August 2, 2011
They descended by the hundreds — black-shirted, bat-wielding youths chasing down dark-skinned immigrants through the streets of Athens and beating them senseless in an unprecedented show of force by Greece's far-right extremists.
In Greece, alarm is rising that the twin crises of financial meltdown and soaring illegal immigration are creating the conditions for a right-wing rise — and the recent massacre in Norway drove authorities to beef up security on Monday.
The move comes amid spiraling social unrest that has unleashed waves of rioting and vigilante thuggery on the streets of Athens. The U.N.'s refugee agency warns that some Athens neighborhoods have become zones where "fascist groups have established an odd lawless regime."
Greek police on Monday said they have increased security checks at Muslim prayer houses and other immigrant sites in response to the Norway shooting rampage that claimed 77 lives.
"There has been an increase in monitoring at these sites since the events occurred in Norway," said police spokesman Thanassis Kokkalakis.
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http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/macroeconomic-folly/
Macroeconomic Folly, from Paul Krugman, "...the western world is a kind of inverse miracle of intellectual failure..."
Welcome to the 21st century, if we combine this with an article published in a greek newspaper "Eleftherotypia" about the limits of human ingenuity, then we won't solve debt and macro-finance problems even after 50 years!!!
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