Together, We CAN Save Greece!

With a second election and perhaps a further stalemate looming for Greece, the world awaits eagerly for the outcome. It has become about a Grexit or Not; The Euro or the Drachma; Right or Left.  The establishment has managed to stem the tide, which was pointing towards a very strong reprisal of the failed austerity, by using this debate to draw fictitious lines for the easily manipulated voting public. Fear of a ‘catastrophe’ was repeatedly used when Papandreou and his Lord Vader, Papakonstantinou, shouted that the Greek Books were on ‘fire’, watched as investors fled and then advocated 'austerity' (read: steal more from the little guy) as the cure. We, along with some others, argued vehemently against this course, due to its easily predictable failure and ill consequences.  

Fast forward two years later and nothing has changed in Greece, except that the situation has become far worse and seemingly hopeless.Nea Democratia is telling voters the same thing that Papandreou was telling the electorate 2 years ago. If we do not take Europe’s terms it will be a catastrophe.  People…in case you hadn’t noticed, it is already a catastrophe.  The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and expecting a different result.  It was the old established parties of Pasok and Neo Democratia that took turns nudging Greece along this dark and desolate path. 

Their rhetoric was different, but try and point to any meaningful differences during their reigns and you are hard pressed to do so. One party wore red ties while the other wore blue but Greece continued unabated towards this cliff she now sits perched on, inching ever closer to the edge it now teeters on, due to those Pasok/Nea Democratia mismanagement and chicanery.  If those two parties combined come anywhere close to a majority, the nation of Greece will have lost its sovereignty forever. Do not suffer from Stockholm syndrome; does it make any sense whatsoever to put your faith back in the hands of those people who got you where you are in the first place?

Greece currently sits in the 5^th level of hell.  A vote for the old guard may result in a temporary elevation of that status (a lesser version of hell) with a slow and permanent decline soon thereafter into the abyss of purgatory in the 7th level, with no chance of redemption.  The shackles will have been secured and the noose ready for the executioner to pull at his will.  A vote against the status quo may result in a temporary setback, but is the only thing that can lay the foundation for a resurrection from the depths of Hades, while paving a path to the top of Olympus for Greece's sons and daughters to enjoy.

Make no mistake, Greece MUST change. There is no magic elixir; no cure-all. Hard work and change WILL be required immediately.  The choice is yours. Do you make the changes for Greece and the future of your children and grandchildren, giving hope to future generations that they will lift their heads high once again, or do you take a few crumbs now, in exchange for the eternal soul of Greece and its progeny?

Greece must play their hand.  While the German ‘power elite’ sits sipping cognac as the biggest benefactors of this union, they know that Greece holds an ace. If they let Greece go they are aware that two things will happen a) Greece’s condition, after a period of difficulty, will improve over the next few years and that b) the rest of Europe’s condition will worsen, with bond markets chipping away at the rest of the fringes. As a consequence those populations will begin to question their chosen path. It is for the people of Greece to hold up this ace. In order for this to be a winning hand it must be accompanied by true, real, marked and measurable change at home.

But how do we do this you ask. First and foremost the old guard must be voted out with a resounding OXI and a plan must exist to create stability and calm while the negotiations begin. With a mandate, the new guard must approach Europe with a real plan along the lines of below:

1) The debt is wiped clean

2) Medicine, fuel and food is sent immediately as a donation from our European neighbours

3) A $100Billion line at a fixed rate of 2.5% (I chose this rate as that is the rate the EuroBond will likely be at and the amount was selected so as to be sufficient to carry Greece through its metamorphosis providing a healthy balance of cash flow and investment dollars for accretive natural resource and manufacturing projects)

4) Current austerity programs would cease and be gradually reversed

5) A 5 year value add tax for imported goods where a good has less than a sufficient amount of Greek inputs

Greece would need to offer a great deal in return. The only way forward would be for those who took to give it back. The bankers and the multinationals will have given back some through the donations, the 5 year VAT, the line of credit and the debt forgiveness. Greece has been the laughing stock of the world and ‘this is how it is in Greece’ can no longer be tolerated. Austerity and reform are necessary, but not as has been imposed thus far.

I would propose creating an amnesty program for tax cheats. The identities of those that owe money are well known and those who have taken bribes can be easily tracked in today’s modern age. The amnesty would be a one year program available to all citizens (including politicians) and corporations with assets/income over a reasonable threshold whereby they would declare ALL their assets and income, whether offshore or not, and pay the back taxes on said assets (and income) without having to declare source or pay interest.  No legal action would be taken under the amnesty program.  Perhaps even an incentive for these Greeks to repatriate their capital and invest in Greece, along the lines of a modest credit for such repatriation.

Should they fail to pay, together with the assistance of our European brethren, the dead beats would be tracked down, pay all taxes, all interest and all penalties and face stiff legal ramifications. They would be branded as traitors and lose their citizenship and the citizenship of their heirs.  Their names would be there for all to see and throw shame on. 
Another thing that would be essential would be to put an end to the bribe state. Perhaps a whistle blower program for anyone taking or offering bribes, perhaps like what India has attempted to implement, together with stiff fines and prison for those that continue (much stiffer penalties for politicians given their positions of trust). 

In past posts we outlined the fraud that has been perpetrated.  Now a cleansing is required if Greece is to survive as a sovereign nation and eventually prosper. The above is not intended to be comprehensive nor are the numbers or ratios scientific; It is a suggestion with the significant elements needed that can be made into a real plan that will promote healing and restoration.

It is NOT Euro or no Euro…It is about the Establishment versus the People; It is about the continuation of the great Greek nation or ceding sovereignty to the banking cartels, Multinationals and the Greek Kleptocrats ; put in those terms the choice should be simple. On the eve of the Euro championship we should all be reminded that Greece, in the face of overwhelming odds and with all of Europe weighing against them, has emerged victorious before; we can again!

Why We Must Fight For Greece

Right now in Greece, countless brave journalists, scholars and patriots are frantically sending out an S.O.S. After spending laborious hours translating their message into English, they are begging and pleading the international media to take note. Something big has happened. Information has just come to light that makes all the pieces of the Greek crisis fall into place. Their cries are desperate, but falling on deaf ears. Will you listen?

As you will see within the pages of this blog, and the important information it links to, what is happening in our homeland is no accident. The Greek “crisis” is also not the result of profligacy, the welfare state, low-level fakela, or Yianni on the island taking cash under the table to avoid taxes. Rather, it is the culmination of a plan – one that has long been kept secret. In fact, it’s hard to see why any Greek should have paid a cent of their earnings in taxes to this disgusting cabal in the first place. I wouldn’t pay a mugger to take my wallet – what about you?

I can think of no better eye-opener than this video – please watch, and send to others: http://youtu.be/x8M-rJULXlo

A light of salvation has appeared for the struggling people of Greece. This has come in the form of revelations that the country has massive, provable reserves of oil, natural gas, rare earths, uranium, and a bounty of other valuable minerals and metals.

The news came as a surprise to the average person - to whom it has always been proclaimed that Greece had only negligible natural wealth - but it has been well-known in certain circles for years. Those circles are of Greece's corrupt generational elites, who have sought to hide this treasure from its rightful owners - namely, the people.

But don't take my word for it. This isn't an opinion - it's cold, hard fact.

In the various articles and videos linked to from this blog, you can read and see the testimony of respected scientists and government officials who were persuaded or ordered not to look deeply into Greek resources. Individuals who were stymied at every pass when they attempted to explore the minerals or metals that were known. And the economists who prove every step of the orchestrated bank, government and corporate fraud that intentionally crashed Greece's economy.

All the proof that any prosecutor could hope for is there.

Greece lies bleeding from the slow, painful death of a thousand cuts. It has been brought to its knees. Why? The same reason why genocidal wars are sparked in Africa. Why anti-democratic military coups are instigated in Central America. Why right now, the Middle East is being inflamed and Balkanized. It’s the old strategy of weakening a country so that its populace will beg for a solution, and allow foreign interests to steal their sovereignty and resources while making the people dependent on the crumbs they drop. What’s happening in Greece is business as usual for the powers that control our globe.

Those who fight it, take risks. But once you understand the brutal game that is being played, can you really close your eyes again?

I can’t, and I take the risk of speaking out to anyone who will listen. I do it because I think about the sweet smell of the flowers walking to the limani from my ancestral home; the home that a German captain took over, 70 years ago, while my grandmother was forced to flee her island.

I take the risk because of the village ladies, armed only with pitchforks, who stood and risked their lives to throw the Italians back into the sea.

I take the risk because I think of my grandfather, who as a young boy, nearly 100 years ago, was forced to march in bare feet hundreds of kilometers into, what is now, Greece proper, from Constantinople with only the clothes on his back.

I take the risk because the economic warfare being waged on Greece is an occupation of a different and more sinister sort and will have our cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents begging for a scrap to eat, if they are not given a voice.

I take the risk because Greece now has the highest suicide rate in Europe (from the lowest) and because I heard that the desperate in Athens are already digging through the garbage to eat.

I take the risk because I can’t turn my back on the enlightened Greeks who are desperately trying to make this information known. What risks are you willing and able to take?

Take the risk of educating yourself and others. Below are links to information that will open your eyes and forever change the way you see the world, and you will understand the purpose behind the devastation being inflicted on our beautiful Greece. Let us stand in solidarity against this tyranny – together, we will shine the light of truth on this web of lies and take back what is ours.

http://legiongraeca.wordpress.com/

http://youtu.be/Y2vsYdReMCg

http://youtu.be/EqX8iemXFxk

http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2012/02/greek-austerity-measures-healthcare-doomed-army-booms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YnccQngx_AQ

And last, let us remember why we can never stand for such tyranny again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiuqXti8NuY

Who Sold Out Greece? The Answer Is Hidden in Plain View.

As a long-time advisor and former finance minister to George Papandreou, Giorgos Papakonstantinou was at the epicentre of the purported Greek “financial crisis” and the ill-fated acceptance of violent austerity measures. His advice, shall we say, was an unmitigated disaster. Eyebrows should have been raised, then, when this man was reappointed within the new, unelected regime of Brussels toady Lucas Papademos. It was just as the Minister of Energy, however, so what harm could he do there? It’s not like Greece is a major energy player.

Of course, there is far more to the story. As the Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Papakonstantinou is not only responsible for the handing over of what’s left of Greek sovereignty to the EU central authority under the guise of “environmental treaties”, he’s also been given the task of privatizing state assets. Such as – surprise, surprise – the country’s vast, untapped, and heretofore unrevealed oil and natural gas reserves (link).

It’s just theft in plain view. Papandreou, Papakonstantinou and their cronies manufactured the urgent “crisis” in order to inflame public sentiment at home and abroad, and then manipulated the fear to institute an established plan to sell off Greece’s wealth, dismantle its weighty social welfare state, and ultimately, sell out their fellow citizens. Problem, reaction, solution. Create the problem, exploit the panicked reaction, and swoop in with a crooked, self-serving solution.

Here is a great analysis of how the “crisis” was manufactured from the ground up: link

Even for those with an economics background, the tale is a Byzantine labyrinth that can be tough to follow. And this lack of understanding can lead to Greeks being reluctant to take a strong position. However, just let the simple facts below fuel your anger.

In one of the country’s last, painful death throes, Greece’s pension funds are getting ready to take a massive hit on their bonds. This means one thing only: Greek pensions will now be stolen. Elderly people in Greece will starve on the streets. Most Greeks will never be able to retire. Greek children are at this moment being abandoned by parents unable to afford them (but maybe they'll be adopted by a nice German family). Food and medicine will become scarce luxuries – for some in the cities, they already are.

Guess what? It's nothing new or shocking, just the same old game played on a different board. This is exactly what has been happening to African, South and Central American and Middle Eastern countries for decades under the IMF and World Bank. See the fantastic book “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” by the former insider economist John Perkins.

Problem, reaction, solution. Create the problem with bad loans, and use the fearful reaction to the crisis to pillage the country for the benefit of the few and eliminate sovereignty. On this path, Greece is GUARANTEED to devolve into a failed state with increased crime, shorter lifespans, and government repression.

This hell on earth is what your homeland has in its future - and it's exactly what the elites want. All of this chaos and suffering, just to line the pockets of a corrupt cabal of oligarchs who masqueraded as “The People’s Party”, and to further a corporatist EU agenda of centralization, privatization, and ultimately, ENSLAVEMENT.

We're almost out of time. Greece's clock is drawing ever nearer to midnight. Rise up, educate yourselves and others, and let your voices of opposition to this theft be heard!

Bombshell! Greece's Secret Wealth Can Mean Real Prosperity, Not Austerity

I took an airport limousine home after a wonderful vacation in Cuba, one of the last bastions uninfected by debt and private central banking. The driver had the tell-tale accent of a Greek 'Dad' who had left his country’s shores long ago so, as I always do, I engaged my fellow compatriot in discourse. We got to talking and I found that he was extremely aware and enlightened – and opened my eyes to Greece’s true value.

While I had heard that Greece had some oil, I assumed that it was a limited amount of the difficult-to-access deep sea variety, and not of any real consequence. However, my driver told me that it was a vast quantity of easily drillable oil – on par with the biggest reserves in the world – and so when I arrived home I began researching. I came across this video that absolutely every Greek at home or abroad MUST view: Youtube

Have you viewed it? If not please go back. There. Are you mad yet? Well you better be!

As we neared my home, the discussion I had with the enlightened driver turned to former president Papandreou. We concluded that he could only be the dumbest Greek to have ever walked the streets of Athens or the most sinisterly corrupt to have done so. Which one was it?

At precisely 5:19 of the following video we had our answer: Video

But he did not act alone. Even in the official International Energy Agency paper 2010 it is the official global position that "Greece does not have significant natural reserves of crude oil and very little indigenous oil production (some 1 kb/d in 2009)."

“The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous, he cannot believe it exists."

- J. Edgar Hoover

While we counseled in 2010 that the cocktail of austerity and IMF banker bailouts would not solve anything and simply worsen the situation, the talking heads prevailed. Using fear of the unknown, Papandreou, at the time, said it would be a "catastrophe" if the austerity was not approved and the IMF bailout funds were not taken. He was absolutely right; he just didn't say for whom it would be catastrophic.

The road was always going to be difficult for the people, but had the bailouts not been taken and had bankruptcy been the path, the sacrifices would have been for Greece and all of its citizens. But as it stands now, it was a catastrophe looming for the big banks, multinationals, power brokers, Greek elites and all the other sinister criminals that was truly averted. After all, what a shame it would have been for the chosen ones to have had to share Greece's natural riches with all of the Greek minions. Better to crush them, and let them starve in the streets while the country and its oil were sold off for pennies on the dollar to pay back “their” debts.

It has always been the Greek way to perform nobly, but at the last minute. Make no mistake that we are at the precipice and while the past several years have been a tragic waste every Greek life, present and future, depends on what happens NOW. Act and Greek roads can be paved with gold; Fail to act and you, your kids and all their kids will be slaves washing the dust filled streets so that your master’s leather shoes can be clean as they dine on your inheritance. The road must be paved today for a man to give the speech I wrote for Papandreou (link) or that will be the true Catastrophe.

Please send this to every Greek you know and insist that they do the same. Yia Tin Elada!!!!