More riots in Greece, and who's there, the riot dog

[General of Darkness]

I was just watching the news and sure as sh*t, this dog was there. ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HPb46aK7hM

[sunnyandseventy]

That's f***ed up!

[midnight rambler]

That dog would not have survived his first encounter with the Amerikan version of riot cops.

[Light]

The dog probably belongs to the photographer. The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

[Twisted Titan]

Still Good to see the pooch

[MAGNES]

That video is singing about Havana, Cuba in Spanish I believe, Cuban music ?

The dog that many have reported on is a street dog fed and adopted by protesters.
So they say. My first impression would be it belongs to a protester.

I watched some related videos, it has a cult following, it barks at police
many times it looks like it is a moderator of some kind between the
two groups, it sits in the middle of the street watching both groups.

some interesting pics

greek protesting dog
http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=greek+protesting+dog&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

http://i55.tinypic.com/1zyatyc.jpg

http://i51.tinypic.com/2nbzg1u.jpg

http://i53.tinypic.com/1zqq8mc.jpg

[MAGNES]

http://i52.tinypic.com/2zp5thu.jpg

do a google search, china dogs , prepare to be shocked

We are all equal.

Free dogs roam the streets barking at police in riot gear
versus a society that has never been free feeding on them.

http://www.google.com/images?q=greek+sculpture+dogs&um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch:1&ei=7Wr9TPabMoaisAPzu4msBA&sa=N&start=20&ndsp=20

http://i55.tinypic.com/2u7y2zc.jpg

http://i55.tinypic.com/2d19wrd.jpg

[midnight rambler]

Greyfriars Bobby guarded his master's grave for fourteen years.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Greyfriars_Bobby.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby

[Rebel Yarr]

looks like someone doing some very good photochop.

[Bullion_Bob]

I think the authenticity is probably questionable, and the camera man would be the worst dog owner in the world to intentionally bring his dog into such an environment, and let it run wild.

[Cebu_4_2]

Found a video, not just photo stills, features Bowser in 2 scenes just past the middle. Looks real to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdKtBfQikCI

[sunnyandseventy]

Wouldn't be surprised to learn this dog is like an unmanned aerial obvervation craft. Only it's taken in and loved by its targets. Maybe everything it sees and hears is transmitted somewhere? I mean it seems unfazed by tear gas...

[Light]

These Greek protest events are announced ahead of time like a football game or a dramatic performance.

I'm a Greek photographer who makes my rather pedestrian news photos of these events get your interest and stand out by turning loose my dog to aimlessly wander around.
I;m so hot right now I'm thinking of hiring an assistant photographer and buying another dog. :)

Chaching!!!

[k-os]

Wouldn't be surprised to learn this dog is like an unmanned aerial obvervation craft. Only it's taken in and loved by its targets. Maybe everything it sees and hears is transmitted somewhere? I mean it seems unfazed by tear gas...


Dude. What if all dogs are? What if that's what the vet found in my dog's eye . . . a camera! I need some brownies to continue this conversation.

[SilverMagnet]

"The earth trembled and a great rift appeared, separating the first man and woman from the rest of the animal kingdom. As the chasm grew deeper and wider, all the other creatures, afraid for their lives, returned to the forest -- except for the dog, who after much consideration leapt the perilous rift to stay with the humans on the other side. His love for humanity was greater than his bond to other creatures, he explained, and he willingly forfeited his place in paradise to prove it……Native American folktale...an Ojibway tale"

[Ponce]

Magnes? you are right, first encounter with the cops in the US and he would be dead.......the world is raising hell about what is going on with the economy but in the US......but don't worry "Dancing With The Stars" will be on tomorrow, and don't forget your cold beer.

[MAGNES]

They are not photoshops, even the press has covered this.

There have been riots in UK now, big ones, Spain , France, Ireland protests.


Nobody’s bitch - Greek riot dog speaks up

By THANE BURNETT, QMI Agency

Last Updated: May 8, 2010 12:00am


http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/thane_burnett/2010/05/07/13872641.html


GERMAN TV COVERAGE

This is interesting, at 1:00 the dog runs at cops after they shoot something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KZ3E3kOykE

[Glass]

Max Keiser is in Athens at the moment, covering the escalating riots. Guess who he took a photo of when watching the protestors in Syntagma Sq.

None other than Kanellos the riot dog

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-v8eXfzcV0v0/TfjNsApNsCI/AAAAAAAACpc/IDanjODtDnY/s800/syntagma-9.png

<300K image is not very big IMO but too big to post here.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAAR0E1AQdw&feature=player_embedded

[osoab]

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-v8eXfzcV0v0/TfjNsApNsCI/AAAAAAAACpc/IDanjODtDnY/s800/syntagma-9.png

You have to uncheck that check mark.

I thought riot dog bit the dust. He hadn't been seen for a while.

[General of Darkness]

Holy smokes Glass, he's right there today. You can catch him at the 1:30 mark. What's funny is if you wanted to train your dog to be a "riot/protest" dog, you have to have police riot gear, because that would be the trigger. But for this dog, this is all him. I love it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkHxHB6h4GM

[ximmy]

Damn... Go Greek people! Go!!!!

[mrnhtbr2232]

With the skeptic filter turned on, the Greek police either have orders not to injure or kill the dog or they actually respect the dog's life and know it is not a threat. If so, that is a quality U.S. law enforcement could learn a lot from. As for the dog I wish it a safe and long life. I love dogs, and mine is growing into a faithful companion. Still MAGNES raises a fascinating point: our cultural views of dogs as members of the family vs. Korean and Chinese views as portions on a paper plate is a reminder that our realities are not wired the same as theirs. With base human condition as the lowest common denominator, our Asiatic friends are way ahead of us. Comfort, it seems, is one of the hardest things for the west to shed in survival situations.

[General of Darkness]

Damn... Go Greek people! Go!!!!

I gotta tell you I'm not educated enough to really understand their position. I hear that they're basically pissed off union people. Work little and retire with full pension at 55. Hopefully someone can educate me on that. I've dealt with unions and their folks and they're the laziest fucks i've ever encountered. I guess i just need to understand WTF is going on.

[osoab]

I gotta tell you I'm not educated enough to really understand their position. I hear that they're basically pissed off union people. Work little and retire with full pension at 55. Hopefully someone can educate me on that. I've dealt with unions and their folks and they're the laziest fucks i've ever encountered. I guess i just need to understand WTF is going on.

You got it GoD, it's the leachfuckers rioting. There are also the youth that have no future, but most are just the leaches that are pissed that their padded lives are now interrupted. This goes for Spain, Ireland, Britain, etc.

[General of Darkness]

You got it GoD, it's the leachfuckers rioting. There are also the youth that have no future, but most are just the leaches that are pissed that their padded lives are now interrupted. This goes for Spain, Ireland, Britain, etc.

Osoab, that's kinda what I was thinking, so I apreciate the clarification. I think from a gsus perspective we love it when people fight the establishment, but what they're fighting for is more of the establishments money which comes from people that actually work for a living. The b.s. in Greece is the same crap we're seeing here with the unions, the only difference is that it's no on the same level.

[ximmy]

I gotta tell you I'm not educated enough to really understand their position. I hear that they're basically pissed off union people. Work little and retire with full pension at 55. Hopefully someone can educate me on that. I've dealt with unions and their folks and they're the laziest fucks i've ever encountered. I guess i just need to understand WTF is going on.

This viddy explains pretty good... worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTBbcaNLccM

[osoab]

Osoab, that's kinda what I was thinking, so I apreciate the clarification. I think from a gsus perspective we love it when people fight the establishment, but what they're fighting for is more of the establishments money which comes from people that actually work for a living. The b.s. in Greece is the same crap we're seeing here with the unions, the only difference is that it's no on the same level.

I think it is all on the same level, just not as advertised or thought of here.

Think of all the road crews. Those guys are all private contractors paid by the state (at least in ILL), do they see themselves the same as Greece. No.

The level of leachness here is staggering when looking at the big picture. Since we are also mostly service oriented, the leaches spending on luxuries, employs a a good majority of the population.

After watching the above video, I have to back track and say most of the rioters may be the youth. Most of the old leaches, probably don't have the gumption to get out there.

Edit,

After watching more of the video, there was quite a number of middle aged, 40-50 year olds on the front line.

[Book]

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/04/500x_china1.jpg

If the dang Chinese stop working twelve hour shifts for two dollars our entire Capitalist world will go to HELL!!!

:mad:

[Buddha]

"Anti-Cuts" is the only term that I need to hear to understand what is going on. Everyone pissed because things are being taken away that aren't theirs and shouldn't have been theirs in the first place. It's gone on so long that people think they have the "right" to it. When in fact the only thing that you have a right to is something that you earn yourself.

[osoab]

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/04/500x_china1.jpg

If the dang Chinese stop working twelve hour shifts for two dollars our entire Capitalist world will go to HELL!!!

:mad:


Coming to an Idaho near you. ::)

[Olmstein]

I think that, along with the government workers, there are private sector workers demonstrating against the entire country be enslaved by international bankers.

[Olmstein]

Here's a recent documentary about the situation. It's in greek, with english subtitles.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKpxPo-lInk

[Glass]

yes the point of the riots is to fight banker occupation. Of course there are riots all over Europe and have been for the last 3 years. France, Greece, Spain, UK, Ireland, Iceland.... it goes on. Only the occasional wiff of what is going on makes it into the consciouness of the people because of the usual culprits.

[Shami-Amourae]

I found out the Greek riot dog's name is Louk. Here's his Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/riot.dog?sk=wall

[keehah]

BBC Editor: Greek state starting to lose grip on functions of state (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13783420)

Mounting hostility

This is my third blog post in 24 hours from here, and at the risk of repeating myself, I think the level of mismatch between perception and reality within the Eurozone is worrying. Because last year's protests were mainly leftist; and the strikes mainly token, a pattern of thinking has emerged that dismisses all Greek protest as essentially this.

But a new situation is emerging: Greek people I have spoken to are beginning to express things in terms of nation and sovereignty - and this makes the Greek situation different, for now, to Ireland and Portugal.

While the centre right New Democracy would probably win any snap election, it is hard to find support for pro-austerity politics among ND's natural support base, the business class. Because austerity for them means getting hammered with a tax bill the like of which they have never dreamed, nor indeed paid.

And I will repeat the point about hostility to the media: it's not a problem for me and my colleagues to be hounded off demos as "representatives of big capital", "Zionists", "scum and police informers" etc. But to get this reaction from almost every demographic - from balaclava kids to pensioners - should be a warning sign to the policymaking elite. The "mainstream" - whether it's the media, politicians or business people - is beginning to seem illegitimate to large numbers of people.

As one old bloke put it to me, when I said: "Don't you want us to report what's happening to you?" - "No."

He was quite calm and rational as he waved his hand in my face: "It's too late for that."

[Glass]

Riots Dog is getting more coverage


There he is, yelping with delight as the youths start hurling chunks of paving stones, barking his admonition at a cordon of cops fending off petrol bombs, sneezing as he scampers through the tear gas.

Meet Sausage the riot dog, an amiable ginger mongrel resident of Syntagma Square in central Athens, who doesn't mind if you show up for a day of mayhem as long as he can join in.

Whenever there's a demonstration, Sausage is there, always taking the side of the protesters and cheerfully lending a sense of comic relief to the occasionally violent proceedings.

It's made him a local celebrity. He's appeared on the front of just about every newspaper in Greece and wagged his tail on TV screens and websites around the world.

On Wednesday when state workers marched against government cuts, Sausage was in his usual spot at the front, egging on the crowd with a hearty "Gav!" (Greek for "Woof!"), tripping up baton-wielding officers as they charged down the steps.

For the record: some people call him Kanellos -- Cinnamon. The Athens municipality, which has known him since 2006 as Dog Number 1842, prefers Loukanikos -- Sausage.

"Loukanikos or Kanellos. These are two of his many names. It's the same individual," said Anna Makri, head of the city's Stray Animal Service. "There's no other Sausage."

As head of the department, Makri was sued once because Sausage bit someone. The case is pending. "He's a loveable dog, but he's a little bit hot-blooded," she says.

Stray dogs in Athens don't look like stray dogs in other big cities. Many, Sausage included, wear collars and tags.

Instead of rounding them up and destroying them, the municipal authorities of Athens pay to feed more than 2,000 of them. They are neutered, given vaccines, identified with microchips and released back onto the street, wearing a tag with a phone number to call if they are in -- or causing -- trouble.

You can see them snoozing in the sunshine by a statue, or loitering with intent in groups of two or three outside a cafe.

"In most European countries, they solve this problem with euthanasia. But Greek culture is against that. Our law is about rehabilitating the dogs," said Makri. "People here take care of them and love them. They are like everyone's dog."

For a time there was talk that the financial crisis -- the same crisis that has prompted the demonstrations that brought Sausage his fame -- would force the city to halt the stray dog program, set up a year before the 2004 Olympics.

The program was indeed interrupted by a reorganization in recent months, but it has resumed, said Deputy Mayor Angelos Antonopoulos, himself a veterinarian. As for its most famous client: "The municipality takes especial care of him because he's so lovable. And he's also a symbol -- a symbol of freedom."
Video and Story at Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/06/us-greece-dog-idUSTRE7952LX20111006)

Or video here:
http://www.reuters.com/resources_v2/flash/video_embed.swf?videoId=222312983&edition=BETAUS