Provopoulos the governor of the Greek central banks has, in an interview on the weekend, outlined his strategy for the...
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Something big must be on the horizon for Greece. For no apparent reason the privates banks have been on a...
Paris Ayiomamitis is featured in article today in Athens News. This is the paragraph that is attributed to Paris Ayiomamitis. Loser 2011...
Since Papademos took over the country as an unlected Prime Minster the talk of a general election has been clouded...
I have to say right from the start that I believe Gingrich is a complete lunatic and he is simply...
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"Alternate Finance Minister" acknowledges government actions over the past 3 years have made things worse. Greeks have been put through...
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The bankers control of the Greek economy is set to increase in January 2012 with the private banks to start...
How democracy has ended in Greece without so much as a single news article in the media I do not...
As of the 11th of December the BBC is still not acknowledging a key favourite to win the GOP Republican...
Whenever I see a company getting ruthlessly attacked by supposedly impartial media outlets and supposedly free and capitalistic government it...
I do not know if it is intentional or unintentional but Athens News is misleading its readership with regards to...
You would think the government would realise that Greeks don't like taxes and they don't want to pay taxes so...
Bloomberg reports that Christine Lagarde has stated that it is unfortunate that there are such things as democracies because they...
So Papademos has been in power for around a month and the Greek propaganda machine has come and said there...
Tax evasion as a "problem" in Greece is a fiction put forward by successive Greek governments. The purpose of creating...
Athens News carries an editorial today about the Greek governments debt problems, with the title "biting the bullet", like putting ammunition...
Nicolas Sarkozy has come out and said that the Greek austerity measures are not a big enough "punishment" on the...
As if Greeks needed more evidence that they were living under a tyrannical government, the Greek government has decided it...
Athens News carried an article today saying how 3 out of 5 Greeks approve of Papademos as Prime Minister. How...
EKathimerini carried an opinion piece today by Stavros Lygeros. And the article is as good an example as any of how...
Looking at this article Ill go through the article piece by piece 1. Charles Wyplosz says this - Angela Merkel’s vision of fiscal...
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Mervyns King, governor of the Bank of England’s reading a statement regarding the Monetary Policy Commission’s latest recommendations httpv://youtu.be/vU03yTufdAo To...
Due to Greek government's current financial problems Greek oil companies are finding it hard to get supplies, at least on credit. Iran has stepped...
While it is nice to see people protesting, unfortunately the Occupy Movement is protesting for more government and less big...
Either Sarkozy is completely incompetent or completely crazy or pumping out propaganda for an as yet, undisclosed purpose. The People's...
The cars are people, some people are richer than others, just like some cars are more expensive than others. You...
The British government is no longer able to take care of it's embassy staff in foreign countries. The British government...
The UK government agreed to pay X amount to public sector workers when tyhey retired at a certain age. Now...
Athens News reports today that the first round of "labour reserve" will be drawn on Monday. I have said before...
More specifically does Mitt Romney suffer from Paranoid Personality Disorder? First of all, lets define "Paranoid Personality Disorder" httpvh://youtu.be/02KZACn5ICM (more…)
Athens News carried a nice article regarding the Greek Central Bank statement "last such opportunity" Most of it is the...
Looking past the obvious commentary given in the mainstream media which is "investors must think Germany is not a safe...
From day one Samaras has said it was a mistake to raise taxes in a recession and expect to increase...
The reason Greece has the problems it has, is that investors were silly enough to believe just becuase Greece was...
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Nigel Farage brings up Barroso's past and calls him a communist. httpvh://youtu.be/JPhilPEqIyo (more…)
I'll get straight to the point. This is the quote In a July article in The Globalist, an online political...
Okay, this is not a new thing, it has been going on as far back as anyone can remember but...
Athens News appears to support the appointment of Papademos but I view it as a moral hazard, Greece is promoting the person...
With a "unity government" in Greece and with a supposedly neutral PM, could this be the shape of democracy in Greece...
Quotes "The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by...
The IAEA report not released today regarding Iran's nuclear programme is the strongest suggestion yet that Iran is nowhere near to...
Like all governments, Greece spends more every year than it takes in in taxes. Also like all governments, Greece is...
This week Sarkozy and Merkel along with Papandreou have tried to turn to say the Greek crisis is down to...
The message from the EU is very clear, either Greeks support the government the EU wants or Greece can leave...
The TSA does not want to kill Americans directly you understand, but is the TSA killing Americans by wasting money...
Papandreou calling for a referendum has not only put Greece in an interesting situation but also Angela Merkel (more…)
First of all I do not believe that Papandreou calling a Greek referendum was a suprise to the people closest...
The Greek referendum will end in a no vote. Every Greek I have spoken to say the "shock" referendum announcement...
Greek Government Propaganda Techniques - 1. Denigration Definition: (more…)
About the authorTakis Pappas is an associate professor of comparative politics at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece (on leave)...
Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or...
The Greek debt problem is extremely easy to solve. Before it can be explained why, we first need to understand...
Reuters carried an in-depth article in July of 2011, I have pasted it in below. Basically it shows that the...
Sarkozy wants to turn the ESFS into a bank funded by tax payers. Merkel wants to make the ESFS an...
So it was announced today that Greek has been granted the next tranche of the bailout by the troika. The...
The 19th of October 2011 will witness the almost complete shut down of the Greek economy. 2 main themes dominate...
Carbon taxes make things cost more, that is the idea. And that is the reason why carbon taxes kill the...
If you are an American, do you want to pay an extra 9% for everything you buy? If you're a...
Laurence Parisot is a director of BNP Paribas - when asked what she saw as the solution to the Euro...
As I wrote in yesterday's article the Papandreou regime seems to get a buzz from causing chaos in Greece. I...
In the continuing efforts of the Greek government to tighten control over the spending of private citizens a new tax...
Doesn't matter what animal, Lion, Tiger, DEI (the Greek state power company) he will take anything and anyone on. That is...
Basically the EFSF, (European Financial Stability Facility) will give money to banks when they need it, simple as that. Why...
The primary reason why Greece has its current problems is the monopoly of power in Athens. 95% of all taxes...
Let us summarise what socialism stands for. Looking after the less fortunate in society with money from the more fortunate...
How can Greece be forced to do such extreme measures for the sake of "cantagion". The answer is that the...
A Greek default is almost inevitable. Employment is falling and GDP is shrinking and things are only going to get...
Reading newspaper websites it seems like a lot of Germans and British have a superior attitude to Greece. Like they...
Just because the threat of violence stops people from rebelling violently does not make the threats any less violent. Make...
"A democratic government acting in the best interests of private corporations even if these actions are in direct contradiction to...
