THE VOICE OF OBEWON D-Pap

The Prime Marionnette, Papademos, is gone from the stage. However, he continues to re-appear in apparitions that only the true believers (idiots like ND and Pasok) pay any attention to. To the rest of us, he's invisible, even if he chimes in saying exactly what the Euro folks are saying:

There's no money for Greece until it behaves.

Except, he gives details about what will go missing,

and soon.

Has this affected your voting preference?

IshitUnot:
 ..Η επιστολή Παπαδήμου που άναψε φωτιές
Από NEWS 247 | News247.gr –
 6 ώρες πριν.... ....
Στον κίνδυνο να μην μπορέσουν να πληρωθούν υποχρεώσεις του κράτους, από τις αρχές Ιουνίου κιόλας, αναφέρεται το σημείωμα του πρωθυπουργού, Λουκά Παπαδήμου, στον πρόεδρο της Δημοκρατίας, Κάρολο Παπούλια, που άναψε φωτιές στη σύσκεψη των πολιτικών αρχηγών. Το σημείωμα, για το περιεχόμενο του οποίου ο Κάρολος Παπούλιας ενημέρωσε την Κυριακή τους πολιτικούς αρχηγούς, προοριζόταν για χρήση του Προέδρου της Δημοκρατίας, σε συνέχεια της προφορικής ενημέρωσης που του έκανε ο πρωθυπουργός, Λουκάς Παπαδήμος, την Παρασκευή. Ωστόσο, ο Πρόεδρος της Δημοκρατίας έκρινε σκόπιμο να ενημερώσει και τους πολιτικούς αρχηγούς λόγω της κρισιμότητας των πληροφοριών που περιείχε. Στο σημείωμα, σύμφωνα με πληροφορίες που επικαλούνται τα "Νέα", ο Λουκάς Παπαδήμος επισήμαινε ότι είναι πιθανό να υπάρξουν σημαντικές δυσκολίες στην κάλυψη των ταμειακών αναγκών του Ιουνίου.

Delos Island as a model for modern capitalism

more soon

Metaxas all over again?

Will the party willing to cancel the Mnimonio and sort out Greece's immigration issues
please stand up. Oh, it's the Golden boys. Well, gotta do what they gotta do.

The last time that Greece took care of Greeks, stood up to foreigners,
told their stinking banks to piss off, and slapped Musolini badly,
and Hitler, fatally (as it turns out Schnitzel face, snow monkey Nazis - Mr Panos),
the government was a "fascist" army general, Metaxas.

IshitUnot: zerohedge

 Goose-Stepping Hitler-ites Threaten Greece's Utopia

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/30/2012 14:01 -0400

In this case we really do hate to say we-told-you-so but our concerns over social unrest and the rise of extreme nationalism (here, here and here) in an austerity-focused and massively unemployed Europe appear to becoming ever more prescient. Just last week we saw extreme parties in France of all places receive high levels of votes and in a note today from BBC News, the leader of the Greek Socialist Pasok party, Mr. Creosote himself - Evangelos Venizelos, told a rally in Patras that voters should not allow neo-Nazis to "goose-step into Parliament with Hitler salutes".

The far-right 'Golden-Dawn' party appears likely to win a number of seats for the first time ever - gathering support as the anti-EU-bailouts party. Of course the Golden-Dawn'ers also want to tighten border controls (but in a different way than Spain we are sure) and expel immigrants among other things but with the two major parties (Pasok and New Democracy) look set to garner less than 50% of the seats between them - leaving the rest in a free-for-all among various more extreme left and right parties. We have long-argued (and recently confirmed by Soros in his lengthy discussion at INET) that the Euro-zone will end when the political compact becomes untenable - it seems we are drawing closer and closer to that dystopia - even if Mr. Venizelos throws his weight against these uprisings of democratically invoked last rites.

From ekatherimerini.com,

    "Golden Dawn is an extreme phenomenon, I believe they are an example of fascism and we radically oppose them. It's an offense to our history and to parliament," he told Reuters, suggesting Greece could be experiencing its version of Germany's 'Weimar' years which led to the rise of the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler.

    Golden Dawn, which vows to expel both legal and illegal immigrants and meets under a flag of an ancient Greek symbol similar to the swastika, has won over many of Greece's poor by giving away clothes and food parcels.

    It says it is simply a nationalist party and has attracted a large protest vote by attacking the bailout and what it calls German domination of Europe.

How to destroy DEH

Everybody needs electricity. How is it that Greece has managed to make a shambles
out of its power provider? The government bribed the unions with borrowed money
so as to make them look greedy. AND
they got DEH involved in collecting taxes, which the people revolted against.
Before you know it, DEH needs money, they go further into debt, and boom,
they get sold of as a leprous venture that foreigners will buy for 10 cents
on the Euro (dead currency walking).

IshitUnot:  Athens news

Greece gives emergency cash to avert energy meltdown

                28 Apr 2012

With the electricity market in complete disarray, it was only a matter of time, before a possible dead end made its appearance

Greece will provide 250 million euros  in emergency funds to its ailing electricity providers to prevent a California-style energy crisis, government officials said on Friday.

The liquidity injection removes the risk of a financial chain reaction which, according to regulators, was threatening to bring the country's electricity system to its knees.... Greece's energy market has fallen into disarray due to a combination of stagnant power demand, rising fuel costs and a government decision to use PPC as a tax collection vehicle.

 An increasing number of consumers stopped paying their electricity bills after the government started collecting a 1.7 billion euro property tax through them last year, in a desperate effort to meet its budget targets under an EU/IMF bailout.

 Non-payments blew a hole into the accounts of PPC, which is Greece's biggest power producer and its sole electricity retailer. PPC, which posted a record loss in the fourth quarter, is also the biggest client for upstart producers generating about 23 percent of Greece's electricity.

... Energy is a sore point in the country's relations with its lenders. The EU and the IMF have been pressuring Athens to introduce more competition in its 5-billion euro retail power market by deregulating electricity prices and abolishing PPC's monopoly over coal, the country's cheapest and most abundant energy source. (Reuters)

ZH- “Quite an incredible move - to force the electricity provider to gather the property taxes - and while this attempt clearly failed”