more third world than a third world country you just shrug and move on.

Its like a pack of 4 year olds are running the country.

Note: I actually thought the article was poorly constructed. What was the editor thinking?

[Joe Chi Minh]

13. So much better than the super-efficient looting of the people by the American rich. I'd

champion Greece to Kingdom Come.

[Kringle]

11. Greece should go out of business

nobody will notice any change