Λεφτά υπάρχουν για την ΕΡΤ- δώρο 2,7 εκ.για υπερωρίες


Ποσό 2.703.807 ευρώ θα δοθεί ως υπερωρίες στους 1930 εργαζόμενους της ΕΡΤ για το 2015. Ή απόφαση ενεκρίθη και δημοσιεύθηκε στο ΦΕΚ.

Αδιατάρακτο παραμένει το «βασίλειο της ΕΡΤ» το οποίο συνεχίζει τις κοστοβόρες πρακτικές του χάριν στην αδιατάρακτη χρηματοδότησή του από τον έλληνα φορολογούμενο μέσω του ειδικού τέλους στο λογαριασμό της ΔΕΗ. Συνέχεια

IMF board member criticizes Fund’s Greece program


Brazil’s International Monetary Fund representative has criticized the tough reforms demanded of Greece, saying the Fund and its bailout partners appear to want to run the Greek economy themselves.

Paulo Nogueira Batista, who represents Brazil and 10 other countries at the global crisis lender, said in a May 30 statement to the board that Greece has already made substantial progress under harsh austerity conditions.

The statement, obtained by AFP after the board approved the release of new funds to Athens, said the IMF and its European partners should ease some of the conditions of their massive rescue program for the country.

«Fiscal adjustment has been very large and the return to a primary surplus in 2013 constituted an important milestone. It is hard to see how the country can do more on this front,» said Nogueira Batista.

He pointed out that Greece could only manage to ease its economic contraction last year by not meeting all the tough reforms the lenders demanded of it.

«This seems to indicate that the number of structural measures the Troika has been demanding from Greece is rather excessive.»

In the 81 pages of detailed policy demands of the newest stage of the IMF-European Commission-European Central Bank rescue program, he said Greece appears to be «a victim of German thoroughness».

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What women have wanted to say to the young all along: Sinéad O’Connor’s open letter to Miley Cyrus


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After the 20-year-old claimed that Wrecking Ball’s controversial video was inspired by Nothing Compares 2 U, the Irish singer was compelled to warn Cyrus that she is being ‘pimped’ by the pop industry. This is the full text of O’Connor’s blogpost

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Sinead O’Connor: ‘You have enough talent that you don’t need to let the music business make a prostitute of you.’ Photograph: Neil Gavin

Dear Miley,

I wasn’t going to write this letter, but today i’ve been dodging phone calls from various newspapers who wished me to remark upon your having said in Rolling Stone your Wrecking Ball video was designed to be similar to the one for Nothing Compares … So this is what I need to say … And it is said in the spirit of motherliness and with love.

I am extremely concerned for you that those around you have led you to believe, or encouraged you in your own belief, Συνέχεια

I am Greek and I wanna go home


Definition of hypocrisy: The British government bans Kelly Clarkson from taking Jane Austen’s ring out of the country which she paid £150,000 for at a UK auction, but has absolutely no regrets having its museums stuffed with «acquired» archaeological artefacts.

(If the Caryatid from the Erechtheion could cry, enraged stony tears would flood the Thames.)

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Griechenland: Το βίντεο της ημέρας!!!!


σχόλιο Vuvuzela: Η Ελλάδα σε κρίση. Ανεργία, αβέβαιο μέλλον, αδιέξοδος, απόγνωση. Η Γερμανία ασκεί πίεση για τη ‘σωτηρία’ της χώρας. Όλα κρέμονται απο μια κλωστή. Ο κόσμος περιμένει με κομμένη την ανάσα, και τότε ….

Δείτε το βίντεο με τους Τσαλταμπάση, Μποσταντζόγλου!

Griechenland is a short film about the Greek Crisis. 

The economic crisis has hit Athens, Greece the hardest. While Germany keeps adding pressure, everything seems frozen and ready to collapse. However, there is one man who feels differently.

CAST: Giannis Bostatzoglou Thanasis Tsaltabasis Συνέχεια

Διεθνής σάλος από την πλαστογραφία του Κέρι για την Συρία


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Voice of Russia
Secretary of State John Kerry opened his speech Friday by describing the horrors victims of the chemical weapon attack had suffered, including twitching, spasms and difficulty breathing. Attempting to drive the point home, Kerry referenced a photograph used by the BBC, illustrating a child jumping

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John Cleese: ‘Syria and Alert to threats in Europe’


21st Century Wire says… When this story was originally published there was speculation as to who the real author was, with most people saying that it was he of Monty Python fame. Based on the skilled prose, we’d have to agree with the mob on this one. A masterpiece nonetheless…

By John Cleese

The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Syria and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.”

Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.” The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the Blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from “Tiresome” to “A Bloody Nuisance.” The last time the British issued a “Bloody Nuisance” warning level was in 1588, when threatened by the Spanish Armada.

The Scots have raised their threat level from “Pissed Off” to “Let’s get the Bastards.” They don’t have any other levels. This is the reason they have been used on the front line of the British army for the last 300 years.

The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level Συνέχεια

Letter to President Obama never really sent @BarackObama @whitehouse


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Dear Mr. President,

The current Greek Prime Minister must have been unbearably pushy to secure an official visit to the White House –an importunate invitation seeker, no doubt; it’s not hard to tell. So, I can sympathize with your decision to give up.

Why not, one might argue. Besides,  Greece is viewed by tradition as a developed Western country of great historical significance, and one which upholds the democratic values, while maintaining strong ties of friendship with the United States. Right?

However, Mr. President, we feel you are about to welcome the head of a government whose record of a persistent rule by decree, along with a shameless defiance of Supreme Court rulings against it, has outscored within just one year in office the total of like decrees issued by the military junta during the latter’s full seven years term –the same military junta former President Clinton, in the words of…

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Κατάσχονται τα πρακτικά συνεδριάσεων με ψυχολόγους, ψυχιάτρους, ψυχοθεραπευτές απο την Πολιτεία


σχόλιο Freedom Brake: Η πολιτεία της Νέας Υορκής ζητάει απο τους ψυχιάτρους, ψυχολόγους, θεραπευτές να δόσουν όλα τα πρακτικά απο συνεδριάσεις που είχαν με τους πελάτες/ασθενείς τους.

Αν και μια τέτοια κίνηση είναι απολύτως δικαιολογημένη για θέματα οπλοκατοχής — ο σκοπός πίσω απο την απόφαση όπως δηλώνουν οι αρχές — δεν καθυσηχάζει κανέναν το γεγονός πως αρχεία με λεπτομέρειες για την προσωπική ζωή του καθενός, που κάποιος θεωρούσε θα έμειναν απόρρητα όταν τα εκμυστηρευόταν σε εξειδικευμένο γιατρό, θα βρίσκονται στη διάθεση (και στο έλεος) της εκάστοτε κυβέρνησης. Μια φορά να πεις «ήταν η χειρότερη εβδομάδα που πέρασα στη ζωή μου. Την Κυριακή ήθελα απλά να πεθάνω (I just wanted to shoot myself, που λένε πολύ συχνά στα Αγγλικά) …. » αρκεί για να εμφανιστεί κουστουμαρισμένος κρατικός υπάλληλος με χαρτί στη πόρτα σου να ανακοινώνει πως πάσχεις απο κλινική κατάθλιψη, είσαι επικίνδυνος για τους γύρω σου, κτλ. 

Απο κει και πέρα, εύκολο είναι να αφαιρέσεις δικαιώματα, ασφαλιστικά προνόμια, να υπάρχει μια άνευ λόγου προκατάληψη προς τον καθένα. Έτσι γεννιέται, εν ολίγοις, ο νέος ρατσισμός.

 

 And so it begins: New York government confiscates ‘private’ records of psychiatrists in chilling Orwellian mental health sweep

The march to tyranny has picked up fierce momentum in the state of New York, where the criminal Συνέχεια

Monsanto vs. Mother Earth


It’s unbelievable, but Monsanto and Co. are at it again. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to exclusively ‘own’ something that freely belongs to us all — our food! They’re trying to patent away our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber, broccoli and melons, forcing growers to pay them and risk being sued if they don’t.

But we can stop them from buying up Mother Earth. Companies like Monsanto have found loopholes in European law to get away with this, so we just need to close them shut before they set a dangerous global precedent. And to do that, we need key countries like Germany, France and the Netherlands — where opposition is already growing — to call for a vote to stop Monsanto’s Συνέχεια

Greek Filmmaker Kollatos Arrested


Greek filmmaker Dimitris Kollatos was arrested, on March 27 at his house in Kolonaki, Athens on the charge of insulting the national emblem.

Kollatos raised on the balcony of his house, which is situated almost opposite the German Embassy, a Greek flag on which the Συνέχεια

Crush the Crisis – Visit Greece


A wonderful video. Thank you Annette for a job well done!

Hats off to you,

MySatelite Συνέχεια

Why the plundering of Greece was staged


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A chronicle in three interconnected components: INTRODUCTION, REASONS and EPILOGUE – About the planned looting of Greece, as a ‘necessity’ for the dismantlement of European democracy, justice and freedom. (translated from the original article in Swedish)

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by Kosmas Loumakis

INTRODUCTION

579109_228685723929053_115011835_nBehind the decision to plunder Greece, there are several reasons (as always, when great powers decides to attack a country). Its never just onereason, when great powers aremarching,… nor is it so in the case of Greece.

For the Globo (the global currency) to be introduced and well received, economic “suicide-bombers”, thecredit financial system that is, have triggered its explosive components. An unavoidable economic crisis, mustbe used to elicit acceptance of the currency, and then the launchpadmust be prepared from an already long time, manipulated and controlled so-called ‘free and democratic nation’. It is from this nation, that the old Europe, the 

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Midway: A film by Chris Jordan (εξαιρετικό βίντεο)


σχόλιο MySatelite: Midway Island, Βόρειος Ειρηνικός, σε απόσταση περίπου 2.000 χλμ ΒΔ των νήσων Χαβάη, και 3.200 χλμ από την κοντινότερη ήπειρο.

Το νησί φιλοξενεί 70% του συνολικού πληθυσμού των άλμπατρος Laysan, καθώς και 17 διαφορετικά είδη θαλασσοπουλιών.

Το πρόβλημα που αντιμετωπίζουν τα πουλιά αυτά οφείλεται στις τεράστιες ποσότητες πλαστικών απορριμμάτων που παγιδεύονται στον Γύρο του Βορείου Ατλαντικού, ένα σύστημα ρευμάτων που συσσωρεύει τα σκουπίδια σε μια περιοχή που οι επιστήμονες αποκαλούν Great Pacific Garbage Patch — Μεγάλο ‘Αγροτεμάχιο’ Σκουπιδιών του Ειρηνικού.

O Γύρος του Βορείου Ατλαντικού (φωτό Wikipedia)

Τα απόβλητα που καταφθάνουν στις ακτές αποτελούν θανατική ποινή για περίπου 1/3 των νεογνών. Δείτε το εξαιρετικό βίντεο και θα καταλάβετε. Συνέχεια

Ambassador Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos on the Greek economic crisis: could this Greek Tragedy lead to civil war?


Published on December 17th 2012

By Barbara Van Haute

Editorial Note:  Of all the nations experiencing traumatic economic difficulties during the course of the current Great Recession, Greece has suffered the most adverse consequences.  The country’s five year economic problems have been longer and deeper than that of any developed country.  In fact, Greece has gone through a catastrophic depression otherwise unknown in the West.

The  standard of living has dropped drastically; unemployment has reached 26%; the debt to GDP ratio  is over 180%; the country’s “fiscal cliff” is looming bankruptcy;  social spending and the “safety net” have been eviscerated; while demonstrations and riots target both domestic debt reduction measures and the financial institutions  of the European Union power brokers. In response, the European Union Συνέχεια

A most useful tool for travelers: Greece — Sit back and enjoy the ride


Planning to visit Greece? Just want to escape from your armchair and see the picturesque villages of Chalkidiki, the beauty of the White Tower and Thessaloniki’s waterfront, the new Acropolis museum, the majestic view from Fira in Santorini?  Now all that is just one click away with Greecevirtual.gr.

Greecevirtual.gr is a user-friendly website designed to guide you around a wide variety of locations in Greece, letting you get the feel of the place you would like to visit through its high quality panoramic photos. As mentioned on the site: Συνέχεια

Top 40 Albums of 2012 (20-1)


Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs

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A few days ago I posted the first 20 in my Top 40 Albums of 2012 (check it out here).  The first half of the list is always easier to compile than the final 20.  With this, the top half of the list, I find myself swapping albums from one spot to the next, trying to refine my list to the perfect order. Of course, this «perfect order» is never truly found. On one day I’d much rather listen to my number 17 than my number 5 and vice versa. I can promise you, all of these albums are fantastic.  In order to come up with a definitive order, I took into account the overall significance of an album, not just which has the best collection of songs, but which is the perfect album – the themes, the order of the songs, the cultural significance. Within those parameters…

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Hard at Work at the European Parliament in Brussels


 HARD AT WORK AT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN BRUSSELS

Air in eight Italian cities is dosed with cocaine and cannabis


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If you’re in Italy and after some cocaine, Turin is probably the place to go, while cannabis fans would be better off visiting the student cities of Bologna and Florence. At least that’s what a study of psychotropic substances present in the air of eight Italian cities suggests.

The findings, published in the journal Environmental Pollution, follow up on prior work revealing trace elements of the substances in Taranto and Rome. At the time the author of both papers, chemist Angelo Cecinato of Rome’s Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, had said, «We considered it a curiosity». This time around however, atmospheric levels were monitored over the course of a year in Palermo, Turin, Rome, Bologna, Florence, Milan, Naples and Verona, with cocaine, cannabinoids, Συνέχεια

Top offenders for animal cruelty tested products


Here are the TOP offenders for animal cruelty tested products. Many people unknowingly have these products at home.

Please check your home, and if you have them, send them back to the company with a note that you would like to be reimbursed as you were not aware until now that they perform animal testing.

Then go to leapingbunny.org and get a replacement that is cruelty free!

Products from Proctor & Gamble:

Ace, Always,
Ariel –laundry detergent,
Bold, Bounce,
Bounty Braun,
Cascade,
Charmin,
CoverGirl,
Crest/Oral B,
Dash
Dawn/Fairy,
Dolce & Gabbana, Downy/Lenor, Συνέχεια