Spanish Rampage: General strike erupts in street violence

Riot police took to the streets of Spain as protesters burned bins, vandalized shops and attacked officers during a one day nationwide general strike. Spaniards angry with having the eurozone's highest unemployment rate refused to go to work in protest at further crushing austerity measures being brought in by the new center-right Popular Party government.

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[Tressco]

"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."

- Warren E. Buffet, 2005

"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."

- Lord Acton

[se7ensnakes]

LOL do you see this in NBC. CBS, Fox, and the other stupid new media we have in the United States? Those media outlets are owned by the CFR. They belong to the bankers. END FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING or we will never be free. Money cannot be made out of thin air by private bankers.

[Krikin BcN]

You agree with me. Thks for give me the reason, you are a simply idiot, not more. I don't want spend more time with people like you. Bye bye and good luck "big worker".

[bjornsiborgsi]

thanks to spain and the shit they have caused, emanating from their laziness, we here in the west have seen our portfolios drop like the spanish employment rate. spain is now spain-ermany. how does it feel to have your lazy arses saved by a country that doesn't take fucking siestas in the afternoon? there's no reason for you to work so hard. BTW, the english are racist alcoholics.

[Krikin BcN]

Great reflection. But based in what?. All Spanish people make siesta and like bullfight? all english people like rugby and drink alchol? All chinese people eat dog? all mens don't cry?. You are simply an idiot, not more.... from India, Pakistán or Surinam, a simply idiot. I'm spanish and im working from 15 years ago non stop. I get up every fucking day at 5 a.m. If you have balls come here and tell me that in my face...i invite you.

[jp fp]

OK, There are troubkes in Spain, there are a lot of people suffering unemployment, but some people who TAKE ADVANTAGE of this situation in order to riot and create a fire scenary in the streets, are irresponsible assholes who only want to give a dark image of Spain abroad.

Spain is going through problems, but most of people are working hard to solve it and we all will go out form this situation.

Positive thinking and hard working instead of negative views and not working and "only crying"

[geoffdundee]

and then USA............ i wouldnt want to be within spitting distance when america blows its lid - its going to get very very messy indeed - lol