A riot policeman in flames runs to escape during a riot in Athens December 12, 2008.(John Kolesidis/Reuters)
From Yahoo News/Reuters:
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis pledged on Tuesday to tackle corruption after 11 days of violence triggered by the police killing of a teenager and fueled by public anger at scandals and a slowing economy.
About 100 youths attacked a police station in Athens, setting fire to a bus and four cars belonging to officers. Students briefly occupied state TV, interrupting the news, and violence flared in the northern city of Thessaloniki.
Also, for a second day farmers protesting at low prices cut off the main highway to northern Greece for several hours.
Karamanlis said helping Greeks -- a fifth of whom live in poverty -- was a priority but his options were restricted by the country's onerous debt, made worse by the riots that quickly spread across Greece and to some other European countries.
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My Comment: Iceland is the financial template for financial chaos. Greece is the template for social chaos. Thailand is the political template. Zimbabwe .... Zimbabwe is all of the above.
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