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EU Commissioner Borg: Greeks should stop smoking, bad for …productivity

February 8, 2013 5

It’s really tiring to have to face totally unprotected and be exposed to every jazzy nonsense that comes in one’s mind, just because you’re Greek. Here comes an EU health commissioner in a state of disarrangement with reality and confusses his role with the one of a labour commissioner. Instead of urging Greeks …

Greek police releases shocking pictures of robbers before …photoshop

February 8, 2013 Comments Off on Greek police releases shocking pictures of robbers before …photoshop

Greek police published new pictures of the armed robbers of Velvento banks heist apparently to show that they were beaten during their arrests and not later during transport or interrogation. The pictures uploaded on Greek police website Friday afternoon, have also the digital data of the exact time when the …

Her “Greek Drama” – Our Greek Tragedy

February 8, 2013 3

Before, during and short after the Olympic Games of 2004, the media used to call her “the iron lady of Greece”. Married to one of most powerful and rich businessmen of the country, Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, became best known to Greece and else where for being the president of the bidding and …

Social Cooperatives: Greece’s new scheme to get rid of municipality workers; 48h strike, Feb 13-14/2013

February 8, 2013 10

POE-OTA, union of workers at Greek municipalities called for a 48-hour strike on February 13-14, 2013. The strike decision comes as expression of solidarity to workers at social services offered by local governments. POE-OTA demands that municipalities continue to offer social services, that workers received outstanding payments and opposes government and local governments …

Greek Police: Armed robbers physically resisted arrests, therefore the injuries

February 8, 2013 1

The armed robbers of Velento physically resisted arrests therefore the injuries on their faces, Greek police said on Friday, dismissing claims of they were tortured during interrogation. The head of Greece Police internal affairs department, Panagiotis Stathis, said during a press conference that the injuries of the four young robbers were sustained …

Greece public sector parties with public money, despite crisis and austerity

February 8, 2013 9

It must be on corruption- DNA or on deep rooted “I don’t give a dam”- mentality: that public money is here to be spent as if no tomorrow. The annual report 2010 by the State Audit Council published on Thursday shows incredible and widespread wasteful spending of public money and by …

Spanish video “Gracias Grecia” cheers Greeks

February 8, 2013 Comments Off on Spanish video “Gracias Grecia” cheers Greeks

Students and teachers in Murcia, south-eastern Spain, summed up in a video the Greek heritage to European culture. In the touching 7-minute video, students and teachers use only Greek words when they refer to music, history, mathematics, philosophy, politics, medicine, anatomy, astronomy, sports and many other sections of arts and science. “I …

Survey: Income reduced 38% – 8 in 10 Greeks have cut even on basic foodstuff

February 7, 2013 2

93% of the Greeks report a fall in income in the last 3 years, while 8 out of 10 declare to have made cuts even in basic goods. According to a survey conducted by the General Confederation of Merchants and Craftsmen (GSEVEE), the purchasing power of Greeks has been reduced into …

OSF study: 54 Countries Helped CIA-Jets in rendition flights

February 6, 2013 Comments Off on OSF study: 54 Countries Helped CIA-Jets in rendition flights

Open Society Foundations published a study that has investigated the w worldwide program to hold and interrogate suspected members of al_Qaida in the aftermath of 9/11. The governments of 54 countries have reportedly gave their assistance to the CIA countries played host to CIA rendition flights. “Known as “extraordinary rendition,” …

Reichenbach: IMF admits austerity program mistake? No idea, no program revision…

February 6, 2013 1

What if the IMF officially admitted wrong multipliers and false calculations applied for the Greek austerity program. Horst Reichenabch, head of the EU Task Force rejects any discussion on a possible program modification. “At a time when Greece has managed to overcome the difficult phase of this program, I don’t …

“Athens, we’ve got a problem…”

February 6, 2013 Comments Off on “Athens, we’ve got a problem…”

As my tiny space capsule swings in an atmosphere full of grey fire-wood smog and yellow clouds full of Sahara clouds, I am sitting here wondering if I should call the ground control. I see an alarming situation emerging right before my dirty window. A coalition government having to deal …

Steinbrueck: “Greece needs time, austerity no solution”

February 6, 2013 11

“Greece needs time to achieve its targets, austerity is not the solution,”Peer Steinbruck, German Chancellor candidate in upcoming German elections for the main opposition Social Democratic Party told Greeks during a visit to Athens. during a meeting with leader of socialist PASOK and coalition government partner, Evangelos Venizelos, Steinbrueck underlined …