General strike brings Greece to a standstill

http://www.euronews.net/ A 24-hour general strike brought Greece to a standstill on Wednesday amid continued protests against government spending cuts.




Athens has agreed on tougher austerity measures with its international lenders: the so-called troika of the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the IMF.




Public sector cuts and a wave of privatisations form part of Greek efforts to trim its budget deficit and receive the next slice of emergency funding of 8 billion euros.

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@chillercm

The west made it that way, corporate criminals and banks! Watch the film: Debtocracy

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@soadtr

Shut up.

[1000schwanzlutscher]

@Sliepnir2006 I would also protest if a few people take everybody else as hostages, because their financial betting went wrong. You should fight those 1% - 2% who took away the people's fortune and who never paid taxes. These greedy people have to be punished. Take their yachts, their mansions and their Lamborghinis. I wish you power and endurance, so that Greece gets its Renaissance.

[Sliepnir2006]

@1000schwanzlutscher We are all the people, as now I turn my thoughts and prayers to those in Turkey who have suffered so much in the earthquake.

It is a shame though, that our politicians cannot learn that you cannot make things better, whilst there is corruption and greed Halt these processes, then tend the wounds.

The many should not be responsible for bailing out the mistakes of the few, while the few continue the very same practices, that caused the whole problem in the first place.

[1000schwanzlutscher]

@Sliepnir2006 You are the people and together you are strong. The Euro is really bad for your country, but this is not a money problem. If you stand together, you can manage any crisis. It doesn't matter how big this crisis may be. And Greece remains a beautiful country anyway.

[Sliepnir2006]

As for these bailouts as I have said before, these bailouts will not help the people, they are delivered by the sycophantic pseudo Communist Dictatorship of the European Parliament.

Not for the benefit of the people, no, rather it is to save their Mickey Mouse Euro their arrogant and conceited, deluded Parliament and the Donald Duck Banks.

This has never been about working people and it is simply sickening to see!

[Sliepnir2006]

@1000schwanzlutscher Maybe it will bring their country down and that is sad. But it is right for the Greek people to do this and maybe if their country does collapse, then the whole stinking mass of corruption which is now the European Union, will also collapse.

Along with it the Mickey Mouse Euro and that vile wretched piece of sewage, which is nothing more than a centralized dictatorship, or some sycophantic pseudo Communist regime, namely the European Parliament. Living in hope!

[Sliepnir2006]

Huh I think tomorrow the Greek Politicians will be meeting on their own, I doubt there is even any point in the Greek Government pursuing this to be honest it is all but dead.

[1000schwanzlutscher]

These strikes will bring your shit-country down even more!

[chillercm]

@esunsinverguenza what about terrorizing all of the rich who your government allowed to become that rich, in the most corrupt manner possible...protesting is good, but its needs to be on an even larger scale. I suggest no one going to work till your out of the Eurozone, its the only solution...at the moment greece is just a money hole the way it is...