New Poll Places Golden Dawn In Second Place- Passes SYRIZA!

HellasFrappe warned everyone concerned that this would happen, and thankfully some people are beginning to listen (example anti racism bill). By ignoring the over one million people who support the Golden Dawn party, by provoking national sentiment on issues that are very sensitive to Greek citizens (such as those noted in the anti racism bill), by not addressing the real problems of society (Turkish provocations in Aegean, Thrace, Cham issue, FYROM issue, etc.), the only thing that the members of Parliament and the Greek media has done is to escalate the Golden Dawn's popularity with the people.

In a new poll published by Makis Triantafylopoulos' zougla.gr new site, the Golden Dawn party moved into second place, passing the US-endorsed SYRIZA party. The conservative New Democracy apparently maintains a comfortable lead over all parties, or recorded 21,1%.

The Golden Dawn party received 14,5% while SYRIZA trailed in third place at 14%.

SYRIZA is suffering many losses to the newly established party of Alekos Alavanos, as well as to other smaller parties, (or has already lost about 8,4%).

The Independent Greek party scored 5.8%, followed by PASOK with a historical low of 4.2%, the Greek Communist party (KKE) with 4%, and DIMAR with 3.1%.

Source in Greek - news24

(Editor's Note - Golden Dawn is not popular because there are people in Greece that are racist or against foreigners, Golden Dawn is popular because it respects the Greek Constitution, the Greek Armed Forces, Greek history and especially our Greek national issues. The conservatives always traditionally supported these ideals... They lost their way at some point because the media and the Leftist parties in Greece have a profound influence on the political developments of the country, and especially the people and we believe that they were persuaded to follow a different path that did not reflect what the conservatives really stand for. We are nonetheless very pleased that they have realized that the new trend, which tilts to the right, will only benefit them. Time to get back to some of their grass roots on these issues. Who knows, it could be a new era for Greece!)

YES! - Samaras Backs Off From Unconstitutional Anti Racism Bill

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Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and his conservative New Democracy party have decided to back off from a very provocative anti racism law which was introduced by the (radical, Leftist and very pro-Turkey) DIMAR party. PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos and Democratic Left (DIMAR) head Fotis Kouvelis, who almost always yield to whatever Samaras wants, are reportedly very disappointed that the PM has decided to back away from voting on tougher penalties for racist crimes, including assaults on immigrants.

In such a framework, Samaras scheduled a meeting with Venizelos and Kouvelis only days after meeting several conservative New Democracy officials who rightfully said that the bill isn’t necessary because there are already laws in place against racism, and they feared it could impede freedom of expression.

(Freedom of expression, as in denying the Greek genocides in Pontus and Asia Minor! While it totally violates the Greek Constitution!)

PASOK officials said that “no one has the right to influence Parliament with leaks,” referring to reports that ND officials had decided that the bill could (or rather should) be shelved or at least amended (because it violates the Greek Constitution). Following the same kind of criticism, DIMAR officials slammed the conservative party for what they said was yielding to protests against the bill by some Church officials.

(This is a stupid statement, since the bill not only offended the Greek Orthodox Church but 97 percent of the Greek population because it aims at rewriting modern Greek history!)

DIMAR officials also had the audacity to accuse Samaras of being afraid to confront the Golden Dawn party.

(This last statement by these wannabe pro-Turkey Leftists was indeed hysterical.)

On its part, SYRIZA said that the Greek Prime Minister's part is being a “hostage to far-right elements within its ranks” and called on the junior coalition partners to support the bill and not “confirm that they are beholden to Samaras and his far-right advisers.”

What all these idiotic, and totally lame-brain Leftist parties do not realize is that Samaras, or basically the conservatives, just like the Golden Dawn party, and even the Independent Greek party, are not only pro law-and-order they are also patriots, and would never engage in the rewriting of Greek history. And most importantly they would also never go against the Greek Constitution!

We are glad that Mr. Samaras decided to back off from this obviously scandalous and totally unconstitutional bill. He just gained our respect once again.

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Economist: Greece has performed better than expected

"Greece has performed better than expected, but still has much to do", according to an Economist΄s article entitled "Up, but not out".

What a difference a year makes. Last May Greece seemed to be heading out of the euro. Lagging reforms, political in-fighting and violent protests had worn out creditors’ patience. An election failed to produce a clear winner. Athenians stashed euros in safety-deposit boxes and under mattresses amid fears of instability and a chaotic return to the drachma.

Greece is still in recession, but recovery could be around the corner. The threat of “Grexit” from the euro has receded. Hedge funds are snapping up sovereign bonds and bank shares; one has made a bricks-and-mortar investment in a Greek energy company. Bail-out funds from the European Union and IMF are flowing in as reform “milestones” are reached. Greece expects to record a small primary budget surplus (ie, before interest) of about 0.5% of GDP. The economy should grow a little in 2014 and by more than 2% in 2015.

This summer should see a record 17m tourists crowding Greek beaches. Bookings from Germany and Russia are soaring, say travel agents. A projected rise of €1.5 billion-2 billion in tourist revenues will give the budget a boost, even though many hoteliers are struggling to service bank debts. Greek contractors expect to resume work in the autumn on €6 billion of EU-financed motorway projects stalled since the crisis. They could create 30,000 jobs.

Privatisation is under way after several false starts. Opap, the state gambling monopoly, has been sold for €712m to a consortium of Greek and east European investors. Gazprom is expected to bid for Depa, the natural-gas monopoly. Sintez, a private Russian energy company, and Socar, Azerbaijan’s state gas producer, are vying for the gas distributor Desfa.

Antonis Samaras, the centre-right prime minister, sounded confident on a visit to Beijing that Chinese investment is coming. Cosco, a state-controlled shipping operator that leases a container terminal at Athens’s port of Piraeus, wants to buy Olp, Piraeus’s port owner. Some consultants bemoan a lack of interest from the EU. But one says that, since its partial default last year, “Greece has become a frontier market that is too risky for western companies.”

Mr Samaras has managed to keep his awkward coalition under control. The PanHellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) and the Democratic Left have even accepted deep cuts in health and welfare spending and now job losses for civil servants. They put the blame on the EU and the IMF. “The troika (the EU, European Central Bank and IMF) hold all the cards—you can’t negotiate with them,” said Antonis Manitakis, the civil-service minister, a Democratic Left appointee, after agreeing to cut 25,000 public-sector jobs by the end of the year. Street protests have faded.

Yet the crisis has left a terrible legacy. Five-and-a-half years of recession have wiped out over 25% of output and more than a million private-sector jobs. Tens of thousands of retailers and small manufacturers have gone under. Unemployment is above 27%, a record; for youths it is over 60%. With jobs disappearing, emigration by skilled young Greeks is growing; more than 34,000 went to Germany last year, a 43% increase on 2011. Poverty has become widespread, especially in urban areas. The suicide rate has doubled in three years.

Yannis Stournaras, the finance minister, says Greece is two-thirds through a €13.5 billion programme of spending cuts and tax rises, but the remaining one-third will be tough. “It’s like running a marathon: you’ve completed most of the distance, but you’re starting to get tired.”

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Provopoulos: "Grexit" Has Now Been Replaced By The Word "Grecovery"

George Provopoulos, Governor of the Bank of Greece (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Greece withstood the crisis which became a landmark for the country’s society, George Provopoulos, governor of the Bank of Greece said on Thursday, addressing a seminar organized by the central bank with the participation of European Central Bank’s vice-president Vitor Constancio.

According to AMNA, the Greek central banker noted that a recent progress in economic restructuring reflected, mainly, the determination of the government to implement an adjustment programme after making it clear that the country’s future was within the Eurozone. He added that the benefits from an economic adjustment programme expanded beyond an improving credibility and economic competitiveness which is achieved through a reduction in macro-economic imbalances.

Provopoulos said that since June 2012 share prices have doubled, the yield spread have fallen by 25 pct, bank deposits were up by 12 pct and the dependence of Greek banks from Eurosystem’s funding operations has been reduced by almost 35 pct. He reiterated his forecast that the Greek economy will recover in 2014 and said that the word ΄Grexit΄ has been recently replaced by the word ΄Grecovery΄.

Vitor Constancio said that structural reforms were an one-way road even for countries with surpluses in payment balances. He said he supported a quick banking union and said that ECB was preparing to respond to its new duties.

(AMNA)

MUST READ Speech by P.Koutoujian, Sheriff in Massachusetts, on Greek Pontian Genocide

This article should be read by all, and especially Mrs. Repoussi from the Leftist DIMAR party who, according to press reports, had the audacity to once again exit the Greek Parliament when the House Speaker held a moment in silence in respect for the 300,000 victims of this genocide a couple of days ago. She might deny that this Greek genocide ever existed, because she is very pro-Turkey, as most Leftists in Greece are, but thankfully she is a small majority because as you can all see there are too many people who know the truth. We humbly thank Mr. Koutoujian for this inspiring, and heart-warming speech, it brought tears to our eyes.

The following is the speech made by Mr. Peter Koutoujian.

My name is Peter Koutoujian and I am honored and humbled to stand with you today as – together – we mark this tragic day – the Pontian Genocide -- in our world’s history. I thank the Pan-Pontian Federation of Greece for this invitation and for the opportunity to be here with you today.

I am an American by birth – from Massachusetts – but my spirit is never far from Armenia, where family once lived.

I may be from America, and I may be Armenian, but I feel like home here with you. And because of that, I know and understand too well the anger and sadness that accompany this day of remembrance for you and your families, but also I know and understand the importance of today as well. Because just as my father taught me, and his father taught him before that – and what I teach my children today – is that we cannot forget.

As George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

It is our way to honor those who perished and just as important - those who survived.

I come from the United States – a country of immigrants – and the story of my family embodies that. My grandparents Abraham and Zarouhi fled their home village of Marash, Turkey, with nothing but the clothes on their backs, to flee the genocide that took the lives of 1.5 million people in Armenia – and took hundreds of thousands of Pontian Greek lives at the same time.

They saw acts and sights that were so unspeakable, that they did just that – after fleeing their home country – they did not speak of what they saw.

This was not uncommon during this time in history - their generation kept silent about their horrific witness so that others, including their children, like my father, would not suffer.

My grandparents immersed themselves, as did so many Greeks, in everything American when they came to the United States. They worked hard - attended church and sent their daughter and three sons to school - and each of their sons served in the US military - they loved everything about their new lives.

My grandparents told my father: "My son, America is the greatest country in the world because you can be anything you want to be."

This sounds trite because it is both overused and simple, but coming from my grandfather these words were pure and profound given the horrors he experienced in his lifetime. Yet these words and this experience are not unique to Abraham and Zarouhi Koutoujian - nor are they to Armenians - they have been experienced and shared by immigrant families and communities throughout the world.

History of the Pontian Genocide

My grandfather’s story is only one of a million stories told by Pontian & Anatolian Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians - all survivors of Ottoman genocide. Because in the early 20th century, the Ottoman genocide perpetrated against our ancestors during and following the First World War binds us together in history forever.

As you know, it began in 1908, when Turkish nationalists, also known as “the Young Turks”, took over leadership in the Ottoman Empire, only to watch it quickly fall apart through lost wars waged between then and 1913.

During that time, historians estimate that the Ottoman Empire lost 500,000 miles of land. As a result, in 1913, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), an extreme nationalist group of Young Turks, took control of government and began a movement to victimize and target those who were not of Islamic or Turkish decent.

By 1914, Pontian Greeks were being executed, and a year later in 1915 the Armenian genocide commenced. By 1923, millions of humans had died by force or hunger.

Shared History

This heinous time that we share brought us together – our heritage mirrored each other then and continues today. The native Pontian Greeks and Armenians were neighbors geographically and remain close in proximity in the United States in the after many migrated to the United States. Many Armenians immigrated to the town of Watertown in Massachusetts.

Many Pontian Greeks immigrated to the same county in the neighboring city of Lowell, Massachusetts. I believe we continue to have an unspoken kinship, and as Sheriff of Middlesex County, I have the honor and distinction of representing both communities.

We also share the same Christian faith, similar food delicacies and the importance of preserving family traditions. And for both of our nationalities, this time of year is one of the most sacred for Pontian Greeks as well as Armenians.

It is about calling attention to an incredible injustice – a horrific time in our world history when our ancestors where victim to a systematic massacre of our people perpetrated because of who we were. Not for a crime committed or an injustice on our part – but rather because of our religion.

It is about a generation taken by genocide – taken from not only mothers and fathers, but from children and grandchildren. From your children. From my children.

Henry Morganthau, the American Ambassador to Turkey from 1913 – 1916 wrote in The Murder of a Nation:

    “The Armenians are not the only subject people in Turkey which have suffered from this policy of making Turkey exclusively the country of the Turks. The story, which I have told about the Armenians, I could also tell with certain modifications about the Greeks and Assyrians. Indeed, the Greeks were the first victims of this nationalizing idea.”

Senseless, merciless and horrific only begin to describe this time in world history – genocide – as declared by the International Association of Genocide Scholars in as late as 2007, that “the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide against Armenians, Assyrians and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks.”

As Armenians and Pontian Greeks, we often call upon our faith as Christians to understand events that have taken place in our history as a way to cope and understand how to move on. In doing so, we look to the Bible for stories and passages that exemplify the challenges and struggles of our heritage.

For example: the book of John says:

    “For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world.”

And this is the victory that has overcome the world — our faith.

Resurrection

As Christians, we recently celebrated the Lenten season when we reflect on the persecution and death of Jesus Christ. On Easter, we celebrate Christ’s resurrection into Heaven where he joined God, his father. It represents an end to his suffering and his ascension in to Heaven. I think this analogy is important because it mirrors the life experiences of so many of our ancestors.

For a small number of genocide survivors, they successfully fled persecution only to be resurrected in another land to begin anew. They owned businesses, they attended the church, they got married, they started families and sent their children to be educated and they became pillars in their communities.

Resiliency of a People

These unsung heroes of history didn’t give up despite the atrocities they encountered and the horrors they saw. They experienced a rebirth, were resurrected, revived and given a second chance at life.

I stand before you today as a product of that human resiliency. Because my grandfather did not give up hope – didn’t give up on humanity - or the capacity of the human spirit - I am able to speak to you today as a survivor’s descendant. As a survivor myself. And I’m not the only one - there are millions of me - millions of us.

That’s why today is so important - we are maintaining a legacy for those who perished - but also for those who survived. We have been given the chance to live - we must keep those who were robbed of this forever in our hearts. And live our lives - each and every day - with passion and in memory of those who perished in our hearts.

Live our lives as they would live theirs. Because as is evidenced by my grandfather’s experience - life has many chapters. Some tragic, some inspirational. But all are worth living to their fullest.

We, as survivors of genocide, can never be divided from our experience. It will always be a part of who we are as a people and as individuals. But we, as a Christian people, will also never be defined by it.

Martin Luther King, Jr. once wrote that “an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” And, as it has been stated that those who failed to learn from history are doomed to repeat those same terrible acts. What a tragedy that the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur among others have occurred since our Christian genocide.

Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians, we must work together not only to ensure that we, as survivors, realize the long dreamed of recognition and acknowledgement of what happened to our people, but that we use our terrible experience in order to help prevent other peoples who are and will suffer the same fate from doing so.

Thank you very much.
And may God bless Greece,
may God bless Armenia,
may God bless America
and may God bless the victims and all us as survivors of Christian Genocide.

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Does your Bottled Water Contain Nicotine?

Research determined that commercial bottled water in Spain had over 50 pharmaceutically-active chemicals in it, as well as the highly addictive drug nicotine. Is your (or your children's) bottled water polluted with addictive chemicals?

It looks like it very well may be. And we're not talking about nicotine-supplemented water meant to help wean smokers off of nicotine. We're talking the kind of bottled water people drink to avoid the pollutants found in municipal drinking water supplies.

Researchers from the School of Public Health, Immunology and Medical Microbiology of Spain's Rey Juan Carlos University analyzed ten brand of commercially available bottled waters.

The researchers were surprised to learn that the bottled water contained 58 active pharmaceuticals, and five of the ten brands contained significant amounts of nicotine.

The nicotine content of these five brands ranged from 7 nanograms per liter to 15 ng/L. The researchers admitted that these levels were low. However, they added:

    Despite the low nicotine concentration measured, the presence of this compound in bottled water still raises concern. Health risk assessment researchers have postulated that the risk to adult healthy humans from oral intake of nicotine at low levels is negligible. However, no studies have been conducted to assess the human health risk of vulnerable populations such as pregnant women and newborns. This population is the target of advertising on the purity and quality characteristics of bottled mineral water.

While this is the first study to document bottled waters containing these chemicals, there are other studies, even newer, confirming identifiable concentrations of nicotine, pharmaceuticals and pesticide chemicals in municipal drinking water.

In the UK for example, the British Geological Survey analyzed and tested ground water and drinking water supplies and also found nicotine along with caffeine and a variety of pharmaceuticals - such as carbamazepine and triclosan.

And many bottled waters are merely municipal tap water, sometimes run through a filtration unit. However, these filtration systems are typically designed to remove macro-pollutants such as lead and arsenic, but they may not filter out micropollutants such as pharmaceuticals and nicotine.

Learn about water filtration, hydration, pollution and therapeutic uses for water.

Studies finding pharmaceuticals in drinking water began to be published in the last decade. These were no fluke, however. And newer studies are confirming a growing problem among the world's drinking water supplies.

For example, this year research from the Czech Republic's Department of Water Hygiene at the National Institute of Public Health collected samples from 92 drinking water supplies, feeding half of Czech population.

They found the highest levels of pharmaceuticals to be ibuprofen, carbamazepine, naproxen, and diclofenac. These concentrations ranged from 0.5 to 20.7 nanograms per liter.

Another recent study – from Serbia's University of Novi Sad Medical School - found trace levels of several antibiotics among their drinking water supplies.

Most municipal water treatment facilities do not filter out pharmaceuticals or other microtoxin metabolites from pesticides and other chemicals. New oxidation-driven systems are being tested, but these are not online in most municipalities. Micro-filtration units are also a possibility.

A study last year from Germany's Free University Berlin found that the psychoactive drugs primidone and phenobarbital were found in drinking water supplies. Oxazepam and others were found in wastewater streams - likely soon to be in the drinking water supplies.

Another study from Spain - this from the Pharmacy Department of the University of Valencia - found numerous pharmaceuticals among the region's ground water and drinking water supplies. They found 94% of the sediment and 80% of farming soils were polluted with carbamazepine, acetaminophen and others. They also found much of the drinking water supplies, pharmaceuticals were present at levels as high as 112 nanograms per liter. Soils contained lower concentrations, 15 nanograms per liter.

The researchers also pointed out high levels of fluoroquinolones and ibuprofen are threatening fish and otherwise contaminating the environment.

Meanwhile, last fall Polish researchers found the presence of beta-blockers and beta-agonists among their waterways.

And researchers from Australia's University of Queensland studied waterways and water supplies close by hospitals. They found 57 different pharmaceuticals among these waterways, including many antibiotics – which entered into the system from hospitals and residential areas alike.

Researchers from the Netherlands found 12 pharmaceuticals in the drinking water supplies, as well as seven transformation products (metabolites that form other toxins).

Swedish researchers tested four waterways in the Montreal, Canada region between 2007 and 2009. They found significant levels of caffeine and a number of pharmaceuticals drugs – including carbamazepine, naproxen, gemfibrozil, and trimethoprim. They also found progesterone, estrone, and estradiol, along with the herbicide triazine – with atrazine, deethylatrazine, deisopropylatrazine, simazine, and cyanazine.

Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey's California Water Science Center analyzed ground water supplies that feed numerous drinking water systems throughout California. They found pharmaceuticals affecting two to three percent of the 1231 ground water systems tested.

However, in this study only 14 pharmaceutical compounds were tested for, out of hundreds possible. And out of these 14 tested, seven were found in concentrations that were equal or greater to detection limits. These seven included acetaminophen, caffeine, carbamazepine, the highly addictive codeine, the caffeine metabolite p-xanthine, and the antibiotics sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim. The samples also contained various pesticides, VOCs (volatile organic compounds) and others.

The research found that ground water supplies in the Los Angeles area were much more likely to contain pharmaceuticals, and contain higher levels of them.

It should be noted that several brands of commercial bottled waters (and many other foods and beverages containing water) are packaged in the Los Angeles area.

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By Case Adams - Case Adams is a California Naturopath and holds a Ph.D. in Natural Health Sciences. His focus is upon science-based natural health solutions. He is the author of 25 books on natural health and numerous print and internet articles. His work can be found at http://www.caseadams.com. This article first appeared at GreenMedInfo.  Please visit to access their vast database of articles and the latest information in natural health.

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