Villa Amalias statement: we are, and we shall remain here
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Today, on December 20th, 2012, the police raided Villa Amalias. Under the pretext of a complaint for drug dealing, they searched the building in the presence of a district attorney. Their findings are ludicrous. Nevertheless, according to Dendias … |
Death surge linked with mass privatisation
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The Oxford-led study measured the relationship between death rates and the pace and scale of privatisation in 25 countries in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, dating back to the early 1990s. They found that mass privatisation came at … |
"New Normal"? On bankers' communication attempts to normalize misery
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The latest Danske Bank’s communication strategy is full of images of unrest; the Occupy movement, protestors with stones and Greek flags against the police, images of slave workers in the world’s production lines, pictures of despaired citizens from across the … |
The Guardian: Golden Dawn and the rise of fascism
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Fascists didn’t suddenly multiply in Greece – their ideas gradually permeated public consciousness. They will elsewhere, too.Tuesday 19 June 2012 18.30 BST by Professor Spyros Marketos, Political Science Department, Thessaloniki University Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/19/golden-dawn-fascism-greece
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Protests against Vancouver's Eldorado Gold in Greece
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Government push to bring in new mines as solution to economic woes rejected by residents by Dawn Paley http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/story/greek-protests-against-vancouvers-eldorado-gold/11264 As people in Greece fight austerity in the streets, top officials are pushing open pit mining as a way out of … |
Impressions from the 14N in Lisbon
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In 14N, during the European General Strike, two of us were in Lisbon seizing the chance to join the demonstrations, observing a general strike a la Portuguese and showing our solidarity. This text is by no means a journalistic reportage, … |
Moody's downgrades France
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According to BBC the well-known credit ratings agency Moody’s downgraded France’s debt from AAA to AA1. In my humble opinion, what is really important to see is the rhetoric that surrounds this move. The grounds Moody’s provided were elegantly summed … |
Troika's forecasting skills
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Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-14/why-troikas-forecasts-are-total-joke-one-easy-chart Recently, Zerohedge has published this graph that displays the forecast of the Greek GDP according to Troika and the reality as presented frankly and cynically by numbers. Numbers are not actually needed for someone to be certain that … |
The aftermath of 14N
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Enforcement, police brutality and governments that are barely willing to act in favour of their people… Spain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTFcWVheVrk Italy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcmQ8BHVTEU Greece: Source: http://www.onlineaktivisten.de/index.php?action=article_single&id=1198&a_type=news… |
