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Re: Greece PM rebels, military fired, party members murdered.
ATHENS: The Greek government was plunged into chaos on Tuesday and faced an imminent collapse, as lawmakers rebelled against Prime Minister George Papandreou's surprise call for a popular referendum on a new debt deal with Greece's foreign lenders.
Such a collapse would not only render the referendum plan moot, it would likely scuttle-or at least delay-the debt deal that was agreed on in Brussels last week, putting Greece on a fast track to default and possible exit from the monetary union of countries sharing the euro currency. Analysts said that Papandreou's call for a referendum was a last resort, meant to gain broader political support for the unpopular austerity measures in the deal without forcing early elections that would only worsen the country's political and economic turmoil.
Papandreou's announcement of a referendum took Greek lawmakers by surprise, just a s it did political leaders and investors across Europe. On Tuesday, the state television channel Net reported that even the finance minister, Evangelos Venizelos, had not been informed in advance about the referendum, although he was aware of plans for a confidence vote. Venizelos was taken to a hospital Tuesday morning, complaining of stomach pain. Doctors said he had an inflamed appendix. He is the latest in a string of governing party officials to be rushed to hospitals in recent weeks. One Greek negotiator had a heart attack in Brussels last week.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/busi … 574451.cms
6.55pm Although there is no suggstion that it is related to today's developments, the timing is unusual, to say the least - but this evening the defence minister replaced the military top brass.
In a surprise move, on Tuesday evening the defence minister replaced the country’s top brass.
An extraordinary meeting of the Government Council of Foreign Affairs and Defence (Kysea), which comprises the prime minister and other key cabinet members, accepted Defence Minister Panos Beglitis' proposal that the following changes be made to army, navy and air force and the general staff:
* General Ioannis Giagkos, chief of the Greek National Defence General Staff, to be replaced by Lieutenant General Michalis Kostarakos
* Lieutenant General Fragkos Fragkoulis, chief of the Greek Army General Staff, to be replaced by lieutenant general Konstantinos Zazias
* Lieutenant General Vasilios Klokozas, chief of the Greek Air Force, to be replaced by air marshal Antonis Tsantirakis
* Vice-Admiral Dimitrios Elefsiniotis, chief of the Greek Navy General Staff, to be replaced by Rear-Admiral Kosmas Christidis
It is understood that the personnel changes took many members of the government and of the armed forces by surprise.
http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/8/49916
That headline should land me a job at the Times.
Re: Greece PM rebels, military fired, party members murdered.
Insanity.
China is apparently balking at helping the EU in their current crisis.
Amazing how within a decade the west turned what was basically the largest 3rd world country into a major economic power while we sink.
EU is on thin ice...
Re: Greece PM rebels, military fired, party members murdered.
The west funded both Russia and China with taxpayer money. Hell, they even paid Lenins train ticket and gave him a bunch of cash so he could hire goons to hijack the peoples revolution in czarist Russia. Check out the american "tractor" factory in Stalingrad. Guys like JP Morgan and Schiff funded all of that. It wasn't Stalin who industrialized the USSR, he just enforced the orders. Western tax money via the FED paid for it and Stanford graduates thought up the plan. The first thing communist Russia did was to create a capitalist central bank.
These people are so flatnosed it's not enough to simply trade and aid with the enemy, no, to secure their investments they made the american government guarantee payment if the soviets were to say, not pay for that Detroit size heavy machinery. During the vietnam war they were selling arms to the commies who then shipped it via China to the vietcong. Just like they funded the brits and napoleon, the north and the south in the civil war, axis and allies in WWII and now, shipping guns to Mexico, get cocaine back. Then stick the bill with the tax payer to get it off the streets! The justice department, caught lying and nobody in the media cares!
It's like a really bad movie. You just want it to end.
Re: Greece PM rebels, military fired, party members murdered.
Oh, this just came in:
Iran's nuclear activity under scrutiny as evidence of weapons threat emerges
Atomic agency report uncovers Iranian nuclear experiments experts claim could only be used for development of warhead
A report by the UN's nuclear watchdog due to be circulated around the world next week will provide fresh evidence of a possible Iranian nuclear weapons programme, bringing the Middle East a step closer to a devastating new conflict, say diplomats.
The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is the latest of a series of quarterly bulletins on Iran's activities, but this one will contain an unprecedented level of detail on research and experiments carried out in Iran in recent years, which western officials allege could only be for the design and development of a nuclear warhead. "This will be a game-changer in the Iranian nuclear dossier," a western official predicted. "It is going to be hard for even Moscow or Beijing to downplay its significance."
