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Athens burns, buildings on fire as chaos, riots flare up (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

Published: 13 February, 2012, 11:29
Edited: 14 February, 2012, 02:35


A fire engulfs a store during clashes between protesters and riot police near the Greek parliament in Athens on February 12, 2012 (AFP Photo / Louisa Gouliamaki)

The worst riot damage in years has struck Athens as MPs pass harsh new austerity measures. Dozens of historic buildings were set ablaze after riots turned chaotic overnight in Greek capital with protesters looting shops and clashing with riot police.

 
49 COMMENTS
Atossa February 13, 2012, 11:42 quote
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Seems the whole world is in revolt.

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3rdbasegeorge (unregistered) February 13, 2012, 11:45 quote
-1

Greece needs a Flat Tax Rate right now, to get the hell away from reliance on public sector, regulated IMF austerity. 
Come in vaults of Gog, you aren't running around like cold war Grannies in Libya now...

Atossa February 13, 2012, 12:29 quote
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It appears banks are being targeted and burned.

" Tens of banks and other buildings are burning across Athens after today’s demonstrations. There are huge riots in Thessaloniki and Patra as well. The situation seems to be spiralling out of control. "

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Eurasian February 13, 2012, 12:29 quote
+21

Order shall emerge out of the chaos… and it seems is a capitalist’s social ulcer. Time for real change has come.

Atossa February 13, 2012, 12:33 quote
+18

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" 23.10 GMT+2 It is entirely impossible to estimate the number of people who have taken to the streets in Athens tonight. They are definitely in the hundreds of thousands – there are simply people everywhere."

" 23.07 GMT+2 The building of Marfin bank (the same building where three bank workers died on May 5, 2010) has been burnt to the ground."

" 23.05 GMT+2 A gun shop in Omonoia, Athens, has been looted."

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Enrique (unregistered) February 13, 2012, 13:01 quote
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But it is organized crime, not the mob.

Enrique (unregistered) February 13, 2012, 13:07 quote
+1

That also happened in LONDON last year, and worse as several shopkeepers were killed....and the U.K. is not in the Eurozone.

Atossa February 13, 2012, 13:09 quote
+6

. . Thanks alot, RT, for deleting yet another of my informative posts. I don't know why I even bother. :( .

goldboy February 13, 2012, 13:42 quote
+30

Coming soon to the alleys of America!

ZZ February 13, 2012, 13:48 quote
+35

This is the begining. I really can't understand those fat greek politicians. They are using one credit card with high interest rate to pay off the another one with also high interest rate. Hungry and angry people will eat them alive, very soon. Will see then how much the money is worth.

This economic slavery needs to be stopped. All smaller countries which are in debt to wealthy countries should default on all loans. All money in circulation should be destroyed. We need a fresh start without banks, wall street, insurance and marketing companies. All this unproductive "jobs" should be eliminated and abolished by law ! Now everybody sees that capitalism really, really sucks...

I'm afraid that soon all this will be seen also on streets of US and all over "new world order" countries.

It seems that NWO leads to inevetable anarchy.

Finally.

Ted (unregistered) February 13, 2012, 13:59 quote
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Burning a city only weakens it further. Protesters and politicians both have reasons. Athens is a victim of both ideals. 

3rdbasegeorge (unregistered) February 13, 2012, 14:03 quote
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The time is right for the Vaults of Gog to strike with the full force of theoretical supremacy, mobilise everything to Greece for its conversion to the Flat Tax Rate.

Ted (unregistered) February 13, 2012, 14:14 quote
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In many ways war is more civilised than rioting. War requires rules, calm, a focused mind. It requires restraint even when tempers are high when the enemy is taunting you. Rioting is led by the mob not the head. You see the ugliest traits of humanity a desire for destroying ones home others business's. Mindless adrenaline with opportunity to satisfy a grudge. It is primeval. 

Радосављевић February 13, 2012, 14:31 quote
+35

Full support to the Greek people! As harsh as this may sound to some sheeple, it needs to be said as follows: "Banks on fire, finally the true invaders have been targeted. Burning Starbucks caffe, one of the temples of globalization is an act of purification not vandalism..." Keep up the good work, show those banksters and global oligarchs who is really in charge in  YOUR OWN COUNTRY, Greece! Viva la revolution!!!

Gianis February 13, 2012, 14:52 quote
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Fires etc are the making of (mainly) paramilitary and police undercover provocateurs and NOT of the great mass of Greek protesters (about 500,000 yesterday).

Their main target was to provide a cover for police violence and tons of tear gas in order to break this huge protest.

It's the usual way of Greek police dealing with demos.

Ted (unregistered) February 13, 2012, 15:00 quote
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I read of a successful method of protest that was carried out in the Philippines to prevent waring factions from killing one another. Within weeks it had worked. A sex strike, the women refused their husbands and men sexual pleasure, embarrassing in public domain yet funny. A more potent example was in Ancient Greece. A playwright named Aristophanes who wrote the play Lysistrata. The female characters withheld sex as part of their strategy to end the Peloponnesian war. Can you imagine the whole world laughing because Obama or Putin's wives refuse to bed with them, it is embarrassing to the individual, humorous to the general public and destruction free. The ancients understood the power women have over men, who are often the bringers of violence. Greece being a matriarchal society would find this incredibly useful. I call on the citizens of Greece, the cradle of western civilisation to follow a peaceful path to achieve your political goals.  

methos February 13, 2012, 15:15 quote
+23

These bailout plans do not make any sense. Greece is already bankrupt. They should pull out of Europe and take their destiny into their own hand as they did during the past. The European elite class is highly corrupt and mediocre. The money that is hand over to the Greeks is destined to the bankster. It is a disguised way of allowing the looting of ordinary people. By overturning the rules and regulations the banksters took even more risk which today leads the west toward chaos, now they want people to pay even more for their crimes.

Ted (unregistered) February 13, 2012, 15:16 quote
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The negativity over my sensible comments shows some of you would like Athens to burn. 

3rdbasegeorge (unregistered) February 13, 2012, 15:23 quote
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It is the perfect escape for Greece to vault a Flat Tax Rate, and shift its private sector jobs into high gear.  Additionally to put a brake pad to the ever faster spinning wheel of debt repayment expectations thrust so painfully by the Euro.   It is the progressive tax rate economies that are producing the economic problems, and yet the protest movements of the West appear to swallow hook line and sinker that all things opposed to their so called socialist tax structure, where all the Khodorovsky tax evaders of the world love to congregate is the system THEY won in some ancient hey day of socialism!!!!  Thank God the Flat Tax Rate did not get embroiled in Libya to the levianithic exclusion of a financially brutalized post- conscription Western Europe!!!   Hope and Pray that the Flat Tax Rate and/or resurrection generating behaviour settles in salvation of Greece, and Britain and France and Italy and Ireland and Iceland and etc so some real politikal decorum can return to the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement and all things now treading so bloodily between the Two Towers of the Progressive and Flat Tax Rate paradigm!

Elmo (unregistered) February 13, 2012, 15:52 quote
+27

I come to believe that the best way to protect your stuff is to not have stuff.
The best hedge against inflation is to not have money.

Life is too short anyways and the God of gods will claim back the dust and the water so nobody can save the fruits of his labor. Life is a scam.
What defines life on earth is the verb to do, what defines life on the oneiric side is the verb to be. The verb to have does not exist.

I once was an affluent investor, then I lost my job, spent all my money and today I'm dirt broke eating kraft dinner and oatmeal.

Whenever I can eat some meat it's for me a treasure, I rediscover the pleasure of eating, something I took for granted when I had money. To be deprived of meat makes me appreciate meat even more when I get the chance to eat some.

There's no point at riotting like that, I have a secret to tell all you folks. It is certain that one day we will all die and that day you won't bring  your fortune, your retirement pension fund, your gold, nor your money with you.

I've come to the conclusion that I own nothing, that I cannot save the fruit of my labor so I decided I would no longer work and no longer accept to trade my dignity for a low paying job. I'd rather be a free and happy.

I have no money, so I don't need to worry about hedging against inflation or investing it in my retirement, LOL :-D

I live life on a day-to-day basis. But for me, the apex of pleasure, comfort and joy is a nice piece of fine meat with gravy and sweet potatoes. That's all I dream of.

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