Η ΓΥΡΟΜΑΝΙΑ ....ΕΓΙΝΕ ΓΚΡΑΦΙΤΙ !!!!

Η ΓΥΡΟΜΑΝΙΑ ....ΕΓΙΝΕ ΓΚΡΑΦΙΤΙ !!!!

K2 Picture – Mountain Wallpaper – National Geographic Photo of the Day

Amazing photo of the day at National geographic!
K2 Picture – Mountain Wallpaper – National Geographic Photo of the Day

Rhyming rally: Greek poets protest austerity measures - and throw a street party

Dancers on stilts perform in front of the Athens Academy during a protest by Greek poets, in central Athens on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. The anti-austerity protest was held on World Poetry Day. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Rhyming rally: Greek poets protest austerity measures - and throw a street party

Economist: EU Leaders Treated Greece with "Moral Decay"

 I am sharing this from  "keep talking greece"..It's really an eye opening post!!
Economist: EU Leaders Treated Greece with "Moral Decay"   

Economist: EU Leaders Treated Greece with “Moral Decay”

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy

 European Union leaders showed “moral decay” in delaying Greece’s bond swap deal in order to minimize the impact on the region’s banks, according to High Frequency Economics’ founder and chief economist, Carl Weinberg.

In a March report on the global economy, Weinberg said EU leaders had deliberately delayed Greece’s restructuring, to the detriment of its economy, in order to give banks time to prepare for the hit on their debt holdings.

“Why wasn’t Greece allowed to restructure its debt two years ago, before its economy contracted by 15 percent, and before it was necessary to impose a haircut on private sector borrowers, destabilize the government and the economy, illegally implement retroactive collective action clauses, and trigger credit default swaps [cnbc explains] ?” he asked in the report.

“It was inconvenient for the banks, that is why,” he said, according to CNBC.

Weinberg added that EU leaders forced Greece to go through severe austerity measures in order to give banks time to deal with the debt.

“Politicians preferred to put a few million Greek citizens through the ringer than ask banks to swallow losses on government bonds before they had time to ‘prepare’… it would seem that it is not just bankers who have entered an era of moral decay, but the governments that want to regulate them as well,” he wrote.

As a creditor representative in the wave of Latin American sovereign debt restructurings in the 1980s, Weinberg told CNBC.com that these earlier deals showed that if properly conducted, Greece’s restructuring would neither have triggered credit default swap payments, nor destabilized its economy and government.

In particular, Weinberg highlighted Mexico’s 1982 restructuring and Brazil’s 1983 restructuring as “clear success stories” carried out “properly and promptly, without being enslaved to political considerations”.

Neither Brazil’s nor Mexico’s debt has required subsequent restructuring, although both nations received substantial loans from the International Monetary Fund [cnbc explains] in the 1990s.

“Mexico and Brazil both undertook reform on their own initiative, and are now model economies,” said Weinberg.

In his report, Weinberg added that Greece was in more need of investment to combat its economic woes, than “clever” restructuring.

Survey: 1:4 Greeks Would Hurl Eggs anf Yogurt Against Politicians

Survey: 1:4 Greeks Would Hurl Eggs anf Yogurt Against Politicians

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 Sincerely, 
 Lina Greek

World press photo of the year

 I just saw the winner photo of the year for the world press photo contest.The photographer's name is Samuel Aranda.Omggg it's amazing!!How a person can capture everything in a picture,in a moment!

 A woman is holding her injured son during the demonstration in Sanaa,Yemen, on 15th October against president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

 The comment of the judge Koyo Kouo was that "It's a photo that talks about the entire region. It talks about Yemen,Agypt,Tynese,Lybia,Syria and about everything that happened during the Arabic spring. But it also shows a personal side of what happened. And it shows the role of women not only for the care they offered ,but also women being energetic parts of the movement".
 http://www.worldpressphoto.org/photo/world-press-photo-year-2011-0

 I agree with the judge! Well done mr Aranda! Thank you!!

 Sincerely,

 Lina Greek

Police chasing...Donald Duck???

 
It saddens me to see pictures and videos of police forces armed like lobsters chasing pensioneers, people who demonstrate for their rights (which are also the policemen's rights but they yet don't see it).
 It is about time they realise that people who resist these insane austerity measures are protecting their future and their children's future and most important they protect democracy and it's future.
 This picture is all over facebook and it shows we still got humor...It is our smile that will help us face everything and the belief that we can make it!
 Stop chasing donald guys!!take a breath and look clearly!
 Sincerely
 Lina Greek

Are we serious now????

March 17th 2012,

 I came home from work (yes, i work on Saturdays also!) and i read a post on the  Economist saying that the present PM who wasn't elected but appointed by the EU in Greece will remain in a big position even after elections.

 Are we serious now??? Do these people think that we are really blind and dumm??? The banks have to reassure that we pay with our blood the austerity measures they chose carefully for us. 

 And all this is happening while the 48,1% wants out of the eurozone now! But that's what they are really afraid of isnt it?

 People are out in the streets demonstrating against the auserity measures all over Europe! Greece,Spain,Portugal,England, France! Thousands of people are out in the streets for months and years and they do not seem to even see this! They go on expressing the will of the banks against democracy in each and every country one by one...

 How long are we going to accept this?What do we have to do so that they finally understand that they have to stop and be just to the people who voted them??

 I think we should not miss our right to vote this time because it is more critical than ever before to chose the people we want in and the ones we want out of the parlaiment!

 After all our granfathers died so we can have the right to vote. This means we can chose who is best for us now. And most certainly our current PM mr. Papadimos isn't elected.

 i get so upset with all the ungliness i see around me every day! Noone is happy, the depression levels are higher than ever before, old people dying helpless and young people watching their dreams of a future been taken away from them.

 Sincerely 

 Lina Greek

 

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Democracy not found

 What can you do when you see your basic democratic rights to be taken away from you? Or maybe the question is what should you do? Will we allow politicians who are trying to defend the previlledges of the wealthy and the banks to destroy democracy in the very country it was created? Greece is the cradle of democracy. 

 I have watched the last months foreign politicians from Germany and France and the rest of so called civilised Europe to demand that we won't have elections in Greece although it is the clear demand of the people. They had to make sure first that austerity measures would be forced to us and then we could have elections! Well..thank you!!!

 I hope that people who live all over Europe and all over this planet realise what this means for all of us. It means that when the banks face a problem democracy is not an option. It means that they can take our right to vote just like that without asking.It means that all our ancestors fights for freedom and democracy in this land are cancelled and do not matter.

 So now finally we are moving towards elections under the EU close serveilance. They said the following outrageous thing to us..." If you do not vote for the two big political parties that we the EU approve of then we are leaving".

 Now how democratic is that!!! It reminds me of fasistic tactics. "Vote with a gun in your head". Most of the Greeks are tired of the unjust austerity.Tired of being told when or who to vote. We now have to chose between money from the EU or Democracy in our country.

 I will stand for democracy. We are all awake now!!!I feel an obligation to my ancestors to protect the most precious gift they shared with the entire humanity making millions of people's lives better.
 Sincerely,
 Lina Greek

Moral responsibility

March 16th 2012

 I would like to post my thoughts about what is happening to my country in the last years. i really didn't know how to start or what to do but i was sure i had to take some action and the best way to take action today is to inform everyone more about all issues that are taking place here.

 So i will post in this first post as a blogger my first thought borrowing Martin Luther King's words.

 Our politicians have done a great job in destroying our democracy and our dignity as a nation. They have imposed all kinds of unjust laws and are taking from the poor to give to the rich. They want to save the banks and in order to accomplish this they have taken everything from the working people.
 Well, i'm certain most people have heard of the economic crisis that is killing the Greek society and not only. Portugal ,Spain,Ireland,Italy and now Britain are taking extreme measures through hard laws of austerity. The EU in its effort to save the euro and the banks is making people all over Europe starve. All these measures and laws are very unjust and against human rights as said by the UN expert in foreign debt and human rights ,Chepas Lumina. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=38901&Cr=austerity&Cr1
 So the big question remains. What should people not only in Greece but in every country slaughtered by austerity laws do? We have not only the right but also the moral responsibility, like M.L.King said , to disobey these laws.
 Sincerely
 Lina Greek