Thousands of Greeks protest against new round of austerity cuts

Take heed world,
If you must.....Then
Protest peacefully.

Thousands of Greeks marched at an annual fair in Greece's second-biggest city on Saturday to protest against a new round of wage and pension cuts demanded by international lenders in exchange for aid to stave off bankruptcy.

The demonstration by about 15,000 trade unionists and leftists was the first major protest against a nearly 12-billion-euro austerity package being readied by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to appease EU and IMF inspectors who arrived in Athens on Friday to review Greece's reform progress.

A few protesters burned European Union flags while others threw watermelons and peaches in support of struggling farmers, but the largely peaceful protests otherwise passed off without incident as 3,500 policemen looked on.

Greece is struggling through its worst post-war economic crisis that has left

In Greece, It's The Police Vs The Riot Police

As unemployment (broad and youth) goes from the sublime to the ridiculous in the troubled nation, Reuters is reporting that tensions are rising - even among the Police themselves. "They make us fight our own brothers," one riot-policeman urged with regard the Greek police protesting austerity cuts and preventing riot-police from leaving to secure other demonstrations this weekend.

The government plans to slash police pay in a new round of spending cuts worth nearly EUR12bn over the next two years, which the police, firefghter, and coast guards will be prtesting later today in Athens. How soon before TROIKA demands 8 days a week and 99% taxation - as the hair-trigger on the gun they are holding to their own head becomes more and more sensitive.

Nicolas Sarkozy warned by German Chancellor not to unveil £150m 'bling' presidential jet

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324597/Nicolas-Sarkozy-warned-German-Chancellor-unveil--150m-bling-presidential-jet.html

Oh my god
There she blows.


With riots in the streets and poll ratings in the basement, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is under pressure from both home and abroad to delay delivery of a refitted jet that will cost the taxpayer £151million.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is among those who have apparently told the luxury loving Sarkozy that now might not be the best time to take charge of the aircraft that is said to be dripping with 'bling'.

German sources say she advised Sarkozy earlier this week, at a meeting where the pair cut a controversial deal aimed at protecting the euro, to 'hold back' on taking deliver of the aircraft currently undergoing a series of final test flights over the Indian Ocean and South Pacific French administered islands.


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City drowning in rubbish: 10,000 TONS of waste pile up on streets of Marseilles

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1323500/France-strikes-10-000-TONS-waste-pile-streets-Marseilles.html

I believe France is taking back their country.
These hardships are intended.
The "People" of France are speaking in unison as one voice.
It's called solidarity!
And they are being heard.
The world is watching and taking lessons.
Stay strong France and show the world how they to can take their country back simply by shutting it down.

Nearly 10,000 tons of rubbish has piled up in the streets of Marseilles as French strikes and blockades continued.
All of the country's 12 oil refineries remained closed today after nearly two weeks of industrial action which is costing the country up to £350 million a day.
During the disruption French President Nicolas Sarkozy's opinion poll ratings have collapsed and he is now the least popular leader in the history of the Fifth Republic

France forced to import electricity

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8078740/France-forced-to-import-electricity.html

The people don't care about Corporate France, and what's best for them, and why should they? Corporate France doesn't go out of it's way for them.
This is war, and the battle lines have been drawn.
Job outsourcing is not just a particular phenomena of the United States, it's happening all over the world.

Production was cut at four of France's 58 nuclear reactors due to a 10-day rolling strike, while at least another 12 were shut for maintenance.

Work has also stopped at two of France's three liquefied natural gas terminals.


French airlines complained that the strikes had now cost them more than April's Icelandic volcano eruption, a price tag they put at 188 million euros (£167 million). Air France, the national air carrier, said it was losing five million euros (£4.4 million) a day from blockages while the chemical industry said a billion euros (£888 million) in turnover had evaporated since the start of strikes last month.

With all of France's oil refineries out of action and a quarter of its filling stations without fuel, Mr Sarkozy broke his silence to call for an end to the disruption.

"We cannot be the only country in the world where, when there is a reform, a minority wants to block everyone else," he said.

"By taking hostage the economy, companies and the daily lives of French people, we are going to destroy jobs."

Even the entertainment industry was hit, as the pop singer Lady Gaga postponed two concerts in Paris due Friday and Saturday, while the Oscar-winning actor Tim Robbins cancelled a debut tour with his band.

Marseille close to standstill as worst strikes in 15 years cause French chaos

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8082814/Marseille-close-to-standstill-as-worst-strikes-in-15-years-cause-French-chaos.html

The battle rages on
Week 2 has begun

The cars abandoned along the stretch of motorway leading to Marseille Airport made it look as if the inhabitants of France's second city had fled some terrible disaster.

Their owners had in fact parked as neatly as they could and dragged their suitcases to the terminal on foot to catch flights to holiday destinations and business meetings - the only way to get past the barricades that were thrown up by protesters on Thursday morning.


Marseille has been crippled by strikers. A fleet of huge ships cruises offshore, unable to dock, their lights reflecting against the still waters of the port at night. From the air it looks like a giant game of Battleships.

In the city centre, streets are still piled high with rubbish after the refuse collectors joined dock workers, train drivers, students and airport staff who have brought the city almost to a standstill.

France issues emergency decree ordering strikers back to work at refinery

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8079680/France-issues-emergency-decree-ordering-strikers-back-to-work-at-refinery.html

Here comes the Cross Roads.
One Union says follow the order, the other says no.
It takes courage to take a stand and if they don't paralyze the country, they hold no leverage.
And leverage is everything, ask the investment banks, because theirs has slipped.
The American People can and should paralyze them.
A fire can't burn if it's fed no oxygen.


Riot police took control of the entrance to the Grandpuits oil refinery, clearing pickets and a barricade of burning tyres, shortly after union leaders told reporters they had been served with the legal notice.

This order, known in France as a "requisition", can be issued by French authorities when they believe a strike poses a threat to public order. It compels strikers to return to work, under threat of prosecution.

France Shut-down Over Retirement Age Battle

http://www.alternet.org/story/148571/france_shut-down_over_retirement_age_battle

Solidarity
The People of France are tired of being lied to.
They elected a position,
Not the next king and queen of France, who party down while the peasants pay for their good time.
Sound familiar?

Workers who have contributed to France's steadily increasing wealth over decades are enraged that Sarkozy is re-neging on his campaign promise to not raise retirement age.

Will Americans Follow French Example Of Mass Civil Unrest?

http://www.infowars.com/will-americans-follow-french-example-of-mass-civil-unrest/

This will happen here to and the military that has been serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, are the ones that will try to quell the situation.
In light of all that has come out about the military soldiers behavior pattern in Iraq, how comfortable are you with the fact that they to can now cruise your streets, courtesy of Homeland Security's changing of the Constitution?
Apparently our government still considers it just a god damned piece of paper that they can ignore at will.

How will Americans react when the government begins to impose the same austerity measures that are causing riots, street battles, fuel blockades and other assorted chaos in France? Will we witness mass civil unrest or will the sleeping middle classes continue to scratch their butts and watch Dancing with the Stars


Four months later and citizens of one of the most prosperous countries in the world with the highest standard of living have shut down France after six days of strikes and protests in response to government plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 and the full state pension age from 65 to 67

Over a thousand gas stations have now run out of fuel across France, with strategic reserves set to last just a few weeks. Flights and trains have been disrupted, organized slowdowns have snarled highway traffic. The French are showing Americans how it should be done, by uniting peacefully to shut down an entire country. This is genuine people power – the French are sending a message to the establishment that they will no longer play ball until the looting stops

With the Obama administration set to seize private 401(k) pensions and turn them over to the Social Security Administration, how long will it be before Americans stir from their slumber and realize that their economic future and also that of their children is in immediate peril?

When will Americans begin to understand that the onset of another government bailout in the form of QE2 represents the biggest bank robbery in history?

Tens of thousands rally against Italian government

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.8b21ca4f0fe5ded152fb7235fcbc6338.5d1&show_article=1

>"We have to fight together. We need a plan for a new country.
Sound familiar America?

Tens of thousands of people marched in Rome on Saturday at a trade union rally in defence of labour contracts and against the government, as the main protest leader called for a general strike.
"We have to continue this battle and to continue it we need to start planning a general strike," Maurizio Landini, head of the FIOM-CGIL metal workers union, told the flag-waving crowd in a square in central Rome.

Protesters at the FIOM-CGIL rally shouted: "Strike! Strike! Strike!"

"We have a government that only cares about public finances," Guglielmo Epifani, leader of the leftist CGIL union, said at the rally, listing the construction and auto sectors as some of the worst affected in Italy.

"They are taking advantage of the crisis in order to weaken labour rights," he said, adding: "The social situation is very tough. The country is going downhill, it can't recover like it should. Unemployment is rising.

"We have to fight together. We need a plan for a new country," he added

America here's your sign:Germany Halts Demolition of Train Station

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/world/europe/06germany.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Findex.jsonp

The "people" didn't do this just because the felling of the tress, they protest about the money being spent for a new high speed rail being built, while the old rail in bad disrepair was just left to rot some more.
This very same thing is occurring in the United States. Blowing money on something new while the rest of the infrastructure is in a shocking need for repair. American government to, wants to build a new high speed rail
The embarrassment suffer by the German government is the violent way in which they tried to repress the voice of her "people"
There were a thousand school children at this protest and many of them got hurt because of their governments need to squelch the opposition to their plans.

Hoping to cool down what has become a growing political problem and national embarrassment for Germany’s top leadership, officials said on Tuesday they would not cut down any more trees or demolish the remaining wing of a century-old train station, at least for now.

Though the remarks by officials did not represent a moratorium on construction of a new high-speed transit hub in the city of Stuttgart, it did mark the first time officials inched away from an aggressive insistence that construction move ahead on the Stuttgart 21 project, said leaders of the opposition movement in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

Last week the police fired water cannons and pepper spray at thousands of protesters who tried to block the felling of about 25 trees, some centuries old. The next day tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets chanting, “Shame on you.”

Students and families join French pension protests

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101002/wl_nm/us_france_pensions_protests



French families, students and private sector workers joined mass demonstrations on Saturday as trade unions ramped up pressure on the government to drop pension reforms.

Opposition to President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to 62 from 60 showed no signs of abating and hundreds of thousands across the country marched in the fourth round of rallies in as many months

Unions said that about 2.9 million had marched, while police said the crowds numbered 899,000. The union figure was about the same as at the last demonstrations on September 23. The police figure was slightly lower.

About 230 protests took place across the country with a bigger turnout of families

Anti-austerity protests sweep across Europe

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100929/D9IHHDTO3.html

Europe is ablaze with anger, as should Americans be to, but conveniently another suspect terror plot has place the country on high alert to divert the attention from what is so obvious that American should also do.

BRUSSELS (AP) - Anti-austerity protests erupted across Europe on Wednesday - Greek doctors and railway employees walked out, Spanish workers shut down trains and buses, and one man even blocked the Irish parliament with a cement truck to decry the country's enormous bank bailouts.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators poured into Brussels, hoping to swell into a 100,000-strong march on European Union institutions later in the day and reinforce the impact of Spain's first nationwide strike in eight years.

All the actions sought to protest the budget-slashing, tax-hiking, pension-cutting austerity plans of European governments seeking to control their debt.

In an ironic twist, the march in Brussels comes just as the EU Commission is proposing to punish member states that have run up deficits to fund social programs in a time of high unemployment across the continent