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Subject Electricity workers strike threatens Greece with blackout - Doctors continue to strike - Gas station owners are due to stage a 24-hour strike tomorrow

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Notice the virtual news blackout from Greece? They don't want us to have a primer for what will happen here if the SHTF.
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Right. Be sure to take notes, as we'll be seeing the same things here soon when our economy tanks.

Unions strike: no production (what little is left)
Teamsters strikes: ports shut down, no imports or exports
Electrical worker strike: loss of electricity, black-outs, store power shuts down
Doctor strikes (from new health care law): a [b]real [/b]health care crisis
Gas Station strikes: don't see it happening
Trucker strikes: grocery stores & gas stations out of inventory, highways jammed with parked rigs
Gov't workers strikes: Yeah right, they are the only growth industry right now. Local bureaucrats might get fired, but they can then just get well-paying federal jobs.
Teachers' strikes: due to lay-offs. How do 120:1 student:teacher ratios sound? It doesn't take many teachers to make our children watch pro-FDR documentaries.
Airline pilot/flight attendant strikes: to shut down national public transportation
Air traffic controllers strike: Nope. They remember what happened last time
Emergency Services workers' strike: No, they never strike. They're team players
Military going on strike: No, see above
Media strikes: No way! They're jobs spinning this crisis are much too important to be left to chance. They will be placated.

I guess all those laid-off Acorn census workers will get new jobs: as agent-provocateurs in the city streets, pretending to be "home-grown" anarchists.
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Original Message Doctors said yesterday that they would continue a strike that has left several state hospitals operating on emergency staff as employees of the Public Power Corporation vowed to press on with protest action expected to cause electricity shortages across the country.

In a related development yesterday, civil servants joined a protest rally by their union ADEDY, which claims that the government's austerity measures have unfairly targeted the public sector. The rally was marred by isolated outbreaks of violence involving self-styled anarchists hurling rocks at police who responded with tear gas. ADEDY, which has staged three 24-hour strikes over the past month, has already called another protest rally for next Tuesday and warned of fresh strike action on a date to be set soon. In Thessaloniki, teachers protesting cuts to holiday pay also staged a march.

Gas station owners are due to stage a 24-hour strike tomorrow, in protest at increases in fuel tax.

[link to www.ekathimerini.com]

UPDATE:

Tomorrow I would keep my eye out for rioting...to those in the area, be safe. Also with the media going on strike, it'll be hard to tell what's going on. But since I live in the Athens center I can tell you what I am witnessing...as long as my electricity doesn't go out.

Greek strike to shut down services Thursday
The Associated Press
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | 12:08 a.m.

Greek unions say nationwide strikes will shut down all public services, closing schools, customs and tax offices, halting public transport and grounding flights for 24 hours.

Greeks have been protesting the Socialist government's harsh austerity measures, designed to curb the country's massive debt and pull it out of an unprecedented financial crisis that has hammered the euro. The measures have cut civil servants' salaries, frozen pensions and increased taxes, including on fuel and general sales tax.

Workers are to walk off the job from midnight Wednesday night.

Journalists, teachers, state hospital doctors and air traffic controllers will be among those striking, while officers from the police, fire service and coast guard plan to join protest rallies.

[link to www.lasvegassun.com]

CAM: [link to www.zougla.gr]

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