I, too, am Greek ! Solidarity with the Greek people !
Thousands of ordinary European citizens have joined their voices to the "Movement of Nantes." demanding double nationality! People all across Europe who want to express their support to Greece during this difficult period of crisis, started the "Movement of Nantes" and ...
The Shock Doctrine - Documentary (A Must See...)
An important documentary based on Naomi Klein’s 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine. A study of disaster capitalism, based on Naomi Klein’s proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on disasters, war and terror in order to establish its dominance. Today Greek society seems ...
TEENAGE RIOT: ATHENS - Documentary Video!
An extremely interesting documentary from VICE network about the recent riots last month in Athens: On the eve of the biggest Greek strike since the right-wing junta was overthrown almost three decades ago, VICE travels to Athens to meet up with the people ...
CATASTROIKA: Privatization goes public (Video - A must see...)
On April 26, 2012 at 20:00 let’s turn off the TV and turn to an alternative source of information. The creators of Debtocracy, a documentary viewed by millions of people around the world, present their new production, entitled CATASTROIKA. They analyze the ...
17th November Celebration in Greece
Every year, on the 17th of November, Greeks but especially Greek students memorialize the students’ revolt against the colonels’ junta. Students prepare school celebrations, and a big march starts at the Athens Technical University and ends in the American Embassy, ...
We Are All Greeks - Protests of solidarity all around the world!
Solidarity protests for Greece are organized in many European countries for this Saturday! People will protest against economic crisis and its effects on the Greek society. As noted in an online call to the international audience, the austerity measures that the ...
DEBTOCRACY - a documentary produced by the audience
“Debtocracy” is a documentary that seeks the causes of the Greek crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media. Watch it below with English subtitles: [youtube 1_yTriIJa9I] Debtocracy website: http://www.debtocracy.gr/indexen.htmlGreek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis arrested for revealing “Lagarde List”!
Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis was arrested for revealing the list of Greeks with large deposits in Swiss banks! The list was originally sent to the Greek government by the current head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde.
Mr. Vaxevanis (the editor of the magazine Hot Doc which revealed the list) announced on his twitter account this morning that he was arrested, and that he will appear on court on Monday morning in order to set the date of his trial, on charges of violating laws relating to the privacy of personal data.
Picture of the day!
Greece fulfills its commitments for cuts on flexible spendings
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Picture of the day!!!
TROIKA isn't going to renegotiate Memorandum before its implementation!
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The composition of the New Greek Government
Antonis Samaras, the leader of the center-right New Democracy party that won critical parliamentary elections on June 17, was sworn in as prime minister.
Together with Pasok party and the Democratic Left, a small party that won only 16 percent of the vote, Mr. Samaras forms a New Government.
Mr. Samaras had supported the bailout. After the May elections, in which New Democracy and Pasok suffered a drubbing while Syriza made big gains, Mr. Samaras has said he will seek to soften the deal’s terms; but soon, Mr. Samaras will be forced to make massive spending cuts to carry out the country’s “obligations” according to the Memorandum…
Syriza party stated it will fight if the new government does not repudiate the most onerous terms of Greece’s loan deals.
Meanwhile, the departmental finance minister George Zanias will represent Greece at the meeting of Eurogroup on Thursday, and Ecofin on Friday. Mr. Zanias will ask the Finance Ministers of the Euro zone for a time extension of two years to reduce the deficit (until 2016).
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras
Ministries:
Ministry of Interior
Minister: Euripides Stylianidis
Undersecretary: Charalambos Athanassiou (former president of the Judges Association)
Official results with 69.19% of the votes counted, by the Interior Ministry!
The official results, with 69.19% of the votes counted, by the Interior Ministry:
1. NEW DEMOCRACY: 30.11% - 130 seats
2. SYRIZA: 26.49% - 70 seats
3. PASOK: 12.60% 34 seats
4. INDEPENDENT GREEKS 7.43% 20 seats
5. GOLDEN DAWN 6.93% 18 seats
6. DEMOCRATIC LEFT 6.05% 16 seats
7. KKE 4.52% 12 seats
None of the other parties is near the 3% threshold. Minor changes (+/- 0.5%) might occur at the final results.
Antonis Samaras made a statement from Zappeion:
Merkel wants Greek euro referendum along with elections!
Germany's chancellor has decided that Greece should hold a referendum on the euro together with next month's national elections! The news came from office of the Greek prime minister Panagiotis Pikrammenos who informed the leaders of the seven parliament parties on the content of the conversation between Merkel and Greek president Karolos Papoulias.
PM Pikrammenos contacted political leaders A. Samaras, Al. Tsipras, Ev Venizelos, Al. Papariga, N. Michaloliakos and F. Kouvelis and filled them in on the contents of the conversation held between the President and Chancellor Angela Merkel.
According to the statement of the prime minister's office, Mrs Merkel expressed her thoughts to the President about a referendum alongside with the Greek elections. The referendum would have to do with whether Greek citizens wish to stay in the eurozone...
Al Jazeera: Greece’s media crisis! (Video)
An extensive report by Al Jazeera about the crisis in the Greek media and how those media use propaganda in order to influence public opinion towards the interests of their owners and our creditors.
A Must See Video... Watch it below:
Wolfgang Schauble: “Greece will respect the commitments otherwise there will be consequences!”
According to "The Guardian" website, the German Minister of Finance declared that the results of this weekend's Greek and French elections "will not have, in essence, any impact on German financial policies".
Schäuble also rebuffed the idea that the winner(s) of the Greek general election could seek to change the terms of its financial aid package. Greece must respect the commitments made, he said, or else "it will have to bear the consequences"...
Moreover, the German politician added that "being a member of the EU is entirely voluntary..."
This is a direct message to the Greek people just a few days before the elections...
Maybe it would be simpler if the Greek elections were held in Germany.. or if the German politicians directly appoint the next Greek government! It could save us a lot of money...
Upcoming elections! Last chance for the Greek people to be heard…
Greece is near the end of a very strange pre-election period... The upcoming elections might be the most critical of the last decades but the political scene still remains quite cloudy!
Nobody can predict what will happen next Sunday... The two (ex?) major parties are trying to gather their powers and find a strategy that will allow to reduce leakages of voters due to the memorandum... After all, the two parties have common political plans that are focused on the European commands for austerity and budgetary consolidation, and it is almost sure that they will join their forces in a possibly coalition government.
Of course this could happen only if PASOK and New Democracy parties manage to reach a total percentage around 38% (despite the 50-seat bonus that the 1st party will receive due to the electoral law) of the electorate to pass the 150+1 seat limit and gain the absolute majority in the 300-seat Parliament
Yogurt attack against the former Minister Adonis Georgiadis! (Video)
Former Minister (of Papademos government) for Development, Competitiveness and Shipping Adonis Georgiadis is the latest receiver of a yogurt attack when he was spotted with his wife and friends at a coffee shop in N. Philadelphia - Athens!
A group of people started booing the former Minister and new member of N.Democracy party (after his dismissal from LAOS far-right party for voting the 2nd memorandum) and through yogurts and coffees against him and his friends...
Watch the video below:
Elections on the 6th of May!
PM Papademos announced the breaking-up of the parliament and the upcoming elections on the 6th of May.
In his message to the Greek people Mr. Papademos said that “Greece is in the middle of a difficult path.” and that he pointed out the need of effective cooperation among the political forces.
"The last 5 months have shown that when faced with big problems and exceptional risks, we can finally work together, we can overcome the differences and chronic pathologies of our political life, we can make tough decisions to ensure a better future. We created a bridge of hope and opportunity." said Papademos and he added...
"...the people will choose the forces that lead the way which ensures our country's stay in the European Union and the euro"
Greek sells his election vote at Ebay!
A man from Greece decided to sell his vote for the upcoming elections, using the Ebay!
Ιn a symbolic movement, and based on the recent statements of the deputy PM Theodoros Pangalos (PASOK) who claimed that Greeks sell their votes during the elections, the man decided to place a sale ad for his vote at ebay.
This is the comment that the seller posted in his eBay offer:
A FEW DAYS AGO, THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE GREEK GOVERNMENT, THEODOROS PAGKALOS, SAID IN AN INTERVIEW THAT GREEK ELECTIONS VOTES ARE SOLD. WELL, I DON’T WANT TO DISAPPOINT HIM.
“Private Parades” 24-25 March 2012 (Video)
The PRIVATE-FOR-POLITICIANS Parades for the celebration of the 25th of March 2012! (25')
Student March in Memory of the Glorious Day, in 1821, when the Greek Revolution began for Emancipation from the Ottoman Empire. Nowadays, a Greek "empire" has enslaved the Greek People.
Politicians celebrated the Revolution of 1821 with 7000 policemen around them!
The Greek politicians managed to celebrate the Greek Independence Day of 1821 even if the Greek citizens were not invited in the ceremonies!
7000 police officers have been deployed in the streets of Athens center, while police presence|awareness was increased in Thessaloniki as well as other Greek cities.
The parade in Iraklio, Crete, was disrupted when protesters clashed with riot police which used tear gas...
Theodoros Pangalos: “I am done with politics!”
Deputy prime minister Theodoros Pangalos will not be a candidate in the next parliamentary elections!
Mr. Pangalos, during an interview for NET TV has announced his decision to quit politics:
"I made this decision as I have already been in parliament for 35 years and it's time to hand over the baton to the young," Pangalos stated.
In addition, the Deputy prime minister commented on the scenarios for a "PASOK-N. Democracy" government since the political autonomy seems impossible on the upcoming elections:
"The two major parties have shown that they cannot govern together even if a large part of the decisions to be made is prescribed."
Constitutional violations that have occurred recently in Greece!
The following constitutional violations have occurred during the last years in Greece of the economic crisis:
PASOK and New Democracy rewrite the Constitution in order to gain more power!
New Democracy party agreed with PASOK to proceed with changes on the Greek Constitution immediately after the elections... The 2 parties want to increase the power of the major parties inside the parliament in order to be able to implement their political decisions more easily...
More specifically, PASOK and ND want to increase the government's mandate to 5 years and also increase the total number of MPs (!). In addition, the two parties are promoting changes to the electoral law to ensure greater power in the major parties in order to ensure that the elected government will be able to implement its policies without major reactions inside the parliament...
In addition, no-confidence motions against the government (Article 34, paragraph 2 of the Constitution) will only be submitted accompanied with a proposal for a new prime minister (like the German model).
Finally, the dissolution of Parliament will only be feasible if more than the 2/3 of the MPs vote positively (like the regulation introduced recently in the British parliament).
It looks like the following elections is the only chance in order to change something in our rotten political system...
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