European debt crisis needs miracle

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Europe is currently facing a huge debt crisis which threatens to undo financial stability across the Euro Zone, with probable run-on effects for the US and other continents.

Greece has racked up an enormous sovereign debt - because the government has too many credit cards - and without a solid financial backbone investors are avoiding the nation.

As this situation worsens while France, Germany and other EU members propose a bailout package, the entire European continent faces infection as Greece drags down the Euro currency.

The classically-styled poster pictured above is interesting on three levels:

1) It signals God/Jesus/Michael Jackson pushing their hands down to earth to pray for Greece's financial recovery.

2) The hands are upside down, hinting the world is 'screwed'.

3) It represents an accurate line graph of the world's finances since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008.

artist: dimitris taxis

(Exarchia, Athens)

Here's quite an incredible poster by Dimitris Taxis called Floating In Ignorance.

I live in a fifth-floor apartment and every time i look over the edge i imagine what blunt force trauma would feel like.

This poster plays with that psychological fear.

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It's also themed on suicide, which is a huge problem all over the world. To illustrate, Hong Kong has a high proportion of high-rise residences and also one of the highest rates of blunt force trauma suicides (i.e. leaping from buildings).

In this poster there are also classic religious markers. Look at the hands and arms of the subject; it appears he's being crucified upside-down and in a public space, like Jesus was.