Most Greeks know little about the European Union, and even less about what goes on, in European Parliament sessions.

In the video that follows, we will watch British MEP and UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, giving a piece of his mind to the first, non-democratically elected, President of the EU, Herman Van Rompuy. In his speech, Farage states that ever since Van Rompuy assumed Presidency, Greece has been turned into a protectorate.

It is one of the videos that will never be aired on any news report in Greece.

"Those who forget the past cannot have a future"

A. Background

During the early 1940s, in order to support its military and strategic objectives in the Balkans, the Mediterranean basin and Libya, Berlin imposed extraordinary obligations on occupied Greece to finance and sustain German troops on its territory whose field of operations extended to the country's broader area. In addition, Greek foodstuffs were used to supply the German army on the Libyan front.

German objectives focused on Libyan and Middle East oil and on the defence of the Balkans, which provided the German armaments industry with 20% of its requirements in antimony, 50% in mineral oils, 60% in bauxite and 100% in nickel. At the same time, Greece remained the only entry point for the Allies to counteract German influence in the Balkans.

Skopje's Award for its Racist Behavior and the Treaty of St. Germain-en Layé of 1919:  EU Application of Double Standards on the Name Issue

By Marcus A. Templar

In Business Law, the principle nemo dat quod non habet means that no one may give what one does not have; nevertheless, this principle goes a little further.  This rule stays valid regarding stolen goods, even if the bona fide purchaser does not know that the seller has no right to claim ownership of the object of the transaction.  Thus if goods are stolen, the buyer does not get ownership even if there was no indication that they were stolen.  Accordingly, the consequence of the above principle is that a person who does not own property, that is a thief, may not confer the stolen property to another person except with the true owner's permission.  The same applies in International Law.

By Professor Christos D. Katsetos
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Yet another week has passed by, which was marked by a display of paroxysmal manifestations about the Greek financial debacle in the German media. The crisis is real and the utter disappointment and resentment of Greece's European partners –Germany included-- is justified to a large measure. But the German wrath has gone too far.

And so it came last week's edition of the Munich-based “Focus” weekly magazine bearing the sensationalist title "Betrüger in der Euro-Familie" ("Swindlers/defrauders in the European Family" -- "Απατεώνες/καταχραστές στην Ευρωπαϊκή οικογένεια") on its cover page along side with an appalling image depicting Aphrodite of Milos (Venus di Milo) giving "the finger" whilst being wrapped, from the waist down, in the Greek flag [Focus, vol. 22, issue number 8, February 2010].

By Dimitris Papageorgiou*
written in Korydallos prison

It has already been over a month since my confinement in prison. The time may not be much. Surery, to my family seems much more. What scares me personally though, is not the duration of my detention. It is an odor. The odor which emerges from the corpse of totalitarianism that seeks to crush anyone who wants to resist the leveling of all those considered 'ours'.

So far, we have the first signs of this process. Those who bear some sort of "title", ministers, consultees, etc, and who, through television, denounce and threaten those who take the opposite view, describing them as "unsociable", and do not hesitate to use the means at their disposal to implement what their obsession requires. Unfortunately, life is not fair. And if these means tomorrow or the day after are not enough, they will not hesitate to get more.

24.02.2010

The demonstration against the passing of the legislation that will turn hundreds of thousands of once illegal immigrants into Greek nationals, that was planned by the residents of the 6th Dept.of Athens , was prohibited by the Ministry of Citizens' Protection under Mr Chrysohoides.

According to several reports, identity checks were carried out by the police, of even unsuspected Greeks who were just passing by the area of Acharnon avenue.

The police arrested Greek protesters in the presence of illegal immigrants. Among them Tassos Chatziparaschou of the Commission for National Salvation, the publisher of "The Target" newspaper, Savas Chatziparaskevas and five protesters.

Georgios Gialtouridis
Newton, MA

On February 13, 2010 the New York Times published an article titled “Wall St. Helped to Mask Debt Fueling Europe’s Crisis” exposing Goldman Sachs’ secret deals with earlier Greek governments whereby with creative financing through the Wall Street giant Greece was able to conceal billions in debt and stay under deficit thresholds set by the Maastricht Treaty.
 
In early November 2009 — three months before Athens became the epicenter of global financial anxiety — a team from Goldman Sachs arrived in the ancient city with a very modern proposition for a government struggling to pay its bills, according to two people who were briefed on the meeting.
 
The bankers, led by Goldman’s president, Gary D. Cohn, held out a financing instrument that would have pushed debt from Greece’s health care system far into the future, much as when strapped homeowners take out second mortgages to pay off their credit cards.