SHOCKING - Bilderberg Members Want Ron Paul Dead, Says Journalist

During a heated conversation in the lobby of the Westfields Marriott hotel on Thursday, Bilderberg members expressed their desire to see Ron Paul die in a plane crash, according to veteran journalist Jim Tucker’s inside source. The shocking exchange took place just after Bilderberg attendees started arriving as they were driven through crowds of hundreds of Paul-supporting demonstrators.

Wasting no time to shoot their mouths off, one Bilderberg member expressed his desire to, “Get Ron Paul and all of his supporters on an airplane with a Muslim suicide pilot and take ‘em down,” according to Tucker’s source, which has been proven routinely accurate with Bilderberg information in the past. “That was the harshest comment made but there were a lot of mean-spirited comments made as the Bilderberg boys gathered in the lobby of the hotel,” added Tucker.

Tucker explained that the Bilderbergers are becoming increasingly irate at the resistance amongst patriotic Americans to their program, with protest figures rising at each annual confab.“The program planned by Bilderberg has been set back for years and every year it gets worse and every year they get more depressed and every year they get more outraged – we’re winning, they’re losing,” said Tucker.

Bilderberg is furious that Paul is working to stop the full ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty, which is being discussed at this year’s conference. The treaty would hand the United Nations control over all US oceans and force ships to pay a tariff directly to the global body. This is not the first time Bilderberg members have expressed their desire to see the Texan Congressman and staunch constitutionalist meet his maker.

Paul Joseph Watson
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Tsipras Lays Out Economic Policy, But Ignores Talking About National Issues

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SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras said on Friday that his party's plan will meet all the basic commitments of the country for primary surplus and a sustainable debt, nonetheless he did not, or rather he totally avoided addressing national issues such as illegal immigration, crime, the issue of FYROM, Greek-Turkish relations and the issue of Thrace.

He also said that his standard is not the PASOK of Andreas Papandreou, however, "the PASOK of Andreas Papandreou said some right things too. We will be judged for the stability of our ideas. Obviously we will not everything if we terminate the memorandum, but will reverse the course of our country toward poverty. We can not say that we will create heaven from hell from one day to the next because we will receive a destroyed country." In a relevant question he asked for the review of Europe’s framework and considered that it is our great opportunity to make changes with the other peoples of Europe.

We applaud him for launching an attack on the media, the contractors and the crooked banking system but our economy is one thing... our national issues are another and what good is strengthening an economy when your country has totally fallen apart?

Mr. Tsipras cannot avoid these subjects any longer.

Position In NATO and Defence 

Regarding the country’s stay in NATO he said "leaving NATO in not our programming position" and that SYRIZA has a clear position that Greece will become a pillar of peace and security with no Greek soldiers in Afghanistan. (I can say this as well... be more specific Mr. Tsipras)

Foreign Policy
For the subjects of foreign policy said the country must have an active and multidimensional foreign policy and can not be dominated by the outdated perception that we belong to the West. He asked that we restore our relations with Russia, the Brics countries (emerging economies like Brazil, India, China, South Africa) as a country, and that we have a say in the developments in the Mediterranean. (This we agree with, but Greece must restore and be on friendly relations with ALL countries not just a selected few).

The causes of the immigration problem
Tsipras said that we must renegotiate in the European context, for the problem of immigration and demanded a change in the Dublin II agreement. On this issue he added that we must fight for changing Europe΄s position in relation to its immigration policy. (As you can see there is no mention of the ongoing problem in Greece, nor does it address the thousands of incidences that are ocuring around the country at the moment and that involve illegal immigrants. We also want to know... his party has said it was going to offer illegal immigrants a monthly allowance... we ask, is this going to be taken from Greece tax payers as well?)

His announcement regarding the banks
Regarding banks he wondered "we will say to the banker: You can’t chip in from your own? Go home now", and announced common shares with voting rights in the Greek public sector if SYRIZA becomes the next government. He cited the example of US President Barack Obama who nationalized two banks. He justified this proposal by saying that the operation and profits of the banks should erase a portion of the State’s damage and help the market. He also proposed a cut of at least 30% on private debts. (This we agree with, and we liked this move by Mr. Barak Obama as well).

New, national tax system
Tsipras asked for a new national tax system, simple, fair and scalable, posing as a prerequisite a wealth chart through which everyone will be obliged to declare the movable and immovable property at home and abroad and that if someone would make ​​false statements they would have their property confiscated. Regarding high taxation he wondered if ship owners are worth saying that they will take down the Greek flags at a time of war in our country. He also noted the 58 tax exemptions enjoyed by ship owners. (We agree on the most part with this proposal as well, but again this is too general and does not have any specifics. When someone outlines an economic policy they should give a time frame and a price... this we did not hear.)

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ND Leads In 5 Of 6 Polls Ahead Of Elections

Friday June 1st, 2012 is the last day that opinion polls may be released, under Greece's electoral law, with the ban effective as of midnight.

New Democracy (ND) was leading in five of the last six opinion polls released on Friday ahead of the June 17 repeat general elections, with a difference of 1.4 to 2.5 percentage points over the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), while in the sixth poll SYRIZA posted a 6.0 percent lead against ND.

KAPA - In a KAPA Research opinion poll appearing in TA NEA newspaper on Friday, ND was leading with 26.1 percent, followed by the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) with 23.6 percent, PASOK with 9.9 percent, Independent Greeks with 5.3 percent, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) with 5.7 percent, the ultra-right Chryssi Avghi (Golden Dawn) with 5.1 percent and Democratic Left (DIMAR) with 4.4 percent. The non-parliamentary parties followed with the Ecologists-Greens at 1.3 percent, Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) with 1.5 percent, and Dimiourgia Xana also with 1.5 percent, falling short of the 3.0 percent threshold for entering the 300-member unicameral parliament.

RASS - In a RASS opinion poll appearing in Eleftheros Typos newspaper on Friday, ND was leading with 26.5 percent, followed by SYRIZA with 24.2 percent, PASOK with 12.1 percent, Independent Greeks with 5.8 percent, KKE with 5.2 percent, DIMAR with 5.4 percent and Chryssi Avghi with 3.6 percent. The non-parliamentary parties followed with Dimiourgia Xana at 2.4 percent, Ecologists-Greens with 0.8 percent, and LAOS with 0.7 percent.

MARC - In a MARC opinion poll, presented Thursday night on private Alpha television station, ND was leading with 26.0 percent, followed by SYRIZA with 24.3 percent, PASOK with 12.5 percent, Independent Greeks with 6.3 percent, KKE with 5.7 percent, DIMAR with 5.3 percent and Chryssi Avghi with 4.2 percent, while the Ecologists-Greens and LAOS had 1.0 percent each.

MRB - In an MRB opinion poll for Real.gr, ND was leading with 23.9 percent, followed by SYRIZA with 22.5 percent, PASOK with 12.6 percent, Independent Greeks with 6.2 percent, DIMAR with 5.7 percent, Chryssi Avghi with 4.7 percent, and KKE with 4.0 percent.

ALCO - In an ALCO opinion poll published on the news blog newsit.gr, ND was leading with 25.0 percent, followed by SYRIZA with 22.7 percent, PASOK with 12.5 percent, Independent Greeks with 6.5 percent, DIMAR with 5.2 percent, KKE with 5.0 percent and Chryssi Avghi with 4.5 percent, while Dimiourgia Xana posted 2.2 percent, Ecologists-Greens 1.4 percent, and LAOS 1.0 percent.

PUBLIC ISSUE - Conversely, SYRIZA posted a six percentage point lead over ND in a Public Issue 'political barometer' poll appearing in Kathimerini newspaper on Friday. In the poll, SYRIZA was leading with 31.5 percent, followed by ND with 25.5 percent, PASOK with 13.5 percent, DIMAR with 7.5 percent, Independent Greeks with 5.5 percent, KKE with 5.5 percent and Chryssi Avghi with 4.5 percent, while Dimourgia Xana posted 2.5 percent. (AMNA)

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Moves To Make Internet “Weapon Of War” Sparks Global Fear

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A chilling Federal Security Service (FSB) report on the recently completed gathering of global internet professionals attending the Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF) held in Moscow on May 14th states that the consensus of these world experts is that not only will the United States not agree to sign the International Code of Conduct for Information Security, but fears have increased that the Americans are, instead, planning to use the internet as a “weapon of war”.

The International Code of Conduct for Information Security raises a series of basic principles of maintaining information and network security which cover the political, military, economic, social, cultural, technical and other aspects.

The principles stipulate that countries shall not use such information and telecom technologies as the network to conduct hostile behaviors and acts of aggression or to threaten international peace and security and stress that countries have the rights and obligations to protect their information and cyberspace as well as key information and network infrastructure from threats, interference and sabotage attacks.

They advocate establishing a multilateral, transparent and democratic international Internet governance mechanism, fully respecting the rights and freedom of information and cyberspace with the premise of observing laws, helping developing countries develop the information and network technologies and cooperating on fighting cyber crimes.

In preparing the American people for their governments refusal to sign an international agreement stating that the internet should not be used as a weapon of war, this report says, the Obama regime has launched an all-out propaganda assault telling their people falsely that the International Code of Conduct for Information Security would lead to the United Nations control of the internet.

In fact, the US State Department’s top official for information policy warned lawmakers yesterday that proposals to give the United Nations more control over the Internet could lead to international censorship. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Philip Verveer testified that the measures would “slow the pace of innovation, hamper global economic development and potentially lead to an era of unprecedented control over what people can say and do online.”

US tech leaders, likewise, joined the Obama regime in attacking The International Code of Conduct for Information Security by falsely claiming it “could lead to broad new regulations of the Internet, including per-click taxes.”

Unbeknownst to most people, this report continues, was that one of Obama’s first acts as President was to declare that the internet was a “strategic national asset” whose control he then gave over to the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US Department of Defense (DoD) thus creating what has been called one of the most frightening, and all encompassing, surveillance regimes in history.

Even more frightening about the US, the FSB says, is that the Americans are “most likely” behind what is being called the most dangerous, and potentially catastrophic computer virus ever made that has the power to destroy whole nations and caused the United Nations yesterday to issue its most serious warning ever about what is called the Flame Computer Virus.

Roel Schulenburg, a senior security researcher with Kaspersky Labs, told Fox News that Flame is twenty times larger than previous cyberbombs, and immensely more powerful. So large, in fact, that it contains 250,000 lines of code and is like having a virtual army at your disposal.

To who built the Flame Computer Virus it is not known, but US computer security experts told NBC News yesterday that the virus bears the hallmarks of a US cyber espionage operation, specifically that of the super-secret National Security Agency.

Under the terms of The International Code of Conduct for Information Security, this report continues, the actions of any nation creating such a dangerous virus would be prohibited and shows why the Obama regime is so contemptuous of any international law or agreement that would keep it from using the internet as a weapon of war.

Likewise, the FSB reports, under The International Code of Conduct for Information Security the US would no longer be able to spy on its own citizens like it is currently doing with the FBI and NSA.

So pervasive has spying upon the American people by their government become that the US tech blog Network World reported this past week that “the FBI is plowing ahead with plans to wiretap the web and requiring backdoors for eavesdropping on electronic communications. In fact, the FBI has a new web surveillance unit to help create the backdoor technology.”

Even worse for the American people living under the Obama regime, and as reported by the Wired News Service:

“Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks.

The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of the “total information awareness” program created during the first term of the Bush administration.”

To what words being used by the American people over the internet that could potentially mark them as terrorists were recently learned when the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was forced to release a list of these “dangerous” words following a freedom of information request and include such words as: pork, sick, cloud, bridge, aid, flood…and so many other such common words as to mark all of these people as enemies of the state.

And in a case of the plight of these Americans going from bad to worst, last week an amendment was approved to the Defense Authorization Act and passed out of the US House of Representatives on Friday, 18 May that amends two existing acts: the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (1987) that makes it legal for the Obama regime to target propaganda and “psychological operations” directly at US citizens for the first time in their history.

To the American people themselves living under what can only be described as one of the most brutal and totalitarian regimes of the 21st Century, there appears to be nothing that will awaken them from their long slumber before all is lost and they become the debt slaves their elite masters have always envisioned them to be.

By: Sorcha Faal
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Hotlines For Cancer Patients Set Up To Find Needed Medicines

Pharmacists in Athens apparently set up two hotlines for cancer patients who are having difficulties finding the medicines they need for their therapy. Serious shortages of anti-cancer drugs have been reported as a result of public spending cuts and the reluctance of pharmacists to stock the expensive medicines because of fears they will not be paid by social security funds. This means that the drugs are usually only kept by public hospitals and even then, not all hospitals have them. Cancer patients have been advised to call 210-5220954 and 210-5220955 to receive assistance in their search for the drugs they need.

The head of the Cancer Sufferers Volunteer Organization, Zoi Grammatoglou, told SKAI radio that there have been cases of patients cancelling their chemotherapy because they could not afford to continue the treatment.

The head of the National Organization for Healthcare Provision (EOPYY), Gerasimos Voudouris, said that cancer patients who cannot find their drugs should go to the IKA social security fund’s oncological department in at 4 Asopiou Street in Gyzi. He said they would receive their medicines within 48 hours of submitting a request.

Pharmacists are refusing to supply medicines to people insured with EOPYY because of outstanding bills. However, EOPYY is also in arrears with regard to payments to public hospitals. Voudouris told Kathimerini on Thursday that he hopes to release up to 80 million euros, to cover the care provided in January, within the next few days. EOPYY, formed after several social insurance funds were merged last year, had its state funding cut by 500 million euros this year but is also being hurt by a drop in social security contributions, which were due to cover 4.5 billion euros of the 5.5 billion of its total funding. So far, EOPYY has only received 1.5 billion euros.

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Karamanlis Calls On Voters To Strengthen ND

Former Prime Minister and leader of the New Democracy party Costas Karamanlis on Friday said that voting for the conservative New Democracy party is the only way to strengthen Greece's political stability but most importantly it is the only way to help debt-wracked Greece pull itself out of recession. Karamanlis, who has been infamously laconic since losing the 2009 general election, urged center-right voters to back the party of Antonis Samaras on June 17. "Choosing to abstain or to support one of the smaller center-right parties as protest vote would essentially be a vote for SYRIZA,” Karamanlis said in reference to the leftist anti-bailout party led by Alexis Tsipras.

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Animal Welfare Society Says Illegal Immigrants Killing And Eating Stray Animals In Athens

Cruelty in all its glory. The Hellenic Animal Welfare Society submitted a petition to the Athens Prosecution which calls for the immediate intervention of the state to end the brutal killings of stray animals in the center of Athens by illegal immigrants. Reports in Athens said that  the Greek Animal Welfare Society received serious complaints about this disgusting occurrence, and massed together enough evidence -which includes gruesome photographs of the slaughterings of dogs, as well as how they are being consumed by the illegal immigrant community -. 

Unfortunately this is not new news... The Greek Animal Welfare Society had raised the issue several months ago but the mainstream media totally ignored their plea. Fortunately Internet users did not and they helped the Welfare Society to collect all the evidence it needed in order to petition the case to the state.

Aside from the potential fatal dangers of vitamin poisoning from consuming dog or cat meat, there is also the fear of the transmission of rabies to humans .

Lord have mercy!

Editor's Note: Some cultures view the consumption of dog meat to be a part of their traditional cuisine, while others consider consumption of dog to be inappropriate and offensive. Indeed, eating dog is forbidden under Jewish and Islamic dietary laws, as dogs are considered to be ritually unclean in these two faiths but in a deep economic crisis plagued by a flood of hundreds of thousands illegal immigrants... anything is possible. Besides... drinking is forbidden by the Islamic faith, but Heineken is making a lot of money in the center of Athens.

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Greek Atomic Energy Commission Undergoes Evaluation

The Greek Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), the national authority responsible for radiation protection, nuclear safety and nuclear security, underwent an international evaluation on May 20-30 in the fields of environmental protection from atomic radiation and nuclear safety. A technical report with specific recommendations based on the available findings was presented in a press conference recently. The report, which was drawn up by experts, includes a number of observations and proposals on certain areas that can be further improved. A conclusive detailed report will be delivered in three months and will be made public by GAEC. Based on the findings reached, an action plan will be adopted by GAEC, being the competent authority, and the Greek state, to ensure full harmonisation with international standards. Greece is the first non-nuclear EU-member that underwent such an evaluation while the rest non-nuclear members will be assessed by 2021. (AMNA)

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Tourist Coach Drivers Announce Strike

The tourist coach drivers' union federations is apparently going on a four-day strike beginning next Monday at 1:00 p.m. and ending at 1:00 p.m. on June 8, after the failure of negotiations for the signature of a new collective labor agreement for drivers. An announcement by the General National Federation of Tourism Enterprises expressed sorrow over the failure of negotiations and referred to a failure of the other side to appreciate that "Greece's economic reality had changed in an irreversible way" and that its members were no longer able to pay the drivers of tourist buses the same benefits they had received in recent years without any change.

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Απόδημος Ελληνισμός… ανάξιος να ψηφίσει στις εθνικές εκλογές;

Ο Απόδημος Ελληνισμός είναι αρκετά καλός για να στηρίξει, να διαφημίσει και να υπερασπιστεί την χώρα μας στο εξωτερικό αλλά όχι αρκετά καλός για να ψηφίσει στις εθνικές εκλογές από την χώρα διαμονής; Από τις υπόλοιπες ευρωπαϊκές και άλλες χώρες υιοθετούμε κάθε λογής πολιτικές προτάσεις και συχνά άκριτα, υποστηρίζοντας πως αυτοί γνωρίζουν καλύτερα… αυτό το τόσο σημαντικό θέμα γιατί δεν έχει λυθεί ακόμα;

Σε χώρες όπως η Γαλλία, η Ισπανία, η Ολλανδία, η Πορτογαλία επιτρέπεται στους ομοεθνείς τους να ψηφίσουν στον τόπο που κατοικούν, είτε με επιστολική ψήφο, είτε στις πρεσβείες και τα προξενεία τους. Εμείς στην Ελλάδα, έχουμε την απαίτηση να επιστρέψουν στην χώρα για να ασκήσουν το εκλογικό τους δικαίωμα, δαπανώντας πολλά χρήματα και διαταράσσοντας την οικογενειακή και επαγγελματική τους ζωή.

Για να μην αναφέρουμε τα χρήματα της επιδότησης των κομμάτων που λαμβάνονται από τις τσέπες των Ελλήνων φορολογουμένων για τον προεκλογικό αγώνα, ώστε να βγουν εισιτήρια για τους Έλληνες του εξωτερικού και να έρθουν να ψηφίσουν συγκεκριμένα κόμματα. Συνήθης πρακτική που ακολουθείται ακόμα και σήμερα! Είναι δε τέτοιος ο παραλογισμός της ελληνικής νομοθεσίας που επιτρέπει στους Έλληνες να ψηφίζουν για τις Ευρωεκλογές στα προξενεία μας. Όχι όμως για τις εθνικές εκλογές!

Η μετανάστευση των Ελλήνων δεν είναι μόνο προσωπική επιλογή. Πολλές φορές και τα τελευταία χρόνια περισσότερο είναι λύση ανάγκης… λύση απελπισίας καθώς η Ελλάδα δεν μπορεί να τους προσφέρει ούτε τα βασικά για μια αξιοπρεπή διαβίωση. Δεν είναι λίγοι οι συνέλληνες μας που εγκαταλείπουν την χώρα ώστε να καταφέρουν να ορθοποδήσουν με στόχο την επιστροφή στα πάτρια, και εγκλωβίζονται στις χώρες κατοικίας και εργασίας όπου πηγαίνουν, χωρίς να μπορούν να βρουν τον τρόπο επαναπατρισμού. Οι πόρτες του Ελληνικού κράτους είναι κλειστές.

Ακόμα και όταν θέλουν να επενδύσουν στην Ελλάδα είναι τέτοια η γραφειοκρατία, που χάνουν τις οικονομίες τους και αναγκάζονται να επιστρέψουν στις χώρες εργασίας και κατοικίας τους. Υπάρχει και ένας μεγάλος αριθμός φοιτητών στο εξωτερικό, οι οποίοι δεν είναι πάντα ανώτερης οικονομικής δυνατότητας ώστε να κάνουν ένα σύντομο ταξίδι για να έρθουν να ψηφίσουν στην Ελλάδα. Είναι πάρα πολλοί όσοι με στερήσεις σπουδάζουν στο εξωτερικό.

Ποιος είναι αυτός που θα κρίνει το αν οι Έλληνες του εξωτερικού έχουν ή όχι το δικαίωμα να ακουστούν και να εκπροσωπηθούν στην Ελληνική Βουλή; Δεν είναι θέμα διαπραγμάτευσης αυτό! Είναι δεδομένο πως το Ελληνικό κράτος οφείλει να τους δώσει το αναφαίρετο δικαίωμα του εκλέγειν. Οι σχέσεις του Απόδημου Ελληνισμού με την μητέρα πατρίδα πρέπει να συσφίγγονται, όχι να χαλαρώνουν.

Η Ελλάδα είχε καταδικαστεί για το συγκεκριμένο θέμα από τμήμα του Δικαστηρίου Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων, στις 8 Ιουλίου 2010 και υποχρεώθηκε να πληρώσει στους ενάγοντες το ποσό των 2.000 ευρώ για δικαστικά έξοδα. Αντί η ελληνική κυβέρνηση να συνετιστεί και να δρομολογήσει τις διαδικασίες για την επίλυση του θέματος κινήθηκε νομικά ώστε να εξετασθεί η υπόθεση εκ νέου. Ορίστηκε λοιπόν για τις 15 Μαρτίου 2012.

Η απόφαση όμως του Δικαστηρίου δικαίωσε το Ελληνικό κράτος, ακυρώνοντας την πρωτόδικη απόφασή του, αφού κρίθηκε πως δεν υπάρχει παραβίαση του δικαιώματος σε ελεύθερες εκλογές.

Ναι δεν υπάρχει νομική υποχρέωση… υπάρχει όμως ηθική υποχρέωση σε ένα κράτος που θεμελίωσε την δημοκρατία, σε ένα κράτος που υποστηρίζει πως σέβεται τις οικονομίες των Ελλήνων εντός και εκτός της χώρας, σε ένα κράτος που θέλει να εκμεταλλεύεται τις προσπάθειες του Απόδημου Ελληνισμού για την υποστήριξη της χώρας, να μην τους θεωρεί αρκετά ικανούς και άξιους να ακούγονται και να εκπροσωπούνται μέσα στην Ελληνική Βουλή.

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Samaras Announces ND Economic Policy

New Democracy (ND) party leader Antonis Samaras on Thursday presented his party's economic policy by pledging to support low-income households and small businesses that have been hit hardest by the debt crisis and accelerate structural reforms, if ND wins the polls on June 17.

The key goal of the economic agenda outlined in 18 proposals is to avoid Greece's disorderly default and safeguard its future within the eurozone, Samaras stressed when addressing a gathering at the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EBEA) premises. "ND's priorities are recovery, relief, renegotiation of the current economic program, justice and security," he said, adding that after two years of harsh austerity that fuelled recession, emphasis will be put on growth to create jobs instead of additional salary cuts and tax burdens.

Waves of cutbacks on wages and pensions, tax hikes and cost-cutting measures in the public sector, implemented since 2010 in the context of bailout agreements with EU and International Monetary Fund (IMF) lenders, have fueled recession, businesses closures, unemployment and poverty rates. Greek conservatives suggest a review of certain tough austerity measures of the bailout deals with creditors to ease the pressure on the average household and business, without putting at risk the release of further vital multi-billion-euro loans to Greece to overcome the crisis. "Unilateral breach of contracts will lead to catastrophe," said Samaras, referring to anti-bailout parties, such as Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA), that promote a harder line in the post-election dialogue with international lenders.

Samaras also promised to restore low pensions and benefits to low-income families to 2009 levels, to provide more support to the jobless people that has amounted to over 1 million this year and ease the tax burdens on individuals and enterprises.

In addition, the conservatives pledged the acceleration of structural reforms and the stagnant privatization program and the "rebirth" of the public sector with no mass layoffs of civil servants, as suggested so far.

Arguing against further cuts on salaries in the private sector as a measure to boost growth, Samaras said that through the introduction of the right development policies, at least 150,000 new jobs could be created in Greece in 2013.

Finally, the leader of the ND party called for a swift declaration of exclusive economic zones for the exploitation of natural resources and suggested a harsh line against illegal immigration that adds to the country's financial woes.

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P.Krugman Says Greece will leave Eurozone within 12 months

Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize winning economist, in an interview at "The Independent" said he would be “astonished” if Greece managed to stay in the eurozone for longer than a year.  "The eurozone crisis was inevitable", he said, from the moment the Maastricht Treaty was signed in 1992.

Will Greece leave the euro?
΄Something has to happen and in the end it does have to be a Greek exit. I’d be astonished if they can go more than two years without leaving. I’d be astonished if they could go even one year. The event that will force an exit is when the European Central Bank (ECB) puts a stop to the emergency lending to Greek banks. Nobody wants to do that but at some point the numbers will make that unavoidable. If I was a Greek depositor I’d be trying to shift money out of the banks because there’s a reasonable probability that, after a long weekend, you’ll find out that it has turned into a new drachma account worth 50 or 30 per cent less."

Would Greece actually be better off out?
"The possibilities for a recovery are certainly there if Greece leaves. One of their major exports is tourism. Greece could exits creating a very ugly scene for six months or a year, but after that there’s tons of package tours of British lager louts going to the Greek isles. It sounds awful, but compared with 50 per cent youth unemployment, maybe not so bad. But there’s no certainty. Anyone who says I’m highly confident Greece would do well in the three years following devaluation – I don’t know that. But it’s not as if Greece is on a sustainable path now."

Should the rest of us fear the consequences of a Greek exit?
"Greece essentially doesn’t matter except in terms of the knock-on effects on the eurozone. If Greece exits then we know that euro membership is non-irreversible. You then have a run on Spanish and Italian banks. That does not have to lead to an immediate crisis so long as the ECB is willing to supply the euros. But that also raises the question: where is the hope for recovery for those countries? They are also in an unsustainable situation unless there’s a change in policy that gives them a reasonable hope of a recovery in a five year period. So there’s a fork in the road. Will we see more ECB lending plus more expansionary fiscal policy and higher inflation targeting? Or will it be a complete eurozone break up? Both alternatives sound impossible but one of them has to happen. What will Germany in the end choose? It’s not Sophie’s Choice, but Germany’s choice."

Who should be held responsible for the eurozone crisis?
"I think that the die was cast and the whole thing was pretty much fated from the moment the Maastricht Treaty [which paved the way for the single currency] was signed in 1992. Practically the entire European elite wanted that. There’s no one person who said: “Full speed ahead let’s do this”. Maybe the original sin goes all the way back to the European Coal and Steel Community [the first institution of European unity from 1952]. It was something that kind of had to happen."

source - capital

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Int'l Court Convicts Blood Diamond Liberian President (VIDEO REPORT)

Hellasfrappe is very happy about the conviction of former Liberian President Charles Taylor of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity by an international court in the Netherlands. The court's ruling—the first to convict a head of state since the Nuremberg Trials after World War II—punished Taylor for helping rebels in Sierra Leone conduct brutal campaigns in that country. Judge Richard Lissick said Taylor, 64, provided rebels with arms, ammunition, and communication systems during Sierra Leone's violent decade-long civil war that ended in 2002, In return for slave-mined "blood diamonds." Thousands celebrated the news of the conviction in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, where news of the international court's proceedings has been watched closely. Taylor will likely serve time in Britain after a sentencing hearing on May 16. Rebel leaders from the country have received sentences of up to 52 years.

If you want to learn more about why he was convicted then we propose that you watch the video below. It is a documentary series which explores infamous historical events. This installment examines the little-known truth about how the worldwide diamond trade has funded wars across western and central Africa, leading to the deaths of millions of people.

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3 Million For A Website? Defence Minister Cans Project In One Swift Blow

The more we hear about Defence Minister Frangos Frangoulis the more we like the guy.And before we continue with the news story we would like to ask that he remain as Minister of Defence even after the June 17 elections. When Defense Minister Frangos Frangoulis found out about a suspicious tender which concerned the construction of a web site including a virtual tour in the War museum, but that came with a scandalous price tag of 3 million euros (???) he immediately canned the project. Simple as that.

Specifically the project titled, "Emergence of Interactive Exhibits through Electronic Applications and Services for the War Museum" included the following:

• Supply of computer hardware and accompanying software
• Digitization services, 
• Documentation and development of hardware archive AM
• Develop website
• Develop applications for e-museum - installation of a tour
• Development of a multimedia exhibition
• Project promotion services

The total amount of the contract exceeded 3 million euros (or exactly 3,065,000 euros - budget excluding VAT: € 2.491.869,92 - VAT (23%): € 573.130,08). and apparently it was going to be funded by the Operational Program "Digital Convergence", the NSRF, the ERDF and National Resources.

Obviously someone was trying to make a fast buck.

Within one hour after the scandalous tender was announced on defencenet, Frangos Frangoulis decided to drop the project and asked that an investigation be made right away to find out who was responsible for this ridiculous project. Commenting on the news later onm the former General of the Armed Forces said with three million euros "I can construct ten barrier zones on the islands as well as one in Evros!

"The political leadership that will surface after the (June 17) elections we take responsibility (about this suspicious project) and (hopefully) the revision of its cost. I do not doubt that it needs to be done. But such a thing will not come to pass by me!"

Editor's Note - This is how a Minister should work. Mr. Samaras... please consider keeping Mr. Frangoulis at his post after the elections are over. We feel safer as a nation, prouder... and aside from being a patriot, and from what it looks like incorruptible, he actually works for the greater good!

Original article in Greek on defencenet

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«Στα Σκόπια υπάρχουν τρία στρατόπεδα της Αλ Κάιντα»

«Στα Σκόπια υπάρχουν τρία στρατόπεδα όπου εκπαιδεύονται μέλη της Αλ Κάιντα», δήλωσε ο καθηγητής Ιβάν Μπαμπαμόφσκι σε σεμινάριο το οποίο ήταν αφιερωμένο στην καταπολέμηση του βίαιου εξτρεμισμού, το οποίο πραγματοποιείται σήμερα και αύριο στην πόλη των Σκοπίων.

«Από ένα εθνοτικό κόμμα υπάρχουν 25 ακτιβιστές οι οποίοι έχουν εκπαιδευτεί σε στρατόπεδο  της Τεχεράνης για τρομοκρατικές δραστηριότητες. Ένας από τους ηγέτες αυτού του κόμματος ήταν στην πόλη Κόμ, που είναι το πνευματικό κέντρο των Σιιτών και έχει εκπαιδευτεί για προπαγάνδα η οποία έχει να κάνει με την τρομοκρατία», είπε ο Σλάβος καθηγητής.

Σύμφωνα με τον ίδιο, τα Σκόπια εκτιμώνται ως ένας από τους πιο αδύναμους κρίκους της μαύρης διεθνούς, όπως αποκαλεί τους τρομοκράτες, οι οποίο οργανώνονται και προετοιμάζονται και όπως ισχυρίζεται  αναμένεται να υπάρξουν δυναμικές ενέργειες και δράσεις βάσει τρομοκρατικού σχεδίου.

«Μετά το χτύπημα στο Σμίλκοβτσι περιμέναμε να έχουμε και άλλες τέτοιες σκληρές ενέργειες και θα είμαι ευτυχής αν δεν συμβεί κάτι τέτοιο. Δεν ντρέπομαι να πω δημοσίως ότι εύχομαι να κάνω λάθος στις εκτιμήσεις μου» είπε ο Μπαμπαμόφσκι.

«Η τρομοκρατία, είπε, πρέπει να εξετάζεται σε σχέση με το οργανωμένο έγκλημα. Δεν υπάρχει τρομοκρατία χωρίς έγκλημα, χωρίς χρηματοδότηση βρώμικου χρήματος»

Πρόσθεσε ακόμη ότι οι συμμετέχοντες στον αντιτρομοκρατικό συνασπισμό δεν έχουν βοηθήσει τις προσπάθειες  που γίνονται ούτε οικονομικά, ούτε τεχνικά, ούτε με το ανάλογο προσωπικό.

«Οι δομές ασφαλείας μας δεν μπορούν  να ανταγωνιστούν επαρκώς με αυτές τις ομάδες και η χώρα μας είναι μια περιοχή διέλευσης, αλλά επίσης,  συχνά εγκαθίστανται ορισμένες ομάδες και δομές  της τρομοκρατίας».

πηγη

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Stolen Rubens Painting To Be Returned To Belgium

The Central Archaeological Council announced that the stolen Rubens painting titled "The Hunt for the Caledonian Wild Boar", which was recovered by Greek police last September is now going to be repatriated. The 1618 oil sketch (28 x 52 cm) was stolen in 2001 from the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts and was recovered by police on Sept. 1, 2011 in an Athens seaside suburb. Two people, a former antique store owner and a female TV presenter, who attempted to sell the oil sketch to undercover police for 6 million euros, were arrested on money-laundering charges after the painting was found in the trunk of their car. The pair was not involved in the original heist. The painting depicts one of the most popular themes for the 17th century aristocracy and was bought in London in 1898 by the Belgian museum for 250,000 GBP.  Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was a prolific 17th century Flemish Baroque painter and proponent of an exuberant Baroque style emphasising color, movement and sensuality, and is known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. (AMNA)

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Politicians Get Lesson On Reality Of Crisis From Greek Housewives (VIDEOS)

The theme of ALPHA's "Autopsy," show on Wednesday with host Anthony Schrotter was how to survive on 50 euros of food for one or two weeks. The idea was to see if Greek MPs had a concept of how a a typical Greek family lives and struggles to make ends meet in this economic crisis. The news show kicks follows two housewives who are set to do their supermarket shopping for the next two weeks. Their budget: Only 50 euros.

They introduce themselves and speak about how the economic recession has affected their day to day lives and the sacrifices that they make by depriving their children of basic necessities. The first housewife is a maid with an income of 360 euros a month and expenses that go beyond this (rent, utility costs, upkeep of the family, food, etc.), the second housewife is unemployed and married to a temporary public servant who is also suffering cutbacks. When asked how they make ends meet, unfortunately the two women brake down and admit that they receive aid from soup kitchens, from family and friends, and sometimes they even skip payments in order to make ends meet.

Together with Mrs. Mpatzeli (PASOK), Mrs. Kontouli (eco-Green party(, Adonis Georgiadis (New Democracy Party), and Paul Kontogiannidis (with the Independent Greeks party), the housewives and the parliamentarians split up in teams and go shopping.

The goal is to make the parliamentarians see that 50 euros does not stretch far when shopping for a family of four and that oligarchs cannot (and do not have a concept whatsoever) of how their policy decision making has affected our day to day lives.


These woman are but only one example of how the crisis has affected the general population, (this writer included). Something the mainstream media fails to show, since they prefer to fill their airtime with images of dance parties in Mykonos, or entertainment news from the US. Congratulations to ALPHA TV and its reporter Schrotter for coming up with the concept of this show.

Editor's Note - At one point in the second video, one housewife tells Kontogiannidis that even fabric softener. This is what they have belittled us to. Silly example... but it is just shows that while some people stroll around a supermarket in other areas of the world a pack of spaghetti and a pack of rice feeds a family for a week. - Kissinger must be proud... they stripped us of our very dignity.

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EU Oligarchs Address Euro Crisis At Bilderberg Conference

President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy will join fellow elitists at the 2012 Bilderberg conference this week to discuss the collapsing euro and how the Greek debt crisis threatens to unravel the quest for a European federal superstate.

According to veteran Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker, Van Rompuy will be joined by former president of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet to wargame with other Bilderberg members on how to handle a potential Greek exit from the single currency system.

Van Rompuy’s presence at Bilderberg is particularly noteworthy given the fact that the Belgian attended a dinner organized by the Bilderberg Group in Brussels where he met with top Bilderberg steering committee members just days before he was announced as EU president back in 2009.

Van Rompuy held discussions with Bilderberg chairman Étienne Davignon, who earlier the same year had bragged to the EU Observer about how the Euro single currency was a brainchild of the Bilderberg Group. Van Rompuy also had a meeting with lifelong Bilderberg member Henry Kissinger.

Both Trichet and Van Rompuy have been staunch advocates of the single currency, in line with other Bilderberg members who, as we have highlighted, are desperate to prevent a Greek exit.

In a recent Financial Times piece written by Arvind Subramanian, a Senior Fellow at the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, which counts amongst its directors numerous influential Bilderberg members, including former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, former United States Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, and Bilderberg kingpin David Rockefeller, the elite’s true concerns over a ‘Grexit’ are perfectly encapsulated.

“Suppose that by mid-2013 Greece’s economy is recovering, while the rest of the eurozone remains in recession. The effect on austerity-addled Spain, Portugal and even Italy would be powerful. Voters there would not fail to notice the improving condition of their hitherto scorned Greek neighbour. They would start to ask why their own governments should not follow the Greek path and voice a preference for leaving the eurozone. In other words, the Greek experience could fundamentally alter the incentives for these countries to remain in the eurozone, especially if economic conditions remained grim,” writes Subramanian, adding that Greece’s potential exit “may prove an infectious model” and lead to the demise of “the eurozone and perhaps for the European project.”

The euro crisis has been a key talking point at each of the last three Bilderberg meetings. In both 2010 and 2011, political consensus formed by Bilderberg members was enough to keep the euro on life support for another 12 months each time, and the same globalists will once again try and hammer out a strategy behind closed doors that will provide redemption for their cherished pet project. Jim Tucker’s inside source also told him that the prospect of a war with Iran would again be a topic of this year’s confab.

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com

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Green Party Candidate J.Diaferia Demands That Bilderberg Conference Be Made Public

Green Party Congressional Candidate Joseph Diaferia (NY-16) issued a statement demanding that the 58 year old Bilderberg conference’s meetings, deliberations, and decisions be made public. The Conference, founded in the Netherlands in 1954, is a yearly assemblage of political and business leaders from North America and Western Europe that meets clandestinely.  Politicians and heads of state are also frequently in attendance.

It has been reported by many independent journalists that major policy decisions including, which trade agreements will be enacted, which leaders will be deposed, and who the next presidents and prime ministers will be, are taken by the Bilderberg Conference. For example, the presidencies of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are said to have been foreordained at the 1990 and 2008 Conferences respectively. This year’s venue is said to be Chantilly, Virginia, where the 2008 Conference was held.

Asked for comment on the influence of the Bilderberg Conference on public policy, Diaferia responded, “This is a Rockefeller construct; it would be imprecise to call it an organization because although it has its so-called regular attendees every year—David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Robert Rubin, Vernon Jordan, Richard Holbrooke, Etienne D’Avignon, and so on—they have no offices, and they have no specific location or headquarters.  They meet by invitation only, their meetings are closed, their findings are secret, but their decisions often have far-reaching implications. Given the chronology and trajectory of presidential politics before and after the 2008 Conference, it is not much to conclude that this is where Barack Obama’s beatification was finalized”.

When reminded of the Conference’s relatively recent admission of its existence, Diaferia commented, “Yes, they’ve allowed as how they exist, but that’s all. They still insulate themselves from public oversight or any other democratizing process. In fact, they finally stipulated to their existence only because they could no longer conceal it. For decades, independent journalists have pursued the Conference assiduously, and finally, David Rockefeller—I believe in his memoirs—had no choice but to acknowledge the Conference’s existence. But, their discussions and confabulations are never made public.”

Asked what could be done to check the Conference’s influence, Diaferia answered, “Publicity and exposure are vital here. Information regarding Bilderberg must continue to be communicated to the masses of people, and those with knowledge of this Conference must not be intimidated. In fact, one takes some encouragement by the fact that in addition to political libertarians, who have done extraordinary work regarding the exposure of Bilderberg, left progressives have also begun to take note of the Conference in larger numbers. Indeed, I’m noticing that there are fewer tendencies among progressives to attribute Bilderberg to the imaginations of conspiracy theorists. People of all political stripes are realizing that this is very serious.” Continued Diaferia, “For that matter, we might even look to the mainstream media. While I hate to sound as though I’m defending Lou Dobbs, wasn’t it he who reported that an amalgam of Rockefeller funded think tanks was, and perhaps still is, planning a North American Union?”

Diaferia concluded by commending the anti-Bilderberg activists who plan on descending upon Chantilly, Virginia this weekend,  and appealing to the American people to heed the admonitions of President John F. Kennedy and the late U.S. Representative Lawrence P. MacDonald (D-FLA) who spoke forebodingly of the influence and power of such elite organizations: “While I hold no brief for Larry McDonald, or even for JFK to any great extent, one needn’t be a disciple of either to be informed and vigilant against Bilderberg’s unchecked influence and power. Kennedy was only a tentative champion of the working class, and McDonald was wrong—almost to the point of being comical, with his anti-communism.  But their alarm at the untrammeled power of elite organizations was quite reasoned. ”

This year’s Bilderberg Conference is scheduled to run from May 31, to June 3rd.                        

For confirmation:
DiaferiaForCongress@Gmail.com

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Quebec law breaches Canada’s international human rights obligations

Unprecedented police powers granted by a new law in the Canadian province of Quebec violate freedoms of speech, assembly and movement in breach of Canada’s international obligations, Amnesty International said. What began as protests led by student groups in Quebec over a proposed hike in tuition fees 14 weeks ago have expanded in size and focus in recent weeks, with more than 2,000 arrests being made. Daily, largely peaceful demonstrations have been attracting a wide range of civil society groups in several cities – some in Montreal, Quebec’s largest city, have drawn up to 200,000 protesters.

The emergency legislation – passed on 18 May and titled Bill 78, “An Act to enable students to receive instruction from the postsecondary institutions they attend” – imposes a series of restrictions on public demonstrations, including a requirement for protest organizers to apply in advance before convening any group of more than 50 people.

“Bill 78 is an affront to basic freedoms that goes far beyond what is permissible under provincial, national or international human rights laws,” said Javier Zúñiga, Special Advisor at Amnesty International. “It is unreasonable and unacceptable to require citizens to apply to the authorities in advance any time they wish to exercise a basic human right. Quebec’s National Assembly should rescind this restrictive law immediately.”

The overbroad provisions of Bill 78 are contrary to Canada’s international obligations with regard to a number of human rights, including the rights to freedom of assembly and association, the right to freedom of expression, the right to the presumption of innocence, and – in the case of restrictions on university employee associations – many of the rights related to trade union activity.

Last week a group of some 60 law professors from Quebec published an analysis of the new legislation, decrying what they called its “reprehensible distortion of the spirit of [human rights] charters”. Other Canadian human rights organizations and the Quebec bar association raised similar grave concerns.

Bill 78 requires organizers of gatherings of more than 50 people to submit a detailed application in writing to the authorities at least eight hours in advance, effectively prohibiting spontaneous protests and giving police unprecedented powers to re-route or even reject demonstrations. It could also block freedom of assembly for student groups and others by imposing steep fines in cases where educational services are disrupted by a protest or other gathering. The new measure also allows police to hold presumed organizers responsible if anyone taking part in their gathering breaks the law, overriding the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.

Amnesty International believes that Bill 78 gives the authorities the power to take arbitrary measures against any individual as they see fit while providing no legal recourse against such actions. “What is unacceptable is that individuals can no longer predict whether their mere participation in a public gathering – a peaceful demonstration, a festival, a sporting event, or a religious gathering – will be criminalized,” said Béatrice Vaugrante, Director General of Amnesty International's Francophone Canada section. "While we unequivocally condemn acts of vandalism and violence and recognize that law enforcement officials have a duty to protect citizens and maintain public order, giving them discretionary powers to round up large numbers of people on a presumption of guilt is dangerous and contravenes Canada’s international human rights obligations.”

In recent weeks, Amnesty International’s Francophone Canada section has raised concerns about the policing of the ongoing protests in Montreal, including over a ban on the use of masks in peaceful protests and reports of police using excessive force and carrying out arbitrary arrests. Amnesty International renews its call for an independent inquiry into the actions of the security forces and acts of violence and vandalism by some individuals during the recent protests in Quebec.

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