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Officials are concerned over a peculiar news report that was published in "TA NEA" newspaper on Tuesday claiming that the US strategic and intelligence group STRATFOR – or “the shadow CIA“- was monitoring Greek economic affairs ten months before our country sought economic aid from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and several months before George Papandreou began having private tet-a-tet talks with former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Khan.
The news was apparently leaked by WikiLeaks, and said to be part of the more than five million communication e-mails that were conducted by STRATFOR employees and their informants in various countries around the world. The article in "TA NEA" found it odd that the intelligence agency was so fixated on whether or not Greece would or would not result to the IMF for aid. So much so, that according to Wikileaks STRATFOR and the IMF were in direct communication on several occasions.
The WikiLeaks Internet website has published hundreds of emails that might have come from a larger collection of documents stolen in December from STRATFOR, a global intelligence analysis company based in Austin, Texas. The underground group that calls itself “Anonymous” claims to have hacked STRATFOR's servers, taking customer information as well as emails and internal documents. Source - voanewsAccording to the report WikiLeaks partnered with 25 different media organizations from various countries around the world to investigate the emails from STRATFOR, including outfits in Lebanon, Egypt, Pakistan, Malaysia, Tunisia and Russia. Publications from several Western countries, including the US, Greece, Germany as well as Spain were also on the list.
The information discovered that the intelligence agency has many informants in Washington, Brussels, Turkey, Iran, Israel, China, etc. Two such informants, said a similar report in the "Imiresia" economic newspaper, were also said to have been operating in Greece, and were even dubbed with the code names GR001 and GR101 so that the real identities of the informants would not be revealed.
Interestingly this report said that on June 19, 2009 an official from STRATFOR, responsible for Central European, Baltic and Balkan issues apparently sent an attached file to his colleagues -in charge of the Eurasian region- entitled "Detailed Instructions Europe - Tier 3." In the attached file, added the report, informants were advised on how to better monitor economic events in Greece as well as on how to act if/when Greece would apply for IMF aid. Specifically it warned them that a complete economic collapse of the Greek economy was looming and their attention should immediately turn to any movement in the tender of bonds. "Greece has a large debt, their (Greek government) moves will depend on what happens with their debt".
In a separate email dated sometime in November 2011, the relationship between STRATFOR and the IMF is even more profound since this email reveals that an employee of the International Monetary Fund advised the intelligence service that Greek cash reserves were running low and would more or less dry up by mid-December of the same year.
The reports in both dailies only come to confirm the reports that had begun being published on olympia.gr in 2010 when the news site began to expose the international economic conspiracy against Greece. In one such report, dated June, 2009 (the date is a coincidence?) the former leader of the New Democracy party Costas Karamanlis was apparently quoted by his associates as telling George Papandreou that he was not going to sacrifice the lives of his family because of his (and his late father's) antics (meaning the borrowing spree that the government of Andreas Papandreou was charged of during the 80s).
Two years later, and while Greece is getting set to receive a second mammoth bailout package from Europe and the IMF, Monday's report in TA NEA only comes to confirm that Greece's course to the IMF was not by chance, but rather it is becoming more apparent that it was well "planned".
And without a doubt, the reports today also debunk, AND TOTALLY CRUMBLE, Papandreou's (and PASOK's) argument that it did not plan to "ask" for aid, but were rather forced to take this difficult decision because of the responsibilities of "others".
The reason we posted the above video is because it is directly linked to our theory as to why our country is now in the clutches of the Troika. Look at how our "allies" were operating against Greece before during and a little after the introduction of the memorandum -with the involvement of George Papandreou ofcourse- and draw your own conclusions.
- 1. PASOK leader George Papandreou's "semi-secret Exploratory" talks for the Aegean, as opposed to former conservative leader Costas Karamanlis' decision to only engage with Ankara periodically. According to what was just revealed Papandreou argued that "daily nurturing" was required to strengthen Greek-Turkish relations and the cables reveal that for this to happen, PASOK had a new national strategy that was ready to be deployed for this very purpose. Click here to read this story
- 2. One of the major subjects discussed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last weekend in Greece was apparently the topic of energy. Accompanying the US Secretary of State was none other than special envoy for Eurasian Energy Ambassador Richard Morningstar. According to a revealing article in the Epikaira magazine, which was released today, he was apparently present at the discussions with Hillary Clinton and Greek government officials, including Prime Minister George Papandreou.
- A law on privatization of public property passed by the government recently, has left open the possibility of liquidating assets to creditors of all of Greece’s mineral wealth, including its proven reserves, says the article, as well as those that may be discovered in the future and the total potential revenue from them. Click here to read this story
- 3. According to the latest Wikileaks cable as presented by the ETHNOS newspaper today Chancellor Angela Merkel's government welcomed the decision taken by an informal summit in Brussels in 2010 (prior to Greece’s entry to the IMF) which did not to provide financial assistance, for the moment, to cash-strapped Greece. Click here to read that story
- 4 When Giannoulas asked him what his plans were for the Greek debt crisis… Papandreou said Greece lacked of competitiveness, and this could be dealt with through modernization, including moving toward a green economy. He noted that Greece was made more vulnerable to the global financial crisis because its banks had invested heavily in the Balkans… (Ah ha!… So the Greek crisis was not the fault -as you kept noting in Greece prior to the 2009 elections- of the former Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis it was/is a "global crisis" because Greek greedy bankers lost a lot of their money in the Balkans... ) Click here to read that story
- 5. A new report on the Epikaira website featuring this week's issue (scheduled to be released on Thursday) claims that the US think-tank Stratfor wants Greece to give half of the Aegean to Turkey, in other words for natural gas and oil. The report largely reflects the plans and intentions of Washington at geo-strategic level, the article on Epikaira added. Click here to read that story
- 6.Our country's wealth under the sea, and below the ground is apparently under the microscope and eyed by many vultures. In fact our creditors have included this wealth, said to be more than 1 TRILLION EUROS in their list of demands - beyond reproach called "English law" - and the possibility of it being confiscated is as real as real can get if we as a nation cannot repay our debts. Click here to read that story
- 7. Most of the news sites and blogs have been in a frenzy over the past two days with the article entitled "Schöne Waffen für Athen" from Germany's "Zeit online" publication claiming Greece is getting set to purchase aircraft, frigates as well as submarines, etc. In Greece it was said that our allies are bulleying us into agreeing with this defence spending so that we can avoid bailout and finally receive the sixth tranche of the bailout plan. Also, it was noted that the equipment that they want to sell us either does not exist, is over priced and of questionable quality and usefulness! Clearly, the Germans and all our other so-called allies who produce and sell weapons are basically doing their job... the question is what the hell are we doing about this as a nation and what have we done about this for the past 30 years Click here for that story
- 8. In an unprecedented move which goes against our national foreign policy, the Deputy Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change, (PECA) Y. Maniatis on Thursday went on a rant about Greece's EEZ and spoke about "undefined zones" and "unclear" areas in the Aegean. Maniatis -who is a member of the PASOK party- more or less left it to be understood that he recognizes the claims of Turkey in the Aegean and in the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as the claims on the EEZ and the rights to its exploration and exploitation!The statements even shocked the writers at defencenet who said in one report that the declaration by Maniatis goes beyond logic and is totally against Greece's foreign and national policies. "Not even Turkey would dare to make these types of statements" said a relevant report. Click here to read this story
- 9. The speech made by main opposition New Democracy MP Panos Kammenos in Parliament this past week revealed many truths. The Greek mainstream media barely touched the subject since Thursday for reasons which are obvious (maybe they are in on the cut) and the only little bit of information that is being released to the public is from the olympia website, as well as two alternative news television channels. According to Panos Kammenos Prime Minister George Papandreou "staged" the announcement of the referendum since the following day billions of dollars/euros were lost on the international markets. And what's more... there were a few that banked in on a lot of money. with this inside tip... A LOT OF MONEY! Click here to read this story
- 10. After enjoying his holiday's our beloved George Trangas is back and he pulled out all the stops on last night's show "Choris Anaisthitiko" by slamming the present government, and especially George Papandreou, and his predecessor Costas Simitis. After speaking about the Greek debt, and explaining why we should proclaim it as odious he also commented on the recent remarks by publisher Stavros Psycharis. The latter is the President of the Lambrakis Publishing Group (DOL) which publishes many Athens newspapers including the long-standing journal "To Vima". Slamming Papandreou, Trangas asked what do private jets and corn have to do with one another? What does a lavish apartment in Knightsbridge have to do with all of this? (Knightsbridge is a London district that is home to many of the world's richest people, and has some of the highest property prices in the world. In 2006, a four bedroom apartment in this area sold for over £25,000,000, and according to Wikipedia street car parking spaces sell for £300,000 on a 94 year lease! This area is so exclusive that the principal landowners in the area are the Duke of Westminster and Earl Cadogan!) Click here to read this story
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