SHOCKING - Greek Court Dismisses Charges Against Germany's FOCUS Magazine For Insulting Cover

And then people wonder why the citizens of this country detest the state! Believe it or not folks... a Greek court today dismissed defamation charges that were brought against Germany's FOCUS magazine which had published an illustration depicting the Venus de Milo (Aphrodite) statue draped in a Greek flag and raising her middle finger. Shortly after this magazine issue was published a committee of citizens decided to sue the magazine, and wouldn't you know it... a GREEK court found no wrongdoing in this insulting photo.

A GREEK COURT... not a German...

The 2010 Focus magazine article had focused as its headline “Cheats in the European family,” and was published right after the PASOK government of George Papandreou had claimed that it had falsified data to hide its economic crisis.

The Greek prosecutor had charged the magazine with defamation and insulting a national symbol but some very ANTI-HELLENES in the Athens court system ruled that the controversial FOCUS magazine  had referred to acts by Greek politicians and not the country’s population in general.

Excuse us... but the statue of Aphrodite does not belong to our politicians... it belongs to the PEOPLE and therefore is a DIRECT INSULT to US!

This is insane...First they do not recognize the atrocities they did to Greece in the Second World War and now they cannot take responsibility for insulting us to our faces!

Our political leaders are TRAITORS!!!!

They should be chasing the money Germany who owes Greece back taxes from the Athens International Airport in Spata, from LIDL and a whole series of other companies!

And as for our ANTI-HELLENES - Fotia Kai Tsekouri - As Kolokotronis would say!

Re ousssssssttttttttt Poulimenoi!

Greece Says War reparations issue with Germany STILL OPEN (VIDEO)

In a surprising move, the Greek government emphasized that it has never relinquished its rights to war reparations from Germany for damages and loss of life during the Second World War, directly answering Berlin's announcement at the weekend which said otherwise. "Greece's positions are unwavering, and what the (Greek) foreign minister said recently in (Greece's) Parliament applies in the fullest," spokesman Grigoris Delavekouras said a day after the eye-brow raising comment from Berlin.

The spokesman referred to statements by FM Stavros Dimas in Parliament on March 28, made specifically in reference to the issue of war reparations and a "forced loan" taken by the Axis forces occupying Greece in 1941. Delavekouras said the twin issues remain absolutely open for Athens while he added that the Greek Foreign Minister's statement was that "this issue must be again discussed with the necessary documentation that will bolster the strength of our arguments, and always within the framework of mutual respect and trust that should distinguish Greek-German relations." (AMNA)

Turkey Forbids Greece To Perform Military Exercises in E.Aegean

Ankara forbids Greece to hold military exercises in the eastern Aegean islands, citing the 1914 Treaty and the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923 and as such issued a NAVIGATIONAL WARNING which argues that the island of "Samothrace is demilitarized area and may not be included in any military exercise scenario."

Ana all this in response to a military exercise titled TAMS AIGIALOS which began on Monday and is expected to end of Friday 06/04, (Wednesday being the most "critical" day of the excerise where there will be a Navy Vessel invasion by four men from the 505 Marine Battalion).

In response, Greece issued a NOTAM  on the Turkish allegations and everything looks like it will end here unless Ankara begins to suddenly become concerned again. In such a case, and order has been issued for increased military interceptor squadrons to be on alert.

Today the Navy Vessel sailed from Salamina, and on Wednesday it will hold firing exercises near the island of Andros (somewhere where we are still "allowed" to conduct such military exercises...) and then it is scheduled to sail to Volos, where it will load the relevant battalion to conduct the exercise which should be at dawn on Wednesday in Samothrace

The Turkish - NAVIGATIONAL   WARNING   is as follows:

A1149/12 (Issued for LTBB LGGG) - NAVIGATIONAL WARNING TO ALL CONCERNED.
THIS NOTAM IS ISSUED TO CLARIFY THE A0501/12 NOTAM ISSUED BY GREEK
CAA. THE A0501/12 NOTAM ISSUED BY GREEK CAA CONSTITUES A BREACH OF
GREECE'S TREATY OBLIGATIONS PERTAINING TO THE DEMILITARIZED STATUS
OF EASTERN AEGEAN ISLANDS UNDER 'THE 1914 SIX POWERS' DECISION AND
'THE 1923 LAUSANNE PEACE TREATY (WITH ITS ANNEX, THE CONVENTION
RELATING TO THE REGIME OF THE STRAITS) '. SEMOTHRACE, MENTIONED IN
THE NOTAM AT REFERENCE HAS A DEMILITARIZED STATUS. THUS SEMOTHRACE
MUST NOT BE INCLUDED IN ANY SCENARIO / CONCEPT OF ANY TRAINING OR
EXERCISE. SFC - FL100, 04 APR 04:30 2012 UNTIL 04 APR 05:10 2012. CREATED: 29
MAR 11:35 2012

And the Greek "response"

A0501/12 - HELLENIC NAVY AND AIRFORCE WILL MAKE A WITHOUT FIRING EXER WITHIN
ATHINAI FIR AS DESCRIBED BELOW:
1-EXERCISE AREA (WITHOUT FIRING): 05NM RAD 402648N0252906E
VERTICAL LIMITS: 0-10000FT AMSL.
2. - EXERCISE AREA (WITHOUT FIRING): 05NM RAD 385038N0243345E
SKIROS MTMA AFFECTED.
VERTICAL LIMITS: 0-10000FT AMSL.
3. - PROCEDURES FOR EXERCISE AIRCRAFT:
3.1. - EXERCISE AIRCRAFT WILL FLY VFR / VMC IN ACCORDANCE WITH ICAO
RULES AND PROCEDURES AS AMPLIFIED IN AIP-GREECE.
3.2. - EXERCISE AIRCRAFT WILL SUBMIT FLIGHT PLANS AND WILL NOT ENTER
CONTROLLED AIRSPACE, UNLESS PRIOR PERMISSION HAS BEEN OBTAINED BY
COMPETENT ATC UNITS.
4. - PROCEDURES FOR NON EXERCISE AIRCRAFT:
4.1. - IN THE INTEREST OF SAFETY DURING THE EXERCISE, NON EXERCISE
AIRCRAFT ARE STRONGLY ADVISED NOT TO FLY WITHIN THE AREAS DESIGNATED
IN PARAS (1) AND (2) ABOVE. 00000FT AMSL - 10000FT AMSL, APR 04 0430-0510, 04
APR 04:30 2012 UNTIL 04 APR 05:10 2012. CREATED: 29 MAR 06:16 2012

Translated by hellasfrappe
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CONSPIRACY - Russia Goes On Alert As China Coup Fears Escalate

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Russian President Medvedev took an unprecedented step of putting the Federal Security Service (FSB) on its “highest maximum alert” over fears the Communist Party leadership in China is fast losing control over its internal police and military forces leading many Russian intelligence analysts to believe the world’s largest populated nation may be undergoing a coup.

The FSB is the main domestic security agency of the Russian Federation whose main responsibilities are counter-intelligence, internal and border security, counter-terrorism, surveillance and who are now reporting an increasing number of top Chinese military, political and police officials may be preparing to seek asylum from the growing chaos in their country. Russian intelligence reports state that the current turmoil centers on Bo Xilai who is one of their most popular politicians and member of the Politburo who is the son of Bo Yibo (1908-2007), one of the Eight Elders of the Communist Party of China.

As the leader of Chongqing, a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities in the People's Republic of China, Bo, since June 2009, oversaw a crime-crackdown that saw some 2,000 people detained in a sweeping campaign against gangsters in the city. In marked departure from other anti-mafia campaigns in China, Bo cracked down on the government officials who served as political back-up to gangsters, not just the gangsters themselves – some of the detained were officials in Bo's own administration, others were from the city's police force.

Especially angering China’s top Communist leaders, however, this FSB report says, was Bo’s use of Hakluyt & Company, a British strategic intelligence firm linked to MI6, to gain “strategic information” that had been denied him by Beijing in his battle against high-level corruption.

Bo’s “primary contact” with Hakluyt & Company was his long-standing friend Neil Heywood [photo 3rd left], 41, a Harrow-educated consultant from Kensington who was found dead in a hotel room in the central city of Chongqing this past November. At the time Chinese authorities blamed alcohol poisoning and swiftly cremated Mr. Heywood’s body without an autopsy after which the UK demanded a full accounting of his death.

The FSB reports that Bo blamed Heywood’s death on Wang Lijun, who was the top police official in Chongqing, and ordered his “swift apprehension” and “immediate arrest.” Wang, however, fearing his arrest at the hands of Bo arranged a meeting on 6 February at the US consulate in Chengdu, where he remained for approximately 24 hours. Observers speculated that Wang may have been attempting to defect or to seek refuge from Bo. He then left the consulate of his own volition, and was taken to Beijing by agents and the vice minister Qiu Jin of the Ministry of State Security.

After Wang was safely under the protection of Beijing, this report continues, Bo was reprimanded on 14 March by Premier Wen Jiabao during his press conference with foreign and domestic press where he warned that China was in danger of a second Cultural Revolution.

On 15 March, Bo was dismissed as Chongqing Communist Party Secretary and its related municipal posts, while retaining a seat on the Politburo due to the potentially destructive effects such a sudden political change would have on party unity, party elders were consulted on the matter.

Upon his dismissal Bo returned to his family’s compound next to the Forbidden City in central Beijing where this past fortnight (20 March) military vehicles had been seen and sounds of gunfire heard in the vicinity, but with no firm evidence that he was either killed or detained.

The FSB reports that the attack on Bo’s compound was initiated by Jia Qinglin who is the fourth ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China and blamed forces loyal to Bo for an attack on his illegitimate son after he was killed in a fiery crash of his Ferrari 458 Spider sports car on 19 March in Beijing.

Most dangerously, the FSB confirms, is that Chinese military are now involved in this coup attempt as Bo is being supported by Zhou Yongkong who is a senior member of the powerful Standing Committee of the Politburo who heads the internal security forces and opposed Bo's sacking.

Important to note is that although Bo is identified with the elitist bloc for his time in Liaoning and as Minister of Commerce, during his tenure in the interior city of Chongqing, he adopted a number of populist policies more typically associated with the left. Namely, he implemented social housing programs, gave residency status (and therefore the associated social welfare benefits) to rural migrant workers, and emphasized a need for a more balanced distribution of wealth.



Bo also relentlessly pursued technology, capital, and business opportunities and spearheaded a large number of government programs to help the working class and disadvantaged groups. His campaigns against corruption seized the assets of private entrepreneurs, in turn funneling these funds into state projects and welfare programs, effectively re-asserting state control over wealth. He further sought to promote “red culture,” and mandated the revival of Mao-era slogans and songs, evoking a time of an egalitarian society.

The FSB further notes in their report that Bo’s adherence to Maoist principles earned him the anger of the US, who aside from refusing to turn Wang over to Bo for his being part of the plot that murdered Heywood, allowing Beijing to have him instead, a mysterious American woman named Missa Guthrie [photo bottom left] associated with the highest echelons of American power has now been linked to the 23 August 2010 murder of MI6 spy Gareth Williams who was Heywood’s “main contact” with British intelligence.

In China itself news of this titanic power struggle is being suppressed by its Communist Party who have, so far, arrested at least 6, shut down at least 16 websites, and “disabled” two Twitter-like services run by Sina Corporation and Tencent Holdings, which each have more than 300 million users.

To what the final outcome of these events may be it is not in our knowing…other than to note that obvious: When China, like America, sneezes the whole world catches a cold.

By: Sorcha Faal
WhatDoesItMean

Officials Arrest Citizen For 71 million Euros Debt to State

A 65-year-old man has been arrested in Drama for over 70 million euros in debts to the state, it was announced at the weekend.

The man, who owns a concrete manufacturing unit, was arrested for debts to the state totaling a whopping 71,177,316 euros.

He is now expected to appear before a local prosecutor.

Translated from - newsit