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Greeks at Risk to Spend Tough Winter Without Heating Oil

October 15, 2012 3

Thank God, temperatures are still mild for this time of the year, thank God many bought heating oil last spring before the price hikes. Then the raw between Finance Minister and representative of gas station owners threatens to force millions of households to spend a rel tough winter. Apart from the fact …

German FinMin Rules Out Greece’s Bankruptcy or Euro Zone Exit

October 15, 2012 Comments Off on German FinMin Rules Out Greece’s Bankruptcy or Euro Zone Exit

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has for the first time ruled out the possibility of debt-stricken Greece sliding into bankruptcy or leaving the euro zone. “I think there will be no state bankruptcy in Greece,” he told a meeting of the Singapore-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Singapore on …

“We made Mistakes” IMF’s Thomsen Briefs Foreign Media about Greece

October 14, 2012 7

Representative of International Monetary Fund Poul Thomsen, one of the so-called Troikans, admitted that there were mistakes in the bailout agreement between Greece and its lenders. According to Sunday newspaper TO VIMA, shortly before the Eurogroup meeting on October 8th and the visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Athens …

It’s Official: “Expired Food” Will be Sold in Greek Supermarkets

October 12, 2012 18

The decline in the living standards of Greeks and in the morals of politicians is without previous example. With a decision by the Ministry of of Development, food producers will fill their pockets with gold, while low incomers will have the chance to continue living on .. expired food. Proving its total …

Bitter Pills for Insurers: Must Pay for Prescription Drugs due to Health Ministry’s Generics Decision

October 12, 2012 Comments Off on Bitter Pills for Insurers: Must Pay for Prescription Drugs due to Health Ministry’s Generics Decision

Prescriprion holders experienced (and still experience) a particularly nasty surprise when they visited local pharmacies to get their medicine. Stunned they heard that they had to pay a % participation fee in order to receive what they were getting free of charge. Bitter Pills for Empty Wallets Yesterday a chronic-ill friend …

EU Wins Nobel Peace Prize: This Must be THE Joke in Nobel Prize History

October 12, 2012 20

This must be the joke in the history of Nobel Prize. Crisis-torn European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2012, ‘for its historic role in uniting the continent’. Unless the Nobel Prize committee members had a sudden attack of a cynicism, KTG would say that Barroso, Van Rompuy & Co …

Golden Dawn MP Frees Detainee as Fanatics Storm Theater to Stop T. Nally’s “Corpus Christi”

October 11, 2012 9

Dozens members of extreme-right Golden Dawn and religious organisations attempted to storm a theater in Athens on Thursday evening to stop the premiere of Terence Nally’s play “Corpus Christi”. Riot police was deployed outside the theater “Chytirio” in Iera Odos Avenue in the east of Athens, teargas was fired and …

Troika Out of Control: Suggests Greeks Living on Small Islands Be …Relocated

October 11, 2012 15

This morning I wrote about Troikans being paranoid with a disease developing at full speed. Just hours later, my prediction came true. It’s all over the Greek press, that the Troika suggested that Greeks residing on islands with less than 150 inhabitants should be relocated somewhere else! This insane demand was allegedly …

IMF’s Lagarde: “Too Early to Say Greek Program Failed”

October 10, 2012 1

“There are good developments in Greece,” IMF head Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday, stressing that the government has come very close to reach primary surplus and that it records progress in competitiveness. Asked by a Bloomberg report why the Greek program fails, Lagarde replied that it is too early to …

IMF’s False Forecasts Exposed as Greece Struggles with Recession & Austerity

October 10, 2012 5

A group of IMF technocrats sits down and writes the World Economic Outlook & Fiscal Monitor with the gloomier colours. Global economy looks bad and the IMF forecasts for global growth was marked down to 3.3 percent this year and a still sluggish 3.6 percent in 2013. The IMF revised downward …

Merkel in Athens: She Came, Saw, and Left. And Wished Greeks Stayed in the Euro – Live Blogging

October 9, 2012 20

Hardly had Angela Merkel set foot in Athens and the blood started to boil among the thousands of protesters gathered in the city’s downtown. Despite the draconian security measures and the massive deployment of riot police, angry Greeks moved to downtown to protest the visit of German Chancellor. 2:45 pm …

Merkel in Athens with Same Jacket She Wore When Germany Defeated Greece in EURO 2012

October 9, 2012 6

Unbelievable! German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Athens wearing a lime green jacket. A jacket she also was wearing when she watched the football match between Germany and Greece. In June 22, 2012 during the EURO tournament. When broke Greeks went home defeated 4-2 by the German team. Euphoric: German Chancellor …