GREECE SITUATION UPDATES!!! YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN GREECE RISES TO 59.3%!!!

IMF warns tax failure will lead to wage cuts
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New standoff looms between government and unions
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PAME unionists occupy Labor Minister's office. The protesters subsequently clashed with riot police forces who used tear gas to remove them, 3 injured
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Farmers scale up protests in bid for concessions
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Stournaras '100pct certain' 2013 will be last year of Greek recession
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Moodys: Greek debt will remain at elevated levels
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Greece ranks 4th in top10 misery index
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Farmers in blockades threaten riot police with pesticides if they continue to use teargas.
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Ambassador Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos on the Greek economic crisis: could this Greek Tragedy lead to civil war?

I believe that the crisis has been aggravated by the wrong measures of austerity imposed on Greece by the so-called Troika (IMF-EU and the European Central Bank) and the lack of courage of Greek governments to oppose or negotiate them. IMF has admitted in public that mistakes were made. Many Greeks are suffering because of these measures .The IMF recently admitted that it did not anticipate the high levels of recession. But mistakes have to be paid. It is a shame that the Greek Government did not estimate the cost of the damages of these mistakes to the country and ask that they be reduced from the so-called debt.

Democracy no longer exists in Greece. The austerity measures recently adopted were unconstitutional according to Greece’s highest courts. One Member of Parliament and former minister said unabashed on television that the measures are unconstitutional but he has to vote for them. In this way, he blatantly violated the oath he took when he was sworn in to protect the Constitution.

The Greek government recently made an agreement with the successor company of Blackwater to hire mercenaries for the protection of Parliament. Parliament, however, in democracies needs no protection.
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Greek Neo-Fascist Party Golden Dawn March To US Embassy by @mradamtaylor [link to read.bi]

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Greek Finance Minister Gets Bullet In The Mail [link to www.zerohedge.com] …

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Madrid Protests Return: Live Stream [link to www.zerohedge.com] …

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Netherlands outlook to negative from stable by Fitch -> Fitch about to be sued into oblivion by the Netherlands

Hehe, US is suing Standard & Poor's too.
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Greek Government Threatens Striking Seamen With Arrests Unless They Resume Work [link to www.zerohedge.com] …

Shameless promotion of Tsipras by NY Times
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Thread: Cracks Are Starting To Appear In Europe!!! Protesters Burn An EU Flag, As Cyprus Begins To Crumble Under The Tension!!!

25000 layoffs a requirement for the next tranche
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Striking seamen returned to work early on Wednesday after the coalition government issued a civil mobilization order on Tuesday. The move came in the wake of a decision reached by unionists which called for an extension of a six-day walkout.
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The Council of State on Tuesday deemed unconstitutional a law passed almost three years ago which allows second-generation migrants to apply for Greek citizenship and to stand in local elections.

Greece’s highest administrative court ruled that only Greeks could stand for office. It also decided that the criteria for offering Greek citizenship were not sufficient and that each case should be examined individually to ensure the applicant has a genuine bond with Greece.
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Imminent prosecutions of many political figures?
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Farmers distribute fruits and vegetables to pensioners, unemployed
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Wait for it... Greek January Economic Sentiment Declines from 86.9 to 85.8. Must be the choice of get back to work or go to jail

Greeks Stand Up to Protect Their Water From Privatization. As foreign investors eye their public utilities, water workers scramble to create cooperatives
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Stournaras sees Greek recovery as cash returns
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Big debt arrests made in Attica over past three days
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The sellout/privatization process going swimmingly here in Greece.


Arabsat has signed an agreement with the Hellenic Telecommunication Organization (OTE) for the acquisition of its 99.05% equity participation in Hellas Sat Consortium (Hellas Sat).

The share purchase agreement was signed upon an aggregate consideration of €208 million, representing the 99.05%, of: an enterprise value of Hellas Sat, amounting to €157 million, which corresponds to 7 times the EBITDA of Hellas Sat for 2012, and the cash held by Hellas Sat on the date of completion of the transaction, estimated at €53.4 million.
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CH Capital will be granted a 99-year concession to exploit the seaside plot at Kassiopi. The state will retain ownership of the 120-acre (nearly 50-hectare) forested property, selling what it calls the «right of surface.» The fund said the total investment at Kassiopi is expected to reach 75 million euros.
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Greece set a minimum bid price of 22 million pounds ($35 million) for a London townhouse, one of six overseas properties the government is selling to help pay its debts, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
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Philip Morris to buy 50 pct of Greek tobacco production over next 3 years
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And since we talking privatizations, here's an Indian management consultant dude with a radical idea to save the country, which is to sell the big islands like Corfu, Lesbos and Rhodes and get it done with.

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EU embraces austerity for 7-year budget deal
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Greek household incomes down average 38 pct from cuts, survey shows
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Human rights commissioner calls for action on police brutality claims
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Under secrecy in Thessaloniki, a 3-day forum about the Balkans under the the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation
involving 55 politicians, technocrats.
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Having experienced both, I'd say the farmers were onto something there, lol.

We'd do better to simply give Athens away to anyone crazy enough to take it. Most of our population lives there as well as one or two, err, visitors.

Not fooling anyone around here, Bob, give it up!

Explains a lot off course, surprised they got hired that fast.


The EU will spend more than $3 million on ‘troll monitors’ to trawl Eurosceptic debates on the internet ahead of European elections in June 2014, UK media reports. It comes amid fears that hostility against the EU is growing.

The new strategy will include “public opinion monitoring” to “identify at an early stage whether debates of a political nature among followers in social media and blogs have the potential to attract media and citizens’ interest,” according to internal documents reportedly discovered by the Telegraph.

"Particular attention needs to be paid to the countries that have experienced a surge in Euroscepticism," a confidential document said.

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Off topic but can some people that live in Greece provide some info on who EPAM is?

From the 'Laiko' perspective...

Epam is the party of Kazakis, a quite good economist-analyst who has worked abroad and has many times proven right with his forecasts regarding Greek economy and matters, he was a communist when his was young but he had problems with their ideology and decided to go his own way with epam.

It is a populist movement with lots of lefty and a revolutionary ideology, pro-drachma and anti-bailout, although what makes them a bit different than the other typical left or far left parties in Greece is that they're not anti-Greek and have a national consciousness on Greek foreign policy and national matters, in their own words both the far-right and far-left, both the atheists and Christians can coexist in EPAM, dunno if this is the case indeed coz the party is not that popular yet. They also organize lots of solidarity events for their respective communities.

Imo they lack 1-2 political names other than Kazakis to make it in the parliament, in the last elections these various small parties that didn't got in the parliament got a record 18%, which is further proof of how fractured the Greek society really is the last years in political terms. I expected more from EPAM in the last elections, they messed up and lost steam somewhere in the middle of the pre-election period due to cooperation with other weird small unknown parties.

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Got ya...

Thing for me though is this comment "Imo they lack 1-2 political names other than Kazakis"

Dont you feel that this is exatly what is needed now? i.e. people from the "Laiko" in the parliament that get rid of the legal fiction and do things for the country and its people?

Not a parliamentary Democracy (so called Nobility) which we have today, which is backed by Special Interests, The Elite, Money, power brokers, rather just Democracy as it should be, just like the Greeks intended it to be by the people for the people... heck Ekklisia means just that "the people"...

The ancient Greeks allowed infiltration by the so called Nobility (Pharises) and got ruined. In fact once this so called Nobility (Pharises) discover a prosperous people they move in and enslave them.

Alexander the Great took this scum on and headed to the middle east to cleanse this world from this Babylonian scum but his generals succumbed to Gold/power etc etc.

Also what about koinonia? Excuse the questions just want to get the Laiko perspective on things, as most of the presstitution is a candy filled with death... looks good for a split second then kills you.

Nice post.

You're right about the 1-2 political names, it beats the laiko kinima, this is not what EPAM is supposed to be, it is supposed to be all of us. I think when shtf and Greek society finally wakes up, his party will become more popular, but one of the reasons that EPAM didn't do well in elections is that the people know only Kazakis, they're not getting any MSM help either, he's pretty much the only one who his political speech has a drive and value.

Kazakis was supposed to cooperate with Kamenos of Independent Greeks party but it didn't work out in the end, in hindsight this would have been a good move, as Kamenos party is now facing some problems too. I really hope epam will do well, but they've lost steam as i already told ya, who knows i may even vote for them, although i admit that if i had to vote at this moment i would be totally lost, seems there is no easy fix/solution anymore here.

Koinonia is new, they exist for 3 years but they now get a bit more known, not many know much about their members either yet, their views are not that different to EPAM regarding the pause of payments and pro-drachma policy, but they have a more patriotic and Orthodox line, they talk a lot about Romiosini and enjoy a lot of support from church and clerics. We'll see/hear more about them imo, as the role of church is getting more important as the crisis escalates here.

Completely agree with candy filled with death part, it's really hard to fully trust any party or politician in Greece at this moment, the political establishment and the role of the politicians has been totally scorned. Dunno if this is repairable in just a few years, coz it's something that took decades to reach to this low point too.

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@ insertfunnyname - Starting new reply post as to not take up too much room...

Yes Greece is in a perilous state... Your current rulers from Chania... My understanding is that your Freemasons have moved their base to Crete Chania... Remember that vodafone ommercial that touted crete as a independant state??? I always wondered about that and starting digging.

Why Crete... Oil/Gas and lots of it...but IMO their plan has been to make Greece destitude then bring their tax free dollars back from Swissland and buy everything...

Now with the Currency/Trade wars going on the swiss are ousting the elite with German help to eventually get Gold to 5000 this will price everyone but the few out of Global Markets... and Greece into the hands of the city of london.


Your issues with Thrace... Lots of uranium in fact more than Australia in terms of quality but mainly the indigenous peoples problems that the elite have here with the land...

I fear tanks on the streets. I wonder if Russia will step in.