Quick Hits: Ohio, Greece, Israel-Palestine

This will be a new way for me to quickly introduce things that are going on in the news that I don't feel I can write full entries for. I used to post a lot of videos and it has become less frequent.

We'll start in Ohio, where the owner of an animal reserve released his animals, including lions, and killed himself shortly afterwards:

Police have had to kill some of the animals, which seems necessary to keep the people of that area safe.

In Greece. there are protests as the government tries to pass an austerity bill:

One of the main problems with Greece is that there are too many people with government jobs, which has made it unsustainable for the government to operate. With the debt, there is a need to make cuts. The people are understandably unhappy about losing jobs when ends have become hard to be met. A quote on the need for austerity:

“If Greece can dramatically reduce its debt burden and interest payments, that may well mean that it needs to implement slightly less austerity in the near term,” Ben May, an economist at Capital Economics Ltd. in London, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “It certainly won’t solve all of Greece’s problems and it will have to continue to reduce its deficit over time, but it might make that process a bit more manageable and less painful.”

Zero Hedge is reporting that a deal is done. Things are going violent, I'm sure I'll talk about this as it further develops.

Israel and Palestine had a prisoner swap, including an Israeli soldier:

Is this a sign of better relations or just another chapter in the tensions?