Threats are the only tools that Papademos and the Greek central bank has. Logical argument is not on their side....
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If your neighbour found it impossible to pay their mortgage and your banker came to you and said, "you must...
The Greek government spends almost 2 billion Euros a month more than it takes in in taxes. (more…)
The Greek government is telling the Greek government that they must raid their pensions account to find cost savings. Apparently...
1. Suppression of Information. Any news coverage regarding the Greek government bail out is shrouded in secrecy. Any news coverage...
Athens News likes to use dramatic words when outlining a Greek default. We thought this news coverage of Greek default...
There are 2 fundamental issues in Greece which could completely dissolve the Troika's control. 2 things that if they are exploited by...
I do not know about you but I was under the impression that when the news was talking about a...
On the one hand the Papademos regime is saying that a chaotic default will have "ripple" effects throughout the global...
The Greek economy has been mismanaged by consecutive greek governments. The Greek central bank has been instrumental in allowing successive...
It has been in the news for month now. Greece's lender taking a 50% haircut on the their loans. But...
At a time when the Greek GDP is not enough to service the Greek debt load, Papademos has announced that...
Ekathimerini spotted this important statement In his interview with CNBC, Papademos also stressed the need for wage reforms. “What you...
As usual the mainstream media in Greece has not missed the opportunity to denigrate and belittle the Greek people in...
Merkel continues to put up impressive resistance to the attempts of Sarkozy and the international banks to put the printing...
Angela Merkel has publicly stated that Greece is free to stay in the Euro no matter what happens to the...
Despite massive pressure from the international banking cartel as well as other European countries and her own electorate Merkel continues...
Kathimerini is one of the biggest newspapers in Greece. Today "the editors" have come out with an article dealing with...
It started on the weekend with the governor of the central bank of Greece telling people he will send the...
I wrote yesterday how the media in Greece was ramping up the propaganda about how bad life would be for...
Provopoulos the governor of the Greek central banks has, in an interview on the weekend, outlined his strategy for the...
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...
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...
GDP Greek politicians are now saying tax increases are off the table. Savings will have to come from cuts. If...
You would think the government would realise that Greeks don't like taxes and they don't want to pay taxes so...
The National Bank of Greece needs to take 1.3billion Euros from the "state support fund", presumably to stay afloat. NBG...
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...
Lucas Papademos From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (more…)
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...
Wikipedia defines tyrant as Plato and Aristotle define a tyrant as, "one who rules without law, looks to his own advantage...
Athens News reports today that the first round of "labour reserve" will be drawn on Monday. I have said before...
In an unprecedented step by a western government, the police have arrested the leader of one of Greece's main trade unions, something...
I'll get straight to the point. This is the quote In a July article in The Globalist, an online political...
Athens News appears to support the appointment of Papademos but I view it as a moral hazard, Greece is promoting the person...
A TV station in the UK called Chanel 4 did a TV series called Go Greek For A Week The...
One of the main men involved in Greece's fraudulent entry into the Euro could be made Prime Minister of Greece....
Like all governments, Greece spends more every year than it takes in in taxes. Also like all governments, Greece is...
The message from the EU is very clear, either Greeks support the government the EU wants or Greece can leave...
Papandreou's referendum decision shows the complete contempt with which he holds the Greek people. (more…)
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...
Given the protests on 28th of October 2011 which led to the cancellation of the miliary parades in Thessaloniki could...
Media outlets worldwide seem to be accepting the "official" story without question httpvh://youtu.be/QV8NqgEodtA (more…)
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)...
Usually the 28th of October is day of celebration for the whole of Greece with the largest event being the...
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...
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...
It seems that every Greek I speak to says Samaras is the same as Papandreou, all politicians are looking out...
In the continuing efforts of the Greek government to tighten control over the spending of private citizens a new tax...
Apparently when a government takes over the running of something, it is not a nationalisation. That comes from the Greek...
Doesn't matter what animal, Lion, Tiger, DEI (the Greek state power company) he will take anything and anyone on. That is...
Athens has a unique way of dealing with stray dogs which cities around the world could learn from. (more…)
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...
First of all let me summarise some of the key points as given by the Greek media and Greek politicians...
So the Greek parliament has passed the law which allows the public owned power company to collect an "emergency property...
The Greek public sector employs 800,000 people and yet the Greek government deficit is a massive 2billion euros a month....
If was not obvious enough, the Former Assistant Secretary of USA Treasury and Former Editor of The Wall Street Journal,...
1. The key to the Troika (IMF, EU and World Bank) plan is to bring the government deficit down to...
The current PASOK government are carrying out 2 main actions to get the Greek government books under control. They are...
The bail out was orginally given to Greece to allow the PASOK government to reduce the government deficit. That was...
It was announced that the Greek economy shrank by almost 7% in the first half of 2011 yet the government...
An independent panel of finance experts have said, that despite government efforts to reduce the government deficit the problem has...
An article in Ekathimerini today is typical of the type of government propaganda that is wide spread in the Greek...
As a sign of the corrupt times we are living in and if it could not be more obvious that...
Papandreou's Agenda Papandreou has made every Greek citizen in Greece a slave of the international bankers and for what? For...
Greek government implies one thing and that says something else. Athens News today A statement by Sata President Thymios Lymberopoulos...
The German finance minister is quoted as saying. What does he base this on? (more…)