Bomb Goes Off At JP Morgan Offices In Athens

[Purveyor]

ATHENS (Reuters) - A bomb exploded outside the JP Morgan offices in Athens on Tuesday, causing minor damage to the building, police said.

There were no immediate reports of injuries. Police had cordoned off the area after a local newspaper received a warning call.

Police cars, ambulances and fire engines have blocked streets in the upmarket central district of Kolonaki, where JP Morgan's Greek offices are situated, a Reuters witness said.

"It was a time-bomb at JP Morgan's offices," a police official who declined to be named said. "The explosion damaged the outside door and smashed some windows."

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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61F4JS20100216

[Mari333]

1. not the least bit surprised. knr

[hlthe2b]

2. Me either. I don't condone it, but I'm not at all surprised...

There will be repercussions for the total corporate disregard for so many millions-- the corruption--the greed.

[malaise]

3. Caribbean proverb

Every day carry bucket go a well
One day di bucket bottom muss drop out.

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You cannot expect to loot and suffer no consequences. All these criminal banks will soon be on the run with their staff in hiding.

[truedelphi]

5. In Europe, some CEO's have been kidnapped.

Not saying I condone it, but a small, wicked part of me cheers up when I hear things like that.

[malaise]

9. It's called a normal response

to crimes against a country's economy. Not all people will sit by and watch robber barons plunder their national economies. Like you there's that wicked sparkle, but it's really not my approach.

[chromotone]

7. "All these criminal banks will soon be on the run with their staff in hiding."

That's what worries me...the staff. While the CEOs can afford top-notch security, the staff will be vunerable...

edited for typo

[malaise]

10. Hang out with dogs and

you catch fleas.

[arcadian]

16. The house with the leaky roof can fool the sun

but it can not fool the rain.

[malaise]

17. I'm stealing that one

Perfect :hi:

[arcadian]

18. It's also a Creole proverb.

:hi:

[malaise]

22. I thought I knew every one of them

Still learning :D

[proteus_lives]

24. So you think bank tellers deserve to die?

[malaise]

26. I don't but they know they're working with

crooks

[piratefish08]

4. I don't condone the violence, but Europeans seem to take much LESS shit from their

governments before fighting back than we do here in the US........

[Echo In Light]

25. Agree

[T Wolf]

6. Not surprised, nor condemning either. The banksters (hopefully) willl start to need

armed guards to walk out their god-damned door.

Though the wealthy have the military and law enforcement at their disposal, even a police state will not be able to protect these cretins.

Institutions are invulnerable. Individuals cannot be made so. There is the weak point to be targeted.

[ChickMagic]

8. Too bad, so sad.

Not that I condone violence, but yanno...

[janet118]

12. Love sniper kitty . . .

C'mon out, Rover. I've taken enough from you and your doggie friends.

[chromotone]

11. I'm reminded of BoA, Isla Vista, and 1970...

I wondered how long we could go this time with the robber barons ripping us off right and left, and not retaliate.

No Longer a Joke

After attending Kunstler’s speech, Doug Hewitt returned to his fraternity house. Hewitt, now 53, was a freshman at UCSB during the 1969-70 academic year. His 20-year-old son currently attends Santa Barbara City College and lives on Del Playa Drive in Isla Vista.

Later that night, Hewitt said he heard rioters were trying to burn down the bank. Around 10 p.m., he went outside to see what was happening. Across the street from the bank, on the sidewalk that now fronts Woodstock’s Pizza and Javan’s Sandwiches, Hewitt said he watched as fire engulfed the structure.

“The flames were just shooting up the arch of the two-story brick building, three-story, whatever it was,” Hewitt said. “It was like your worst nightmare. This is really happening. People would talk about it before. You heard about ‘oh, let’s go burn a bank,’ but it actually happened. I don’t remember if people were happy about it. There were some students who got really wrapped-up in the whole thing - it became their reason for being here.”

Hewitt said he and his friends who were watching looked at each other in disbelief, realizing the situation in Isla Vista was “no longer a joke.”

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http://www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=9084

There was much student unrest, aimed primarily at the VietNam War. But this time around, I wondered how long before another "SDS" emerged to confront the growing fascism in this country. So far, it seems, such confrontation has been restricted to Europe and other parts of the world...

[Purveyor]

14. If this: "Five Million Workers to Exhaust Unemployment Benefits by June" comes to be, then

it will be a very long and hot summer I fear.

[femrap]

20. I don't think it'll be anytime soon...

Poli Sci profs have told me that their students know more about celebrities than what is going on in the world. They want to be Lobbyists.

I think there would be Class Warfare before students would sit up and take notice...they're not being drafted, they love their booze, and they don't have to think as long as their texting, talking on the phone or watching 'Idol.'

[Flaneur]

27. I watched that bank burn in Isla Vista.

I was a teenage runaway and blundered into three days of rioting. Pretty exciting for a 15-year-old from the sticks.

[chromotone]

28. I grew up in the LA basin.

That was a big story on the evening news...

[jtrockville]

13. It's downright difficult to muster up any concern.

[Ganja Ninja]

15. Hey Tea Baggers pay attention.

This is how you'll know when socialism is really coming to America. Until then stop whining.

[janet118]

19. Gee - I thought it was Athens, GA for a second there

I was thinking that the tea baggers might finally have wised up to the real source of the oppression of the middle class. Then, the second was over and I slapped myself silly and said out loud, "Tea Baggers? Wise Up? That's f*&%ing ridiculous."

[LostInAnomie]

21. Meh...

Something tells me the bomber won't receive the kid gloved treatment the bankers would, even though the bomber did a lot less damage.

[RainDog]

23. hope they got the message

[Electric Monk]

29. Did it help anything?

:shrug:

[tmyers09]

30. My mom's a teller at a BofA branch, so don't do those, but office buildings and the like?

Bomb away.