tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47382647055012248492024-03-06T12:44:29.087-08:00IMF vs Greecevngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.comBlogger280125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-70366349864816520362023-09-12T12:47:00.000-07:002023-09-12T12:47:27.668-07:00From organised arson to organised floods…the Greek Lockdown Junta becomes the EU’s Posterboy for ‘climate change’.From organised arson to organised floods…the Greek Lockdown Junta becomes the EU’s posterboy for ‘climate change’.
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The climate change contract adopted on behalf of the WEF is proceeding at breakneck speed. What could not be achieved by other means ie removing trees gradually or reducing farming is done in an organised manner, behind the scenes, using all the latest technological development at their disposal from HAARP, DEW weapons, geoengineering and blowing up levees (Katrina style). In one summer Greece has lost its largest forest and one of its main agricultural producing areas.<div><b><br></b></div><div><b>PM Mitsotakis-better the devil they know</b></div><div>
Despite all the signs to the contrary and despite the international accusations about gross corruption at all leves of government New Democracy under the leadership of PM Mitsotakis was ‘re-elected’ with a whopping 41% obviously with the hidden hand of electronic voting. This shock and awa tactic had as the aim to paralyse the remnants of a society devastated by a decade of EU-IMF therapy. Despite the mass protests over the train crash at Tempi the fake opposition did everything in its power to not oppose anything the government did. </div><div><br></div><div>Due in part to the Turkish re-election of Erdogan (which the Americans did not want and they made their feeling felt with the massive earthquake they created) to change leader in Greece (which was on the cards) was suspended and it appears the reasons are clear enough. If the government never resigned for early elections after the biggest train crash in Greece and their criminal negligence at all levels why would they resign if they burnt whole swathes of Greece or flooded it? All that remains is a massive Turkish style earthquake which is probably used as a sword of Damocles over the quisling administrations to agree to anything and they do exactly that: agree to anything. Not that they have much hesitation either way....</div><div><br></div><div><b>Dadia Forest</b></div><div>
Greeces largest forest which borders onto Turkey was destroyed by at least 60-70% by uncontrolled fires and there was tonnes of evidence of arson. It got so bad that certain locals arrested migrants who were involved in arson attacks and then they were arrested by the government for arresting the firestarters. Evidence of fire mechanisms inside the national park were extensive and there is no reason to dwell on it as it has been a feature of the last decades. Fires always start in inaccessible places when there is high wind. Nowadays with the laser and drone technology they have they can pretty much start a fire anywhere and at anytime. By starting it in multiple location points they can ensure the fire not only spreads but connects and no one can do anything about it. </div><div><br></div><div>The anti-Russian path of the country has ensured as well that no help can come from Russia in relation to firefighting in Greece as they have the biggest firefighting planes. At the same time they did not ask for any help from their neighbours and let the forest burn for two weeks. This fits in neatly with Gates statements that there are too many trees on the planet and they have to get rid of them. The clowns in charge have even created blueprints for fake trees that inhale carbon dioxide (which is the number one enemy of all hyperglobalists aiming to remove/restrict life on planet earth). </div><div><br></div><div> <b>Reminiscent of Hurricane Katrina</b> </div><div>Allegations by Citizens that sabotage has occurred levees were dynamited to flood the plains and the system that pumps out wastewater to the sea was shut down…. In other words an engineered flood. By doing so they are taking out a significant section of Greek agricultural production which according to government statistics reaches 5% of GDP. </div><div><br></div><div>Speaking earlier this morning on a TV show, the plaintiffs' lawyer directly accused the local government of having broken the Enipeas dam in consultation with Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Vasilis Kikilas, in order for the floodwaters instead of Karditsa to go to the surrounding villages, including Farkadona. If that is the case then the agricultural area was removed from production for a reason to ensure a shortage of food and to fulfill EU climate change ie net zero quotas.</div><div><br></div><div>"There was no intervention by the state apparatus in any dam in the area, which caused water redirection. Beware of fake news, especially when it concerns human lives," Kikilias said on September 8, at the flood briefing. </div><div><br></div><div>How many are dead when the flooding of areas occured in the middle of the night? The govt only alleges 15 till today which is absolutely absurd.</div><div><br></div><div>Kikilias was the Health Minister in early on in Convid and also became Tourism Minister and was still tourism minister with the fires in the summer in particular the one at Rhodes.</div><div><br></div><div>Kikilas then became Climate Change Minister and the fires and floods occurred under his current stint. He was an ex-Basketball player who was in the Lions club that pushed him forwards to become political with close links to the USA…
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What Thessalia which got flooded produced irrespective of the animals (+100k) in the area many of which just drowned…. </div><div>38% of Greek cotton </div><div>52% of Tomatoes </div><div>20% of Cows milk </div><div>13.7% Goat’s milk </div><div>40% Soft Cheese </div><div>25% Hard Cheese </div><div>18.5% Beef </div><div>41% exports of milk-based products.</div><div><br></div><div>They are essentially another two such large areas one in Ilia in the Peloponnese and one in the Attiki region….</div><div><br></div><div>if the other two regions go Greece will become an agricultural desert, for the destruction in Thessaly must be the first large scale destruction on a european level of such magnitude taking into account they tried to close down one third of Hollands agricultural production and the government got overthrown. </div><div><br></div><div>SKAI news chief political editor Portosalte: 'If PM can’t manage needs to resign', they are fighting about the divisions of the spoils as the pro-govt presstitute despite being the most ardent supporter of the system is concerned his direct boss didn’t get some govt contracts.</div><div> At the same time he recently stated that the citizens should permanently leave from the flooded villages.
So others presumably can buy up the land create parks for renewable energy and bigger US military bases…. </div><div><br></div><div> One can only remember another dark period of Greek history when the Germans were leaving they decided to burn down as many villages as possible and cause as much damage as possible. </div><div><br></div><div>After being the poster boy for the alleged Euro crisis (which was magnified out of all proportion by those who had to prop up the dollar) now Greece has become the poster boy for the mad rush to net zero via the organised climate change catastrophes and it appears Tsipras resignation and the future appointment of an American Greek (Kasselaki) as leader of that party is being created to manage the fallout…
</div><div><br></div><div>Evans Agelissopoulos </div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-74251839806997963282023-07-27T03:59:00.003-07:002023-07-27T04:02:06.723-07:00On EVIA Fires <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div><b>‘We would want to have more means to firefight but those we have are aplenty’<i></i></b> <div>PM Mitsotakis 24/07/23 <div><br></div><div>
Having driven everyone mad with a non-existent permanent heatwave the Greek globalist govt elected in the same manner as Biden (via electoral fraud) is pushing climate change as the cause of all manners of ills and is selling Convid style Lockdowns. A day doesn’t pass without new measures being announced, eg closure of parks, not supporting children being at the beach between 1-5pm or taking out rubbish at the same time, or not allowing home deliveries to occur when the temperature hits +40c…</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Burning Down Northern Evia</b></div><div>A couple of years ago massive swathes of a forest in Northern Evia was burnt to smithereens. Everyone at the time noted fire planes and the fire brigade didn’t turn up in a timely manner allowing the fires to burn without limits. The govt had already agreed to build massive wind farms alongside the mountain ranges of North Evia as they already have in the South. One understands the logistics of it that you need access to get to the top and with tonnes of trees in the way the cost quadruples. Without the trees in the way your problems are solved. So by getting rid of the forests you can blame climate change and the benefit is you can build wind farms that you have already agreed beforehand. </div><div><br></div><div>During these fires the emphasis of the Mitsotakis govt was not to have any human casualties and this has been its raison d’etre in relation to what went on before (Syriza handling of Mati fires) so the forced mass evacuations and let peoples houses burn. Many people refused to leave and saved their properties and recently in the fires in Mandra, Attiki again fights broke out between the citizens and the police to ignore the orders. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLJT7dpqyHs">That is how the slogan PM ‘Mitsotaki Go Fcuk Yourself’</a> emerged and went viral that it became a football chant. </div><div><br></div><div>In a recent speech in Parliament PM Mitsotakis stated that we have 3500 windfarms set up and we need to double it to 7000. In theory when they were first promoted on the islands the locals were going to get lower electricity bills but this went out of the window. Each wind turbine costs at least one million euros without the set up costs. The actual turbines destroy the ecosystem by not allowing pollination by bees as they cannot fly through let alone the amount of concrete needed for the base which destroys the natural contours of the mountain and the residue of collapsed wind turbines that end up in the mountain water streams we end up drinking. Of course local contractors make money on building the base of these wind farms and they promote the official line that they are there to help us. </div><div><br></div><div>The myth for decades was the fires were done to build housing but that fell through in the decade of the Memorandums when all building work was stalled and by the fact that many of these fires were on mountain ranges and you would require helicopter access to get there. For years they blamed grannies for leaving a pizza on, for pine cones, for electricity substations, for cigaretters thrown by drivers in passing cars to justify massive fires when in reality they were all a product of organised arson. You can enforce climate change if you get rid of forests in the Attiki region which is what has occurred and then run articles that Athens will soon be like the Sahara desert…. </div><div><br></div><div>The govt has paid lip service to the claims of organised arson which are now mainstream and cannot be covered up so the govt proposed a doubling of the investigative efforts of an arson team.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b><i>Self burning trees from the base!!</i></b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Why Rhodes and why Corfu?</b></div><div> In order to gain maximum effect you target tourist areas that have global reach in terms of media and which areas are available those where British are so the BBC and CNN could re-broadcast people walking amid a backdrop of fires. No one asks how fires start now in the middle of mountain ranges and spread downwards? </div><div><br></div><div> Arson has been a feature of Greek fires not now but for at least 3 decades. The two most famous ones are the fires in the 2000 decade with tens dead over the Burghas pipeline deal which collapsed the Karamanlis govt and the recent ones in <a href="https://imfoccupationgreece.blogspot.com/2018/07/burning-greeks-alive-manufactured-fires.html">Mati in 2018</a> under the Syriza govt where over 100 died. Almost all reports that have emerged uncensored in the media point to organised arson. A Mayor of Karystos in Evia Island which also had a fire stated openly he saw three different locations of a fire start simultaneously. Subsequently airborne firefighters crashed killing two pilots in firefighting planes that are almost double the age of the young pilots. </div><div><br></div><div>When we had the fires in the late 2000 decade and the Chief Firefighter was resigned by the Karamanlis govt for negligence, Papandreou as opposition leader came out in his defence and blew his cover when he stated the man had been trained by the FBI (ie a US spook) which shows a direct and close connection between the state entities in Greece and the big powers that manage it.
Throughout <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0WPCK3XFCU">December 2022 military exercises occurred in Rhodes.</a> Who is to tell us they didn’t plant arsonist equipment that could be used when the wind is high and start fires in multiple locations (as this has been the feature of all the major fires). </div><div><br></div><div><b>UK leading wind farm country</b></div><div><br></div><div>What happened in Lockdown? Lufthansa funded to not fly. Holidays targeted as a climate change event, which flying on a private jet is a non climate change event and gods holy work by the great and the good. There is some logic to that as quite a few planes take off and block presumably flight paths and the globalists who run the planet want their movement curtailed and their plan of 15m cities and electric cars that don’t travel more than 250 miles implies that you will be stuck where your work/live, whilst a globalist oligarchy will have total freedom of movement.</div><div><br></div><div>All the British tourist areas in 2021 were targeted when the Greek government in alliance with the British one blocked British tourists and places like Rhodes and Greece were empty. The propaganda effect for Convid was massive at the time. The big tour operators like TUI (German-British interests) were compensated and the employees maintained their winter unemployment benefits throughout the summer. Going on holiday was at your one risk as you could catch the deadliest disease ever! A cold on a summer beach with a beer or two in hand and off to the hospital you go if the rapid test proved positive.</div><div><br></div><div>Its no coincidence again then a TUI operated hotel was targeted in Lindos leading to a mass evacuation of 10% of the tourists currently residing in Rhodes. The Germans are the main exporters of the wind farms so if these mountain ranges on the islands are to accept them they have to be burnt. A double whammy which serves both agendas: climate change and renewable energy plus a reduction in tourism as one will be holidaying in moon style surroundings with no vegetation in the coming years. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b><i><br></i></b></div><div><b><i>Where the current fire is where the windfarms are planned to go…</i></b></div><div><br></div><div>Now why weren’t other areas targeted where they are eg Balkan tourists like the Halkidiki peninsula or the global citizen tourists who frequent Mykonos or Santorini or Swedish tourists like in Kos? They couldn’t guarantee of course the global reach of the US/UK media networks and the selling of the climate change.</div><div><br></div><div>It appears the Mitsotakis govt has elevated himself into the position of global climate change advocate and is using the state entities to derail, undermine all firefighting efforts and has refused Russian help as he is more interested in supporting neonazi Azovists militarily and being on what he calls the <a href="https://imfoccupationgreece.blogspot.com/2022/04/">‘right side of history’</a> as opposed to <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/22/mvxy-j22.html">Fukuyamas ‘End of History’</a> in other words with NATO till then end of time. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><b><i>'Climate change' champion chief arsonist Mitsotakis</i></b></div><div><br></div><div>‘Climate change’ is cornerstone of the WEF agenda. The gangsters that run the Greek government and the parties of the ‘opposition’ are administering this enforced change to the detriment of the citizens of the country, the wildlife and the fauna and flora.
</div></div><div>Evans Agelissopoulos</div><div>26th July 2023</div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-24328777200516966802023-05-23T05:45:00.013-07:002023-05-23T06:11:09.527-07:00Greek 'Elections': Continued One Party Rule or a Coalition Govt?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixuojjfp5L6U7fNCaLEr2vtl9nesjgrxBE94LVmnzpidwjfgfNwyFVlje5lTVOD90oUSfPCgwxwXKLd_sEvOW5K-NEUGZxqrlJm6Q6mJf1JMdphI9BNWoSBFuXkF1iUAAEpXeCc4inoaGpZdnIaCAXSuie3GhWHDaCJWRDGNxh3MX-PSJtxBa8AH0B0g/s769/mitsotakis-ekloges-2023_0.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="769" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixuojjfp5L6U7fNCaLEr2vtl9nesjgrxBE94LVmnzpidwjfgfNwyFVlje5lTVOD90oUSfPCgwxwXKLd_sEvOW5K-NEUGZxqrlJm6Q6mJf1JMdphI9BNWoSBFuXkF1iUAAEpXeCc4inoaGpZdnIaCAXSuie3GhWHDaCJWRDGNxh3MX-PSJtxBa8AH0B0g/s320/mitsotakis-ekloges-2023_0.jpg"></a></div>
All indications in the previous period were that the New Democracy administration would implode under the severe Lockdown measures, the economic crash, and the train crash this February when millions hit the streets in protest. Instead of that ND both increased its vote in absolute numbers and as a percentage which Syriza the official opposition lost one third of its electoral base in absolute numbers (600k) and around 12% voting share. No exit polls predicted this.<div><br></div><div><b>Electoral Fraud and Voting Irregularities</b> </div><div>The numbers just don’t add up.</div><div><br></div><div>In the <a href="https://www.statistics.gr/documents/20181/18074233/GreeceInFigures_2023Q1_GR.pdf/4f6c7b5a-26ee-f4e0-0dd1-bc1ea4a1b1ef">2021 census</a> there were 10.4m citizens approximately.</div><div><br></div><div>The <a href="https://ekloges.ypes.gr/current/v/home/parties/">electoral results</a> both for 2019 and 2023. </div><div><br></div><div>How many are <a href="https://www.mynews.gr/ekloges-2023-posoi-einai-oi-eggegrammenoi-polites-stoys-eklogikoys-katalogoys-posoi-apodimoi-psifisan-vid/">signed up to vote</a>: <b>9.8m</b> </div><div><br></div><div>Taking into account children under 18 don’t vote and there are around 500k very old citizens with mobility and other issues who don’t vote (no postal vote exists in Greece) that leaves out approximately 2m people. So the electoral base isn’t 9.8m, nor could 5.5m have voted if we had a 40% abstention. Around 1.5m have been added up electronically by <a href="https://portal.singularlogic.eu/en/about-singularlogic">Singular Logic</a>. </div><div><br></div><div> Bourgeois parliamentarism in this era of deep crisis of global capitalism has surpassed the interwar period of the 3rd Reich. Hitler never one outright in an electoral battle he was only ever the first party and was appointed by the Chancellor Hindenburgh. </div><div><br></div><div>Nowadays the fraud is so blatant and open that it has surpassed anything the 3rd Reich had achieved.
Fraud in the electoral process in Greece is not new. During the cold war in the 1950’s when the Left came second fraud was immense, the joke was trees and dead people voted. Nowadays its obviously done by computer.</div><div><br></div><div> One set of results exist at the polling stations and another arrive at the centre. The issue is why doesn’t the opposition say anything regarding the publicly available information where the numbers don’t add up?</div><div><br></div><div><b>The Aegean Issue</b> </div><div>Syriza for decades had the line that the Aegean belongs to its fish and that if a section of it goes to Turkey its no big issue. The same has been stated by New Democracy politicians in different words in particular by the sister of the current PM, Dora Bakogianni. </div><div><br></div><div> The bottom line is that the US is in a long period of conflict with NATO member Turkey and has tried to get rid of Erdogan in a colour revolution in 2016 and since with the attack on the banks and the engineered earthquake. </div><div><br></div><div> As Greece is Americas actual backyard offering a section of the Aegean to Turkey under Erdogan is clearly out of the question hence a coalition government may be put on the back burner, despite all the previous attacks on ND by international media outlets inc the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/26/business/greece-journalists-surveillance-predator.html">New York Times</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/01/greece-train-crash-an-unimaginable-tragedy-as-death-toll-likely-to-rise?ref=upstract.com">Guardian</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65650508">BBC</a> etc . and domestic allegations of paedophilia, economic fraud and gross negligence regarding the recent train crash (which by all accounts appears <a href="https://imfoccupationgreece.blogspot.com/2023/03/nato-engineered-train-crash-in-greece.html">engineered</a>). </div><div><br></div><div><b>Next Elections</b> </div><div>If Syriza cannot get an agreement with PASOK to vote tactically ie to withdraw candidates where PASOK is num 2 and vice versa then by all accounts Mitsotakis will gain an absolute majority as the next elections will be with an enhanced majority ie one will require around 37% to form a government on their own and gain a 151 majority unlike the current ones which were base on proportional representation and one required +46%.</div><div><br></div><div>What is strange is that Syriza did not actually lead any campaign apart from a lacklustre one and a few day before the elections their ex-Penstions Minister Katrougalos announced a massive hidden increase in tax for the self-employed for which there are many in Greece, thus openly undermining the electoral outcome. This is reminiscent of the 2012 first elections where Tsipras announced he would house and feed any migrunt blow in that happens to arrive on Greek shores.</div><div><br></div><div>It's clear that since 2009 however you look at it with or without electoral fraud abstention remains the number one ‘political party’ in Greece surpassing whatever votes are assigned to the number one party by a very large margin (4m to 2.5m). Hence any party that governs is a minority party in society as a whole and however much electoral fraud they practice they cannot conceal this.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Politics is at an impasse in Greece as all the parties standing are anti-Russian, pro-EU, pro-Euro, open borders and hyperglobalists. Whatever forces exist opposed to this aren’t participating in the electoral charade.
</div><div><br></div><div>VN Gelis</div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-46636297785720608062023-03-22T06:12:00.008-07:002023-05-29T09:07:26.629-07:00Greek Protest Movement Re-Emerges Part 5Greek Train Crash Part 5<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIvzTvooT7UlgW2qClZZaAYFaAjvzsymkQ07BEIIYAIZ7QpJmgRLu1cbjDvi0YE3FzyqSai-itN1GD5nB5u6Qiva2c9pIjbcYfq1W2KDp4YD8DC3iRBjH_bYmCwXO1V_D6o-FfXvzjDGZr_MckMJZMwhSD6loI3YybtQ4QbdUb6o7mUv2eBMnc0t51Wg/s722/337035201_203027065750613_7861006826899273397_n.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="722" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIvzTvooT7UlgW2qClZZaAYFaAjvzsymkQ07BEIIYAIZ7QpJmgRLu1cbjDvi0YE3FzyqSai-itN1GD5nB5u6Qiva2c9pIjbcYfq1W2KDp4YD8DC3iRBjH_bYmCwXO1V_D6o-FfXvzjDGZr_MckMJZMwhSD6loI3YybtQ4QbdUb6o7mUv2eBMnc0t51Wg/s320/337035201_203027065750613_7861006826899273397_n.jpg"></a></div>
The social and economic crisis underpins the resurgence of a mass protest movement not seen since the IMF arrived in 2010-11. This movement both in size scope and age related participation shows it is a new dynamic which hasn’t overcome the defeats of the past, but by gaining momentum shows a new dynamic may be possible if it overcomes the dead end strategy of the past.<div><br></div><div><b>2010 IMF decade</b> </div><div>We went through 4 distinct phases. </div><div><br></div><div><b>First Phase: </b>The rise of the Aganaktismenous-Indignants phase with Occupations in Sindagma sq around 40 mini-establishment organised General Strikes with 48hr being maximums and at one stage near 1million people on the streets of Sindgama. Many times these demos were violently disrupted using tear gas and initially Bank Workers were burnt during one strike by agents provocateurs. Politically it led to an almost total collapse of New Democracy (reaching an all time low of 18%) and a rise of the new kids on the block, Syriza </div><div><br></div><div><b>Second Phase: </b>ND-PASOK coalition Samaras and Venizelos and a massive strike wave in 2014 which was brought to a standstill when the government introduced Junta style laws banning the right to strike in the public sector and sending out arrest warrants using the police to public sector workers if they continued their strikes. The strike phase ended once people realised that without a solid strike leadership they could only rely on electoral changes so they put all their faith in Syriza </div><div><br></div><div><b>Third Phase: </b>
Despite the blackmails via the shut banks and a limit on daily withdrawals with pensioners fainting in long queues with hot weather, the Greek establishment tried to sell the Referendum of 2015 as a pro-EU event stating quite brazenly a vote for OXI-NO would equal an ejection from the EU and a return to the Drachma.
When 63% of the population voted NO and the KKE abstained it clearly showed peoples disposition if a correct leadership existed but instead we got the pro-EU Syriza clowns who instead like Samaras before them voted in the 3rd MoU </div><div><br></div><div><b>Fourth Phase:</b>
The protests against the sell-off of the name Macedonia to a bunch of NWO Skopje clowns were wide and varied and whilst including a large base of the Patriotic Left had no organized banners from the Left and did involve a large base of the Patriotic Right. The main speech for the massive rally in Sindagma Sq was from Theodorakis and this was <a href="https://imfoccupationgreece.blogspot.com/2018/02/macedonia-will-always-be-greek-m.html">the last great speech</a> from this composer who stigmatised Greek history from the struggle against the Nazi occupation till then end of the 2010 decade.</div><div>Hundreds of thousands took part in every major city in Greece surpassing left-right political divides. Despite that Syriza agreed and then lost power…</div><div><br></div><div><b>2020’s Decade</b> </div><div><b>Lockdowns R Us</b><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>
Never one to cut short any <a href="https://imfoccupationgreece.blogspot.com/2020/03/greece-2020-covid-dictatorship-to-mask.html">fascistic implementations</a> of restrictive measures PM Mitsotakis went above and beyond demanding Vaccine passports for the whole of the EU (whilst at the same time promoting open borders and the shipping of migrunts without any checks from one part of Greece to the other). Whereas most countries ended Convid PM Mitsotakis with his neo nazi Health Minister Plevris only brought back the 10k odd<a href="https://imfoccupationgreece.blogspot.com/2022/11/greek-high-court-overturns-vaccine.html"> unvaxxed healthworkers</a> but still with a stipulation to do twice weekly paid tests, he brought multilingual announcements on the metro to wear a mask and although banned at airports the message still rings out more than once in an hour. This clown show is allegedly to end 31st March but don’t hold your breath as there are adverts in place to speak to your doctor regarding endless boosters for your ….health. </div><div><br></div><div>The pent up pressure of over two years of Lockdowns the disaster in the tourist economy and the 20-30% inflation in consumer goods over the last year has pummelled day to day living costs and we are at the dawn of a new social crisis that will dwarf the one of the last decade… </div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>
Demos after Demos</b>
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<b> Get Out Scumbags We Want Justice and Education<i></i></b> </div><div>Within the space of ten days we have had two mini General Strikes, endless protests by university students, school students with many banners stating ‘Down with the Government of Murderers’. Many were teargassed and the agents provocateurs resurfaced disrupting protests so the riot police could disperse them. In almost every Sunday league match banners anti-govt banners have appeared. Indicative of the situation is that the state controlled oligarchs media has had to put on an anti-govt face. In a research its stated around <a href="https://www.peristerilife.gr/koinonia/ereyna-tis-public-issue-rekor-12etias-oi-kinitopoiiseis-gia-ta-tempi">2.5m people</a> have been involved in protests and strikes in the last period. </div><div><br></div><div>The widespread participation of youth indicates once again enough is enough and this is forcing the govts hand to try not react in the usual way. For the first time even in right wing media they assert the agents provocateurs who disrupt the rallies are paid informants dressed as anarchists. This is a new development. </div><div><br></div><div> There is clearly a split within the establishment ranks and the police itself as evident with the <a href="https://www.cnn.gr/ellada/story/354536/to-paraskinio-tou-ksilomatos-tou-arxigoy-tis-astynomias">departure of the Chief of Police</a> after one year in office without knowing if he was pushed or he resigned. Was the Chief of Police ordered to kill protesting Greeks? Attacking people for mourning their dead and unaccounted for in the Great Train Crash of 2023 doesn’t obviously sit well with elements of the government party and they have openly stated it through their spokesperson ‘that a train crash cannot bring down the government’, but that is exactly what will happen. PM Mitsotakis days are numbered and if he doesn’t win in the first round the knives will be out for him, if he lasts that far and we don’t have anymore engineered …crashes (air sea or road) with victims. </div><div><br></div><div>Knowing full well a global crash was coming they postponed the inevitable with the Convid QE the central banks pumped in everywhere (2019-20) creating mass inflation and now millions are literally on the move it will difficult once more to cage them in. </div><div><br></div><div>The difference with the 2010 decade is that there is no actual single political alternative on the horizon being promoted. The MSM promote Dendias (ND Foreign Minister) and also individuals like Varoufakis trying to spin an anti-IMF twist on his behalf. A coalition govt cannot of course have a single leader and the issue is whether it will be a mini coalition or a broad based one.</div><div><br></div><div><b>KKE as mainstream as they can get</b> </div><div>Having survived the 2010 decade by halving its electoral base and selling off as much as possible to maintain its professional parasites the KKE needs the votes to get an electoral subsidy. It has suddenly changed course and is no longer doing separate demos as it has done for the past 25 years. It now joins all demos with the rest of the people. The unions are no longer ‘class based’ which was the excuse used for its abstentionism.</div><div><br></div><div>The demonstrations for the KKE are to gain more supporters to vote for them, the politics is zero as usual. They don’t even call for the government to resign now and they don’t even leave Parliament as a sign of protest. They hope to ride it out get their 300.000 votes and join the next two Parliaments. This might not actually work out for them and this year may be the decisive break that occurs with the KKE that it is forced into a coalition government to survive economically as politically it is dead. </div><div><br></div><div> <b>The next period ahead</b>
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The game of musical chairs now being played between all the organisations that are represented within and outside Parliament for a seat at the parliamentary trough will depend on what numbers emerge and with whom they govern as the one party victory seems too distant if not near enough impossible under a system of proportional representation for the first set of elections. </div><div><br></div><div>The issue is whether the populist movement is able to impose any real populist solutions by acting outside the box, ie not limiting itself to set piece demos where riot police and black clad agents provocateurs decide who can and who cant demonstrate, whether they are able to target politicians like they did in Serres where ex-Minister of Transport Karamanlis had tens of thousands chanting ‘You aint getting re-elected’ and making life hell for all politicians touting for a vote. The political patronage system (whereby votes are granted for jobs and government contracts) makes it very impossible.
Either which way the capitalist crisis aint going on holiday and it has come back with a vengeance. We need to respond accordingly. </div><div><br></div><div>Evans Aggelissopoulos
</div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-555701340035954612023-03-10T07:04:00.002-08:002023-03-10T07:13:30.059-08:00The Signalman Anomalies… Greek Train Crash Part 4The Signalman Anomalies… Greek Train Crash Part 4
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The government from the word get go has attempted to blame the employees involved in this and to get themselves away from the event scott free. How now a whole train system is allegedly dependent on one man is beyond belief in particular when that one man has been seen nowhere since the crash. We have heard his voice, seen his picture but have not seen a single video of him either being taken to court or into custody. All we know is his sister was in and out of the PMs office again in what capacity we have not been told. <div><br></div><div><b>Signalman Anomalies</b> </div><div>The signalman completed his training on 24th January this year. 3 signalmen were supposed to be on his post that evening but he was alone. Various bits of information state the others were having some drinks late into the evening. </div><div><br></div><div>So far from what we know there were two tracks one that <b>goes upwards to Thessaloniki </b>and one that <b>goes downwards to Athens</b>. The passenger train was travelling North to Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki and the freight train was travelling South to Athens. We do not know who had commissioned the freight train and what cargo it was carrying. We also know from the recorded speeches between the signalman responsible for the passenger train that he was forced to hold it on the upwards path for some time over 50m as allegedly the live wires were ripped off collapsing the electricity in part of the route and that at some point there after he switched to the downwards track before switching it back to the upwards track. </div><div><br></div><div>This was stated at 23.41 in a conversation with the Controller Signalman from Athens in a conversation with the Signalman at Larissa (who was responsible for the passenger train).</div><div><br></div><div>The signalman blames the magnetic keys that they didn’t switch the wagon back to the upward track in dialogue circulated in the MSM. Why was he even given the job without actually having long term experience in a post whereby 80 trains a day passed? Another two signalmen were allegedly on call (arrested today) but left early leaving him in the lurch. So having stated he accepts ‘part responsibility’ for the crash why was the post not manned? Why didn’t the dashboard make noise that two trains are on the track? Is there a way to block the diversion of the train without the signalmans knowledge? </div><div><br></div><div>Why was he allegedly over the age limit which was set at 45 for this post and he was nearer 60? He was appointed whilst ND was in power and what connection does the PM have with the family? Where is the family from?
The signalman’s surname is Samaras just like the sisters. Are they related to the politician Samaras who brought down PM Mitsotakis fathers’ government in 1993? Another one of those weird coincidences which if it was one stinks that this was organised and in your face and someone is having a laugh at all of us. Why one week after the event is a secret being kept regarding this topic? We will eventually find out so the only explanation is damage control, wait till the families have buried their dead and then drip feed us with information. </div><div><br></div><div>The issue is that whichever one looks at it if PM Mitsotakis doesn’t reveal info early on but keeps it hidden for others to reveal he will be labelled as politicising the tragedy to his own political advantage and if he does reveal a connection will go down even faster. Either which way he is burnt politically but when will he jump or be pushed is what is at stake here.</div><div><br></div><div>But we have another problem. PM Mitsotakis was recently revealed to be using Israeli spyware to spy on politician’s so he knows exactly what they are up to beforehand and can act accordingly. </div><div><br></div><div>The engines of the trains according to a blogger contain 2.5tonnes of light oil and there are 3 engines parts so around 7.5tonnes and with the speed they are travelling at 160km/h for the passenger train and 90km/h for the freight train with 25,000volts on the overhead cable it isn’t hard to see that a fireball engulfed more than one train wagon… </div><div><br></div><div>So if it was a human error it cant be down to one person as the system isn’t run on one person alone and it would be ridiculous to believe that it was. They employed part time signalmen as well on non-permanent contracts. The driver of the passenger train also allegedly tried to contact the signalman Vasilis Samaras but had communication issues as there are dead zones in the journey.
But zooming up the wrong track when the Greek rail system has ‘ghost trains’ is abominable on all counts and shows a trusting relationship between drivers signalmen beyond what one could consider ‘normal’. </div><div><br></div><div>Such an event if an organised provocation takes meticulous planning and the signalmen, trackworkers, drivers etc would have noticed some strange events occurring without realising what precisely at least one month before.
One of the reasons none of them appear in the media to not be asked too many questions and contradict the official story: human error. When we all know it is systemic error with or without the element of direct provocation. </div><div><br></div><div>Botched privatisation where the major costs of running the railway rely on the state and where the cash flow is handed over to a private train company. They wouldn’t have been able to do that if they had to pay to upkeep the train tracks and now they have dead on their hands….. </div><div><br></div><div>Blood has been spilt and the Government of Murderers needs to go asap…
</div><div><br></div><div>Evans Aggelissopoulos</div><div><br></div><div>10th March 2023</div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-50887960160569751462023-03-07T02:10:00.001-08:002023-03-07T02:19:36.574-08:00Was a Bomb used for the Collision? Part 3Greek Train Crash Part 3<div>Was a Bomb used for the Collision? <div><br></div><div>Questions arisen: was a bomb used as a second fallback option to ensure there were casualties? What evidence exists apart from the video of the collision and verbal confirmation by a firefighter of a crater at the location? If a bomb was used then its an open and shut case of a terrorist attack of unknown elements. </div><div><br></div><div>We cannot obviously know what happened as we don’t have access either to the crash site and aren’t a state entity, we can only make certain assumptions which might be reflected upon depending what comes next.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Evidence</b> </div><div>According to the Chief Firefighter no evidence of gas tanks existed in the passenger train as it was an electrified unit and the canteen was modern using only electricity. He did not say whether any checks were made regarding material for bombs. The army is seen in pictures on the days after the crash as being there. Was that to remove any sensitive evidence or to ensure they stated there was no bomb debris on site? </div><div><br></div><div> A female firefighter told us there was evidence of a crater on site which by the time we had arrived was covered up. What caused the crater? One could argue that the passenger wagons because of the intensity of the crash travelling at around 160kmh a couple of wagons pancaked and as seen from the picture the canteen which was wagon num 3 was pulverised.</div><div><br></div><div>The first two freight train wagons show evidence of a collision but they don’t appear to have blown up. That does not imply there wasn’t an explosion but it does not appear to have blown them up or made them into bits. So how would a bomb work on the freight train but its impact to be for the passenger train? A bomb could have been located in the mud underneath the passenger train in the area of the impact to have maximum effect and to a certain extent the total collapse of the first three wagons of the passenger train show that. But one doesn’t see the wagons to have been blown to bits or having opened up as in other pictures in the after math of train bombings. How could they work out the distance the train was travelling and that it would hit at that precise location beforehand? Highly improbable as well.
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A link from Associated Press regarding the carriages does not show evidence of a bomb in the aftermath, there are no carriages that have blown outwards.
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Aftermath of Madrid train bombing</b> </div><div><br></div><div>The Chief firefighter told us one of the carriages had become like a giant ball and they had to prize it open to gain access. That is the exact opposite of bomb which has the opposite effect, it opens things up it doesn’t close them. </div><div><br></div><div>If they wanted to plant a bomb they could have on the train and blamed it on illegal migrants who use the service for free. I have been on there in the last five years around 5-6 times. I noticed many travelling, there were no checks on and off the train so anyone could in theory carry anything. If the current PM wanted to pass the blame on he could easily have found evidence of a bomb (if there was one) and blamed it on whoever. It would have been believed after all most events are blamed on ….’terrorism’. </div><div><br></div><div>A Greek newspaper on the 2nd Day of the Crash on its front cover had the title ‘Bomb on Train’ and this newspaper is closely associated with the security services. Everybody knows the Greek security services aren’t a single homogenous unit and they represent influences of particular world powers USA or EU….</div><div><br></div><div> Did this newspaper deliberately produce such a title to muddy the waters? This is the fastest ‘conspiracy’ promotion ever in Greece in living memory. We did not see this with Convid, fires that engulf the country every summer or in the previous era of Fake Terrorism. Why know? Who is behind it? Yesterday’s people who would not see a conspiracy anywhere are now all conspiracy all the time. What changed? Or is it the new line so it can all be traced back personally to the PM?</div><div><br></div><div><b>Video Evidence</b></div><div>
One needs to view the video evidence to show us how it is the train wagons that crashed.</div><div><br></div><div> From a survey of the site there are no parking points or any security cameras that can see the video they showed from a distance. The video does not show these specific trains as we can’t discern them in the dead of night. What we are seeing could in theory be anything from anywhere.</div><div><br></div><div> It’s not the first time they do this. When the oil wells were burning in Iraq in the first Gulf war they showed us a bird full of oil. This was not from Iraq but it was shown repeatedly. They might want to show evidence of a bomb to muddy the waters so people can fight with each other over every detail which isn’t really that important as the real issues are how did two trains collide on a single track and one is a freight train carrying unknown goods? </div><div><br></div><div> The firefighter could have been directed by the government to search for a bomb. The issue is could have they been directed to find evidence for a planted bomb in the aftermath of the collision? As far as we now after a crash the priority is to get anyone out alive and see if anyone is still alive in the debris.</div><div><br></div><div> From the extent of the debris of the carriages pulverised there was no chance anyone would be alive. Also for a false flag to operate on behalf of the government it has to be done from scratch it cannot be a response to an event not of the actual governments making. It would involve too many variables. Then would the PM dare false flag the original false flag architects of global fake terrorism the USA? Highly unlikely as he is a Yes Man and if they ask him to commit political or other forms of hara-kiri he would. What comes to mind is Pinochet. He exclusively followed the Chicago boys economic nutjob unit didn’t stop him being chased after he left office or the Greek junta personnel who had 7 years of glory and the rest of their lives behind bars…. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Organised Train Collision to Politically Personally Burn the PM</b> </div><div>No PM in Greece can survive such a disaster. Tsipras before him got burnt on the stake over the fires in Mati Athens and the Prespes Agreement. With so many dead highlighting the shoddy mismanagement, privatisation for peanuts to a Sicilian mafia outfit and the massive ensuing protests this government will fall. </div><div><br></div><div>Today’s revelations that the signalman’s sister works in the PMs office shows that this goes right into the heart of government. There is no way out of this one.
Postponing the elections does not time buy the announcement was supposed to have occurred last Friday but the train crash intervened. The anger and hatred and pent up pressure from two years of repressive Lockdowns is exploding on the streets and the youth are back protesting big time (topic will covered after tomorrows mini-general strike). PM Mitsotakis is about to become persona non grata everywhere. </div><div> </div><div>7th March 2023 </div><div>Evans Aggelissopoulos<br></div></div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-21308329298142139442023-03-05T01:07:00.001-08:002023-03-05T01:19:12.118-08:00Train Collision Times and Other Anomalies<b>Part Two</b>
Eyewitness Account<div><br></div><div>It was a very long journey from Athens and back in total 15hrs in one day and with a wake up time of 5am.
First point of call was the hotel where some relatives of the deceased where staying. In the foyer one woman was wailing with pain.
Naturally one cannot engage with peoples grief, we aren't the mass media and have principles which we cannot override. Peoples grief comes first and always will. </div><div><br></div><div>Curteousy of the ex-Minister of Development in the first Syriza government Mr P Lafazani we were able to join his delegation and to get access to the crash site with plenty of time to view remnants of the damage and to speak to the Chief of the Firebrigade on site. </div><div><br></div><div>One needs to understand that on these specific issues Greece is unlike the French or the English and a lot more like the Americans. The firebrigade is subservient to the Police on site and the Police are a political entity who take orders directly from the prevailing Government Ministers. </div><div><br></div><div> Over Convid the Greek police where given track and trace powers for all citizens who could not leave the house without noting where they are going or they faced multiple fines beginning with €300.</div><div><br></div><div> The police were in charge of the crash site and in their first road block they told us we can’t go through unless directly involved in one way or another. Mr Lafazani managed to convince them that we came from Athens to lay wreaths for the dead.</div><div><br></div><div> Having gone through to the site we managed to secure a 40m question and answer session with the Chief Fire Brigade officer and other close colleagues we understood that they were suffering PTSD and they needed to get some things off their chest primarily with strangers.</div><div><br></div><div> We were told that there was <b>zero evidence</b> of bombs anywhere on the crash site. One cannot assume the Chief Firefighter was lying as he was very open and stated after the collision from impact the train wagons caught fire from the materials contained in them. But lets not dwell on whether there was an explosion or not as the impact alone was enough to kill passenger, the issue is whether the ‘explosion’ would have killed more or less and this argument is now similar to the one adopted after 9/11 between the No Plane theory and the Planes theory which doesn’t override anything else from the debris site ie kerosene cannot melt steel beams and the subsequent evidence of thermite.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Train Times</b></div><div>The Passenger train was delayed over 50 min in Larissa due to faulty electrical cables (could have been cut or damaged by external forces and this happens frequently by those who steal cables for money) by that time the freight train had travelled far down the track. The signalman then places the passenger train on the same line as the freight train and 25km out of Larissa they collide. Here is where it now gets interesting.<br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCgQSDHxPCX6Xdm_l-c2b92_gBT__9k2kyAFHO9tV_HKhPsXmmuCP8tgFZSC1CubMeU5yF4Y8E_ISisv-rLoZHoBb8ay0mlf93cmi7lUcXV5Tsv6hZva8OZCd2gZr9J3Fvwp_VRBK_012V3lWVL0XuEK5JKIzbhnD-Qr07_NAI6HXSfeP4CYJAlMMdXQ/s320/viber_image_2023-03-04_13-55-02-464.jpg"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Pulverised Debri of the canteen.</div>
The Chief Firefighter stated that when they arrived from all over towns close to Larissa the ambulance service and a couple of big buses were already there.</div><div><br></div><div>He stated they arrived between 11.50 to 12am. People had managed to escape the collision from the back carriages (3 front ones were damaged beyond repair one was fully pulverised). </div><div><br></div><div>Time of Train Crash <b>11.22pm</b></div><div>
Firebrigade arrival <b>11.50-12pm</b> </div><div>Ambulance service already there prior to <b>11.50am</b></div><div><br></div><div>
The actual length of time of the collision was 16m. So 11.22pm and 16m already is 11.36pm. If we are to allege passengers rang after that for emergency services as the trains personnel was already dead and this took max another 4m we are at 11.40pm.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone ever involved in a head on collision of any sort knows that the times I have given are ridiculous in terms of reaction of passengers and cannot be held to be serious as they are the shortest amount possible to give the benefit of the doubt to the other side that the emergency services responded after a passenger call.</div><div><br></div><div>The scene of the crash site is approximately 25km Larissa. Last 3km you go along dirt tracks to to get to the side of the train where emergency services set up camp with the army present probably the next day.
It is physically impossible even on permanent standby with being able to leave immediately (assume the engines of the ambulance service were on and a signal as if we are in a car rally was made and they left immediately) to go to a crash site the location of which they don’t know 100% and it is already dark outside to arrive any time prior to 12am.
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This in and of itself shows this was a <b>pre-engineered event.</b> Time cannot be created out of thin air and rickety ambulances aren’t 4by4 vehicles which easily can go over dirt tracks.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-f0f-vuU30B9sZOkFxRwk-EcvU80GQibGA6QYkdYSidwP2tbcdddXb57vDetxoD04KJ6pBO1IyUFLYV-OcbUC_EvveadeUMdsh6k1X14DsZYhx4uq833eUFEpjZ2lzv3rmiYPx56dYfpLEl9NtihQW5KcWKQvdwIyb-DCzNz_qJTc765EXiKTVkGzTg/s1600/viber_image_2023-03-05_10-52-12-946.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-f0f-vuU30B9sZOkFxRwk-EcvU80GQibGA6QYkdYSidwP2tbcdddXb57vDetxoD04KJ6pBO1IyUFLYV-OcbUC_EvveadeUMdsh6k1X14DsZYhx4uq833eUFEpjZ2lzv3rmiYPx56dYfpLEl9NtihQW5KcWKQvdwIyb-DCzNz_qJTc765EXiKTVkGzTg/s320/viber_image_2023-03-05_10-52-12-946.jpg"></a></div>
<b>Larissa General Hospital</b> </div><div><br></div><div>The Chief Firefighter was baffled as to how they were there so swiftly. Of course phone logs wont be provided at what time of day was the ambulance service called to leave Larissa General Hospital which happens to be 2-3 blocks away from the centre but still in a congested part of the town. </div><div><br></div><div> This is of course assuming all ambulance crews are ready on no other calls out and they can go there at the drop of a hat. Everyone knows the collapse of the Greek health system due to the enforced austerity of the EU-IMF in the 2010 decade for which the country has never recovered.
The focus on explosive materials may be a diversion from the point of view of the actual events themselves and what we can understand from what is a rapidly changing situation. We will return.</div><div><br></div><div> Evans Aggelissopoulos
</div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-48553702035544780782023-03-03T11:11:00.002-08:002023-03-03T12:57:06.490-08:00NATO Engineered Train Crash in Greece?<b>NATO Engineered Train Crash in Greece?
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Train collision fireball? Or NATO weaponry exploding on impact? <div><br></div><div>A passenger train carrying mostly students on a late evening journey from Athens to Thessaloniki collides with a freight train going from Athens to Thessaloniki in an area near Larissa town killing at least 57 but with that many more unaccounted for. Explosions were heard by passengers and fireball was created. Within the Greek system there are ‘ghost trains’ which send freight so they aren’t billed. What was in the cargo of the freight train we do not as yet know. The signalman was a recent appointee with rumours his daughter works in the parliamentary office of an MP. The more time that passes the more strange this whole saga becomes. </div><div><br></div><div>After Blinken’s visit to Greece strange things started. All of a sudden sworn political enemies started a merry go round of negotiations as to what to do in the coming elections. For months talk was of a Greek-Turkish conflict which could occur at anytime. After the Turkish earthquake it was all smiles and kisses. After the Greek train crash which by all accounts is very strange they are best of buddies again and coalitionism is on the cards in Greece again. </div><div><br></div><div>The army turned up to take control of the situation and the freight trains which appeared to be over 30 wagons ended up becoming only 11. Tonight a government official stated the deceased will only be given in sealed coffins as they don't obviously want relatives testing the remants of their relatives for fragments of military hardware from the explosions.</div><div><br></div><div><b>EU Directives</b></div><div> The war by NATO against Russia has brought to the fore the issues of transportation of military equipment from West to East. There are a myriad of countries in the EU and many of the rail services have been privatised. The freight and passenger trains usually with the rolling stock and infrastructure still belonging to the governments. The high cost of maintaining the infrastructure falls on respective governments and most of the profits to the privatised rail companies. The purpose behind privatisation is of course to break the back of health and safety regulation by cutting corners and weaken and immobilise any reaction of train drivers. </div><div><br></div><div>According to the fire brigade there were no gas bottles or other explosive material in the passenger train but they haven’t disclosed what was in the freight train.</div><div><br></div><div> Some people have alleged that there are ghost trains on the system that ship goods but aren’t registered so they avoid paying freight charges so under such a system the possibility exists munitions were being carried on sections of the railway and something triggered a crash. </div><div><br></div><div>An article appears last year in April in Politico which deals with EU issues with such a title:
“Europe’s roads and railways aren’t fit for a fight with Russia</div><div><br></div><div>Having a better army doesn't much matter if you can't get it moving.</div><div><br></div><div> Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has focused attention on preparing the EU's roads, railways, ports and airports for the rapid movement of troops and tanks. Relieving bottlenecks and buttressing tracks and bridges used by both military and civilians is crucial to the Continent's defense program. But despite those worries, the EU isn't planning any immediate increase in spending on the issue.” </div><div><br></div><div> For every big geopolitical change dynamite comes into play, from the Gulf of Tonkin incident to 9/11 to Ukraine. Its already evident that the Greek quisling government is emptying Greece’s military arsenal from every part of Greece and shipping it to Ukraine. Last summer a cargo plane crashed in Northern Greece creating a fireball with toxic fumes which was reported once more by myself. To date we were never told what type of cargo and who it was essentially for and how it was flying over populated areas.” </div><div><br></div><div>The EU took Greece to court early March for non-compliance with EU directives regarding railway infrastructure and fined them. On the following day of the crash PM Mitstoakis was supposed to visit the state infrastructure unit of the railways and give a pre-electoral speech. It was obviously cancelled. What are the chances of being fined for non-compliance with EU directives and the PM giving a speech at the institution officially responsible for the crash.</div><div><br></div><div> If someone of course believes in gargantuan coincidences like others believe in fortune tellers then it’s not a big deal. Most events can be explained away face value and there is no need to investigate. It is what it is as the MSM said so.</div><div><br></div><div> Convid wasn’t a Wuhan event until it was, 9/11 wasn’t a controlled explosion until thermite was found in the debris. Saddam had WMD’s until he hadn’t. Anyone tyring to logically process the stories from the MSM would end up with the men with white coats.</div><div><br></div><div><b>The signalman is at fault. </b></div><div>From the word get go the signalman who is now purported to be a political appointee with little or no experience is the fall guy. Apparently due to his inexperience he knows little or nothing about moving freight trains on different tracks so they don’t collide. His daughter allegedly works for a minister. The prosecutor who has been brought into to investigate the event has a son who works for the Transport Ministry as a lawyer. One could say it all runs in the family or not at all, but when one sees the angle maybe the signalman was the fall guy for an event which was pre-engineered.</div><div><br></div><div>Nothing in Greece is ever as it appears and characteristic is the premier globalist reporter from Skai tv network owned by a ship owner with deep state connections Portosalte who stated "maybe the tragedy will lead to an upgrading of the network."</div><div><br></div><div>If the war in Russia is to last into 2024 then they require the train tracks modernising and what better way than to have over 100 sacrificed to the alter of NATO upgrades.<br></div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-10597806962243599792023-02-27T06:15:00.005-08:002023-02-27T06:27:59.598-08:00Blinkens Visit to Greece: A Wolf in Search of Sheep<b>Blinkens Visit to Greece: A Wolf in Search of Sheep</b>
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The massive earthquake in Turkey by all accounts has fast forwarded political developments in Greece to such an extent whereby yesterdays political enemies are now becoming friends. The issue of course was this event a natural phenomena or the sword of Damocles over both Greece and Turkey? US concerns with Turkeys non approval of Swedish NATO membership, its refusal to join anti-Russian sanctions and its agreement to remove troops from Syria leaving the Americans exposed are issues that could have triggered a massive HAARP attack (as noted by the <a href="https://expatguideturkey.com/turkish-space-agency-president-serdar-huseyin-yildirim-they-create-earthquakes-thanks-to-weapons-in-space/">head of Turkeys Space Agency</a>) <div><br></div><div> <b>Bidens Ukronazi Debacle </b></div><div>
One year on, Bidens America has achieved massive sales in weapons and exports of gas but they are destroying their EU partners in crime, deindustrialising Germany and bankrupting Italy with inflation soaring ahead in quite a few countries at around 20%. The massive destruction of Ukraine the collapse of GDP by 70%, the endless power cuts and the massive loss of life indicate that only remains will be left behind. The Ukronazi army is on life support with reports circulating in Greece that the Ukrainian ambassador wants a list of all male registered refugees so they can be deported back to join the meat grinder. </div><div><br></div><div>The issue at stake of course is for how long can the US prolong this debacle? By claiming victory every 2-3 months they are just using an excuse to send more weapons and deplete all EU stocks so they can then sell their hardware after…but b destroying the EU economies they will have less capabilities of selling their overpriced gas and weapons systems. But we are where we are and the US no longer has the capacity to openly threaten allies so they do it in a myriad of other ways as has occurred with Turkey. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Greek Premier Mitsotakis: Last Chance Saloon</b>
Unable to announce elections for fear his term will finally be over and he will join the pantheon of dead career politicians and their nepotistic heritage and the opposition clearly not wanting to govern the mess he has created, they are dragging on to elections with no single party being promoted by the mass media. Mitsotakis realising his time is up is on a mission to make as much money as possible in the shortest possible time just before he departs at the same time as opening new fronts in the class war. </div><div><br></div><div>For over a decade the Greek ruling class has toyed with the idea of mass repossessions but this alone would bankrupt the housing market overnight. Having bailed out the banks more than once they then transferred all bad mortgage and business loan debt to various investment funds which have been granted powers to call in the bad debt immediately without informing the owners. Two cases emerged this week of an extremely disabled woman whose flat was repossessed and court ushers arrived with police to evict her on the streets which was blocked by concerted action from people and the case of a hotel owner who was attempting to reschedule a portion of his debt but he was unsuccessful being evicted and beaten up in the process.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Scandal after Scandal</b></div><div>
It emerged that one of the companies that had bought the bad debt was an MP of the ruling party New Democracy from a man called Pahtsis. He created a company out of thin air which then had money loaned to it that he used to purchase bad debt at approx. 1/50 of its face value. One can assume this is a motivation to keep the party members in check. Vote for us and we will grant you investment opportunities from those who will lose their properties. </div><div><br></div><div>Another ND stalwart by the name of Mihos was uncovered to be involved in underage child prostitution scandal with over 200 prominent names (which have yet to be revealed Epstein style) alongside the ex- National Theatre Director Lignadis (close personal friend of Premier Mitsotakis) who was into little migrant boys. </div><div><br></div><div> But the scandal that even reached the European Parliament was Mitsotakis Israeli spyware where he listened in on all political opponents after having made himself Director of EYP (Greek Secret Service) and then used his majority in Parliament to vote any measures against himself down forcing all his MP’s to accept institutional fraud. As a sign of opposition Syriza withdrew all its MP’s from Parliament in one go to pretend they are against the govt and they haven’t called for mass demos to bring it down. </div><div><br></div><div> <b>Political Landscape is a Merry Go Round</b> </div><div>The next elections whenever they will be will be run on full proportional representation without a first party bonus so no party can get +36% hence we will have a hung Parliament. Knowing this the political forces on the outside are in round table discussions with each other to see who can get elected and receive state subsidies. </div><div><br></div><div> By all accounts the merry go round between Syriza, PASOK, Papandreou himself, Varoufakis and the ex-expelled Syriza clowns of LAE is an indication that politics isn’t about principles but what can be achieved in the very near parliamentary future. What unites all the existing political forces withing the Greek Parliament is their anti-Russian venom, their open (indirect in the case of the KKE) support of NATO and the US war aims. PM Mitsotakis has made it a hallmark of his premiership not only to have fanatically supported Convid like few others around the world, but he has also come out fanatically in support of the Ukronazis from bringing Azov speakers on a live link into the Greek Parliament to emptying the Greek islands from their military hardware leaving them defenceless.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Aegean Sea up for Grabs</b></div><div>
If Syriza lost Macedonia to the Skopje clowns, Mitsotakis is on a mission to lose the Aegean to Turkey, but it is an irony of history just as he is all Turk all the time, the Americans are in conflict with them so he has to tread carefully, making ‘nationalist’ pronouncements and integrationist ones ie the carrot instead of the stick when called to do so also.</div><div><br></div><div> American politics for the region after having beefed up the Greek port of Alexandroupoli is at once to have a base to send military equipment to the Ukronazis and also to have a gateway to be able to block the Turkish straits if Erdogan were to go and a new pro-American premier takes over. Under those conditions the carrot of the Aegean could be handed over to Turkey to do US bidding. But the Aegean is insignificant in relation to the energy hub proposed by Putin for Turkey and the benefits of the BRICS trade should Turkey join.
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<b>KKE Pro NATO Clowns</b> </div><div><br></div><div> After abstaining from the Greek OXI Referendum and asking for an Abstention from the Brexit Referendum the KKE has adopted the Ukronazi propaganda about an ‘invasion of sovereign territory’ and they have promoted the concept of a plague of both your houses alleging Russia and the USA are re-dividing the world as imperialist powers so they ask for the Donetsk republic to lay down its arms.</div><div><br></div><div> This is the same party that adopted Convid and criticised the govt for not being dictatorial enough and stood on a May Day parade in Sindagma Sq socially distancing itself, the same party that didn’t lift a finger from they fired thousands of Healthworkers, the same party that asked from citizens to show they have been Pfeizer jabbed to enter political meetings. We are dealing with political degenerates of the highest order. The only positive in the whole situation is that this might be the year they evaporate as after all they have lost half their electorate in the last decade and they might lose another half again.
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<b>May Day 2020 KKE socially distances in Rally at Sindagma Sq</b> </div><div><br></div><div> Having marched with Syriza against the Russian Embassy they are showing the contours of the future if they need to survive as a parasitic rump (which is what they essentially are) as their printing presses have been sold off, their newspaper is no longer every day of the week, their tv station and many of the buildings they own have gone and they are up to their eyeball in debt.</div><div><br></div><div><b>KKE Marching with Syriza on behalf of NATO</b></div><div><b> against the Russian Embassy </b></div><div><br></div><div>In the last elections July 2019 the KKE received just short of 300k votes having lost approximately that number during the 2010 decade. The next elections will be based on proportional representation so even if they get 200k votes it will appear they got enough, but the problems will start if we have subsequent elections if no single party has won an outright majority (unless of course the go from the get go for a Grand Coalition).</div><div><br></div><div> If the KKE doesn’t therefore get 3% of the votes in the next elections it will lose parliamentary representation and disintegrate like its other western European partners (French, Italian etc). That in and of itself will be the most positive political development in Greece for decades.
The organisation is so corrupt and rotten it has destroyed what remains of organised labour.
It has organised near enough zero protests against the cost of living crisis, its union leaders have excelled themselves in supporting the suspension of non-vaxxed Healthworkers and they outdo the govt demanding it accepts more Ukronazi refugeez and it houses any chancer that crosses into Greek borders.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Grand or Mini-Coalition?</b> </div><div>One cannot foretell what is coming as the results of the elections haven’t come through but the political machinations now evident are clear. Either a ND-Syriza coalition or a Syriza-PASOK-Varoufakis one etc. </div><div><br></div><div> The Greek political system is broken beyond repair. We are living the twilight of the Mitsotakis clan that has domintated Greek politics since the 1950’s. By all accounts if ND doesn’t win outright and it looks like that is completely out of the question the knives will be out for Mitsotakis. The problem there is he has stuffed the public sector with so many supporters that that wont be the end of it. Political patronage of the EUs premier banana republic is alive and well and was re-inforced by Syrizas assumption of power and continued exponentially by Mitsotakis. </div><div><br></div><div> The shenanigans of the Mayor of Athens (Bakogianni his nephew) is unbelievable as he has dug up the centre twice in one term to make money from contractors. These hyperglobalist neoliberal clowns are all privatisation at all cost at all times and then they use the state coffers to line their pockets. </div><div><br></div><div>The only positive in the whole sorded political environment is the coming Russian victory. It will upset the pro-NATO pro-American applecart once and for all.<br></div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-85636095094473642312022-11-26T08:54:00.001-08:002022-11-26T08:54:53.814-08:00Greek high court overturns vaccine requirement for health workers<div id="page" class="site"><header class="site-header classic-layout" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/WPHeader"><div class="header-t"><div class="container"><div class="my-header-search"><div class="asl_w_container asl_w_container_1"><div id="ajaxsearchlite1" data-id="1" data-instance="1" class="asl_w asl_m asl_m_1 asl_m_1_1"><div class="probox"><div class="proinput"><form autocomplete="off" aria-label="Ajax search form"><input aria-label="Search input" type="search" class="orig" name="phrase" placeholder="Search here.." value="" autocomplete="off"><div pseudo="-webkit-input-placeholder" id="placeholder"><br 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href="https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/eu-issues/greek-high-court-overturns-vaccine-requirement-for-health-workers/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2022-11-25T11:31:56+01:00" itemprop="datePublished">November 25, 2022</time></a></span></div><h2 class="entry-title"><strong>Greek high court overturns vaccine requirement for health workers</strong></h2><div class="categories"><br></div></header><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"><figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="600" height="600" src="https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/justice-law-government-photo_2022-11-25_10-35-19.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-17375" srcset="https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/justice-law-government-photo_2022-11-25_10-35-19.jpg 600w, https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/justice-law-government-photo_2022-11-25_10-35-19-300x300.jpg 300w, https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/justice-law-government-photo_2022-11-25_10-35-19-150x150.jpg 150w, https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/justice-law-government-photo_2022-11-25_10-35-19-370x370.jpg 370w, https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/justice-law-government-photo_2022-11-25_10-35-19-60x60.jpg 60w, https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/justice-law-government-photo_2022-11-25_10-35-19-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"></figure><p><strong>By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.</strong></p><p>Updated: November 25, 2022 20:30 CET</p><p>In a decision that may signify the end of a 15-month saga for unvaccinated Greek health workers who have been suspended without pay since Sept. 1, 2021 due to their choice not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, Greece’s Council of State — the country’s highest administrative court—ruled Thursday, November 24. that the continued vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in Greece was unconstitutional.</p><p>Specifically, the decision by the court takes issue with the Greek government’s extension of the vaccine mandate, which came into effect April 1, 2022 and which was slated to remain in effect until Dec. 31, 2022.</p><p>The decision paves the way for those workers who were suspended to return to their jobs, although it remains to be seen whether the Greek government will abide by the decision or find some means of challenging or bypassing it.<br><br></p><p><strong>The Council of State’s decision</strong></p><p>In decision 2332/2022, a seven-judge panel of the Council of State voted 6-1 in favor of the National Association of Public Hospital Employees (POEDHN), who had filed the legal proceedings on behalf of the suspended medical workers, finding that the extended vaccine mandate was unconstitutional.</p><p>The Council of State’s decision also cancelled hiring proceedings initiated by the Greek Ministry of Health on April 14, 2022, on the basis of <a href="https://www.kodiko.gr/nomothesia/document/744954/nomos-4825-2021">law 4825/2021</a>, for new medical staff on fixed-term contracts, presumably to replace the suspended workers.</p><p>According to the <a href="http://www.adjustice.gr/webcenter/portal/ste/apofaseis;jsessionid=d02vCBPiXX-del9zs8aj862RqtyCIRzyuzYbBAgwvxRMwLBcMBED!-1064334526!-1085236628?centerWidth=65%25&contentID=DECISION-TEMPLATE1669285046023&leftWidth=0%25&rigthWidth=35%25&showFooter=false&showHeader=true&_adf.ctrl-state=2c9yk7urb_70&_afrLoop=48382238418546490#!%40%40%3F_afrLoop%3D48382238418546490%26centerWidth%3D65%2525%26contentID%3DDECISION-TEMPLATE1669285046023%26leftWidth%3D0%2525%26rigthWidth%3D35%2525%26showFooter%3Dfalse%26showHeader%3Dtrue%26_adf.ctrl-state%3D9fvru9qxe_4">text of the decision</a> as posted Thursday on the Council of State’s website, mandatory vaccination of some categories of workers is constitutional — but there are limitations to this recognized constitutionality. According to the court, these limits exceeded the “principle of proportionality” in relation to the threat posed:</p><p>“As has <a href="https://www.newsbomb.gr/ygeia/story/1358100/sto-ste-ksana-i-arsi-tis-anastolis-ergasias-ton-mi-emvoliasmenon-ygeionomikon">previously been accepted by the Council of State</a> through a series of decisions, the measures that are implemented for the protection of public health against the coronavirus COVID-19, including mandatory vaccination for some categories of workers … may indeed constitute a serious intervention in the practice of fundamental human rights, such as the free development of one’s personality, the freedom of movement and one’s privacy, but it is nevertheless considered to be a constitutional intervention if, among other things, these measures are enforced strictly for the necessary period of time and, in any event, until solutions for responding to the pandemic have been developed. “The severity and duration of these measures, due to their temporary nature, must be reexamined periodically by the competent state authorities on the basis of the ongoing epidemiological data and credible scientific findings.”</p><p></p><p>The Council of State, in its decision, stated that the Greek state did not do this in the case of the suspended medical workers:</p><p>“In this specific case, when the decisions in question were publicized (March 31, 2022 and April 14, 2022), a time period of over eight months had gone by from the time the vaccine mandate was implemented for medical workers.</p><p>“This is a duration of time that, due to the nature of this measure and its consequences, clearly exceeds a reasonable length, without a reexamination of the measure on the basis of up-to-date scientific and epidemiological data, the value, effectiveness and the consequences of the coronavirus vaccines, or the ongoing pandemic trends, having occurred.”</p><p>The extension imposed by the Greek Ministry of Health was therefore unconstitutional according to the same principles, said the Council of State:</p><p>“It is not apparent upon which specific scientific data the decision to shift the date of reexamination to Dec. 31, 2022 was made — in other words, a period of time that once again exceeds that which is reasonable, when considering that it was nine months after <a href="https://www.kodiko.gr/nomothesia/document/782896/nomos-4917-2022">law 4917/2022</a> [which extended the mandate] was passed.”</p><p>The Council of State not only found that no reexamination of the mandate occurred, but that the data would have shown that the data that was available at the time would not have justified it:</p><p>“No evidence [in the documentation provided to the court by the Greek Ministry of Health] indicates that such a formative assessment and evaluation occurred … in any case, the evidence provided to the court does not justify the extension of the vaccine mandates.”</p><p>As reported by <a href="https://www.newsbomb.gr/ellada/dikaiosynh/story/1373965/ste-antisyntagmatikos-o-ypoxreotikos-emvoliasmos-ton-ygeionomikon">Greek news portal newsbomb.gr</a> on Thursday, the Council of State decision means that, once the final decision is published by the court, the suspended medical workers will have the opportunity to be reinstated to their positions if they apply to do so.</p><p><strong>Reactions from medical workers, legal experts following Council of State decision</strong></p><p>Speaking to newsbomb.gr after the Council of State issued its ruling, Mihalis Giannakos, president of POEDHM, called upon the Greek Minister of Health Thanos Plevris to immediately implement the decision. He said:</p><p>“This is a total victory for POEDHN and its moderate stance in favor of vaccination but against the continued suspensions which had no health benefit after restrictions were lifted.”</p><p>“Based on this decision, my colleagues must immediately return to their jobs and must receive at least 50% of their wages from April 14, 2022 onwards.</p><p>“The Council of State rose to the occasion. We call upon the Minister of Health to immediately put forth an order for the implementation of this decision.”</p><p>The Association of Healthcare Professionals for Democracy and Freedom (SYDE), one of the main organizations which coordinated the actions of the suspended medical workers since September 2001, issued a press release following the Council of State’s decision, drawing a connection between the suspension of the unvaccinated health workers and broader challenges faced by Greece’s National Health System, including efforts on the part of the current government to privatize it:</p><p>“The decision by the Council of State ends, for now, the saga of the health workers who have been suspended for 15 months. It was issued at the same time that [legislation] is being submitted to parliament in relation to hospitals and the employment status of the medical staff. This law contains all the preconditions for the permanent abolition of the public and social nature of the National Health System.</p><p>“This legislation which will be submitted next week … which is co-signed by almost all of the government ministers, constitutes hard evidence that nothing that occurred over the last two years in the context of ‘managing’ the pandemic was intended to protect and preserve public health.”</p><p>SYDE’s statement questioned the epidemiological data which the Greek Ministry of Health claimed to be basing its policy decisions above, implying that it was meant to conceal a large number of deaths which occurred in Greek public hospitals — a result, according to SYDE, of the ongoing “collapse” of the Greek National Health System:</p><p>“We want to make clear that whatever decision is taken regarding the future of the medical workers who refuse to submit to the ‘science’ of the Health Ministry, will not be useful for [efforts to] disorient or manipulate us or the citizens with a goal of crushing our employment rights and the rights of citizens to health care.</p><p>“The Health Ministry must, at last, show us any data which proves the benefits of the measure to suspend [the unvaccinated medical workers].</p><p>“The epidemiological data [claimed by the authorities] for the past two years … had as a goal the cover-up of other evidence, which pertains to the explosive growth of deaths, from all causes, WITHIN [emphasis original] a National Health System which is collapsing, as a result of the intentional policy of dissolving the health system. The ‘benefits’ claimed by those who have orchestrated this collapse are now becoming clear, confirming the deception hidden behind the ‘public health’ measures.”</p><p>Speaking to Children’s Health Defense Europe, Maria Bana, a member of the SYDE board of directors and a member of the “Medical Workers Against Mandates” movement, said:</p><p>“This was a very important decision. We were hoping for such a decision but were not expecting it. We had no idea what would happen. The decision talks about the unconstitutionality of the extension of the suspension … and not the unconstitutionality of the [vaccine] mandate from the beginning, and speaks of the incomplete epidemiological data, that the required data was not presented, violating the principle of proportionality … in other words, you can impose such a mandate, but you cannot do so indefinitely.</p><p>“We are waiting for the Council of State’s decision to be published and in our hands, to review the legal basis for the decision so that we can determine how we will proceed.”</p><p>According to Bania, she and the other suspended medical workers have been informed that the full Council of State decision will be published next week, a turnaround time “which is extraordinarily brief, considering that it [usually] takes over two months” for Council of State decisions to be officially published.</p><p>Bania pointed out that the formal publication of Council of State’s decision in the first legal challenge filed by the suspended medical workers took nine months.</p><p>Athens-based attorney Maria Tsipra, who successfully represented POEDHN in the Council of State proceedings, also provided remarks to CHD Europe following the court’s decision. She said:</p><p>“Decision 2332/2022 by the Council of State arrives to bring an end to the limbo endured by hundreds of medical workers, who for over one year have been suspended without pay due to their refusal to get vaccinated.</p><p>“It bears noting that the Council of State, via a previous decision by its full panel of judges, had given the Ministry of Health the opportunity to reexamine the suspension measure, as has been the case in many other European countries as the pandemic has subsided. Unfortunately though, no action has been taken up until now. We wait upon the government to immediately implement the decision, calling back the medical workers to return to their jobs and to repopulate the ranks of the public health [system], which is so sorely needed.”</p><p>Another Athens-based attorney, Vasilis Papanikolaou, who had previously represented 32 of the 38 medical workers who were arrested in July 2022 for protesting outside the residence of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, posted his reaction to the decision <a href="https://www.facebook.com/100022415651771/posts/pfbid02KnKF11SPvPZj49VEE4EsQS3cyqfPcCg4XrPuVKdyw9SJGxsCjkhfvZSAB922AGwml">on his Facebook page</a>, writing in part:</p><p>“A major victory for the suspended medical workers! The Council of State ruled unconstitutional the March 31, 2022 extension of the vaccine mandates and suspensions. The Mitsotakis-Plevris government, and more broadly, New Democracy [Greece’s ruling political party] and PASOK [an opposition political party], who voted for this extension, have been exposed.</p><p>“The issuance of this decision immediately requires [the Ministry of Health] to comply and to reinstate, from tomorrow, the [medical workers} and to provide them with their wages that were illegally withheld, at least from April 1, 2022 to the present.”</p><p>Lampros Tsapalis, a paramedic who, last week, had launched a <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/uncategorized/suspended-unvaccinated-greek-medical-workers-launch-new-hunger-strike/">hunger strike</a> with two other suspended medical workers outside the Council of State headquarters in central Athens, made some revelatory statements to CHD Europe regarding events which occurred leading up to the issuance of the court’s decision. Speaking to CHD Europe today, he said:</p><p>“Today, the hunger strikers, following the announcement by the Council of State cancelling the suspensions which had held 7,000 families hostage for 15 months, visited the Council of State once more and asked that [the decision] be published immediately. The answer we received is that this will occur on Monday.</p><p>“Yesterday, they had a meeting with the Health Minister with a very intense dialogue, being that [the Health Minister] adamantly stuck to his views and, indeed, was talking about [a further extension of the suspensions] to the end of March, even though he knew how the Council of State was going to rule.”</p><p>Tsapalis credited the continued efforts of the suspended health workers for bringing about this decision on the part of the Council of State:</p><p>“A crucial factor in all of this were the constant visits of the strikers, via three-member groups, to the court, exerting pressure on a near-daily basis with countless updates about how thousands of families were in danger.</p><p>“A characteristic example are the comments by high-ranking judges who, speaking in a human told, told us that there was no evidence indicating the necessity for this measure [the suspensions] to continue.”</p><p><strong>Greek government may seek to bypass the Council of State’s decision, while others argue that the ruling is ‘too little, too late’</strong></p><p>What remains unclear is how the Greek government, and particularly the Greek Ministry of Health, will formally react to the Council of State’s ruling and what actions will be taken once the decision is formally published as soon as next week.</p><p>One perspective holds that the Council of State’s decision relieves the Greek government from having to take the initiative and make a decision on this issue, which has become a political “hot potato.”</p><p>Withdrawing the suspensions that the government has adamantly stuck to for 15 months might have been viewed as an admission of defeat for the government, especially in light of <a href="https://www.pronews.gr/elliniki-politiki/th-pleyris-gia-anemvoliastous-ygeionomikous-einai-apo-tis-pio-sostes-apofaseis-pou-pirame/">recent statements by Plevris</a> that the suspensions were “one of the most correct decisions” taken by the current government since coming to office in 2019.</p><p>Notably, Plevris had previously been elected under the aegis of the far-right LAOS (Popular Orthodox Rally) political party and is not a doctor.</p><p>On the other hand, others feel that the Greek government and the Ministry of Health will seek to bypass the decision based on technicalities or a “creative” interpretation of what the ruling states.</p><p>A first indication of the government’s thought process came in the form of a laconic <a href="https://www.moh.gov.gr/articles/ministry/grafeio-typoy/press-releases/10982-dhlwsh-ypoyrgoy-ygeias-thanoy-pleyrh-gia-apofash-ste-gia-anemboliastoys">press release issued by the Greek Ministry of Health</a> on Thursday, soon after the Council of State’s decision was announced. The statement read:</p><p>“The decision to suspend the unvaccinated medical workers had, as its goal, the protection of the citizens’ health and had initially been ruled constitutional by the Council of State.</p><p>“With its newest 2332/22 decision … the Council of State raises questions of unconstitutionality with regard to the extension of this measure [the suspensions]. We await the publication of the decision to review it in full. We assure the citizens that all the necessary measures will be taken to not place public health in danger as a result of the implementation of this decision.”</p><p>In a <a href="https://www.kathimerini.gr/society/562153213/dynatotites-epanodoy-stin-ergasia-dinei-apofasi-toy-ste-se-anemvoliastoys-ygeionomikoys/">report published Thursday in Kathimerini</a>, regarded as Greece’s newspaper of record, unnamed judicial officials were quoted as saying Health Ministry authorities may “review” the suspensions of the unvaccinated medical workers and simply by doing so, may fulfill the prerequisites set forth by the Council of State’s recent decision.</p><p>However, Kathimerini adds that any response on the part of the authorities must come immediately once the Council of State’s decision is formally published.</p><p>It is unclear, however, if the statements attributed to these “unnamed judicial officials” actually represent the nature of the court’s full decision which is to be published, especially in light of the statements made by the Council of State in its announcement that, based on the evidence it reviewed, the extension of the medical workers’ suspensions would not have been justified.</p><p>Notably, as <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/uncategorized/suspended-unvaccinated-greek-medical-workers-launch-new-hunger-strike/">previously reported by CHD Europe</a>, a number of medical workers who had received the initial series of COVID-19 vaccines but have not been “boosted,” have not been suspended, nor have new mandates to that effect been issued. Most other COVID-19 restrictions in Greece, including employee vaccination requirements, have not been renewed.</p><p>The Greek division of the World Freedom Alliance, in a statement released Friday to CHD Europe, said the Council of State’s decision is “too little, too late” and gives the Greek government considerable wiggle room to bypass the decision, while upholding the broader “constitutionality” of vaccine mandates. They wrote, in part:</p><p>“The World Freedom Alliance calls upon the Greek government to immediately implement the Council of State’s decision, [which is] ‘too little, too late’.</p><p>“While the full text of the decision is not yet available, some initial conclusions are clear. The Council of State’s decision came very late and, in essence, it is lacking, as it did not declare the vaccine mandate measure illegal and unconstitutional, only its extension.</p><p>“This decision indirectly validates the inexcusable position that if a [medical] formulation, a medical act, is declared ‘safe and effective’ then it can be mandated. The World Freedom Alliance maintains that the freedom of personal choice cannot be subject to any emergency declaration or any ‘review’, nor the principle of informed consent bypassed.”</p><p>Even though WFA Greece described the Council of State decision as lacking, it nevertheless calls upon the Greek government to implement it via the reinstatement of the suspended medical workers to their jobs. Specifically, the statement reads:</p><p>“Even though this decision fulfills only a minimal portion of the demands of the medical workers and freedom fighters, based on the decision, the suspension of the medical workers is now illegal, and as such, we DEMAND their IMMEDIATE return UNCONDITIONALLY to be set into motion, for a moral recognition of this decision [on the part of the Greek government] to be announced, and for the state to issue full financial reimbursements for the period of time that the exhausting, inhuman and illogical suspensions were in place [emphasis original].”</p><p>WFA Greece also described the Council of State’s decision as political in nature, providing a lifejacket of sorts to an embattled Greek government and political system in the leadup to forthcoming parliamentary elections, which will be held no later than July 2023. According to the WFA’s statement:</p><p>“We consider the Council of State’s decision to be wholly inadequate, addressing political concerns via serving to maintain the position of the ‘democratic axis’ in power in the upcoming elections, strengthening an increasing political polarization.”</p><p>A similar view was expressed by Tsapalis, who expressed mistrust in the Council of State’s decision and stated that the three suspended medical workers who are on hunger strike will continue their action. He told CHD Europe:</p><p>“The decision is clearly political. That is why the hunger strikers declare that they will continue their fight until the first suspended medical worker is reinstated and returns to the hospital for work.”</p><p>Bania told CHD Europe that many rumors are circulating about how the Greek government will formally respond to the Council of State’s decision, including sidestepping it entirely. She said:</p><p>“There are many scenarios which have already begun to circulate, that this decision was political, that it may even be bypassed.</p><p>“What can we say? The only thing we have not yet seen here in Greece is tanks on the streets.”</p><p>As a result of this possibility, Bania called upon Greece’s opposition political parties to step up, even at this late stage:</p><p>“We will continue to fight. We will exert pressure with whatever means we have. But we are not many and our people are exhausted.</p><p>“I think that the next steps must be taken by the politicians, the opposition, as [the suspensions] are a clear political usurpation … I think that now is the time for the political world to take a clear stance against this.”</p><p>Tsipra told CHD Europe what the next legal steps might be in the event that the Greek government attempts to find ways around enforcing the Council of State’s decision. She said:</p><p>“We will begin [legal] proceedings immediately. My hope is that [the suspended workers] will be reinstated soon.</p><p>“In the event that the government does not comply, it will have to face the [legal] clams of these workers for the non-execution of the decision.”</p><p>Fears that the Greek government will not enforce a high court decision are not unfounded.</p><p>One such example was provided by Tsipra in her statements to CHD Europe, regarding the government’s previous non-enforcement of a prior Council of State decision requiring the formation of a ministerial committee that would review and reexamine the suspensions of the unvaccinated medical workers.</p><p>In another example which directly pertains to the public’s access to the airwaves and to information via a system of broadcasters operating under a set of legal and regulatory standards, a <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/setting-a-bad-example-flouting-legal-requirements-in-greek-broadcasting/">series of Council of State decisions</a> in 2010 and 2011 found that the perpetual “temporary legality” of Greece’s mostly unlicensed and therefore not fully regulated radio and television stations was unconstitutional,” and that the continued operation of Greece’s regulatory body for broadcasting with members whose legally specified terms had expired, was also in violation of the constitution.</p><p>Nevertheless, the regulatory body continued to operate for years afterwards with a slate of members whose terms had expired, while nearly all of Greece’s radio and television radio stations remain unlicensed today, still operating under various forms of “temporary legality” with no end in sight.</p><p>However, as <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/greece-covid-vaccine-mandate-senior-citizens/">previously reported by The Defender</a>, this did not stop the current Greek government from providing 40 million euro (at the time equivalent to $43.6 million) in subsidies to Greek media outlets, including broadcasters, to air public health measures related to COVID-19.</p><p>Many in Greece felt this was a means, on the part of the government, to ensure positive coverage of its highly restrictive COVID-related measures. The <a href="https://ipi.media/greece-transparency-authority-must-comply-with-court-ruling-on-media-advertising-campaign/">Greek government has elicited criticism</a> for its attempts to block freedom of information requests and court orders to release the criteria upon which it based its allocation of these subsidies.</p><p>Confirming the sentiment that Greek media outlets, having received these subsidies, avoid critical coverage of the government’s COVID-19 policies, the news of the Council of State’s decision on Thursday entered the news cycle but, within the space of a few hours, had all but disappeared.</p><p>Newsbomb.gr, for instance, which is one of <a href="https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2022/greece">Greece’s most widely read news portals</a>, featured the Council of State’s decision as its top story at 4:30 pm Thursday afternoon. By 10 pm though, the story was nowhere to be found on its front page, replaced by stories about Greek and international celebrities and yoga “dos and don’t’s.”</p><p>Despite challenges that may still lie ahead for the suspended medical workers and their supporters though, the Council of State’s decision is nevertheless widely viewed as a significant victory in their ongoing efforts to overturn the Greek government’s vaccine mandate for medical workers.</p><p>Papanikolaou, in his Facebook post, praised the suspended medical workers for continuing their fight in the face of adversity, writing:</p><p>“Credit for this victory belongs, above all, to those who, for 15 months, withstood hunger, want, terror, slander and blackmail and waged a titanic battle which should be enshrined with gold letters in the history of the Greek labor movement and, more broadly, the movement in favor of freedom and democracy.”</p><p>SYDE’s press release concluded with a statement indicating that its fight will continue:</p><p>“We will continue to fight for democracy, for dialogue, for the right for the opposing view to not be ‘stifled’. We will continue to stand for the ideals of our scientific field and for freedom, with an unwavering demand for the ABOLITION of the legal MANDATE [emphasis original].</p><p>“We will be present in all battles for democracy and freedom. We call for the immediate implementation of the Council of State’s decision, the immediate reinstatement of our colleagues to their jobs, the immediate full reimbursement of everything that was unjustly withheld. “Hands off our lives, hands off the National Health Service</p></div></article></main></div></div></div></div><div class="to_top"><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/eu-issues/greek-high-court-overturns-vaccine-requirement-for-health-workers/#" class="btn"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid" width="15.69" height="18.88" viewBox="0 0 15.69 18.88"><defs></defs><path d="M9.328,17.805 L9.321,17.836 L9.321,5.217 L13.310,9.184 C13.505,9.377 13.768,9.484 14.045,9.484 C14.322,9.484 14.584,9.377 14.779,9.184 L15.399,8.566 C15.594,8.373 15.701,8.113 15.701,7.838 C15.701,7.561 15.594,7.303 15.400,7.109 L8.578,0.309 C8.383,0.114 8.122,0.008 7.845,0.009 C7.567,0.008 7.306,0.114 7.111,0.309 L0.289,7.109 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class="content-grid"><div id="primary" class="content-area"><main id="main" class="site-main"><article id="post-16871" class="post-16871 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-covid-19-2 category-eu-issues category-global-agenda category-public-health category-vaccination category-vaccine-id-passport category-vaccine-safety latest_post"><header class="entry-header"><h2 class="entry-title">Suspended Greek medical worker commits suicide, amidst acquittals, new calls for freedom</h2><div class="categories"><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/category/covid-19-2/" rel="category tag">Covid-19</a> <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/category/eu-issues/" rel="category tag">EU Issues</a> <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/category/global-agenda/" rel="category tag">Global Agenda</a> <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/category/public-health/" rel="category tag">Public Health</a> <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/category/vaccination/" rel="category tag">Vaccination</a> <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/category/vaccine-id-passport/" rel="category tag">Vaccine ID Passport</a> </div></header><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"><p><strong>By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.</strong></p><p>A group of 38 <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/greek-healthcare-workers-launch-hunger-strike-no-vaccine-passport/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">unvaccinated Greek medical workers</a>, who have been suspended from their jobs without pay since 2021 as a result of not receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, was <a href="https://iskra.gr/athooi-oi-38-ygeionomikoi-gia-diadilosi-exo-apo-spiti-tou-prothypourgou/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">acquitted by an Athens court</a> Oct. 19.</p><p>The workers had been facing charges of “disobedience” and “disrupting traffic,” following their arrest and overnight detention stemming from a <a href="https://www.zougla.gr/greece/article/se-silipsis-metatrapikan-i-38-prosagoges-mi-emvoliasmenon-ekso-apo-to-spiti-tou-kmitsotakis" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">July 7 protest</a> outside the residence of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. </p><p>This acquittal followed in the footsteps of a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNHaufkedi0&ab_channel=%25CE%2595%25CE%25A0%25CE%2591%25CE%259C%25E2%2580%2594%25CE%2595%25CE%25BD%25CE%25B9%25CE%25B1%25CE%25AF%25CE%25BF%25CE%25A0%25CE%25B1%25CE%25BB%25CE%25BB%25CE%25B1%25CF%258A%25CE%25BA%25CF%258C%25CE%259C%25CE%25AD%25CF%2584%25CF%2589%25CF%2580%25CE%25BF">fre</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNHaufkedi0&ab_channel=%25CE%2595%25CE%25A0%25CE%2591%25CE%259C%25E2%2580%2594%25CE%2595%25CE%25BD%25CE%25B9%25CE%25B1%25CE%25AF%25CE%25BF%25CE%25A0%25CE%25B1%25CE%25BB%25CE%25BB%25CE%25B1%25CF%258A%25CE%25BA%25CF%258C%25CE%259C%25CE%25AD%25CF%2584%25CF%2589%25CF%2580%25CE%25BF" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">e</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNHaufkedi0&ab_channel=%25CE%2595%25CE%25A0%25CE%2591%25CE%259C%25E2%2580%2594%25CE%2595%25CE%25BD%25CE%25B9%25CE%25B1%25CE%25AF%25CE%25BF%25CE%25A0%25CE%25B1%25CE%25BB%25CE%25BB%25CE%25B1%25CF%258A%25CE%25BA%25CF%258C%25CE%259C%25CE%25AD%25CF%2584%25CF%2589%25CF%2580%25CE%25BF">dom rally organized in Athens</a> by the suspended medical workers Sept. 24, which featured speeches by prominent microbiologist Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, and by <a href="https://www.fuellmich.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Reiner Füellmich</a>, a German lawyer who has convened the <a href="https://corona-ausschuss.de/en/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Corona Investigative Committee</a> probing “<a href="https://dreddymd.com/2022/02/13/international-criminal-grand-jury-finds-globalist-used-covid-commit-crimes-against-humanity/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">crimes against humanity</a>” committed in the name of combating COVID-19.</p><p>However, the acquittal also came amidst the shadow of a recent <a href="https://focusfm.gr/k-vathiotis-gia-aytoktonia-ygeionomikoy-den-einai-aytoktonia-einai-emmesi-aytoyrgia-anthropoktonias/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">suicide</a> committed by one of the suspended medical workers, who was struggling to survive without an income.</p><p><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/greek-healthcare-workers-launch-hunger-strike-no-vaccine-passport/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">As reported by The Defender in April 2022</a>, Greece’s health ministry placed all healthcare workers who did not meet the Sept. 1, 2021 <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greece-offers-unvaccinated-health-care-workers-second-chance-get-shot-2021-09-02/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">deadline</a> for the mandatory COVID vaccination of medical staff and who did not receive a <a href="https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1176576/health-workers-to-lose-job-unless-they-get-covid-shot-by-march-31-says-minister/">booster dose</a> by March 31, 2022, on unpaid leave.</p><p>Many of the <a href="https://www.ethnos.gr/greece/article/172189/ypoxreotikosemboliasmosoramhdenseanastolh10000ygeionomikoi" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">estimated</a> 10,000 healthcare workers who initially did not get vaccinated have, in the intervening period, organized ongoing protests and rallies, calling for their reinstatement. They have also opposed <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/greece-covid-vaccine-mandate-senior-citizens/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Greece’s COVID-19 restrictions</a>, which were considered the strictest measures in Europe.</p><p>While most restrictions in Greece have since been lifted, and most workplaces have re-opened to unvaccinated employees, the suspension of unvaccinated medical workers continues. Likewise, political wrangling over whether, or if, they will be reinstated and under what conditions, continues to play out.</p><h2><strong>A unanimous acquittal</strong></h2><p>The acquittal of the 38 suspended medical workers who were arrested for protesting outside the Greek prime minister’s residence July 7 is widely perceived among the activist community in Greece as a significant legal victory.</p><p>A three-judge panel of the Criminal Court of Athens <a href="https://youtu.be/WWJxvHbj89Y" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">unanimously acquitted</a> the 38 workers at their trial on Oct. 19. Notably, during the trial, even the public prosecutor <a href="https://www.maxitisartas.gr/single_page.php?catid=&id=25415" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">called for their acquittal</a>, telling the court that the Greek state must find some means to reinstate the workers.</p><p>Among the witnesses speaking on behalf of the medical workers was the director of one of Athens’ largest public hospitals, the Laiko Hospital, who told the court that there is no good reason to continue the suspension of unvaccinated medical workers and that this policy has posed difficulties for the already struggling public health system.</p><p>The workers had been arrested on July 7 after congregating a short distance away from Prime Minister Mitsotakis’ residence in the upscale Lycabettus neighborhood of Athens, while demonstrating against their continued suspension.</p><p>Following the arrests, in a statement circulated on <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://t.me/greekmedicalfreedomalliance" target="_blank">Telegram</a>, in which the Greek Medical Freedom Alliance and the World Doctors’ Alliance announced that they stand “on the side of the suspended health care professionals … demanding their release and their return to their jobs.”</p><h2><strong>Fuellmich, Bhakdi call for freedom at September rally and press conference in Athens</strong></h2><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNHaufkedi0&ab_channel=%25CE%2595%25CE%25A0%25CE%2591%25CE%259C%25E2%2580%2594%25CE%2595%25CE%25BD%25CE%25B9%25CE%25B1%25CE%25AF%25CE%25BF%25CE%25A0%25CE%25B1%25CE%25BB%25CE%25BB%25CE%25B1%25CF%258A%25CE%25BA%25CF%258C%25CE%259C%25CE%25AD%25CF%2584%25CF%2589%25CF%2580%25CE%25BF" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Reiner Füellmich and Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi</a> delivered a message of liberty and peaceful resistance to a large crowd at Athens’ Freedom Square on Sept. 24, as part of a rally organized by groups representing Greece’s suspended medical workers.</p><p>Argyri Kagia, a radiologist at the Metaxa hospital in Athens who is part of the group of unvaccinated health workers who have been suspended since Sept. 1, 2021, told CHD Europe that between 4,000 and 5,000 people attended the Sept. 24 rally.</p><p>Dr. Füellmich addressed the crowd first, referring initially to his work with the Corona Investigative Committee, which he co-founded. He said:</p><p>“<em>We founded this [committee] in July of 2020 because we did not get any answers from our governments or the mainstream media. Now we know they are not our governments, they are not our mainstream media. They are owned by the World Economic Forum [WEF]</em>.</p><p>“<em>When we realized that we would not get any answers to those very basic questions, how dangerous is the virus? How reliable is the PCR test? Was it misused in order to create cases that didn’t exist? And how dangerous are the measures? The mask mandates, social distancing and of course, the so-called vaccines. When we didn’t get any answers, we decided we will do it ourselves.</em>”</p><p>Tying the origins of the WEF — and its founder, Klaus Schwab — to Charles Darwin’s ideas of “<em>survival of the fittest,</em>” to the early 20<sup>th</sup> century foundation of the British Eugenics Society and the American Eugenics Society, and later, to Schwab’s early connections with Henry Kissinger and the CIA, Dr. Füellmich placed the WEF and its “<em>Young Global Leaders</em>” behind the events of the past two-plus years:</p><p>“<em>It’s the World Economic Forum that runs the show. They’re using the politicians. They’re using the mainstream media. They have bought them and they are their puppets. They are not our politicians, not our governments. It’s theirs.</em></p><p>“<em>On the platform of the World Economic Forum, in their annual meetings in Davos, they infiltrated politicians. This is where a thousand global corporations meet every year with politics and people from the media, and also some very important persons. They call it private-public partnership. But in reality, they have taken over. This is a hostile takeover of our public politicians and our public institutions, our agencies, a hostile takeover of these agencies by rich, super rich criminals. And they have taken away as much as they can.</em>”</p><p>Dr. Füellmich accused such entities, including politicians whom he described as “<em>puppets</em>” who “<em>know nothing</em>” and “<em>have made up biographies,</em>” of orchestrating not just anything related to COVID-19, but also, numerous other crises:</p><p>“<em>There is no pandemic. This is an invention. It’s a ‘plandemic’. Behind all of this is the idea of eugenics … which has now turned into genocide. It is time to tell the truth. It is time to not mince any words anymore. It’s time to call a spade a spade. This is eugenics and it’s turned into genocide</em>.</p><p>“<em>So how did this pandemic start and why is it not a pandemic, but a ‘plandemic’? Well, first of all, you have to know this is only part of their toolbox to keep us in panic mode. It’s the ‘plandemic’. It’s the Ukraine crisis. It’s global warming, It’s food shortages, It’s energy shortages.</em>”</p><p>According to Dr. Füellmich, another financial crisis was about to strike in late 2019, and this time, “<em>they were in a panic because now they know that many of us understand what is going on and they needed to divert our attention from their stealing your assets, your ports, your airports, your islands to ‘oh, there is a pandemic.’</em>”</p><p>Dr. Füellmich said this was accomplished in two ways, “<em>in order to make everyone afraid of everyone</em>”: by inventing the concept of “<em>asymptomatic infections</em>,” which he described as a “<em>blatant lie</em>,” and by skewing the results of PCR tests to the point of complete unreliability. This, said Dr. Füellmich, “<em>is how they created the cases.</em>”</p><p>Additionally, Dr. Füellmich went on to explain the cases were used to “<em>declare a public health emergency of international concern</em>” — that is, a pandemic. This was done, he said, “<em>because only on the basis of an international health emergency can you use totally untested drugs on people</em>.”</p><p>“<em>The vaccines are not vaccines</em>,” stated Dr. Füellmich. “<em>They’re experimental injections … in order to use untested new drugs on people, and that’s what’s happening right now. This is an experiment. It’s a medical experiment with no one controlling it.</em>”</p><p>However, Dr. Füellmich also stated his belief that a better world is possible, telling the audience “<em>we know what’s good for us and what’s bad for us. We don’t need anyone to tell us that. That’s why we should organize in our regions and set up our own system.</em>”</p><p>Dr. Füellmich added:</p><p>“<em>We must get the truth out. We are now gaining a lot of support, even from those who were deceived, who were manipulated, who got the shots. They’re beginning to ask questions, just like we did right from the start. They will join our forces and they will make us even stronger. So we must continue to speak out.</em></p><p>“<em>What we should also do is we should all of us realize this is not about global power. No global corporation, no global NGO has the power to tell us anything. We should, all of us, disconnect from NATO, the EU, the World Health Organization, all of these</em>.</p><p>“<em>We don’t need them. They need us. We should send them straight to hell. Their system is collapsing right before our eyes. It is collapsing. There’s no way it can be saved</em>.”</p><p>“<em>We should set up our own system in our region because we know best what is good for us,” continued Dr. Füellmich. “We don’t need anyone from far away to tell us what to do and not to do. We must, all of us, realize we have personal sovereignty … We’re all free. We can do whatever we want</em>.”</p><p>This can be done, said Dr. Füellmich, by developing regional, self-sufficient communities with their own health care, even their own judiciary, and that would be interconnected with each other, to “<em>build a much better, a [more] humane world</em>.”</p><p>Following Dr. Füellmich, Dr. Bhakdi took the podium and delivered a speech focused more on biology, but also concluding with a similar message of hope.</p><p>Dr. Bhakdi also questioned the official narrative regarding the origin of COVID-19, telling the crowd, saying that “<em>it rests on your ignorance of basic biology,</em>” adding that this is a “<em>question of life and death that is controlled by your immune system and the immune system of all animals.</em>”</p><p>Without public opposition, said Dr. Bhakdi, this state of affairs will continue:</p><p>“<em>The moment you use anything that is gene-based … you are asking for hell and you will get hell. Those people up there who have planned all of this have planned the living hell for all of us. And you belong to the few in Greece who realized this in time to protect yourself and your beloved ones at a sacrifice that is immeasurable</em>.”</p><p>Dr. Bhakdi provided an explanation of the inner workings of the human immune system, and the ability of the human body to heal wounds and to regenerate cells — except in two organs: the heart and the brain. He said these are the two organs most adversely impacted by the COVID-19 vaccines.</p><p>“<em>The brain and the heart cannot be replaced</em>,” Dr. Bhakdi said, “<em>and this is the source of the tragedy of the vaccine, the vaccine nightmare</em>.”</p><p>He continued:</p><p>“<em>There are capillary thrombosis and micro vessel vasculitis occurring in many, many parts of the brain of the same patient. This has never been described in the textbooks … and, lo and behold, where they found those lesions, they found the spike protein of this damn virus</em>.</p><p>“<em>Is there any disease known in mankind and medicine where you have capillary thrombosis in the brain? … I can tell you, no, there is none because the capillaries are so protected, there will be no clotting in the capillaries</em>.</p><p>“<em>Around these vessels, they found these are brain cells dying … Imagine that your brain cells in different parts of the brain are dying. You are losing something forever. Something that was given to you and that can never be returned to you. I do not know how many of you have noticed that people suffering after the vaccine complications are altered in their mind. They are not the same person anymore. We know many.</em>”</p><p>The heart is affected in similar fashion, said Dr. Bhakdi:</p><p>“<em>We had multifocal encephalitis, necrotizing, and at the same time myocarditis. Now, this does not exist in the medical literature. You never have multifocal encephalitis and myocarditis. Only after vaccination. And in the heart they see the same things. It’s the small vessels of the heart that are spiked and that are killed. And in the heart they see the same thing that happens in the brain.</em>”</p><p>This, however, is not stopping entities such as the WHO, continued Dr. Bhakdi:</p><p>“<em>The WHO declared four weeks ago that they are going to implement mRNA vaccines for everything. All vaccinations for children, adults and aged patients. And if they are doing this to our children. To your children. It’s the end of mankind. These vaccines must be stopped by the oath of Hippocrates.</em>”</p><p>Dr. Bhakdi, ending his speech with a message of hope, called upon the Greek people to unite:</p><p>“<em>You don’t know why the great personalities, individuals brought Greece into the history books. You can do something that has never been done before, and that is that the Greek people can reunite themselves and show the world how a divided nation can reunite because of their own greatness</em>.</p><p>“<em>I call upon you, and both sides, to stop fighting, stop quarreling, but to come together and show the world how the people themselves can unite a nation. Despite all these terrible people who are trying to divide you and show the world that you have regained your freedom and humanity.</em>”</p><p>According to Dr. Kagia, Greek media interest in the rally — and in the press conference given by Drs. Füellmich and Bhakdi one day prior — was limited. She told CHD Europe:</p><p>“<em>The number of journalists who attended the press conference was limited. Moreover, no one from any official institutions — such as the offices of the health minister and deputy health minister, the president of the Athens Medical Association, and others who were invited at the request of Bhakdi — were present, as was to be expected</em>.</p><p>“<em>Those who were presented were some journalists from ‘alternative media outlets’, primarily online-based</em>.”</p><p>One day prior, Dr. Bhakdi, in a <a href="https://rumble.com/v1njysy--dr.-sucharit-bhakdi-.html?fbclid=IwAR0JSFNL5sD0o_SiifK9YH7ymZHIVPqMfKgX2ttokkrpStlursyWbRY6_yg%25CE%25A4%25CE%2597%25CE%259D" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">press conference at the Athens’ Journalists Union</a> (ESHEA), praised the suspended Greek medical workers for their continued fight:</p><p>“<em>In the country where democracy and freedom were born, which is Greece, here is the only association of medical care workers and doctors who have come together to say, ‘let us reach out to our fellow colleagues and our fellow citizens to try to straighten things out.’ And it is my greatest privilege to be able to be with them</em>.</p><p>“<em>These doctors are upholding the oath and the honor of people in the country where everything started. That is why I immediately accepted the invitation to come here.</em>”</p><p>Dr. Bhakdi said it is up to doctors to help deliver humanity from this “<em>terrible situation</em>”:</p><p>“ <em>… None of us here have come to attack anyone. We are not coming to fight. We are coming to unite. We want our colleagues, especially to join us in a true scientific discussion about what could be true and what could be false. Because only if the doctors themselves come together can we hope that the terrible situation can be changed</em>.”</p><p>The children of Greece and their high obesity rate — were also addressed by Dr. Bhakdi, who said:</p><p>“<em>The poor children, they are suffering. They are being tortured because of the grown-ups. And this alone is so tragic. Of course, the children don’t move anymore. They’re distressed. They’re depressed. And what do children do? They eat more, move less and [sit] in front of their computers. This has been developing over the decades and it has not been stopped</em>.</p><p>“<em>And now, of course, the Greek society, the politicians are really enforcing it. So Greece is destroying its own future, the children. Just like … the masks. The masks have driven children to suicide. The masks have driven the children into … psychiatry</em>.”</p><p>Dr. Bhakdi added some remarks about the health dangers associated with wearing masks:</p><p>“[For] <em>children, it is now known … it [has been] published, that after three minutes of any mask, the <a href="https://scholarlycommons.hcahealthcare.com/hcahealthcarejournal/vol3/iss4/3/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">concentration of CO<sub>2</sub></a> is many times higher than what is allowed at the working place of a grown-up Greek. So if that concentration were here, we would all have to leave. It’s poison.</em></p><p>“<em>And this is the same for grown-ups. So everyone who is wearing a mask after three minutes is breathing more CO<sub>2</sub> than is allowed at a working place of a grown-up European civilized citizen</em>.”</p><p>The premise that viruses can cause pandemics, and that masks can protect individuals in such situations, was also questioned by Dr. Bhakdi:</p><p>“<em>Realize this: no virus, naturally occurring, can ever cause a pandemic, because your immune system is trained to combat virtually all viruses immediately [from] birth. Every child can do it</em>.”</p><p>Dr. Bhakdi also addressed the possible origins of COVID-19, including the possibility it emerged as a result of a lab leak, and the involvement of Bill Gates:</p><p>“<em>It is known that the Americans and these groups that were teaming up with Wuhan over decades, many years to create a virus, this coronavirus … they tried to make a virus that may turn out to be deadly dangerous. Yes, it came from the lab.</em>”</p><p>This, however, failed, according to Dr. Bhakdi:</p><p>“<em>But … they overestimated themselves. They thought they could do something. But God, you are not God. And they have failed. That’s why the virus never was a key device</em>.</p><p>“<em>Bill Gates has been in this for so many years now. They wanted a vaccine to become necessary. They wanted the vaccine to be gene-based … because these <a href="https://www.genengnews.com/topics/omics/rna-vaccine-platforms-have-cost-and-speed-advantages/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">vaccines are very cheap to produce</a> and the profits that they are making are such that the whole world’s fortunes are going to zero at the bottom. So soon you will have nothing and they will have everything</em>.</p><p>“<em> The mistake they made with the mRNA vaccines was that they did not know enough immunology to know that these vaccines are going to kill people.</em>”</p><p>“<em>Your immune system deals with any virus anywhere in the world,” said Dr. Bhakdi. “And this you cannot change unless you go around vaccinating yourself. Don’t start treating things that your immune system is taking care of.</em>”</p><p>Dr. Bhakdi added:</p><p>“<em>Let me tell you something. That is no virus existent today that is going to cause a pandemic because viruses do not kill. The Spanish flu killed because the patients got bacterial superinfection. This cannot happen anymore because there are antibiotics to prevent this. That is why respiratory viruses never kill</em>.</p><p>Dr. Füellmich, speaking at the same press conference, told attendees that he was “<em>honored to be here for a very simple reason: because <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clxQXFzIIqU&ab_channel=%25CE%2595%25CE%25A0%25CE%2591%25CE%259C%25E2%2580%2594%25CE%2595%25CE%25BD%25CE%25B9%25CE%25B1%25CE%25AF%25CE%25BF%25CE%25A0%25CE%25B1%25CE%25BB%25CE%25BB%25CE%25B1%25CF%258A%25CE%25BA%25CF%258C%25CE%259C%25CE%25AD%25CF%2584%25CF%2589%25CF%2580%25CE%25BF" target="_blank">Greece is the cradle of democracy</a>. And if the rule of law doesn’t work, we will not have any democracy.</em>”</p><p>“<em>We are already in several court battles which don’t make any sense in Germany anymore</em>,” Dr. Füellmich said. “<em>But it does make a lot of sense to continue with the legal fighting in the American courts of law</em>.”</p><p>This fight, Dr. Füellmich said, is, at its root, against “<em>the Anglo-American financial mafia,</em>” which includes “<em>most [or] all of the banks in this entire world, including the central banks, the American Central Bank, the Fed, the German Central bank, the Greek Central [Bank].</em>”</p><p>Likening it to a “<em>military experiment,</em>” Dr. Füellmich said that the “<em>plandemic</em>” had been planned for decades, including exercises and projections such as <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/monkeypox-gates-foundation-who-pharma-execs-monkeypox-pandemic-simulation/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Operation Dark Winter</a> in 2000 and <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rockefeller-foundation-reset-the-table-covid-food-shortage-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Operation Lock Step</a> in 2010, adding that “<em>the vaccines have been patented for years … the PCR tests have been patented to do this for years.</em>”</p><p>“<em>They have gone too far, too quick. They stole too much from us. And that’s why they rushed into this, because they didn’t have any time,” Dr. Füellmich said. “They needed drastic measures quickly … because more and more of us were waking up</em>.”</p><p>However, there is “<em>a light at the end of the tunnel</em>” according to Füellmich, who stated:</p><p>“<em>There’s light at the end of the tunnel because the people on the other side … they’re stupid. They’re not very smart.</em> </p><p>“<em>You are the ones who are going to change this and who are going to make people better as far as their health is concerned … This cannot be done by virologists or by scientists. It’s the doctors who have to do it.</em>”</p><p>The press conference of Drs. Bhakdi and Füellmich took place amidst efforts to “<em>sabotage</em>” it.</p><p>In a statement to CHD Europe, Dr. Kagia said that there had been efforts to “<em>sabotage</em>” the press conference, including rumors that were spread that it had been “<em>cancelled</em>,” as well as racist innuendo about its participants that was included in a statement by the <a href="https://www.poedhn.gr/anakoinoseis/item/7517-i-thesi-tis-poedin-gia-tis-anastoles-ergasias" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Association of Public Hospital Employees</a> (POEDHN), which indirectly referred to Dr. Bhakdi as “<em>some Indian</em>” (Dr. Bhakdi is a German-Thai citizen of Thai descent).</p><h2><strong>Rally, acquittal overshadowed by suicide of suspended medical worker</strong></h2><p>Casting a dark shadow over the September rally, and the subsequent acquittal of the 38 medical workers who had been facing criminal charges, was the news that one of the suspended medical workers committed suicide in late September.</p><p>A joint statement that circulated on the <a href="https://t.me/greekmedicalfreedomalliance" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">World Doctors’ Alliance</a> Telegram channel and that was co-signed by the Greek Medical Freedom Alliance reported the news of a dentist, based in Athens with the initials X.P., who committed suicide on Sept. 29.</p><p>According to the statement:</p><p>“<em>She was a young professional, had just started her own dental office in Athens, but she was forced to shut it down one year ago, when the unscientific and criminal law in Greece came out to ban every unvaccinated for COVID-19 health care professional from any kind of job anywhere in Greece</em>.</p><p>“<em>She suffered of immense financial pressure, as she had loans in order to start her practice, while her family was not as a whole supportive to her, as some of them were pushing her to get the vaccine, bullying at her so badly and constantly for not getting it (as systemic media were encouraging people to do against any unvaccinated 1.5 year now).</em>”</p><p>Following the news of the young dentist’s suicide, there was an outpouring of sympathy and support — as well as anger and frustration for the ongoing suspension of the unvaccinated health workers.</p><p>Konstantinos Vathiotis, a former law professor at Greece’s Democritus Law School who resigned in early 2021 with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra9lC2eLvNc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sharp criticism towards the Greek government</a> and the “<em>digital cell</em>” it was imposing on society, has become an outspoken opponent of COVID-19 restrictions in Greece and is a supporter of the suspended medical workers.</p><p>In a <a href="https://focusfm.gr/k-vathiotis-gia-aytoktonia-ygeionomikoy-den-einai-aytoktonia-einai-emmesi-aytoyrgia-anthropoktonias/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">radio interview</a> broadcast on Oct. 6, Vathiotis stated the dentist’s death “<em>was not suicide, but indirect manslaughter</em>” on the part of the Greek state.</p><p>And in a statement posted on social media, Sparta-based dentist Dr. Zafeiria Kakaletri, wrote a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02AcLRxQYAFNteaXff6Xx1Tp4q9gGi5ih7wodp2JDKoKUrd53eXocwW7ddGeuYXDbfl&id=708482028" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">moving tribute to her late colleague</a>, referring to the myriad of challenges she had been facing prior to ending her life:</p><p>“<em>I note that my young colleague was not well-to-do. On the contrary, just like the rest of my colleagues … she had been facing numerous financial difficulties, especially as she was not employed</em>.</p><p>“<em>This situation led to her becoming depressed, and from what we’ve learned, she received no support. In particular … one significant family member treated her as if she was crazy for not wanting to get vaccinated even at the cost of her job. This family member constantly bullied her.</em>”</p><p>Dr. Kakaletri is also unvaccinated and a participant in the movement against the medical workers’ suspensions.</p><p>She also expressed harsh criticism towards the Greek government for its policies. Dr. Kakaletri also criticized the Greek legal and medical associations for their inaction, and the Greek media for ignoring the suicide — and the broader issue of the suspended medical workers.</p><p>Calling the above actors “<em>criminal</em>” and describing the “<em>systemic media</em>” as purveyors of “<em>brainwashing and blackmail,</em>” she wrote:</p><p>“<em>As you may know, the unvaccinated medical workers in Greece, in a global first … have no right to be employed in any sector. They are, by law, permanently unemployed; sentenced to an inability to survive</em>.</p><p>“<em>Where have the bar associations and medical associations of Greece been for the past year?</em></p><p>“<em>The moral perpetrators are these ridiculous figures in Parliament who agreed to the unemployment, impoverishment and starvation of all these medical workers.</em>”</p><p>Dr. Kakaletri concluded her statement with an open call to the vaccinated and unvaccinated urging unity, in memory of her colleague. She stated:</p><p>“<em>I swear, in the name of my colleague and every victim … of this ongoing crime that is being perpetrated in our country … by the ignorant ‘experts’, arrogant politicians, and the ‘tele-doctors’ who appear on the systemic media, who together have subjugated medical knowledge, that I will not cease participating in legal actions, until justice in their name and against all those responsible, at all levels, has been achieved and they pay, in all legal ways, for this crime</em>.</p><p>“<em>Everyone please join us. It does not matter if you have been vaccinated and what your opinion of the vaccine is. Join us to force them to pay for the misery they have perpetrated and their moral responsibility for the suicidal thoughts they have fostered in so many, in our colleagues and others, and for their blackmail they forced on all those who were obliged to get vaccinated to not lose their jobs</em>.</p><p>“<em>The systemic media also will not be exempted from these charges.</em>”</p><h2><strong>Political ping-pong in relation to the issue of the suspended medical workers</strong></h2><p>With parliamentary elections in Greece scheduled for July 2023—and the ongoing possibility that snap elections may be declared at any time before then—the issue of the suspended medical workers has made its way into the country’s political discourse.</p><p>Thanos Plevris, Greece’s health minister who had previously been elected under the aegis of the far-right LAOS (Popular Orthodox Rally) political party and who is not a doctor, stated in a televised interview Oct. 16 that the <a href="https://www.pronews.gr/elliniki-politiki/th-pleyris-gia-anemvoliastous-ygeionomikous-einai-apo-tis-pio-sostes-apofaseis-pou-pirame/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">suspension of the unvaccinated medical workers</a> was “<em>one of the most correct decisions</em>” taken by the current government since it came to power in 2019.</p><p>Plevris added that only approximately 2,100 workers remained suspended and out of work, downplaying the impact of their absence on the public health system.</p><p>However, Dr. Kagia told CHD Europe the number of suspended health workers in the public health system alone is 7,500, while approximately the same number of private-sector medical workers also remains unemployed.</p><p>Dr. Kagia added that some of the suspended health workers have been able to “<em>temporarily</em>” return to their jobs after a positive COVID-19 diagnosis, as their natural immunity is recognized for a six-month period.</p><p>In another televised interview on Oct. 3, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.newsbomb.gr/ygeia/story/1357935/pleyris-epaneksetazetai-ton-oktovrio-to-thema-ton-ygeionomikon-se-anastoli" target="_blank">Plevris said the suspension of the medical workers</a> was “<em>being reevaluated.</em>”</p><p>Notably, <a href="https://www.pronews.gr/ygeia/m-pagoni-oi-anemvoliastoi-ygeionomikoi-prepei-na-epistrepsoun-stis-douleies-tous-piezoume-poly-kairo-gia-ayto/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dr. Maria Pagoni</a>, the president of EINAP, a union of doctors employed in Athens-area hospitals, stated in a televised appearance on Oct. 5, that the unvaccinated medical workers should be permitted to return to their jobs and that “they have been pressured enough.” </p><p>Dr. Pagoni became widely known in Greece for her frequent media appearances supporting the Greek government’s COVID-19 restrictions. However, on at least one occasion, she <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTt4Opo9ZrA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">marched with unvaccinated medical workers</a> who were rallying against their suspension.</p><p>More recently though, Dr. Pagoni nevertheless warned that more “<em>difficulties</em>” were coming, in relation to the <a href="https://www.ant1news.gr/ygeia-periballon/article/648412/koronoios-pagoni-tora-arxizoyn-ta-dyskola" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">spread of COVID-19</a>.</p><p>Notably, on Oct. 4, Health Minister Plevris announced that the government was considering rescinding the 150 euro monthly fines that had been levied on <a href="https://www.newsbomb.gr/ellada/story/1358491/apokleistiko-skepseis-gia-diagrafi-ton-prostimon-stous-anemvoliastous-ano-ton-60" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">unvaccinated persons age 60 and over</a> between January and May 2022, when the measure was “<em>frozen.</em>”</p><p>Later in October, the office of the <a href="https://www.odigostoupoliti.eu/diagrafi-prostimon-anemvoliaston-ano-ton-60-eton/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Greek Public Advocate</a> announced that these fines would be waived for several categories of individuals, on behalf of whom complaints had been filed, including those who had sought and received medical exemptions to the vaccine mandate.</p><p>According to the Association of Greek Medical Workers in Support of Democracy and Freedom (SYDE), which has been supportive of the suspended medical workers, the Greek government does not want to reinstate them because it is eyeing the <a href="https://syde.gr/%25CE%25B3%25CE%25B9%25CE%25B1%25CF%2584%25CE%25AF-%25CE%25B7-%25CE%25BA%25CF%2585%25CE%25B2%25CE%25AD%25CF%2581%25CE%25BD%25CE%25B7%25CF%2583%25CE%25B7-%25CE%25B4%25CE%25B5%25CE%25BD-%25CE%25B8%25CE%25AD%25CE%25BB%25CE%25B5%25CE%25B9-%25CE%25BD%25CE%25B1-%25CE%25B5%25CF%2580%25CE%25B1%25CE%25BD%25CE%25B1%25CF%2586%25CE%25AD/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">privatization of the public health service</a>, which includes the creation of a privately run, mandatory database containing the health data of all citizens.</p><p>To this end, <a href="https://www.ethnos.gr/health/article/229055/ypoyrgeioygeiasprasinofosgiaidiotikaiatreiakaixeiroyrgeiaseidiotikesklinikesgiagiatroystoydhmosioy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">media reports</a> earlier this month indicated that the Greek government is ready to allow doctors employed in the public health system to operate their own private practice and/or to also seek employment in private medical clinics.</p><p>Dr. Kagia told CHD Europe that “<em>the national health service is collapsing,</em>” adding that “<em>most positions which became vacant following the mass suspension [of unvaccinated medical workers] have not been filled.</em>” Instead, existing staff is being “shared” between hospitals to fill gaps.</p><p>As a result, workers who continue to be employed in the public health system are “<em>fully exhausted, [working] at the limits of their physical and mental health,</em>” leading many to resign or to take early retirement “<em>as they could no longer stand the pressure</em>.”</p><p>Opposition to such developments resulted in a <a href="https://www.902.gr/eidisi/ygeia/309955/maziki-apergiaki-sygkentrosi-gia-enishysi-tis-dimosias-ygeias-video-foto" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">large-scale rally of public health workers</a> in Athens on Oct. 19, calling for the strengthening of the public health system, in which many suspended medical workers also participated.</p><p>The rally culminated in an unscheduled meeting with Deputy Health Minister Mina Gaga, in which suspended medical workers such as Dr. Kakaletri were present.</p><p>According to a social media post by Dr. Kakaletri, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0uCftCv6nm2NGFfAUn8NXQ1VR1ZzdhUK6zEjzvSRa6kzcBpduMjmTQfF1APBhaprEl&id=708482028" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">suspended health workers</a> who were present at the meeting repeatedly called for the ‘criminal’ legislation pertaining to their suspensions to be rescinded.</p><p>Dr. Kakaletri added that she also relayed to Gaga “<em>her sorrow at the [recent] suicide of her suspended colleague,</em>” and the official positions of the World Freedom Alliance Greece, the Greek Medical Freedom Alliance and the World Doctors’ Alliance, on the issue.</p><p>Dr. Kagia, in turn, described the suspended health workers’ next steps, telling CHD Europe that they will “<em>continue the battle which they began against the corrupt political system.</em>”</p><p>She added that “<em>one year after we were ousted from our jobs, we will continue, with even greater zeal, to collect data, to protest, to unearth and reveal and to proclaim the truth, that the [Greek] state is murdering its citizens, and that only the citizens can stop 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Circled Items are Allegedly NATO weapon fragments</b> <div><br></div><div> An Antonov Cargo plane carrying all sorts from weapons, biological arms and un analysed white powder was seen with a fireball in the night sky until it crash landed in fields a few km away from the city of Kavala in Northern Greece. Who did what and why is too soon to tell. Who will be credited with the event as well. US personnel from their military base in Alexandroupoli with Greek security services have cut off the area. Locals have reported a burning in their throat. </div><div><br></div><div> Not long ago Greek Premier Mitsokais invited neo nazi-Azov fighters to speak to the Greek Parliament extolling the almost infamous phrase ‘we are on the right side of history’ ie by supporting NATOists, neo-Nazis and Ukrainian oligarchs. It seems history has corrected this with us now returning to our own antifascist roots with neo nazi military convoys being blown up/shot down etc within Greek airspace.</div><div><br></div><div> NATO’s military operations have already expanded into Russian territory more than once and I am not referring to the Donbass or Lugansk regions. Now these operations are being experienced within EU territory. We aren’t going to know what happened not by the powers that be, as there are precedents within recent Greek history. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Downing of Cypriot airliner - 2005</b></div><div>
It was in 2005 when a Cypriot airliner was downed in mysterious circumstances in mainland Greece after being told it couldn’t land at the main airport and allegedly a system failure occurred of undisclosed reasons and everyone fell asleep on board. Local residents at the time reported the plane crash landed by a mountain and some passengers were still alive but the police sealed off the area and no one ever heard anything since. The plane by all accounts was shot down when the enforced re-unification of Cyprus was rejected by a referendum which would have meant full scale recognition of the Turkish invasion and occupation. </div><div><br></div><div>The airplane owned by ruling circles of Cyprus who had rejected the Referendum by all accounts was shot down as a reprisal. </div><div>Did we ever find out what led to the alleged mysterious collapse of air pressure in the pilots cockpit which led to them all falling asleep? <b>No.</b></div><div><br></div><div>Did we ever find out who shot down the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine? <b>No</b> </div><div><br></div><div><b>Antonov Cargo Plane</b></div><div>
This of course was a military flight. The ‘official’ version was that it was flying from Serbia to… Bangladesh.!! The plane was built in 1971 so was over 50 years old and had only half the 20 tonne cargo it could hold. In flight schedule circulated on the internet the plane had previously flown to Turkey, Algeria and France.</div><div><br></div><div>Now how was it flying over Greek airspace with close proximity to cities without a military escort only goes to show that the Greek government is not in control one iota and has no issue killing hundreds of Greeks as after all they have killed tens of thousands who have arrived in hospital with Covid or Covid like symptoms and they have met their maker. Without any harsh measures Sweden had less deaths than Greece. </div><div><br></div><div>We are dealing with a ruling oligarchy that has no problem extending NATO’s conflict with Russia, providing whatever weapons they are told to and when something like this occurs going silent. Not long ago they blockaded an Iranian cargo ship going to Russia. When they Iranians did they same to two Greek owned ones, they bottled it and released the Iranian without fanfare, ie on the sly.</div><div><br></div><div><b>NATO Provocations</b></div><div>
Ukronazis have accused Russians of killing civilians in Bucha, then the Ukronazi armed forces blamed the Railway station attack in Kramatorsk with a Tochka U missile on being a Russian job, then following that they stated in mid-June that Russia bombed the central part of Donetsk with NATO made ammunition.</div><div><br></div><div>Will they now blame the Russians who have the right under <b>international law to self-defence</b> from armed cargo shipments being delivered to Kiev to launch attacks on Russians? Even if they do, it will only show how weak they are as it implies Russian capabilities from the Black Sea are excellent to aim at targets deep into the EU. </div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand it won’t be in NATO’s interests to do so as after all they have been running the line that the Russians have lost the conflict with the Ukronazis a long time ago. Indeed a radio broadcast this morning had a report in Athens that Zelensky was stating he will take back all territories that Russia now holds. Maybe Saturday nights white powder hasn’t worn off. The Kiev clown still makes pronouncements as if the circus is still going strong. Someone hasn’t told him its curtains went down some time ago….
</div><div>Evans Agelissopoulos</div><div>Curteousy of oneworldpress </div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-38040328356022641202022-07-16T04:55:00.003-07:002022-07-16T05:00:51.652-07:00Greece vs Turkiye Two NATO Quislings Square Up….<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzgCTKT-ym92Ghg8SV0T4zRUGkx78ABBbQY93rwEsbKqOAWtRiZ-JxLvza3uTq7P1LS9lN222nNjTMq3bsMrwk-AzEcBZ_ZlldYHlHVG4OSlbvZXohnWNFZKrVluEnYmz9XFKEhAPHk60NpxbfBv4vngQfJ3mR7Cy9-d8qpCFx9YR8DoSi8kXgx0Q6yw/s1392/turkey-map-crete-greek-islands-turkish-credit-ulku-ocaklari-twitter-1392x764%20%281%29.webp" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="1392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzgCTKT-ym92Ghg8SV0T4zRUGkx78ABBbQY93rwEsbKqOAWtRiZ-JxLvza3uTq7P1LS9lN222nNjTMq3bsMrwk-AzEcBZ_ZlldYHlHVG4OSlbvZXohnWNFZKrVluEnYmz9XFKEhAPHk60NpxbfBv4vngQfJ3mR7Cy9-d8qpCFx9YR8DoSi8kXgx0Q6yw/s320/turkey-map-crete-greek-islands-turkish-credit-ulku-ocaklari-twitter-1392x764%20%281%29.webp"></a></div>
Erdogans far right promoters dreaming of a neo-ottoman empire again showing half the Greek Aegean and its islands being Turkish<div><br></div><div> Suddenly, Greek Premier Mitsotakis becomes an ultra-nationalist, talking about national sovereignty and territorial integrity, the same person who fully agrees to the entry of millions of Afro-Asiatic illegal migrunts who are supported by the cuts in salaries and pensions by the Greek people who are becoming a minority day by day in their own country. </div><div><br></div><div> Mitsotakis crossed the big blue pond and even gave a speech to the American Congress. For years now the Americans have been at odds with Turkey. At first they were pressured to enter Iraq on their own behalf as invaders. When they gave up official combat operations in Iraq, the Americans supported the Kurds, which is a red cloth for the Turks. The Turks were supported when they gave aid to guerrilla groups against Assad. Then they advanced a feud with the Russians when they fired their fighter jet. When Erdogan flew to Mosco and grovelled to Putin the Americans went so far as to organize a coup d'état against Erdoğan, who was saved by Putin's intervention. </div><div><br></div><div> U.S. bases in Greece have been upgraded which Turkiye considers a threat. A year ago the French fleet threatened Turkish ships that were searching for hydrocarbons in the Aegean. So what is Greek PM Mitsotakis sudden nationalist turn at play? The only given is the war in Ukraine. The Americans are losing and are not happy with the attitude of Turkey that does not want NATO extension to Sweden and Finland. So can the Americans use Greece to organize any provocations to expel it from NATO? </div><div><br></div><div> The Karamanlis faction of New Democracy (ruling party of Greece) speaks that Mitsotakis essentially wants to cede the Aegean. This is problematic since it would mean that they are giving more power to Erdoğan at the same time that they blocked his purchases of the F16 fighther jets and while he asks to get F15 (since these will be procured by Greece) and the S400 systems do not help to stop them. The Turks inaugurated this summers political football with a tourist advertising campaign calling it ‘TurkAegean’ with Greece not complaining to any official copyright bodies in other words acquiescing to it.</div><div><br></div><div> Turkey has built an aircraft carrier as a sign of future power projection to threaten the Near East eg Libya or Syria but they don’t have the adequate fighter jets to use on them so its more of an internal propaganda tool as with most things Erdogans does. But it does show a growth in industrial manufacturing to be able to produce an aircraft carrier even if limited in scope.</div><div><br></div><div> PM Mitsotakis showed maps in the US Congress about Erdoğan's Blue Homeland (essentially Greece under Ottoman rule) and if he were to concede the Aegean this would help Russia, but they are fanatically at odds with Russia. </div><div><br></div><div> So what is at stake only from the point of view of American politics and what does it intend to do in the near future? It’s difficult to tell but of course this isn’t the USA of the 1960’s or the USA of the 2010s? Do they want a military confrontation since politics and economics have failed? Applying the Clausewitz doctrine that war is the continuation of politics by other means are we at the stage of a new conflict in the South eastern Meditterrean?</div><div><br></div><div> They also put a Greek American as US Ambassador to sell it as they it as they had done in the past with our 'own' Prince who married the Queen of England who… married us. Did any of that nonsene save us from the civil war?</div><div><br></div><div>The Americans have beefed up security in the port of Alexandroupolis and are focusing on having forces there to be able to block the exit of Russian ships from the Bosphorus, but they require Turkeys acquiescence.</div><div><br></div><div> The Obamaites in the Biden administration who obviously have a strong influence circulated a piece stating Turkey has become an uncertain ally implying what precisely? </div><div><br></div><div> <b>Turkish economy in freefall</b></div><div>
With official inflation raging at 75% and true to form Erdogan having imposed tough Covid restrictions in the last two years, its almost impossible to survive nowadays in Turkey hence the fact that if Turkey imposed full blown anti-Russian sanctions as demanded by the PM of Greece then it would have meant it would have been over for Erdogan. </div><div><br></div><div> In one way PM Mitsotakis was virtue signaling his American obedience, but it’s a known fact they both (Greece & Turkey) don’t tread on each others toes so openly and blatantly (prior to previous big power agreement) and therefore there must be an ulterior motive. </div><div><br></div><div> We are told Turkey which has become Turkiye (another pseudo-nationalist turn by Erdogan) is an anti-imperialist behemoth when the reality is it tries to straddle both Big Powers (American and Russian) but its actual heart beats with the West from the 1920’s when it housed all the expelled Russian aristocrats and became a staunch proponent of the anti-Communist Cold War when it agreed to house US nuclear weapons instigating the Cuban Crisis in the early 1960’s.</div><div><br></div><div> Then we had Turkiyes incursion into Syria and Libya propping up US positions there. What they don’t realise is that America does not have friends. It only has servants like big time mobsters do. At any moment in time after spending a lifetime walking on eggshells they can drop you and you can become another Noriega, Milosevic, Saddam, Gaddafi…. Buying into the Cosa Nostra does not secure you indemnity, it only implies your indemnity can be erased at the drop of a hat. Of course the USA is no longer what it used to be and its sudden death signatures don’t have the value they once did, as shown with the attempted failed coup against Erdogan.</div><div><br></div><div> <b>Elections in Mind</b> </div><div>With both Mitsotakis and Erdogan entering electoral cycles in 2023 it’s a race against time who will survive politically. Taking a leaf out of the Trump playbook going ‘nationalist’ despite both being hyperglobalists is part and parcel of the charade. Erdogan came into politics to enter the EU, Mitsotakis comes from the quisling Greek crime family that’s been politically active since WW2 and are staunch defenders of the EU and NATO. Only if the Americans want to dump Turkiye will there be a military conflict with Greece, as Erdogan does not have much more to gain and more to lose. Any shooting war, even of limited duration, will destroy tourist income which has Germany as a big player in both countries. In an ideal world they could both gain from a shooting war the issue is how to pretend they have both won and no one has lost.</div><div><br></div><div>It's an irony of history that once Greece acquiesced to Turkish entry to the EU it all started unravelling for Turkey and now Greece has started to show a backbone in official statements (that it does so with US backing) what will be the endgame? A removal of Erdogan and a new anti-Russian turn of Turkiye? We can only await and see…. </div><div><br></div><div> Curteousy from banned on social media (one)world press
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</div><br></div><div><br></div><div>NORDEN SPLIT AND THE US SPARTACIST LEAGUE </div><div><br></div><div>Introduction Below are excertps of correspondence between Jan Norden and V.N.Gelis which have been amended for public consumption on the recent split within the US based Spartacist League. </div><div>21st November 1996</div><div><br></div><div>Cde. Gelis, On your two questions:</div><div> a) We consider the states that arose out of the counterrevolutionary destruction of the Soviet degenerated workers states to be capitalist states, still very weak but certainly on their way to being consolidated. We agree with, and in many cases helped write, the fundamental ICL statements on the collapse of Stalinism and counterrevolution in the Soviet Union and East Europe, as well as the Workers Vanguard reply to your letter on Yugoslavia and Russia. </div><div><br></div><div>As for b) allegations "that the Robertson regime has run things much similar to Gerry Healy in relation to his treatment of female comrades" not only lack any basis in truth, they are pure slander from people who justify and engage in scabbing. I hope this answers your questions. </div><div><br></div><div>Fraternally, </div><div>Jan Norden</div><div><br></div><div>23rd November 1996 </div><div><br></div><div>Dear Cde. Norden,</div><div><br></div><div>Since the early 1970's, 'Workers Vanguard' has always been a well respected paper from the point of view of revolutionary trotskyism. But that does not imply we do not have serious ideological and political differences. </div><div><br></div><div>We have differences with all the Western far left on basically three main issues:</div><div> a) their characterisation of imperialism and the fact that they vehemently stick to old bankrupt formulas with respect to inter-imperialist conflicts, </div><div>b) we do not believe that what is occuring in the ex-USSR is a solidification of capitalism and we vehemently dispute the notion that capitalism can so easily be restored in areas where it once went bankrupt, as this would overturn the notion that imperialism is a moribund economic system, </div><div>c) the nature of the period is characterised not by the existing leaderships of the working class be they socialdemocratic or stalinist, but by the gradual realisation that stalinism as well as capitalism is experiencing a universal crisis which is leading to development of revolutionary turmoil which will be difficult to control.</div><div><br></div><div>This may obviously sound like old hat to someone who has spent most of their adult lives editing a revolutionary paper and has seen a lifetimes of achievement go down the drain, but revolutions have never been created by revolutionaries and vice versa, revolutions have never created revolutionaries. Revolutionaries have existed during particular historical conjunctures whose predetermined fate is almost impossible to surely predict. We believe that if a revolution needs to find its revolutionaries it will, not in a metaphysical sense but in a practical sense, if it is truly to be a revolution of any importance the right people will be found. We disagree wholeheartedly with the notions of the far left, who seek to find solutions outside of the present cul de sac of forces which are not based solely on the working class. We never believed in 'student power' when it was around, we never believed in 'guerilla power', we never believed in fake 'terrorist power' and today we do not believe in NATO. </div><div><br></div><div>We disagree wholeheartedly (and this is where we differ) with neutral positions on the Yugoslav war as we consider it the flip-side of the open support of imperialism. We can never stand in the same camp as the British SWP, or North's tendency on the Yugoslav war. But Yugoslavia in the final analysis is not the issue. The issue is from reading what you have written and the reply of Robertson, the Russian question. If the nature of the period is indeed reactionary, if indeed we have to "wait for better times", then the majority of the Spartacist League may be right. After all they are judging your positions on the appreciation of the forthcoming period. </div><div><br></div><div>If on the other hand, what is coming is not the stabilisation of capitalism, but its biggest ever crisis, if the workers movement can no longer be controlled and dominated by the stalinists then the picture changes. Dynamic class struggle may be the order of the day as has been evidenced by the developments in France. But one may add, so what? We had it all before. But that is a very sterile and mechanistic view of history. Revolutions may indeed come and go, but humanity learns from each experience and develops onto a higher plane. To follow today's trend which is to become part and parcel of those who worship the international news networks (such as CNN) and to believe the USA achieved a stunning victory against Iraq is reminiscent of the end of the Roman Empire, when they stagemanaged victorious parades of totally fake battles (much in the same way as the USA organised the biggest ticker take parade in its history over its glorious 'victory'). </div><div><br></div><div>Many splits have occurred in the American far left which resemble the splits in Europe. A small clique in an organisation disagrees with a particular viewpoint and decides to eliminate the opposition. Wohlforth was terminated by Gerry Healy. He has ended up praising imperialism in the Balkans. Not a different position from his erstwhile comrades in Slaughters WRP who are rapidly liquidating themselves. To be thrown out of an organisation one has spent a lifetime building is not an easy thing. Workers who are sacked from their posts after spending a lifetime working for feel decimated. Your immediate defence of your past is not a new phenomena. no one wants to spit on their past or admit they made mistakes, especially in the hostile environment they were working in. Everyone in life makes mistakes. You assert that the Robertson regime in no way treated female comrades in the same manner as Healy's. Not being part of either it is difficult to tell from afar, only from the basis of what other cdes. stated about their experiences within both regimes. Maybe having more than one female cde. at a time, as a girlfriend, is 'natural', maybe feting the leader and bowing down to his individual whims, whether they be expense accounts, business flights, special favours such as cleaning party flats when they arrive, preparing documents to fit in with the general party line, are normal run of the mill events within the development of a revolutionary organisation. You may think this is all anti-communist jargon, this is not what the Spartacist League was about, but the question sooner or later needs to be addressed: why all of a sudden did the Spartacist League want to get rid of its most trusted cdes. Either you never fit in with their right-wing turn, which surely didn't happen simply from the moment you were booted out (in such a classic Healy manner; repo squads arriving at night) or you couldn't fit in as they were asking you to put two feet in one boot! </div><div><br></div><div>The Bolshevik tendency left some time ago, Yossi Rad not long ago and you recently. The previous two are clearly to the right of the present Spartacist League, but what will happen in the future is difficult to tell. The Spartacists can quite clearly catch up with their opponents, after all a life on the margins of society is not everybody's cup of tea and maybe some have realised that. But the working class has nowhere to accomodate to as it is being fundamentally attacked. The line of permanent opposition, is the only line consistent with the revolution. Any other line is a line of accomodation, and this I believe from what you write is not your line. fraternally, keep the revolutionary spirit up. </div><div>V.N.Gelis </div><div><br></div><div>A REPLY TO THE US SPARTACIST LEAGUE ON THE SLOGAN "RESTORE THE SOVIET UNION" 15th February 1996 </div><div><br></div><div>To the Editor, </div><div>Dear Comrades, In Workers Vanguard (issue no.638) it is asserted that Marxists should not call for the restoration of the Soviet Union and presumably that of Yugoslavia as well. Was the creation of the Soviet Union a historical step forwards and consequently its demise a step back into an era of war and barbarism.? To not support the restoration of the Soviet Union as it once was Stalinist is tantamount to not supporting the restoration in a factory strike which has occurred in which workers have lost their rights (eg. recent Dockers strike in Liverpool, England) The demand and desire for peoples to live in multinational wholes (which imperialism is seeking to destroy in order to rule over them more effectively) is correct. The tragedy as you correctly point out is that the Stalinist fragments will be unable to defend\extend the gains of the workers movement.</div><div><br></div><div> Your current class analysis of the Soviet Union as one of a fully developed capitalist state means that the mistakes of the state capitalists of yesteryear are to be repeated in current phenomena. Eg. your refusal to support the Serbs in ex-Yugoslavia for more than three years of war ande only after the NATO bombardments if August 1995 to take a half-hearted stance in their defence. Your current refusal to support the demand for the restoration of the Soviet Union because the remnants of Stalinism are currently associated with the demand is reminiscent of T. Cliffs refusal to support Korea against America as it was led by the Stalinists. </div><div><br></div><div>The workers movements in Russia which you seem to be so dismissive of lately will inscribe on its banner the restoration of the Soviet Union and the vote for the Stalinists is not a vote for the past (in the same way as the recent large vote for the French left) or a vote for the leader of these parties (like Zyuganov who beyond any doubt are Western puppets) but a vote for a change in the whole of society. </div><div><br></div><div>Just as the recent election in France led to the December events so the recent election in Russia will inevitably lead to social struggle of immense proportions. The struggle between the working class and the remnants of stalinism is where the future coming class battles will emerge and the long-awaited historical accounting of this remains to occur. The road of conflict against capitalism and Stalinism is inevitable. </div><div>Fraternally</div><div>V.N.Gelis </div><div><br></div><div>WORKERS VANGUARD REPLIES </div><div>The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were multinational workers states based on a collectivised economy but governed by a parasitic bureaucratic caste. These states were destroyed in 1991-1992 through capitalist counterrevolution in large measure fueled by the splintering of their respective Stalinist bureaucracies along antagonistic national lines. What now exists in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans is a multiplicity of bourgeois states, each under the control of its dominant nation and, in many cases, engaged in intercine feuding with one another. The call to "restore the Soviet Union" on the part of Stalinist-derived Russian "patriots" like Gennadi Zyuganov, leader and presidential candidate of the bourgeois-nationalist Communist party of the Russian Federation (KPRF), is in reality a call for a modernized version, of the Russian empire of the Romanovs. Similarly, talk of "restoring Yugoslavia" by the Communist Alliance - Movement for Yugoslavia of Mirjana markovic, the wife of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosovec, can only mean a modernized version of the post-1919 Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.</div><div><br></div><div> The progressive character of the former Soviet Union lay in its collectivised economy not in its particular national composition. There is nothing inherently progressive about a state incorporating in its boundaries Russians and Uzbeks, Ukrainians and Chechens, etc. If there were, then the tsarist empire, which Lenin called a "prison house of peoples," would have to be judged no less progressive than the USSR. As is well known, Lenin strogly clearly advocated the right of national self-determination, i.e., the right to form independent states, for the non-Russian subject peoples of the tsarist empire. In this way the Bolsheviks gained the sympathy and support of the non-Russian toilers, which was vitally important for their victory over the White Guard counterrevolutionaries and Western/Japanese imperialist forces in the Civil War of 1918-21. </div><div><br></div><div>At the end of the Civil War, the Red Army controlled most of the territory of the former tsarist empire. However, as we wrote in "Why Marxists Do Not Raise the Call 'Restore the Soviet Union' (WV No. 639, 16 February): "The Bolshevik leadership did not maintain that the various nations and peoples of the former tsarist empire had to be reorganized within the framework of a single federated Soviet (workers) state. Lenin was open to the prospect of an alliance of Soviet states in the region if the non-Russian workers and peasants so desired". Thus, against the opposition of Stalin Lenin insisited that the right of national self-determination be incorporated into the founding constitution of the USSR. </div><div><br></div><div>When the Soviet Stalinist bureaucracy disintigrated under Gorbachev in the late 1980's, various non-Russian petty-bourgeois nationalists, notably in the Baltic republics - acting in concert with Western imperialism - demanded secession from the USSR as a cover for capitalist restoration. At the same time, the Russian Stalinist "patriots' increasingly appealed to traditional Great Russian chauvinism. Hence the "red - brown" coalition. The fundamental task facing communists in Russia, the Ukraine and other former Soviet republics today is to work for proletarian socialist revolution to overthrow these new bourgeois states. Whether future workers states in this region will form a multinational federation and what its configuration would be is a historically open and, at the present time, rather abstract question. What is sharply and directly posed at present is defense of non-Russian peoples against renascent Russian imperialist ambitions, including those would-be Russian imperialists who call for "restoring the Soviet Union". </div><div><br></div><div>Here it is significant that V.N.Gelis' letter does not so much as mention the Chechen war in which the Russian army has already killed tens of thousands of Caucasian people in region conquered by the tsarist empire in the early 19th century. We call for the defeat of the Russian invading and occupying forces and for the right of Chechnya to decide its own fate. The KPRF nationalists, while criticising Yeltsin's handling of the war, predictably oppose the independence of Chechnya. Similarly, the European and American imperialists support the "territorial integrity" of the new Russian bourgeois state and therefore have endorsed Yeltsin's bloody colonial war against the Chechens. Clinton made this perfectly clear on his recent visit to Yeltsin, when he grotesquely drew a parallel between the Russian rape of Chechnya and the Union struggle against the slavocracy in the US civil war, claiming that the common principle was that "no state has a right to withdraw from our union". This clearly refutes Gelis' false asertion that "imperialism is seeking to destroy" multinational states in the former Soviet Union and Balkans. The imperialist powers have inthe past and will in the future support and even create multinatinal state when this serves their perceived interesets. Thus the original Yugoslav state, ruled by the Serbian monarchy, was created by British and French imperialism at the 1919 Versailles Congress. The Communist International rightly recognized that this new Yugoslav state was by its very nature one in which the dominant nationality, the Serbs, oppressed the other South Slavic peoples. During the 1920's, the Yugoslav Communist Party militantly championed self-determination especially for the Croats, Slovenes and Macedonians. Precisely because they did so, the Communists became the only genuine pan-Yugoslav party in the country, with its leadership and cadres containing members of all South Slav natinalities. The victory of Tito's Communist Partisans over the German Wehrmacht and reactionary Serbian and Croatian nationalist forces during WWII laid the basis for the creation of a bureaucratically deformed workers state, in which nonetheless a real effort was made to ensure political equality among the constitutent national republics. However, especially after Tito's death in 1980, the Yugoslav bureaucracy increasingly fradctured along national lines. Thus Serbian Stalinist leader Slobodan Milosevic came to power seeking to create a "Greater Serbia", beginning with trampling on the Albanians in Kosovo. We have take a position of revolutionary defeatism toward all of the contending bourgeois-nationalist forces in the territorial wars - marked by mutual communalist massacres - precipitated by the breakup of Yugoslavia. As V.N.Gelis noted, we did defend the Bosnian Serbs when they came under direct attack by the NATO powers, including last years massive air assault carried out inleague with the Croatian and Bosnian Muslim forces and with the complicity of the Milosevic government. While Gelis argues for support to the Serbs in the wars of ex-Yugoslavia, he offers no principled or other reason for this position. Does he believe that Milosevic's Serbia is still a deformed workers state while Croatia and the Bosnian Muslim polity are nascent bourgeois states? Or does he think the Serbs are a "progressive" people reflecting the pro-Serbian sympathy prevalent in Greece?</div><div><br></div><div> It is a basic principle that for communists the main enemy is the bourgeosie of their own country, which in Gelis' case is the Greek bourgeoisie. However, his positions are in harmony with those of the Greek ruling class. Not only do Greece, Russia and Serbia share the Eastern Orthodox religion, but the Greek bourgeoisie is also driven by its ongoing nationalist conflict with Muslim Turkey, which backs the Bosnian Sarajevo regime. Today, the Greek government is the only member of NATO which has consistently and conspicuously supported the Serbian cause in the wars of ex-Yugoslavia. This fact alone should cause V.N.Gelis and his comrades to reconsider whether their views on the Balkans and the former Soviet Union are governed by the priciples of proletarian considerations or other considerations.</div><div><br></div><div><b>A Reply to the Cosmopolitan 'Internationalists' of the US based Spartacist League by an Opponent of the Transnational New World Order</b> </div><div><br></div><div>The Editor "Workers Vanguard" 'These states were destroyed in 1991-92 through capitalist counterrevolution (USSR and E. Europe) in large measure fuelled by the splintering of their respective Stalinist bureaucracies along antagonistic national lines' (Workers Vanguard June '96) If Russia and the Balkans as you assert have definitely and irrevocably passed into the Western orbit and the restorationist project been completed and finalised we would be obliged under the mere weight of your assertions to state that the project of the October Revolution was maybe premature or even futile. If on the other hand one takes a dialectical approach assserting the restorationist process has started, but not been completed (the class battles to decide the eventual fate of the land of October are ahead of us not behind us) then an anti-state capitalist perspective opens up before us. </div><div><br></div><div>To assert as well that what exists in the former S.Union and the Balkans is a "multiplicity of bourgeois states" is very 'original'. as no further elaboration is required or indeed sought after.</div><div> What level of capitalist development are we dealing with here? An imperialist, semi-colonial or neo-colonial? To define the ex-USSR and ex-Yugoslavia as simply being 'bourgeois states' is on par as saying both Iraq and the US are bourgeois states, this tells us a lot and at the same time nothing. Chechen War Whilst implying that no mention was made of the Chechen war this seeks to conceal the fact (known to the Editor of Workers Vanguard) from your readers that I wrote an article back in early 1995 entitled the "Crisis in Chechnya and Yeltsin's Bloodthirsty Regime" which was published in the KDE's newspaper "Ergatiki Drasi" and in Num.9 of their English language publication. But what is significant isn't the fact that the Chechen war wasn't mentioned in my brief letter but the importance given to this false premise whose purpose is to state: How can we realistically support the restoration of the S. Union, look at Chechnya, all the nationalities want to break away! But the Chechens would not be seeking to breakaway if the restorationists in Moscow had not generalised the current dominant imperialist principle of privatisation everywhere (every gangster loot and siphon off the public wealth to the West), every local ruler disavow the centre. Which in practice is how imperialism is seeking to destroy multinational wholes whose progressiveness lay in the fact that they were historical gains of the working class. </div><div><br></div><div>To assert as well that "there is nothing inherently progressive about a state incorporating Russians, Uzbeks, Ukrainians, Chechens etc." is sophistry of the highest order as one could also say the same working class unions in cosmopolitan London or New York:" there is nothing inherently progressive about a union encompassing workers of different ethnic origin". A union may be obliged to fight the state or be incorporated into it. But incorporated unions cease to be unions and instead become appendages of the state machinery, so the demand and desire by workers to restore the unions of old, under new economic conditions (where the material basis of reformism has been eroded) does not signal a return to the past, but a desire for a better present and a revolutionary future.</div><div><br></div><div>A dialectical approach instead of sterile mechanism may aid to understanding global processes easier. </div><div><br></div><div>'New' cold-warriors and the ex-USSR </div><div><br></div><div>H.A.Kissinger in a June'96 interview in 'Newsweek' whom the Spartacist League would not like to be associated politically with, states the following: <b>"American idealism tempts isolationism: Russia has historically prompted adventurist domination"</b> doling out imperial powers (to Russia) where there are none and subtracting them were they are (USA). </div><div><br></div><div>You have now subsequently characterised the KPRF as bourgeois nationalist, "representing Russian imperialist ambitions". In other words you believe that what we are dealing with in Russia is an expansionist imperialist power whose aim is to re-colonise the Caucuses, E.Europe, the Balkans then maybe W.Europe and finally the 'land of liberty and equality' the USA! Even the ultra-conservative London based 'Economist' magazine had an editorial in its July edition entitled "Le Defi Americain" and analysed the transnational integration of W. Europe and the necessity of ending the restrictive practice of 'welfare statism'.</div><div><br></div><div> Modern transnational imperialism (under cover of UN sponsored 'peacekeeping' forces) will remain enemy number one whethera small group of cdes. in New York are unable to find principles at stake, when semi-colonial people like the Serbs, overnight became foreigners in their own lands. 'Neutrality', Pacifism and the New World Order A neutral position in the disingtegration of ex-Yugoslavia is in reality the other side of the coin of an open support of UN imperialist backed 'peace' keepers. The pacifist cry for the termination of the war in Yugoslavia through NATO style 'elections' under the barrel of a gun! Whether Milosevic's Serbia is still a deformed workers state or not, is a red herring as Saddam's Iraq or Somalia never were, yet once ostracised by the West and under attack they qualified even for your support. But Europe is much closer to home and more is at stake. Once you have taken a position of revolutionary defeatism on all sides in the Yugoslav war, why then does the nature of the war only momentarily change when NATO launches air strikes and the Bosnian Serbs then qualify for your support? Once the bombing 'stops' do we then call for the defeat of the Bosnian Serb army as the war once again has changed its nature and become inter-capitalist? What do you say about the NATO occupation of ex-Yugoslavia? Trotsky at least was clear when he stated that "Of all the forms of dictatorship, the totalitarian dictatorship of a foreign occupier is the most unbearable". (Trotsky's Writings 1939-40 translated from Greek). </div><div><br></div><div>Where have you started a campaign against the NATO occupation of Yugoslavia? Transitional slogans such as "Not a Penny not a Soldier" for the imperialist war in ex-Yugoslavia! For the military defeat of NATO in Yugoslavia! Trotsky once before WWII characterised the neutralists and pacifists:"To not distinguish the countries which are oppressed is the same as not distinguishing amongst an exploitative class and an exploited one. They who place imperialism and colonial countries on the same level, despite the democratic phrases being used to conceal the event are nothing but agents of imperialism".</div><div> Whole swathes of the so-called far left have openly supported NATO in Yugoslavia and the remainder have become neutralists. only a small number of groups have supported the Serbs, not because of their leaders as is the common allegation, but despite them, as we never believed, from day one we were dealing with an expansionist Serb leadership intent on building a Greater Serbia as was commonly circulated by imperialist propaganda and its 'left' appendages'.</div><div><br></div><div> It was the great 'nationalist' Milosevic who signed the Dayton Peace Accords and the great 'nationalist' Karadisc who is obliged to implement them... Greece and the New World Order The Spartacist League asserts that the "Greek government is the only member of NATO which has consistently and conspicuously supported the Serbian cause in the wars of ex-Yugoslavia" a sentiment derived straight from imperialist propaganda which defies the reality on the ground: Greece is participating in the NATO occupation force through army personell and a frigate as well as having its bases on standby when things heat up.</div><div><br></div><div>A proletarian anti-capitalist movement in Greece would not grant the Greek bourgeoisie with extra-terrestrial powers, asserting it can act on its own on the global arena, implying its not totally and utterly dependent on and subservient to the imperialist powers. What 'drives' the Greek bourgeoisie (or for that matter any other bourgeoisie of similar class development) aren't 'expansionist' plans to take over Turkey, Slavic Macedonia or Albania, but decisions taken on its behalf in Washington or Brussels who represent the interests of transnational corporations whose class basis are less and less based on one country but dependent more on intergrated international relations with geo-political considerations taking priority. What does that mean in practice? If war develops between Greece and Turkey, the US will impose itself through a whole gamut of covert and open policies (such as it already done in Iraq eg. no-fly zones, mediation, supporting a reactionary section of the population etc.) We have entered an era when imperialism is imposing a special type of dictatorship (different initially from Hitler's but no less sinister) in the name of the 'international community' using the UN and NATO; economically based on the needs of transnationals whose aim is to supass the nation state; being advanced from three centres, USA, United Europe and Japan.</div><div>Which 'Greek' bourgeoisie is the Spartacist League so concerned about leading to a 'nationalist' blood bath in the Balkans? Only self-blinded or intellectual prisoners of dead ideologies can descibe the Greek bourgeoisie as a force for nationalism ready to defend with all its forces its 'national interests'. When it is clear the current bourgeoisie has nothing to lose from a Bosniasation of Greece. One doesn't need always to dwell on the past, but a striking case in point is the fact that the Minister of National Defence under the Metaxas dictatorship, Tsolagoglou became the quisling Prime Minister for the Germans when they occupied Greece during WWII. So much for the Spartacist 'theory' of nationalistic semi-colonial bourgeoisie's in the era of imperialism...</div><div><br></div><div>Does the Spartacist League believe Milosevic's Serbia, the Greek bourgeoisie and the Russian rulers to be part of a secret global Christian Orthodox religious conspiracy, like Islam hell-bent on overthrowing Western liberal values? Are we simply dealing with religious and nationalist conflicts just as imperialist propaganda asserts, in order to justify the intervention of the 'civilised' West? Or are we dealing with the implementation of a barbaric New World Order whose eventual aim is to wipe out any trace of any national states, traditions, cultures in the name of multi-ethnic cosmopolitan internationalism?</div><div><br></div><div>Proletarian internationalism is not built in the stalinist manner of tail-ending your own bourgeoisie in its battle against 'dark nationalist forces', but in being clear who your opponent is and in which direction they are heading. Your reply was not based on an honest attempt at replying to the points in my letter, but an attempt half-hearted at that, to placate differences which have erupted internally due to your increasingly sectarian abstention from the class struggle, which is reflected in your adoption of ideas and policies of the state-capitalists of yesteryear.</div><div><br></div><div>fraternally, </div><div>V.N.Gelis </div><div>September '96</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-40410264561073737382022-06-07T04:10:00.001-07:002022-06-19T17:00:37.916-07:00The Russian Question Point Blank<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>The Russian Question Point Blank</b></div><div>Its an irony of history that the first two decades of the 20th century the Russian Question divided the world point blank. History seems to be repeating itself again, but under very different conditions. </div><div><br></div><div>Then it was about Russia pulling out of a world war and ending the 400 year Tsarist autocracy now it’s about defeating a NATO inspired war and integrating Russian speakers into the safety of the CIS. Foreign intervention via the territories that became the Ukraine led by Churchill were roundly defeated ending in the creation of the USSR and ironically once more next year is the anniversary of the 100 years since its inauguration and by then NATO intervention will also be roundly defeated.</div><div>Throughout Europe a new NATO iron curtain is being raised, people are being divided on being pro-Russian or anti-Russian seeking to extend hostilities against Russia, banning Russians from all competitive sports, chess tournaments, all cultural activities etc. whilst at the same time freezing assets of Russian citizens for being Russian. Having lost its independence during WW2 the European countries and their citizens are between a rock and a hard place.</div><div><br></div><div>In order to move forward Europe needs both Russian energy exports and its nuclear umbrella. Without those two components it is at the behest of the US Empire which seeks to maximise both its military exports and make Europe dependent on US suppliers of energy (if they can be found). For over two decades US geopolitics has been at disconnecting Russia from Europe, first we had the conflicts over Southstream which was supposed to come through Greece and then Nord Stream 2 which was supposed to be signed off this year. Now its about disconnecting Russia from itself encapsulated in Brzezinskis infamous quote </div><div>“Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.”</div><div>At some point in the 1980’s prior to the collapse of the ex-USSR NATO started a campaign called ‘Peace Through NATO’. That was a turn in strategy and from a defensive alliance it morphed into an offensive one engaging in military activity in ex-Yugoslavia, then in Libya and finally taking over the mission in Afghanistan. To many they allegedly offered military services which they did but a parallel operation was also put in place, offering logistics to paid mercenaries and drug shipments. Its inauguration into the world of secret armies of course lies many decades before in the form of Gladio and the subversion of democratically elected governments but the conflict in ex-Yugoslavia essentially brought NATO into the mainstream and it has been with us ever since providing ‘peace’ in far flung places like… Libya and Afghanistan and now in Ukraine.</div><div><br></div><div>NATO’s dark arts are from the US playbook as after all they run it, those inaugurated in Americas backwater the central American killing fields where the likes of Negroponte were granted a carte blanche license to torture, maim and kill with impunity. Its not lost on political observers that Geoffrey Pyatt ex-Ambassador to Ukraine was a protégé of Negroponte who promoted him into the State Department. It's no coincidence then, now revelations are made due to Russia’s special operation that neo-nazi death squads have matured and infested the body politic of Ukraine, promoted and supplied by all the US foreign advisers and mercenaries operating there.</div><div>After the stalemate in ex-Yugoslavia, the defeats in Libya and Afghanistan this is NATOs attempt at a new lease of life. Suddenly the deadliest disease mankind has ever known (which justified Lockdowns in over 180 states worldwide) has been overtaken by events in Ukraine and NATO has almost daily press briefings supplemented by the ramblings of a Shaakasville Mk 2, the clown with the green fatigues, Zelensky, the puppet of the Ukronazi oligarchs who got angry they couldn’t get away, with expelling all the Russian speakers from a third of Ukraine’s territory.</div><div><br></div><div>When someone is high on their own supply and NATO is full of it, they start to believe their own propaganda. Russia has been losing the conflict every day since it started, it goes from one defeat to another by gaining ever more territory and liberating areas from the grip of psychopathic death squads, that eventually Russia will be cancelled out of this Alice in Wonderland narrative. The absurdity is so extreme it has surpassed Hitler’s ramblings of the last days in his bunker. In previous periods of history any Prime Minister/President having lost one third of his country’s territory would have automatically resigned. Not Zelensky. The clown show must go on, people must continue to die, infrastructure must continue to be destroyed, civilians continue to be held hostage in schools and hospitals whilst these facilities are used for military purposes.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Eurobarometer polling</b></div><div>The anti-Russian narrative is collapsing and the EU cannot remain unified over sanctions with respect to energy resources as it cannot function. The more astute leaders eg. Hungary’s Orban admit openly they cannot survive without Russian hydrocarbons. The real problems are essentially for both Germany and Italy (France has a quite a high concentration of nuclear power and the UK is supplied in oil and gas by other countries), their industries will shut down and darkness will dawn literally on their economies. One could in theory argue this has been the policies of the Trilateral Commission since its inauguration to shut down most industry and transfer it to China and reduce all locally produced hydrocarbons eg coal, but now the US doesn’t officially want to give more to China.</div><div><br></div><div>Having succeeded in making China Great Again, Russia restored its standing once more in the world by default/unintentionally and being a great European power with hundreds of years of modern history the Americans are trying to maintain unipolarity by attacking Russia via Ukraine and trying to break up their historical bonds. </div><div>The project is doomed to failure like almost every project the Americans launched at the beginning of this century encompassed in the documents of PNAC whose director is the other half of none other than Nuland the current head honcho of the State Department and the lady that made the infamous phrase ‘Fcuk the EU’ in a previous phase of Ukrainian politics but which now is being implemented. The EU states are essentially vassal states of the US and if they have to do some cold turkey ie have no energy for a period of time we may see it happening.</div><div><br></div><div>The problem there is that once more successes are chalked up by the combined forces of Russia and Donetsk-Lugansk Peoples Republics each European country will split alongside those who seek to do business with Russia and those who don’t. The EU is frightened of expelling a single country as that would officially start the breakup of the EU on the continent and continue what essentially was started by Brexit. They will also be unable to contain their populations from the spiralling costs of inflation. Political splits will emerge in almost all existing political parties mirroring the splits in the last century with those who supported Russia and those who didn’t. So its best to come out early with the winners, Russia, than follow false prophets of ‘peace’ ie NATO.</div><div><br></div><div>By Evans Aggelissopoulos</div><div>Former university lecturer from a Greek family of political emigres who specializes in Greek Deep State politics.</div><div><br></div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-39659744234089451772022-04-29T02:48:00.000-07:002022-04-29T15:13:42.126-07:00Nuland-Pyatt’s Greek Boyz Whitewash Azov’s Ukronazis
Curteousy of banned.... (one)worldpress<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>In one of those ironies that history likes to play on politicians those of the self-styled ‘democratic arrow’ (Greek parties that campaigned for the<br></div>imprisonment of retro fascists Golden Dawn) brought Zelensky with a pre-recorded speech into the Greek Parliament and he in turn brought in an Azov combatant of alleged Greek heritage, proving beyond any reasonable doubt as noted in a previous piece that Greece is a lost NATO cause.<br></div><div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMc5TqJkeaANQm8U72_7IqtUWQdhKDnucd3TrlDAgX1v9MGKj3-72cDjJRhmSSDbLpXDGR7Zvmbjv1VkLZa62QuFK1cF0MIToyL4YQFrsYAm1WIHrM6yoUqF5SLc4GFkuJVs0ZbdCH6smCYhZb2-jID0dY94Iy61GcxNmHTHePR5SWnWw63E1IFj9nA/s680/Azovs%20Ukronazis%20in%20the%20Greek%20Parliament%20with%20the%20Greek%20Premier%20Mitsotakis%20looking%20on.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMc5TqJkeaANQm8U72_7IqtUWQdhKDnucd3TrlDAgX1v9MGKj3-72cDjJRhmSSDbLpXDGR7Zvmbjv1VkLZa62QuFK1cF0MIToyL4YQFrsYAm1WIHrM6yoUqF5SLc4GFkuJVs0ZbdCH6smCYhZb2-jID0dY94Iy61GcxNmHTHePR5SWnWw63E1IFj9nA/s320/Azovs%20Ukronazis%20in%20the%20Greek%20Parliament%20with%20the%20Greek%20Premier%20Mitsotakis%20looking%20on.jpg"></a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Azovs Ukronazi speaking to the Greek Parliament with the Greek Premier Mitsotakis looking on</b><br></div><div><br></div><div>When Pyatt stated that the best thing since sliced bread is the Greek Premier Mitsotakis and he should be exported to the US, what came to mind was precisely that, when another US foreign policy asset Saakashvilli of Georgia after threatening Russia during the 2008 Beijing Olympics ended up exiled in the USA and after the Pyatt-Nuland roadshow took over Ukraine moved into Odessa in to become Mayor of the historic town. Obviously Saakashvilli doesn’t have the almost eight decade long relationship like the Mitsotakis clan, but not for not trying hard enough, it’s just that the era of being a US quisling isn’t really beneficial anymore and ends up creating more problems than providing solutions as he is now pleading for US help to get him out of a Georgian gaol. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The traditional concept of the banana republic was the US backyard of Central America ie Honduras and Guatemala, but post-war Greece is the European banana republic par excellence, having agreed to both be the first testing ground for chemical warfare by US napalm during the Greek civil war in the late 1940’s, the chemtrail saga of our era and Big Pharmas covid experimentals in the form of Pfizer and Modena jabs. </div><div><br></div><div> Having bought into Zelenskys leg of the European tour for WW3 the Greek government surpassed all others, promoting the Azov wing of the Ukronazi army just before Mariupol fell to the combined Russian and Donetsk forces and its main military units were defeated. When Zelensky quoted the chant ‘Freedom of Death’ of the 1821 Greek Revolution we were supposed to be impressed as if a NATO bantustan has anything ever to do with freedom not simply death. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Demos in support of Russia</b></div><div>The first signs of splits within the Greek body politic is when a demo led by cars with Russian and Greek flags went through the centre of Athens and various Ukronazi hoodlums tried to disrupt it. Railwayworkers also blockaded exports of munitions to Ukraine signalling disruption in the 24/7 media pro-Ukraine coverage. </div><div><br></div><div>A rally was held in a theatre where Greek origin Ukrainians from Donetsk described the appalling conditions they had to be put under and even the last two journalists still employed by the Greek media in Moscow have tried to be objective and have suffered a barrage of attacks. One cannot officially question any aspect of this conflict for the narrative is absolutely one sided more than any other conflict prior, ex-Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya or Syria. Russophobia or more precisely Bidenitis is now the only show on the road, to the detriment not only of the Greek economy, but the tourist sector which is essentially the last sphere of economic activity.
Russian citizens accounts, those that have bought properties in Greece and aren’t oligarchs have been frozen by Greek banks, one million tourists can’t arrive and at the same time Greece holds tourist junkets with Turkey whilst criticising them for not imposing sanctions on Russia. Where logic ends Greek politics begin.</div><div><br></div><div>A Greek businessman residing in Russia openly calls out Mitsotakis he destroyed us and is destroying the Greek communities in Russia by aligning them with a pro-Kiev stance. The businessman stated he watches three networks, Russian Ukrainian and Greek and he has friends behind all the divides. He refers to the fake news eg. the Bucha incident and states how can the Mayor of Bucha declare he was happy the Russians left at the same time as they allegedly had bodies piled up in the streets. He also said he saw a video of a Russian speaker been brutally murdered in a mafia style killing involving genitals. Finally he added the majority of Greeks in Mariupol consider the Russian forces to be peacemakers and friendly. </div><div><br></div><div>In the meantime newspapers like Protothema gr put on their front cover that Russia has infiltrated Greek media according to FBI reports would be amazing to find them as the number of publicly known pro-Russian serving politicians in the Greek Parliament are zero, the number of publications that are pro-Russian are also near zero. This obviously comes after the shutting down of sputnik gr. </div><div><br></div><div> <b>Russian Support of Greece in the Modern Era </b></div><div>The rise of Russia and the terminal decline of the Ottoman Empire brought Greece into the modern era and Russia did more than most to help bring it about as it was mutually beneficial. In eras gone by studies were made one came to myself by accident and it needs repeating only for those who assume we live in a dystopian year zero of mass media Russian disinformation campaign where the past is erased, the present is made up and the future is manufactured with piles of dead bodies.</div><div><br></div><div> The book I am relying on for information was printed during the height of the Cold War ‘Russian-Greek friendship Τhoughout the Αges’ (George Zoidis 1958) </div><div><br></div><div>I don’t obviously need to go back further in time as this isn’t a history lesson but the following events characterise our relationship with Russia whether we like it or not so a brief historiography under the present climate would not be an abuse of time or space, but an enhancement of our knowledge.</div><div><br></div><div> -Peter the Great opened up Russia to the Greeks and traders arrived set up the supply of shipping by creating outposts where Russian ships could dock and re-supply on the Greek islands of Hydra, Spetses, Psara when they were all under Ottoman rule. In a few years the Greeks were able to gain a foothold for the shipping trade between Russia and the West and the trade of the West and the far East and all this due to Russian protection after the ending of the Russo Turkish War of 1768-74 ending in the The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca . The consequences of the above Treaty led not only to the economic development of Greek speaking areas and the rise of their militancy with an increased consciousness for liberation against the tyranny of the Ottoman Empire (p80)</div><div><br></div><div> -Odessa became the headquarters of the Friendly Society which was set up for the purposes of the Greek Revolution and the shipping merchant class became the backbone of this new movement. </div><div><br></div><div>-The Decembrists in Russia wholeheartedly supported this movement as opposed to the wavering of the Russian Tsar at the time, understanding that a curtailing of Greek shipping by the Ottomans would endanger Russias economic interests, so weapons were provided.
-During the Greek Revolution which started in 1821 and lasted almost a decade to liberate Greek speaking areas from Ottoman rule, the Ottomans brought over the Egyptians and in a combined forces tried to face down Greeks and their allies in the naval battles around the area called Navarino. Over 54 Russian officers and sailor died (p.154) </div><div><br></div><div>-Russia launched an attack on the Ottomans in another Russo-Turkish War 1829 (one of many over the 400 year existence of the Ottoman Empire) under Emperor Tsar Nicholas 1 and it led to the Treaty of Andrianople which encompassed once and for all Greek independence (p. 156) </div><div><br></div><div>- Much later, Karl Marx in an article in the New York Tribune (21 April 1853), wrote: "Who solved finally the Greek case? It was neither the rebellion of Ali Pasha, neither the battle in Navarino, neither the French Army in Peloponnese, neither the conferences and protocols of London; but it was Diebitsch, who invaded through the Balkans to Evros".[6] </div><div><br></div><div>-British and French imperialism didn’t obviously want Russia to gain a too strong foothold in the Balkans and did everything in their power to support the Ottomans and limit the expansion of Greece into Greek speaking territories for in this period Greece was only the peninsula around Athens and the Peloponnese. One British foreign minister in this period Aberdeen stated quitle brazenly that the ‘British government will never allow the island of Crete to join the Kapodistrian (ie Greek) State (p.161) </div><div><br></div><div>-The successful outcome of the Russo Turkish war of 1929 blew up all these British plans. Constant rebellions occurred in the 1830’s-1840s to complete the Greek revolution and add the Greek speaking areas such as Crete, Ipirus and Thessaly.</div><div><br></div><div> -Don Pacifico Affair- when Britain introduced gunboat diplomacy as a weapon of politics on Greece on behalf of a Portuguese jew (ex-consul fired) who was a British subject and had a part of his house trashed in Piraeus though the real target for the uprising was a Rothschild who was in Athens during Easter and the burning of the effigy of Judas Escargot during Orthodox Easter was banned by the government of the time not wanting to offend Rothschild leading to the turmoil. The blockade lasted five months and the British brought across 14 ships and around 8000 sailors with over 700 cannons. Britain demanded a couple of Greek islands for the damage to a house! </div><div><br></div><div>-Russia intervened under their foreign minister Karl Vasilyevich, Count Nesselrode to end the blockade and his pro-Balkan stance eventually led to the Crimean War when the Ottoman Empire and British and French imperialism defeated Russia. Greeks reciprocated organising armed detachments to go fight with the Russians. </div><div><br></div><div> -The Russian Revolution of 1917 found Greece joining Anglo-French imperialism and sending armed detachments to invade Russia bring back the Tsar and get it to continue the war against the Axis powers. The fledgling Greek socialist movement campaigned for Greek withdrawal and its alleged that Trotsky as leader of the Red Army at the time having caught many Greek soldiers let them return to Greece, to spread the word, that the Russian Revolution is against wars.</div><div><br></div><div> -Under the guise of Anglo-French imperialism Greek troops marched into the collapsing Ottoman Empire to allegedly liberate the Greek speaking areas around Smirni and other areas. The ex-secretary of the Greek KKE Kordatos (Communist Party) (which nowadays marches against ‘Russian imperialism’) gave an interview in the 1950’s (as he had left the party two decades prior) that Russian envoys had been sent to get the Greek government of Venizelos to recognise Russia and in return wouldn’t support Kemal enabling the expansion of Greece. It was refused and Greece lost leading to a couple of million Greeks being expelled from Turkey. </div><div><br></div><div>-Russia moved with troops into the Balkans during WW2 aiding in the retreat of the Bulgarian and German occupation of Greece, but Stalin’s agreement with Churchill that Greece should belong to the West by 90’% sealed its fate as the Quislings who dominated Greek politics during WW2 never left and are still in power… </div><div><br></div><div>-Russia under Molotov agrees to add the Dodecanese islands to Greece and they formally become Greek in 1948. Russia also supports the demands for the unity of Greece and Cyprus in this period of history. </div><div><br></div><div>So in a nutshell so far our Russian allies haven’t blockaded us, bombed us, starved us or tried to limit our territorial expansion unlike our western allies Britain, France and the USA. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Who is Nuland? </b></div><div>Nuland is from the bankrupt US generation that set up shop in Moscow in the Yeltsin era and tried to transform Russia into a US vassal state. They brought Russia into NATO as an observer but obviously the aim was just a show.</div><div><br></div><div>Events in Yugoslavia hit Russia hard as it was the pretext for the break up of Russia with Russias agreement. The bottom line is if they couldn’t devour Russia when they had the upper hand they aren’t gonna be able to do much now they are down, in particular after the retreat from Afghanistan. The fact that Nuland straddles all US administrations shows that US foreign policy doesn’t really have party political divisions. Its concerns are linked to the Military Industrial Complex and its desires at any point in time. </div><div><br></div><div>A protégé of Strobe Talbot who made this infamous statement in 1992,
"In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all." (TIME Magazine) yet now they are concerned about the alleged national sovereignty of …Ukraine almost three decades later. </div><div><br></div><div>The Project for a New American Century co-founded by Nuland’s husband is one she firmly believes in ie when unilateralism was all the rage.</div><div><br></div><div>During the Trump era which signified a geostrategic retreat from Empire solidified under Biden, the following statement was made:
"When we withdraw and say it's every nation for itself, you open the door for countries dissatisfied with their territorial position and influence in the international system — or with the system itself." (Nuland)
which signifies that retreating isn’t what we are about as we want a one world order and us on top. </div><div><br></div><div>The Ukrainian conflict is music to the ears of the military industrial complex as it can start to sell its weapons to the whole of Eastern Europe once they shed all the old soviet weapons having handed them over to Ukraine for Putin to blow them up. So from the US standpoint it’s always a win win scenario even when everyone else loses. But losing the petro-dollar as a backbone of a global reserve currency implies the value of the dollar will disproportionally fall alongside its status and if the US military is unable to back it up, US interests will be questioned everywhere around the world alongside their 800 military bases as they are being done in Taiwan, Iraq, North Korea etc. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Crying over spilt milk </b></div><div>One reads reports that the dependency on Russian gas is anything between 30-70% for the Greek economy and now they are complaining about Putin’s insistence on charging for gas in rubles. Once a contract ends you can decide what you want unlike in the Greek energy utility market whereby they have invented retroactive contracts out of the blue and households and small businesses are getting stung by different rates, than the ones they signed up for and being told they were on another contract, thus doubling and trebling the actual rate to pay. </div><div><br></div><div>If Putin was more serious he should have introduced retroactive contracts just like the Greek government has allowed the day after one minor sanction hit the Russia. Let them then find alternative sources of fossil fuels or shut down their economies, either which way in an integrated globalised economy one can’t hit the other without the other affecting you as well. The audacity is so ridiculous that it has no limits.
How dare Russia charge for its products in its national currency! If you don’t like it don’t buy it, like Hungary’s Orban said wear a jumper. Don’t put on any heating, turn no factories electricity on and go back to the stone age with a big smile. Russia doesn’t have to sell energy to countries that are providing military arms to defeat or inflict damage to itself.</div><div><br></div><div>The fact that Nuland straddles all US administrations shows that US foreign policy doesn’t really have party political divisions.
The Anglo-American axis powers that are running Zelensky aren’t dependent on Russia as much (mostly the US with fertilizer imports) so they can run their mouths tirelessly but the EU following them is an absolute economic and social hara-kiri and Nulands phrase of ‘Fcuk the EU’ is being implemented now. <br></div><div><br></div><div>What will millions do if they are forced into unemployment and they also don’t have money for heating and eating? Blame Putin? You gotta be kidding. The EU in order to survive has to break up and make country by country alliances with Russia and come under its nuclear umbrella after having disbanded NATO. Anything short of that will mean a decade of conflict, starvation and mass immiseration. </div><div><br></div><div>Evans Aggelissopoulos<br></div></div></div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-70265955476705999922022-04-07T10:07:00.000-07:002022-04-07T10:14:10.074-07:00The People's Republic of Donetsk sends a message to the GreeksThe People's Republic of Donetsk sends a message to the Greeks<div><br></div><div> Dear citizens of Greece! </div><div><br></div><div>Over the past month, Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelenskiy has spoken in the parliaments of foreign countries almost daily. Greece is no exception. All these online performances are built to the same standards and have one aim: <b>to hide the war crimes that the Ukrainian regime has committed for 8 long years against the inhabitants of Donbass and continues to commit to this day.</b> President Zelensky and his accomplices are diligently manipulating the conscience of the public, as they understand that the moment is approaching. th they should be held accountable for their actions. This moment is inevitable. That is why they do not despise any method to simply prolong their existence in power. They use fabricated news of unimaginable ferocity, blatant lies. Alas, most European authorities have joined this campaign of total disinformation. As an example, one of the outrageous cases is the one with the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", which presented the missile attack on the centre of Donetsk by Ukrainian forces as a bombing of Kiev.</div><div><br></div><div> From the new examples of the fake news in Kiev: the alleged mass execution of civilians by Russian troops in the town of Bucha, in the Kiev region. However, all Russian units left the city on 30 March. Moreover, on 31 March, the Ukrainian mayor of the city, in a video message, confirmed that there were no Russian soldiers in the city, but he did not mention anything about local residents, with their hands tied, dead in the streets. In addition, Ukrainian troops entered the city on April 1, on April 2 they announced that they are conducting purge operations against Russians, and it is only on April 3 that videos of alleged bodies on the streets begin to appear, which raise more questions than give answers. </div><div><br></div><div>What is happening in Mariupol and how it is presented by the Ukrainian regime to the global community, goes beyond the bounds of cynicism. An entire staged performance was created on the territory of the maternity hospital in Mariupol, which was held by Azov's nationalist battalion. Actors, cameramen, photographers – an entire film crew – were invited to participate. But many participants in this action eventually admitted themselves that the nationalists forcibly expelled the women who were giving birth there and occupied the hospital to equip it as a firing position. </div><div><br></div><div>But no word was heard from Ukrainian officials about the fact that this very "Azov" battalion held hundreds of thousands of people hostage – in basements without food, water, communications. Those who come out of Mariupol during the liberation of the city from the forces of democracy and Russia speak of gruesome murders, executions, torture, rapes. There are Greeks among these martyrs – representatives of this ethnicity, traditionally numerous in Mariupol, who also suffered from the atrocities of the nationalist battalions. </div><div><br></div><div> The fact that Nazism, which flourished in Ukraine, developed under the auspices of its authorities, is now carefully swept under the carpet. The West pretends that there is supposedly no Nazism at the state level and never existed. However, there is much irrefutable evidence that the Ukrainian leadership directly encouraged this process. Continuous is the revelation of orders to fighters of the "Right Sector", diaries, comics for children, insignia of officers, flags with Nazi symbols and emblems of the "SS" found in positions liberated by Ukrainian fighters, even signs of fanatical cruelty, such as swastikas engraved with fire on civilian bodies. </div><div><br></div><div> For anyone who has common sense, or at least knowledge of the events of 1939-1945, it is obvious that the Nazi virus spreading in Ukraine is very dangerous not only for that country itself, but for the whole of Europe. It has to end. </div><div><br></div><div> According to all the facts and procedures mentioned, you do not have to accept our words. We are not asking you to accept our word: we have enough evidence of the criminality and inhuman nature of the Ukrainian regime. We urge you to think critically, analyze the information and not blindly accept the special effects distributed by the Ukrainian regime, even if they are made according to all the rules of Hollywood technology.</div><div><br></div><div> We call on the world to finally listen to donbass. There are 7 Representations of the People's Republic in European countries, including Greece. Several citizens who have the same opinion as us, through sources, are telling the truth about the events in Donbass, without propaganda or lies. Moreover, recently we have seen more and more people taking to the streets of Greece to support Donbass against the lies spread by Kiev. We express sincere gratitude to all the citizens in solidarity, our true friends, for this. </div><div><br></div><div> We are not trying to hide anything, we invite representatives of foreign media, journalists, bloggers to the Republic. Come, look with your own eyes at what is happening in Donbass and tell everyone who is ready to listen. This is the only way to stop the scourge of disinformation, falsehood and warmongering Nazism. The main weapon in this fight is the truth, for only the truth can be the way to peace.</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaRflvu4DIM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaRflvu4DIM</a></div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div><br></div><div>Curteousy of banned (one)worldpress </div><div>Greek Premier Mitsotakis: (on sending weapons to the Ukrainian civil war) ‘We are on the Right side of History’</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>The Fall of the Ex-USSR and Yugoslavia. ‘Peace’ through NATO</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>When Milosevic in the early 1990's asked for a Balkan Federation with Greece to forestall what the West was up to the Greek political establishment in unison responded ‘we belong to the West’. During the years of the Troika when the Greek political establishment offered the nation up as willing victims to distract away from the US financial collapse of 2008-9 by blaming the Greek working man for not writing receipts to cover up for the collapse of global capitalism, they had no problem in attacking Greek people Yeltsin style, by slashing wages/pensions across the board by 50% and creating mass unemployment. Mitsotakis was directly involved in this as a Minister of the New Democracy Samaras government alongside the remnants of PASOK.</div><div> </div><div>For political reasons and because it was still quite new Greece didn't directly get involved in the campaign of bombardment of Serbia at the behest of NATO. But they did provide ports and military bases for NATO operations like they are providing now. They also offered the Greek diplomatic service at the behest of the demands of NATO. </div><div> </div><div>The bombing of Yugoslavia in the late 1990's which lasted for 78 days ended early June 1999. A whole decade before those who allegedly were opposed to the war were in government together with those who were rabid proponents of the war. New Democracy and the KKE governed together in July 1989 a few weeks after the victory of Solidarity in Poland. They were subsequently in government for the next nine months with a change of government in between.</div><div> </div><div>Yugoslavia was the dress rehearsal for what was to befall the ex-USSR. Legitimate or illegitimate demands (the real issues were never of any concern to the West) were supported to break up the ex-USSR into small conflicting parts so the West could control them. Hundreds of advisers arrived in Moscow dictating government policy with the aim of extracting raw materials at rock bottom prices after a crash privatization programme of all the profitable state assets and ensuring they were co-owned initially with the West before being taken over lock stock and barrel. It was only the non-payment crisis of the late 1990’s and the threat of storming the Kremlin that engineered Yeltsin’s departure overnight.</div><div> </div><div>Greece was involved in the NATO onslaught in Yugoslavia providing military facilities and getting involved in all the surrender negotiations imposed on Serbian factions both in Bosnia and over Kosovo. Milosevic to his credit resurrected the idea of a Balkan Federation to block the attempts at EuroAmerican imperialism to play off one country against the other and within the countries. At the time Mitsotakis senior roundly put him down saying we belong to the West. Maps after maps were circulating about the future fate of ex-Yugoslavia and breaking it apart was the clear and open intention of the West. The propaganda regarding the ‘dictator’ ‘the new Hitler’, ‘the nationalist Milosevic’ were run of the mill stories circulated to justify intervention, dissolution and divide and rule on the carcass of the Yugoslav Federation.</div><div> </div><div>Mitsotakis at each phase of the Yugoslav drama was involved in offering ‘peace’ treaties which were NATO inspired disarmament ones, against the Bosnian Serbs and eventually against Serbia and Milosevic himself. He said and did nothing when they imprisoned Milosevic and murdered him.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Mitsotakis family and the British connection.</div><div> </div><div>Greek Premier Mitsotakis is personally related to Premier Venizelos the Cretan politician that dominated Greek politics in the tumultuous years of the early part of the 20th century. Venizelos had connections with Britain and France and the Royals in Greece that had connections with Germany. This political division proved deadly during WW1 as Greece was bombed into submission to accept joining the Allied Power which at the time included Russia.</div><div> </div><div>At the onset of WW2, Mussolini thought Greece an easy catch and invaded without consulting Hitler only to be pushed back into Albania and suffer a humiliating defeat. The forces now allied with Hitler in Greece did everything in their power to overturn this victory and removed the army generals from their posts allowing Hitlers Germany to march in unopposed and take over.</div><div> </div><div>During WW2, under occupation, the Greek nation faced with economic genocide via starvation was obliged to react. Rightist and leftist forces buried the political divide and started guerilla actions to the occupying forces. It has to be noted that both Hitler and Stalin had praise for the Greeks during WW2.</div><div><br></div><div>"Among all the enemies who stand against us, the Greek soldier fought with the most courage" (Hitler)</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>"I am sorry because I am getting old and I shall not live long to thank the Greek People, whose resistance decided WW II." (Joseph Stalin)</div><div> </div><div>In this period Britain got involved by sending emissaries with money to help/influence the partisans. It is said that during this period Mitsotakis (now deceased) senior was bought for by British intelligence.</div><div> </div><div>The influence and rise of the Greek Communist Party- KKE within the broadbased resistance and in particular its guerilla leader Velouhiotis obviously disturbed the British and they embarked on a unique experiment. Supporting the Greek quisling politicians of the 3rd Reich against the Greek population. As is noted by Ed Vulliamy in the Guardian</div><div> </div><div> “The 1944 December uprising and '46-'49 Civil War period infuses the present” says the leading historian of these events, Andre Gerolymatos, “because there has never been a reconciliation. In France or Italy, if you fought the Nazis, you were respected in society after the war, regardless of ideology; they were heroes. In Greece, you found yourself fighting – or imprisoned and tortured by - the people who had collaborated with the Nazis, on British orders. There has never been a reckoning with that crime, and much of what is happening in Greece now is the result of not coming to terms with the past. Myth and polemic have too long dominated historical discourse”.</div><div> </div><div>If one goes back into history its obviously what happened in the Yalta Agreements where Greece was handed 90/10% to the West and the Russian supporters in Greece around the resistance movement EAM-ELAS supported this decision by handing over their weapons and demobilising. This didn't stop the sinister foreign backers of the Greek government of Papandreou despite the participation of the Greek Left (KKE) in a government of National Unity (1944). So being a EuroAmerican puppet for every post war Greek PM goes with the territory.</div><div> </div><div>Ukraine: Back to the Future for Greek Politics</div><div> </div><div>Although much hue and cry was made regarding the rise of the fascistic Golden Dawn in the last decade and Greece pretended they were fighting Nazis once more on home turf, ie the political descendants of the quisling WW2 administrations suddenly became anti-nazi, the proof of the matter is that it was all a show, a charade to unite the political establishment behind the IMF and Brussels.</div><div> </div><div>The fact that the Greek government openly participates and sends weapons to the Ukrainian civil war to prop up the Azov, Svoboda and general Banderite gangsters many of which owe their political revival from the importation of the current relatives of the Banderites the USA exported to the West much like any other serious Nazis at the end of WW2. Greece owes its political allegiance to the quislings of the 3rd Reich. It senses that if they are defeated in the Ukraine it will be a defeat for them as well not only personally but financially. The Americans for other reasons not really of this article have already attacked wholeheartedly the present Greek government in a Pulitzer prize winning piece with regards to alleged drug dealing by the ship owner class that runs Greece behind the scenes.</div><div> </div><div>It was Greek shipping that developed the transportation of liquefied gas on container ships and that is what allows eg. the UK an independence from the reliance on Russian gas. But the same rules do not apply for continental Europe. Without direct gas imports to cover the shortfall in nationally produced energy eg. coal, Europe freezes and there is no other reliable source anywhere else in the world now nuclear power has essentially been removed in Japan and Germany as an alternative source of energy. The Greek shipping class has a direct interest in increasing the shipping of liquefied gas. Worldwide orders since 2018 are set at a +10% increase.</div><div> </div><div>Why Zacharova is right.</div><div> </div><div>“Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.”</div><div> </div><div>Bertold Brecht </div><div> </div><div>You cannot claim to be part of the ‘liberal western democratic order’ and support outright genocidal policies against the Russian nation that allowed you to have those democratic freedoms in the first place with the 27million dead against Nazism.</div><div> </div><div>On two counts Zacharova notes the following:</div><div> </div><div>“We noted the unprecedented campaign launched in Greece to defame Russia’s policy. Senior officials in Athens allow themselves to make crude accusations against our country and its leadership, they are literally competing with like-minded people in it. They hypocritically speak of an “unprovoked attack” against Ukraine, for the first time since World War II, a “mass invasion” and so on.</div><div> </div><div>It should be recalled that with the efforts, first of all, of the US and its satellites, wars and conflicts have shaken the world for all the last decades – the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the operations in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan. No one has taken responsibility for the enormous sacrifices and sufferings of the peoples of these countries</div><div> </div><div>In the name of collective Western plans – to do harm to Russia at all costs – common sense has been sacrificed. Bilateral ties are being deliberately damaged, and Russian-Greek relations, unfortunately, are no exception. Athens actively supports the EU sanctions regime. They accuse us of so-called “energy blackmail,” proclaiming the goal of rapid independence from Russian gas, whose uninterrupted supplies have been a stabilizing factor for the national energy sector for decades. Under the collective direction of Brussels, the Greek sky closed for the Russian airlines. The order was given to suspend all cooperation in the field of culture, to terminate the Common Tribute Years. There are calls for a complete cessation of any cooperation. Essentially, for the sake of vague and dubious goals, the Greek leadership is ready to nullify our own common historical heritage, which only yesterday it called its natural advantage in cooperating with Russia.”</div><div>https://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2022/03/06/russia-greece-zakharova-foreign-ministry-attack/</div><div> </div><div>Also the following gem:</div><div> “Ukrainian biological labarotaroes sponsored by the US Ministry of Defence in sum of millions of dollars to develop biological weapons.</div><div>In Ukraine, these biological labarotaroes were under the supervision of the Ministry of Health. </div><div>In the summer of 2016, the demadministration of Barrack Obama sent Ulyana Suprun to Ukraine, an American citizen who became the Minister of Health of Ukraine.</div><div>Father Ulyana Suprun – George Harry Yurkiv, Vice President of North American Controls Inc has resigned. The company specialises in the development of control systems for the defense ministry: from development to delivery of products.</div><div>Grandfather Ulyana Suprun – Ivan Yurkiv was a commander in the army of independent Ukraine in 1919. It is reported that at the beginning of the 2nd World War, he consisted of Bander forces and participated in battles and diversion operations against Soviet troops in the Carpathians.</div><div>Ulyana Suprun’s husband -Marco Suprun – a propagandist and producer from Canada. Ukraine is known for its connections with ultra-right activists.</div><div>Just one example of how demilitarisation and denazification works.</div><div>Zacharovas FB page.</div><div> </div><div>The problem in trying to argue with the converted and in particular those who are in awe of death squads, outright Nazism and in love with outright forms of degenerate behaviour is that words lose their meaning and bricks usually come handy. I am not obviously arguing that Zacharova should lob bricks at the Greek Embassy in Moscow, but that is indirectly occurring by the nazi wing of Ukrainian politics as we have been informed in the last day or two that the Greek consul in Mariupol is trapped inside the consulate and held hostage by Azov battalions, who if they commit yet another atrocity will blame it on …Putin. This might actually be payback for the attempted provocation by a Greek convoy that left Mariupol to show to Greeks at home how evil Russians are as the envoy didn’t join them. He probably new his number was up and stayed in Mariupol.</div><div> </div><div>Since US Ambassador to Greece Pyatt a protégé of Negroponte (who became infamous for running death squads from Central America, through to Yugoslavia then Iraq and Libya), has been ambassador to Greece, the Greek government has adopted an ever more blatant anti-Russian stance.</div><div> </div><div> From the blockage of tourist visas and expulsion of Russian Embassy staff (by radical left Syriza) to the current sanctions against Russia by the current Greek government which will impact the Greek economy more than the other way round. Greece has already lost agricultural exports to Russia, then tourists and now will lose gas. The only consolation in this whole sordid affair is that Greeks do not show enthusiasm for this anti-Russian stance. But if we don’t actively campaign and show support on the streets for the Russian special military operation and denazification campaign in Ukraine there will be no hope for us, we will be erased from history.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div><br></div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-45187502592958914502022-03-03T10:38:00.001-08:002022-03-03T10:38:42.153-08:00Anti-Russian Greek Provocations in the Ukraine?<div>Anti-Russian Greek Provocations in the Ukraine?</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dendias visited Mariupol and met the leaders of the Greek community which allegedly number (total) +100k to allegedly show solidarity with the citizens there but not the Greeks in Donetsk (over +70k) who have been shelled continuously for the last eight years from the Azov battalion whose main base is in Mariupol. In other words he was either there to organise a provocation or set the framework for one to occur.</div><div><br></div><div>It’s a long time since the ‘radical Greek left’ Syriza complained to the then Greek foreign minister Venizelos in 2014 about the neo nazi provocations against the Greeks in Donetsk. Now its all Putin, who by the way declared the autonomous republics in Donetsk to finally be under the military umbrella of Russia, thus ensuring the majority of Greeks survival, but hey erasing Greeks has been the cornerstone of EU policy first via the decade long Memorandums of Economic Genocide (EU-ECB-IMF) and then two years of Convid Lockdowns. </div><div><br></div><div>The Greek government did not provide evacuation of Greeks who wanted to leave Ukraine instead they provided a military plane with weapons to continue the war against Donetsk and the Greeks that reside there whilst at the same time flying to Pakistan and Bangladesh and signing memorandums of understanding to ship over +150k locals for the much needed Greek labour market which already has unofficially 30% unemployment.</div><div><br></div><div>Coming Greek Anti-Russian Convoy Provocation?</div><div><br></div><div>We read and heard about the convoy of the Greeks who are leaving Mariupol. This convoy, organized by the Greek consul, consists of 20 cars and carries 82 Greeks who will cross all over Ukraine to reach the eastern border where a diplomatic delegation will be waiting for them.</div><div><br></div><div>The whole event sounds and is extremely fishy.</div><div><br></div><div>a) When you leave a war-torn country, you head to the nearest border, not the most remote ones. Unless to get to the nearest ones, you have to go through battle areas. But the opposite is happening here. Already, according to his article in. Gr, 140,000 inhabitants of Mariupol have fled to Russia, passing through areas that have already been liberated and under the protection of the Russian army, which is objectively the strongest on the ground. Apparently to show that only the west offers security, the consul decided to send them from the most dangerous road. It is no wonder that he did not participate in the convoy himself.</div><div><br></div><div>b) Mariupol is the base of the ‘Azov battalion’, consisting of Ukrainians and other neo-Nazis and mercenaries of US created Blackwater. Together with like-minded people, they are accused by the Russians, quite rightly, of being responsible for the attacks on inhabited areas that are then attributed to the Russian army. With the Russians preparing to occupy the city, it is natural that many of this scum who could have left for the west - precisely in the area from which passes the convoy.</div><div><br></div><div>c) Marioupoli is historically a Greek city. It seems that it still has a large percentage of Greek inhabitants (Wikipedia, i.e. the CIA, informs us: "The majority of them are concentrated around the city of Mariupol. According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, 91,548 Greeks live in Ukraine). Of these, the consulate managed to gather 82 people (along with the journalists from Greece). Less than one in a thousand that is. Why didn't they want more to be saved from the ‘Russian danger’? These individuals are now marked with crosses on their forehead. Greek government have no issue in sending Greeks to their deaths at the behest of the US-EU (troika economic genocide, fire in Mati, Evia, floods etc.)</div><div><br></div><div>d) As if the above are not enough, the in itself Greece - that is, the American embassy - warns us that the convoy will be hit by Russia who want to discredit the Azov battalion (apparently it has such an honourable reputation, no need of defamation). A more open provocation could not be stated beforehand.</div><div><br></div><div>e) Normally, in the midst of the loss of this convoy, the convoy should be running to leave as quickly as possible (to travel at night in the bombings, one might say? Yes, I answer, being in constant communication with the two warring sides in order to make its mark so as not to be targeted). Instead, arriving in Zaporizia (which anyway seems to be on the front of the war, since the Russians have occupied the suburb of Energodar but not the city itself), the organizers of the convoy judged (they had probably predetermined it) that the wisest thing to do was to take a good nap in order to start tomorrow fresh. Is this so that they can be hit in the light of day so that there is a wealth of visual material?</div><div><br></div><div>Hopefully I will be proven wrong. However, when provocations are made, they are usually done by the person who needs them. The one who needs them is not the one who wins on the battlefields. As for the fact that some people want to discredit the most infamous criminal gang in the region, this is now a global joke, though one does not know where it originated from Athens-Greece or Virginia-USA</div><div><br></div><div>Again, hopefully I am very suspicious and that all the strange coincidences are the result of disorganization and stupidity. If, however, the consul has remained in Mariupol, which is probably going to be taken over within the next few days, he will probably be called upon to give explanations...</div><div><br></div><div>Back to the future? Bailing out modern neo-nazis?</div><div><br></div><div>When Ukraine banned minority languages including Russian this set the state for Yugoslav style progroms when Croatia and Slovenia attacked all Serbs in the midst of their territories. Greeks wouldn’t even stand a chance. Its an irony not lost on people that the Greek Left have been champions of all minorities in Greece but hate all Greek minorities abroad (Albania, Cyprus, past periods of history in Turkey, Egypt etc.)</div><div>The Greek Left composed of Syriza and KKE held a joint march to the Russian Embassy to condemn the Russian ‘invasion’ thus siding openly with NATO. Its an irony of history that whilst Putin has announced openly the de-nazification of Ukraine ie the Zelensky regime which works unnoficially with the Azov battalion (who honour the Waffen SS and Stephen Bandera the Nazi collaborator whose family were Greek catholics, during WW2) that Greece was never de-nazified. Instead the present government are direct political and familial descendants of those that ruled with Hitlers occupation in Greece.</div><div><br></div><div>It doesn’t though end there. After Churchill achieved the disarmament of the anti-fascist Greek military coalition of EAM-ELAS (1944) at the Varkiza Agreements he launched a bitter civil war to destroy militarily all those who they thought would attempt a de-nazification of Greece. After the Missouri speech British forces handed over the helm of anti-communism to the US forces who via the Truman doctrine inaugurated the de-communistization of Greece and Turkey.</div><div>The general in charge of the UK-US forces in the Greek civil war was a man named Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos the uncle of the current 2nd in command of Syriza, Eucleid Tsakalotos. An umbilical cord ties the Greek Left with the Anglo-American Empire and the evidence of that is becoming quite clear. The problems will emerge of course if the Russian incursion into Ukraine is as successful as the previous ones in Chechnya and Georgia. </div><div><br></div><div>The effect of this new cold war and the banning of all trade with Russia will have dire economic effects on Greece which relies on Russian gas and Russian tourism. Greek people have more to lose in a break with Russia than to gain. The only positive in the whole appalling situation is that Russias incursion into Ukraine has destroyed the 24/7 coverage of Covid which has been going on for a full two years with no let up.</div><div><br></div><div>NATO after its hasty retreat from Afghanistan will be proven to be what it was all along, a paper tiger and the USA true to its history of only attacking countries which are inferior to it: economically, militarily and non-nuclear powers. </div><div><br></div><div>The problem the Greek politicians will have, is that de-nazification (not of the Soros sponsored antifa) will become fashionable once more and their history is tainted not only with volumes of Greek blood, but with serious war crimes that they never accounted for due to the role of the Big Powers after the end of WW2. History though has a nasty way of taking its revenge.</div><div><br></div><div>Reprinted curteousy of banned </div><div>(One) 1worldpress....</div><div>Evans Agelissopoulos</div><div><br></div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-5629129392545707992022-02-08T14:45:00.001-08:002022-02-08T14:48:52.753-08:00Greece's Snowjob: Europe's first climate lockdown?<div>Greece’s snowjob: Europe’s first climate lockdown?</div><div>Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Instead, they distributed food, including expired pre-packaged croissants, to trapped drivers.</div><div><br></div><div>Most of these motorists were stranded on major Athens thoroughfares such as Mesogeion, Kifisias, and Katehaki avenues, and on the Attiki Odos beltway which circles Athens and leads to the city’s international airport. Some drivers, as well as stranded airport employees and arriving passengers, ended up camping out in the airport, with little access to food.</div><div><br></div><div>Lights flickered throughout the city during the storm, while some Athens suburbs went without electricity for as long as five days.</div><div><br></div><div>While most of the city’s roads were not cleared, with snow quickly turning to rock-solid ice, the mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakogiannis, arranged for the street in front of his mother’s central Athens home to be cleared of snow. Bakogiannis is the son of Dora Bakogianni, ex-foreign minister and sister of prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis–son of former prime minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis.</div><div><br></div><div>Tragi-comic scenes ensued. At a central Athens intersection, an ambulance got stuck in the snow and had to be pushed by passers-by. And in the Zografou district, a man injured after slipping in the snow needed 17 hours to reach the hospital due to impassable streets–and then was unable to return home.</div><div><br></div><div>Kyriakos Mitsotakis offered a televised apology, but how sincere was it? There were no resignations from the national or regional government or the Citizen Protection Service, despite heavy criticism from meteorologists, opposition parties, citizens, and even the media, typically deferential to the government and the ruling New Democracy (ND) party.</div><div><br></div><div>Instead, finger-pointing ensued. Mitsotakis blamed Attiki Odos management for not shutting the thoroughfare, yet it was revealed that traffic police had ordered it shut at 14:00 on the first day of snowfall. It’s unclear why these orders were not enforced. </div><div><br></div><div>Interior Minister Adonis Georgiadis then stated that it is the central government’s decision whether or not to close any roadway, but Giorgos Karagiannis, deputy infrastructure and transport minister, said that the decision to shut city roads rested with the regional government. </div><div><br></div><div>Just one day prior to the storm, regional governor Giorgos Patoulis publicly presented purportedly “gargantuan” pickup trucks equipped with ordinary snow plows, said to have cost the regional authorities €500,000. These trucks were nowhere to be seen during or after the storm. They were reportedly obtained at the last minute via no-bid contracts, as the formal tender for the region’s snow removal contract is postponed until April.</div><div><br></div><div>Likewise, the region has no active contract for salting the streets, and it is not to be tendered until May.</div><div><br></div><div>What snow removal vehicles did make it to the streets reportedly ran out of fuel.</div><div><br></div><div>Two representatives of the prime minister were present at the meeting where the snow removal action plan was finalized, yet the civil protection authorities for northern Athens, the region at highest risk, did not meet until the morning of the day of the storm, sans representatives of Attiki Odos.</div><div><br></div><div>The government also blamed meteorologists for “inaccurate” predictions, but the record demonstrated that the National Observatory correctly predicted the storm. Despite foreknowledge of the upcoming storm, a national holiday was not declared for the first day of the storm nor were any advisories issued to drivers.</div><div><br></div><div>Drivers themselves were also blamed. Although Attiki Odos offered individuals who were stranded €2,000 in compensation, ND MP Katerina Papakosta and former ND finance minister Stefanos Manos, who previously participated in annual Bilderberg meetings, publicly suggested that the same motorists should be fined instead.</div><div>Significantly, Attiki Odos is a private roadway, primarily owned by Greek multinational construction firms Ellaktor (65.75%) and AVAX (34.1%). Ellaktor is connected to Greek oligarch George Bobolas, but a Dutch firm, Reggeborgh, directly owns 29.85% of Ellaktor’s shares and indirectly owns an additional 9.8% through its collaboration with Atlas NV.</div><div>Some have suggested Attiki Odos sabotaged the government in a retaliatory move for not receiving €87 million in claimed damages from the government, alleging lost revenues due to the lockdowns. Nevertheless, between 2019-2021, Attiki Odos revenues exceeded €305 million, while profits in the first nine months of 2001 totaled €53 million.</div><div><br></div><div>Notably, foreign minister Nikos Dendias, not known as a Mitsotakis ally, is Attiki Odos’ legal representative. </div><div><br></div><div>Mitsotakis also laid blame on climate change, stating “[i]t is equally true, however, that the state mechanism is not yet at the point of readiness that phenomena of such great intensity require.”</div><div>But does the climate change narrative hold water? A 2008 storm dumped twice the amount of snow on Athens, without any major disruptions. A February 2021 snowstorm also did not paralyze Athens to this extent.</div><div><br></div><div>The Guardian, despite “criticizing” Mitsotakis, falsely claimed that Athens has only twice experienced snow of this magnitude since 1968. This ignores major snowstorms in 1987, 1991-1992, 2002, and 2004. The winter of 1991-1992 saw Athens receive 19 snowfalls. None of these snowstorms resulted in mass paralysis in Athens.</div><div>The paralysis was such that a general holiday was declared for January 25-26, during which the entire public sector and most businesses shut, while schools remained closed for the entire week. For some time, buses, trolleys, and trams ceased operating, as did courier and food delivery services.</div><div><br></div><div>This begs the question: was the poor response intentional, to help perpetuate specific narratives regarding the severity of the storm? More to the point, could Greece have actually experienced Europe’s first climate lockdown?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-81805718244094894072022-01-30T12:54:00.001-08:002022-01-31T00:29:37.202-08:00Greece: a ‘testing ground’ for globalist control policies long before COVID<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-47c121d0-7fff-776b-c8bc-a7309646dbb4"><br></p><p dir="ltr">Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And Greece was the <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/greece-covid-vaccine-mandate-senior-citizens/">first country</a> to propose ‘vaccine passports’ to the EU. Greece’s digital COVID response was <a href="https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/01/07/the-lockdown-has-helped-greece-to-digitise">praised</a> by The Economist.</p><br><p dir="ltr">Far from a contradiction, this is part of a longstanding trend in Greece. Due to the country’s <a href="http://imfoccupationgreece.blogspot.com/2018/07/burning-greeks-alive-manufactured-fires.html">geopolitical importance</a> and wealth of resources, it has long lacked full sovereignty. As such, Greece has long been an ‘early adopter’ of policies which one may broadly associate with what we call ‘globalism’.</p><br><p dir="ltr">Along with bureaucracy, Greece is known for shipping–and shipping magnates. As far back as 1933, the Bank of Greece <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/eurozone-greece-shipping/">found</a> that most shipping revenues never entered the Greek economy. In 1953, the Greek government issued tax breaks for shipowners, which have remained, while shipowners <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/eurozone-greece-shipping/">registered</a> their fleets in tax havens and proceeded to <a href="http://imfoccupationgreece.blogspot.com/2015/12/neo-liberal-globalisation-and-mass.html?m=1%20%20https://athenspe.dfa.gov.ph/newsroom/community-news/267-ambassador-montealegre-meets-the-president-of-the-union-of-greek-shipowners">hire sailors</a> from developing countries such as the Philippines, where they also set up training programs.</p><br><p dir="ltr">From early on, magnates such as Aristotle Onassis were jet-setting globalist icons–and <a href="https://www.euromoney.com/article/b1fpt94q2k4c10/the-bankers-that-define-the-decades-john-reed-citibank">relied upon</a> the global financial system for their capital. Onassis also <a href="https://www.ieidiseis.gr/politiki/115559/oi-protes-rogmes-sti-xoynta-o-rolos-tou-onasi-ti-grafei-o-aleksis-papaxelas">maintained</a> close ties with the military junta which ruled Greece from 1967-1974; the same regime that <a href="http://imfoccupationgreece.blogspot.com/2015/12/neo-liberal-globalisation-and-mass.html?m=1">pioneered</a> the first wave of imported cheap labor to Greece, <a href="https://www.protothema.gr/stories/article/1137730/pakistanoi-stin-ellada-apo-ta-hronia-tis-houdas-mehri-simera/">from</a> Pakistan and other downtrodden countries, undercutting local labor, which fueled a new migration wave in the late 60s to mid 70s.</p><br><p dir="ltr">And lest one believe that a massive amount of migrants only reached Aegean islands such as Lesvos in 2015, when the international media ‘discovered’ the story, the islands–and Greece–have <a href="http://imfoccupationgreece.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-left-knewparliamentary-committee-on.html?m=1">received</a> migration waves since <a href="http://imfoccupationgreece.blogspot.com/2015/12/illegal-immigration-and-nwo-greece-1999.html?m=1">prior</a> to the “War on Terror,” as this April 2001 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010331031038/http://www.aegeantimes.gr/index.asp">poll</a> from the Lesvos newspaper Aegean Times indicates.</p><br><p dir="ltr">At the same time, in the 50s and 60s, the Greek government’s official policy to “reduce unemployment” was not to create jobs and develop industry, but to export Greeks to countries like <a href="https://www.dw.com/el/60-%CF%87%CF%81%CF%8C%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%B1-%CE%B1%CF%80%CF%8C-%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%82-%CF%80%CF%81%CF%8E%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%82-%CE%AD%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B7%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%82-%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%AC%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81/a-52949594">Germany</a>, via the <a href="https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057307">Gastarbeiter</a> agreement, to help them industrialize instead, while Greece ‘developed’ from remittances sent back by migrant Greeks. </p><br><p dir="ltr">Ah yes, the ‘economic crisis’. How did Greece get there? One starting point is in 1981, when Greece joined the then-European Community–and ‘socialist’ Andreas Papandreou, son of a former prime minister, came to power. Papandreou ran on a platform of leaving NATO and the EC and expelling U.S. military bases, but proceeded to <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/james-petras-syriza-s-lying-and-deception-must-stop/">renege</a> on those promises. In the meantime, the beautiful Greek language was <a href="https://www.mixanitouxronou.gr/33-chronia-apo-tin-katargisi-tou-politonikou-i-machi-tou-mitsotaki-sti-vouli-gia-na-min-perasi-i-katargisi-tis-dasias-ke-tis-perispomenis-choris-sosti-enimerosi/">neutered</a>, while crass Western culture was delivered straight to households’ TV screens by the state broadcaster, which <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhLnpj3y9cU&ab_channel=MikeTRetro">began rebroadcasting</a> foreign private broadcasters while independent Greek broadcasting was still banned.</p><br><p dir="ltr">His successor, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, father of the current prime minister, began a <a href="https://www.avgi.gr/oikonomia/397044_idiotikopoiiseis-apo-tin-aget-sti-dei">privatization wave</a> in the 90s presented in Greece then and now as “foreign investment.” Later in the 90s, the technocratic prime minister Kostas Simitis sold the national telecommunication company and the management stake of the new Athens airport to German firms, while bringing Greece into the Eurozone in 2002 amid a spending spree for the 2004 Olympic Games, whose infrastructure was <a href="https://www.npr.org/2011/01/04/132643887/Greece-Turns-Against-Migrants-As-Economy-Collapses">largely built</a> by illegal migrant labor. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/goldmans-greek-gambit/">assisted</a> in the performance of ‘Greek accounting’.</p><br><p dir="ltr">As a prelude to the economic crisis, and long before ‘social justice’ protests went mainstream, December 2008 riots following the <a href="https://theduran.com/death-of-alexis-grigoropoulos-cia-destabilization-russian-gas-pipelines/">Grigoropoulos shooting incident</a> wrecked central Athens. In shades of Big Tech surveillance, the riots led to the government requiring SIM cards to be registered.</p><br><p dir="ltr">The ‘economic crisis’ itself was not a Greek first. The IMF previously had imposed “structural adjustment programs” in Africa, Latin America, and elsewhere. However, for the first time, the ‘chickens came home to roost’ within the EU, while the bloc’s first technocratic government, that of non-elected central banker Lucas Papademos, was installed in 2011.</p><br><p dir="ltr">SYRIZA later helped usher in the <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/before-the-brexit-greek-voters-said-no-to-austerity-measures-got-more-austerity-measures/218122/">first elements of a cashless society</a> in 2015, imposing <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/before-the-brexit-greek-voters-said-no-to-austerity-measures-got-more-austerity-measures/218122/">capital controls</a> via ATM withdrawal limits, which de facto forced individuals to conduct transactions via debit card. Cash transactions over a certain amount were banned, while mandatory <a href="https://www.iefimerida.gr/oikonomia/qr-codes-diasyndesi-tameiakon-laptop-opla-tis-aade">QR codes for all cash register receipts</a>, and <a href="https://www.ethnos.gr/Economy/article/171170/aadetameiakesmhxanesantistrofhmetrhshgiadiasyndeshmetaxis">connection of all cash registers</a> to the tax authorities, were introduced.</p><br><p dir="ltr">The crisis also delivered a de facto carbon tax, with heating oil so heavily taxed that few could–or can–afford it. This ‘green’ policy fuels (pun intended) a <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/3/19/1195308/-A-Tale-of-Two-European-Unions">noxious smog</a> over Greek cities each winter, from the use of haphazard fireplaces.</p><br><p dir="ltr">Greece has indeed been at the forefront of the climate crisis since the 90s. Massive ‘wildfires’ would burn large swaths of land and would then be <a href="https://www.europereloaded.com/who-is-burning-greece-hybrid-wars-putin-the-south-stream-gas-pipeline-and-the-u-s/">blamed</a> on unscrupulous property developers (even though affected areas often were inaccessible), lit cigarettes, and grandmothers accidentally setting cooking oil ablaze in outdoor stoves. In 2007, two such fires burned large swaths of Attica and the Peloponnese. </p><br><p dir="ltr">A <a href="http://www.documentonews.gr/article/mia-synwmosia-sthn-athhna-h-rwsikh-thleorash-gia-to-sxedio-dolofonias-karamanlh-video">documentary</a> aired by Russia 24 referenced the “Pythia” plan for the destabilization of Greece and then-prime minister Konstantinos Karamanlis, via the 2007 fires, the 2008 riots, the <a href="https://kedisa.gr/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Research_no_30_Papageorgiou.pdf">Vodafone wiretapping scandal</a>, and the <a href="http://hellenicinsider.com/death-of-alexis-grigoropoulos-cia-destabilization-russian-gas-pipelines/">attempted suicide</a> of a close adviser following a sex scandal, put into place over <a href="https://theduran.com/death-of-alexis-grigoropoulos-cia-destabilization-russian-gas-pipelines/">Karamanlis’ plans</a> to bring the South Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Greece.</p><br><p dir="ltr">Destructive fires in <a href="http://imfoccupationgreece.blogspot.com/2018/07/burning-greeks-alive-manufactured-fires.html">2018</a> and in summer 2021 were increasingly blamed on climate change, which however was used as the impetus to bring purportedly ‘green’ policies to Greece. Lignite mines in northern Greece–the country’s main source of energy–are being <a href="https://www.ethnos.gr/Economy/article/68543/komisionmprabogiaapolignitopoihshkaiidiotikopoihshdeddhe">privatized</a>, completing efforts launched in the 1950s by Nazi collaborators, as revealed by <a href="https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/MERTEN%2C%20MAX_0048.pdf">declassified CIA documents</a>.</p><br><p dir="ltr">Of course, long before 9/11 and the “War of Terror,” Greece (and Italy) were at the forefront of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greek-Deep-State-Paramilitary-Terrorism-ebook/dp/B07DPRYR8J">CIA-infiltrated ‘terror’ groups</a> used as a bogeyman; namely, <a href="http://imfoccupationgreece.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-war-on-terror-in-greece.html">Greece’s November 17</a> and Italy’s Red Bridgades (think <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/11/14/cia-organized-secret-army-in-western-europe/e0305101-97b9-4494-bc18-d89f42497d85/">Operation Gladio</a>).</p><br><p dir="ltr">Meanwhile, in a foreshadowing of COVID, the Greek government <a href="https://www.greekaffair.news/giamareloy-kontozamanis-tsiodras-me-tin-gripi-i1n1-to-2009-oi-idioi-kai-simera-tychaio-tote-eichan-paraggeilei-emvolia-gia-dyomisi-ellades/">purchased</a>, in 2009, 24 million doses of the Tamiflu vaccine (for a country of 11 million), presented by Greek state virologist Sotiris Tsiodras, who in 2020 became the public face of Greece’s COVID response and harsh lockdowns.</p><p dir="ltr">January 2022</p>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-17542335217966207772022-01-25T15:38:00.001-08:002022-01-31T00:28:47.733-08:00The War on Terror in Greece<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bushs War on Terrorism: Greece & N17</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Vngelis Translator</div><div><br></div><div>8/2/02</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Fake Terrorism: The Path Towards a US Occupation & Dictatorship</div><div><br></div><div>The trotskyists but also many other people with a basic political criterion, have negated from the beginning all the talk by the authorities regarding 'terrorism';. They have condemned it as a conspiracy of the secret services (of the CIA and its local subjects) which serves the plans of the USA for dictatorship and world domination.</div><div><br></div><div>The false nature of terrorism was in all cases clear by the glaring contradictions, the logical contradictions which always remain unanswered and the glaring lies the authorities serve in the</div><div>27year terrorist serial. The official version provides endless examples which make clear the criminal hands which control the scene.</div><div><br></div><div>Concerning the lies many are those who doubted the badly fabricated lies of the authorities. For this reason alone the terrorist conspiracy would have failed in its first stages if the parties of the</div><div>Left hadn't remained silent and they didn't support the completely corrupt mass media.</div><div><br></div><div>The worst thing is that the architects of the conspiracy have found an ally in the unbelievable stupidity of many middle class elements whoc</div><div>use the name of the Left. We see them permanently on the tv channels, in the discussion panels and the pages of the press appearing as</div><div>official witnesses of people who know from the</div><div>inside that there truly exists Left terrorism and</div><div>consequently that the secret services say the truth.</div><div><br></div><div>Many times the stance of these people provokes the justified suspicions. It is also true that amongst such leftists there is room for the paid agent. They are nothing more than people</div><div>full of bourgeois preconceptions. Despite their leftwing appearance they are full of fear and contempt for the popular masses and they</div><div>believe that the saviour of the plebians will not be a task undertaken by themselves, but by a few selected souls. They obviously belong in this category. The existence of some terrorists</div><div>who fight the power is an illusion to which they find moral existence and confirmation of their soul and personal worth. They could never accept the deconstruction of the right. The police know fully that such elements exist only in the realms of fantasy. But it finds amongst them those useful idiots who are necessary so as to build its</div><div>conspiracies and cover its lies.</div><div><br></div><div>These useful idiots are utilised by the authorities systematically by the mass media so as to affirm the existence of left terrorism and to conceal with leftwing moral authority the official lies.</div><div><br></div><div>From what is stated by the police and fake letters whom Mr. Fitanidis (journalist) receives every now and again, in the dustbins of Eleftherotypia (Freepress-Greek daily) we are led to the conclusion that the terrorists are left-wing people and followers of Marx. The portrait of the latter appears in the so-called hideout of N17 amongst rockets and other terrorist instruments. But Marx like Lenin and Trotsky had spent much ink and had used up a lot of their political activity in the struggle against terrorism, of Bakunin personally and against all those who ignored the masses and</div><div>wanted to make the struggle for freedom and justice a personal issue of a bunch of conspirators. For this reason Marx could never be the idol of individual terrorists. Thus Marx's portrait could never be placed by some leftists amongst the symbols of the terrorists but only by a bunch of useless police bureaucrats who are unable to create a conspiracy worthy of the name despite the armies of the well paid informers whom they have as advisors.</div><div><br></div><div>Individual terrorism has nothing in common with the Left if by this meaning we imply the theory of scientific socialism founded by Marx & Engels. The marxist left always aimed for the mobilisation of the masses led by the principle which declares that the liberation of the workers can only be a task of the workers themselves. No one can do it for them and without them.</div><div><br></div><div>Historically individual terrorism was linked not to the Left but mainly to bourgeois democratic movements which fought under the monarchic regimes demanding parliamentary democracy. They boomed under Tsarist absolutism in Russia during the 19th century. The bombers and executioners of Nardodnya Volya, the most important terrorist party weren' t leftists but officers of the tsarist army who joined the democratic movement. Their actions constantly provoked constant reprisals of absolutism, exiles and executions with the unnavoidable result: the total annihilation of the organisation.</div><div><br></div><div>In contrast to the above the executioners of N17 work in broad daylight under the watchful eye of the police and have never been caught in the act. This has no precedent in world history. Never has</div><div>terrorism functioned for 27 whole years without the police never catching one member. The actions of the anti-terrorist police till today has been the useless attempt to manufacture terrorists. Some mouthpieces of the authorities states that this is the price of democracy! To the ears of Greek citizens this argument resembles black humour. The reality is that if the secret services never arrested one person for 27 whole years, there is a valid explanation as it is impossible for one to arrest oneself.</div><div><br></div><div>Another justification by the authorities was the frightening organisation and connections of these unscrupulous and hard executioners. They always knew beforehand even the slightest movement</div><div>of their victims, always hit them when they were without their bodyguards, they always managed to change their plans and were also able to disarm the police in police stations, steal whole lorryloads</div><div>of weapons from large military bases! How was all this possible? The official liars always had a stupid theory handy: 17N had entered and corrupted the secret services.</div><div><br></div><div>Now after 27 years these unscrupulous murderers, the uncatchable invisible men, with achievements that haven' t been seen in Bond movies, have now been caught! Who are they? The church mosaic man Savvas Xiros and his friendly brothers!</div><div><br></div><div>Disciplined by the invisible hand of big brother, all the media stars have been courtmartialled, lost their summer vacations so as to take part in the giant operation known as the desert storm of lies ! They don' t have the slightest hope of convincing the Greek people that the poor folk who are being held by the authorities are unscrupulous and uncatchable murderers of the invisible organisation.</div><div><br></div><div>The credulity of the scenarios would have remained false even if its police directors had covered every aspect of the story. This because</div><div>of the fact that the phenomenon of modern terrorism is in total contrast with the laws of history. History teaches us that individual</div><div>terrorism doesn't appear under any conditions, but as a symptom during absolutist regimes. As a reaction to oppression and the alienation of the popular masses from every right and every legal</div><div>means of defence of their interests. But even in those cases individual terrorism as well as many other things isn't a timeless phenomenon from the era of the movement against monarchies</div><div>many years have passed. The experience of the political struggle has differentiated itself in the minds of the people and its organised</div><div>vanguard. Individual terrorism has been abandoned as a conclusive method of resistance which distances the movement from its final aim</div><div>instead of bringing it closer.</div><div><br></div><div>But the phenomenon of individual terrorism even if rare manifested themselves in the recent era against the dictatorship in Greece, Spain</div><div>and elsewhere. In history as in nature there always exist episodes of restorationism. Such a case was the attempt of Alekos Panagoulis against the life of the dictator Papadopoulos. No one then spoke about a provocation, no one doubted the originality of his motives as his actions were absolutely explainable in the given conditions and in no way could have provoked an overturn of the US inspired coup. There were many other lackeys of the US ready to take his place.</div><div><br></div><div>The situaiton was totally different after the fall of the coup. The conditions which gave rise historically to terrorism were not only lacking when the phenomenon appeared in Greece but were radically different. The era was characterised by the mass participation of the masses on the political horizon. We already had the events of May 1968 in France. There were dynamic movements in all the ocuntries of Europe and a militant anti-war movement in the heart of imperialism in the USA. In the same period US imperialism sufferred a decisive defeat in Vietnam. A whole series of dictatorial regimes collapsed due to the dynamism of the masses. The same fate befell the US lackey state in Persia, the Shahs.</div><div><br></div><div>In this era the popular masses in Greece dominate the streets. They adopt the most radical forms of action accompanied many times their strikes with occupations of factories. Quite broad is the feeling for change, a climate for change which will be broad and deep. On the other hand the ruling elite and their state mechanisms are in a total state of confusion and disorientation. The officers of the army dare not travel about the place with their uniforms on and the police manoeuvre like beaten dogs.</div><div><br></div><div>No tendency in the movement felt it lacked political strength and despair and it is totally ludicrous in the conditions we described for</div><div>some leftists to abandon the dynamic popular movement to hide like rats and make bombs with clocks and dynamite. The Left understood</div><div>quite well what the consequences of such actions would be. This is an even more serious reason which negates whatever relations any party</div><div>organ or group with the practice of individual terrorism. Neither the groups of the youth who throw Molotov cocktails can have a relationship with this invisible organisation. Only agents and professional killers of the secret services can be found behind thecold blooded murders and all the activities of the invisible terrorists, as only the imperialist state has something to gain from this conspiratorial practice which guarantees the excuse required for the intensification of oppression and the terrorising of the Greek peoples. Its no coincidence that 17N made its debut the CIA station chief Wells. The experienced agents of the US secret services could not act in any other manner. Their first task was to dissasociate from the beginning the CIA. One may ask: would they sacrifice one of their own so as to achieve this? From where does it come that he has been sacrificed? No one saw Wells dead, and no one saw the British agent Saunders!</div><div><br></div><div>Terrorism wasn' t required by the Greek people who has no reason to abandon the field of struggle to some self-proclaimed saviours who</div><div>will fight on their own with the status quo. Only they who were holding on with paralysed hands power needed terrorism so as to use it</div><div>as an excuse so as to reaffirm the police state alongside its morale, which had collapsed after the endless defeats it had sufferred internationally.</div><div><br></div><div>Until then the state had mobilised its oppressive machine in the name of the communist threat. But that what they called a communist threat dominated in many places around the world and represented around 2 billion people, had a significant appearance in international trade, great technological achievements in the arms</div><div>industry and in space and in many other sectors. In other words it had developed into an international force for which western imperialism</div><div>had to deal on the same level. Under these conditions the communist threat was no longer valid. The imperialist state had a need for a new</div><div>public threat to achieve the cooperation or the acceptance at least of an undeclared state of siege, which was ever more necessary as the</div><div>capitalist world entered into an economic crisis with explosive social dimensions.</div><div><br></div><div>As this threat didn' t exist it had to be invented! This is what they did. With the murder of people selected on the basis of unknown criteria, with the robbery of banks and actions which many times cost the lives of uninvolved citizens, the state managed to achieve the militarisation of society and to place the automatic weapon of the</div><div>policeman in front of the nose of every citizen.</div><div><br></div><div>With the anti-terrorist laws imposed in all countries they ensured citizens had no legal rights and they handed him over to legalised</div><div>police control. At any moment in time they can place anyone on a blank piece of paper and manufacture a terrorist and ensure they never see</div><div>the light of day. No one can now feel secure. But the state wants the citizen to feel secure, whoever they are. Instead he must feel deep</div><div>inside himself that if he doesn' t subjugate himself fully to the callings of power, if he doesn' t orientate himself with this he is under threat. As Bush stated "whoever isn't with us is against us" and will suffer the consequences. That is why the journalistic couriers of the secret services let it be known that various known people with standing could do damage to the credultiy of the official lies.</div><div><br></div><div>Fake terrorism doesn' t only have the purpose of serving political agendas of national dimensions. After the fall of the USSR it developed into a ruling element of imperialist policy. It became</div><div>the strategic excuse for the launching of wars and the imposition of the world dictatorship of the USA. Its not only citizens that can be characterised as terrorists at any time and be imprisoned even in prisons abroad. Whole states can be characterised as terrorist states, states which support terrorism, which accept it or which don' t fight it in a decisive manner. These states can suffer the most severe sanctions, even up to bombardment with tactical nuclear weapons or to be placed under occupation.</div><div><br></div><div>To an extent Greece is under a regime of direct occupation as foreign secret services are the true government and can go anywhere freely on</div><div>its soil and to question Greek citizens at will, to hold them and interrogate them without anyone uttering a protest. We are only at the beginning. Many more things will follow. The straw men who act as the government agreed in the summit of 15 in Seville to hand over (before the current year is over) to the British the guarding of the Greek</div><div>borders. They have also accepted the arrival of 50,000 foreign police who will undertake to protect us from the terrorists during the Olympic games. No one can predict that they will leave when the games are over. For years now they have been preparing the division of Greece into small protectorates based on the Yugoslav model, the</div><div>subjugation and dissolution of the Greek nation, for which they have declared it to be the main bastion of anti-americanism in the Balkans</div><div>and Europe. The chasing of terrorists aims to terrorise all citizens, it aims in silencing ever public voice of protest, to silence every resistance so as to pass these plans.</div><div><br></div><div>Parties and organisations of the Left remain numb and immobile, trapped in the confused positions and their acceptance of the conspiracy which they have shown so far. Its time for them to wake up</div><div>and act. The bell rings for the whole Left. Tomorrow it will be to late. There is no other way of resisting and overturning the imperialist plans if we don' t unmask the conspirators, if we don' t show who is behind the bloody terrorist serial and what they aim to achieve if we don' t march on the streets to defend the innocent victims who have been caught in the states nets. The struggle isn' t behind but in front of us. They who were jealous of Hitlers visions and are now following in his footsteps attempting to re-create their own 'new order' will have his fate. For years now they have learnt to play with fixed players they have developed the audacity of phenomenal superiority.</div><div><br></div><div>But it is only phenomenal. History lets no one deceive it. In the end it places every crook on its bench.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Athens July 2002</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738264705501224849.post-45517721101904539332021-12-07T14:54:00.001-08:002021-12-07T14:54:14.825-08:00Amid Tangle of Corruption, Greece Imposes COVID Vaccine Mandate on People 60 and Older<div class="defender-body-container"><div class="defender-header"><div class="wrapper defender-wrapper"><div class="defender-top-bar"><div class="defender-language-flags"><div class="language-flag">Amid Tangle of Corruption, Greece Imposes COVID Vaccine Mandate on People 60 and Older<br></div></div></div></div></div><main class="clay-bg"><div class="wrapper defender-page-wrapper"><article class=""><div class="post-heading"><p class="post-excerpt">Greece, which has imposed some of the strictest measures anywhere in the world in response to COVID, is set to impose mandatory vaccination for all citizens over the age of 60 and to levy a monthly fine on senior citizens who refuse the vaccine.</p><div class="share-section"><div class="post-authors"><span class="by-by">By </span><div class="author-list"><span class="author-name"><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/authors/michael-nevradakis-ph-d/">Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.</a></span></div></div><div class="share-area noprint"><div class="comment-counter"><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/greece-covid-vaccine-mandate-senior-citizens/#comments" class="comment-link"><br></a><br></div></div></div><div class="featured noprint"><img width="800" height="417" data-cfsrc="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greece-imposes-mandatory-Covid-vaccines-feature-1-800x417.jpg" class="attachment-featured-large size-featured-large wp-post-image" alt="Greece, a country which has imposed some of the strictest measures anywhere in the world in response to COVID, is set to impose mandatory vaccination for all citizens over the age of 60 and to levy a monthly fine on senior citizens who refuse the vaccine." loading="lazy" srcset="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greece-imposes-mandatory-Covid-vaccines-feature-1-800x417.jpg 800w, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greece-imposes-mandatory-Covid-vaccines-feature-1-300x156.jpg 300w, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greece-imposes-mandatory-Covid-vaccines-feature-1-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greece-imposes-mandatory-Covid-vaccines-feature-1-1536x801.jpg 1536w, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greece-imposes-mandatory-Covid-vaccines-feature-1-196x102.jpg 196w, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greece-imposes-mandatory-Covid-vaccines-feature-1-600x313.jpg 600w, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greece-imposes-mandatory-Covid-vaccines-feature-1.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greece-imposes-mandatory-Covid-vaccines-feature-1-800x417.jpg"></div></div><div class="post-content"><p><em><strong>Miss a day, miss a lot.</strong> <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/about-us/sign-up/?utm_source=top_of_article&utm_medium=the_defender&utm_campaign=sign_ups">Subscribe to The Defender's Top News of the Day</a>. <strong>It's free.</strong></em></p><p>It was a crisp Saturday night in November. Outside the historic Rex theater in central Athens, Greece, a line formed of people waiting to see a theatrical performance of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”</p><p>Everything appeared normal until one took a closer look. Everyone in the queue was waiting to have their COVID “<a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-response/safe-covid-19-vaccines-europeans/eu-digital-covid-certificate_en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Green Pass</a>” scanned in order to enter the theater, as access to such spaces in Greece is restricted to the vaccinated — and those who have recovered from <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender_category/covid/">COVID</a> in the past three months.</p><p><strong>What would Orwell have thought?</strong></p><p>Now, Greece, a country which has imposed some of the strictest measures anywhere in the world in response to COVID, is set to impose <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/01/greece-compulsory-covid-vaccination-for-those-aged-60-and-above.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mandatory vaccination</a> for all citizens over the age of 60 and to levy a monthly fine on senior citizens who refuse the vaccine.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1172870/amendment-for-mandatory-vaccination-of-over-60s-submitted-to-parliament/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new policy</a> proposes a monthly fine of €100 ($113) for seniors who don’t comply by Jan. 15, 2022.</p><p>These measures were <a href="https://www.skai.gr/news/greece/ypoxreotikos-emvoliasmos-ano-ton-60-to-prostimo-100-eyro-eksaireseis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> last week by the Greek parliament. According to the prime minister, the revenue from fines will be used to “enhance” the national health system, although many of the same politicians who support the mandate have a track record of imposing severe <a href="https://www.pronews.gr/elliniki-politiki/provocateur/1037197_apisteytos-ageorgiadis-kalos-ekleisa-ta-nosokomeia-giati-den" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cuts</a> to Greece’s health system.</p><p>With this measure, Greece became only the second European country to impose mandatory vaccination for sections of the general population, imposed by fines. Austria was the first, with fines set to be imposed beginning in February.</p><p>Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59474808" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the decision “tortured” him but that it showed support for the most vulnerable, even if it might momentarily “displease them.”</p><p>As of this writing, <a href="https://covidvax.live/location/grc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">64%</a> of Greece’s population has been fully vaccinated — under current rules, that is, which consider those who have received two doses of the Pfizer, Moderna or AstraZeneca vaccines, or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, as ‘fully’ vaccinated.</p><p><span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"<div class="covid-on-trial-banner">
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Kennedy, Jr.'s New Book — 'The Real Anthony Fauci'</a></span></div><p></p><p>The European Union (EU) <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20211202-eu-chief-urges-countries-to-consider-mandatory-vaccines-amid-variant-fears" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently proposed</a> changing the definition of “fully vaccinated” to refer to those who received a booster dose.</p><p>As <a href="https://www.protothema.gr/politics/article/1183585/skertsos-ta-metra-einai-emmesi-piesi-gia-na-emvoliastoun-oi-polites/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> by Akis Skertsos, minister of state responsible for the coordination of government policies, this new policy, and the rest of the government’s strict measures, are intended to act as an indirect means of obliging citizens to get vaccinated.</p><p>The government further justified the mandate by releasing data <a href="https://www.ethnos.gr/Politics/article/185602/metallaxhomikronxristoygennamemetrakaiplanbgiaepektashthsypoxreotikothtas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicating</a> 490,000 individuals in Greece over the age of 60 have not been vaccinated.</p><p>The amendment passed parliament not just with the votes of the ruling center-right New Democracy party, which alone would have been enough to secure a majority. The “democratic socialist” Movement of Change (KINAL) party, which is the successor to the PASOK party which long governed Greece, also <a href="https://www.iefimerida.gr/politiki/ko-kinal-giati-psifisame-ypohreotiko-emboliasmo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted in favor</a> of mandatory vaccinations for those over 60.</p><p>Greece also <a href="https://www.newsbomb.gr/ellada/story/1259735/triti-dosi-treis-mines-meta-ti-xorigisi-tis-deyteris-dosis-toy-emvolioy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reduced</a> the interval before an individual can receive a COVID booster shot to three months.</p><p>Natural immunity, in turn, will now be <a href="https://www.pronews.gr/elliniki-politiki/kyvernisi/1039517_pistopoiitika-stoys-9-mines-tha-ligei-toy-emvoliasmoy-stoys-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recognized</a> for only three months, down from six months previously.</p><p>While the government justifies such measures as a necessary means of protecting public health, the measures are being implemented by politicians with an extensive track record of decimating Greece’s public health infrastructure, as well as far-right ties.</p><p><strong>EU member states increasingly imposing vaccine mandates</strong></p><p>Recently, Austria paved the way for mandatory vaccinations, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/kim-iversen-austrians-covid-vaccine-mandate/">requiring</a> its entire population to get vaccinated by February or face hefty fines or the threat of imprisonment.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/austria-considers-e7200-fine-for-unvaccinated/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fines</a> exceed the amount recently <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59498082" target="_blank" rel="noopener">levied</a> on an Austrian doctor who amputated the wrong leg of a patient.</p><p>Germany followed suit, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-germany-locks-unvaccinated-out-mandate-looms/">announcing</a> a policy and timeline similar to Austria’s.</p><p>Several other European countries imposed vaccination on specific professions, including healthcare workers, police officers and teachers.</p><p>Germany <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-germany-locks-unvaccinated-out-mandate-looms/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=8cf7f424-2864-4605-a376-bed243b320a3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">imposed</a> a “lockdown of the unvaccinated,” restricting their access to businesses and public spaces.</p><p>Now, the EU may be setting the stage for mandatory vaccination throughout the 27-nation bloc, signaling the green light for more governments that may be eager to impose mandatory vaccinations in their nations.</p><p>On Dec. 1, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/omicron-covid-19-variant-12-01-21/h_64c415c055c5b26a0a274e46688c7218" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> it is time to “potentially think about mandatory vaccination within the European Union” and to have a “discussion” about this possibility.</p><p>She further stated:</p><p>“If you’re asking me what my personal position is? Two or three years ago, I would never have thought to witness what we see right now, that we have this horrible pandemic, we have the vaccines, the life saving vaccines, but they are not being used adequately everywhere.</p><p>“And thus, these costs, of course, an enormous, or this is an enormous health cost coming along.</p><p>“If you look at the numbers we have now 77% of the adults in the European Union vaccinated or if you take the whole population, it’s 66%. And this means 1/3 of the European population is not vaccinated. These are 150 million people. This is a lot.”</p><p>Von der Leyen made these remarks in response to a <a href="https://www.news247.gr/kosmos/ypochreotikos-emvoliasmos-sima-apo-komision-ora-na-to-skeftoyme-sovara.9445759.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">question posed by</a> a reporter from the Greek state-owned Athens News Agency-Macedonia Press Agency.</p><p>That same day, the Greek government announced its vaccine mandate for those over 60.</p><p>Notably, Greece was the first European country to <a href="https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/politics/43110-eu-adopts-greek-pm-s-proposal-on-coronavirus-vaccination-passport.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">propose</a> the implementation of a vaccine passport, a proposal eventually adopted as the EU’s “Green Pass,” while Greece was also the first EU member state to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/28/greece-unveils-first-eu-covid-passport-as-fast-lane-to-travel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adopt</a> a digital “COVID passport.”</p><p>More recently, Greece was the first EU member state to <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/greece-pushes-eu-for-a-third-shot-in-covid-pass/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">push</a> the EU to add booster shots to the vaccine passport regime.</p><p><span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"<div class="covid-on-trial-banner">
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Who is going to be convinced to get vaccinated when they are being blackmailed? A response from the non-vaccinated is being provoked by the bums.”</p><p>Another <a href="https://twitter.com/evalemoni/status/1465622535794536449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1465622535794536449%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pronews.gr%2Felliniki-politiki%2Fkyvernisi%2F1037758_o-kmitsotakis-anoixe-ton-asko-toy-aioloy-antimetopos-me-tin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> read:</p><p>“A 100 euro per month fine for the non-vaccinated over 60… even us who are vaccinated have begun to become ashamed of you.” [referring to the prime minister]</p><p>In still another <a href="https://twitter.com/6fk6zIcBYesWpQP/status/1465627895435567117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1465627895435567117%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pronews.gr%2Felliniki-politiki%2Fkyvernisi%2F1037758_o-kmitsotakis-anoixe-ton-asko-toy-aioloy-antimetopos-me-tin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a>:</p><p>“My father suffered a stroke the day he received his second dose (coincidence?). His right arm is disabled and he pays 50 euro a week out of a pocket for physical therapy. Koulis [a popular nickname for the prime minister] can stick the 100 euros up his behind. I regret voting for him.”</p><p>Other tweets <a href="https://twitter.com/nikolastelos/status/1465619168661843975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1465619168661843975%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pronews.gr%2Felliniki-politiki%2Fkyvernisi%2F1037758_o-kmitsotakis-anoixe-ton-asko-toy-aioloy-antimetopos-me-tin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drew comparisons</a> to the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 — <a href="https://twitter.com/nikolastelos/status/1465619168661843975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1465619168661843975%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pronews.gr%2Felliniki-politiki%2Fkyvernisi%2F1037758_o-kmitsotakis-anoixe-ton-asko-toy-aioloy-antimetopos-me-tin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the measure the death of democracy in Greece — to the <a href="https://twitter.com/u_know_n0th1ng/status/1465624631595966471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1465624631595966471%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pronews.gr%2Felliniki-politiki%2Fkyvernisi%2F1037758_o-kmitsotakis-anoixe-ton-asko-toy-aioloy-antimetopos-me-tin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meager pensions</a> many seniors receive and the <a href="https://twitter.com/AretiAthanasiu/status/1465630940718419974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1465630940718419974%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pronews.gr%2Felliniki-politiki%2Fkyvernisi%2F1037758_o-kmitsotakis-anoixe-ton-asko-toy-aioloy-antimetopos-me-tin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cuts</a> made by the current government to those pensions.</p><p>On the other hand, mainstream media newscasts and “man-on-the-street” interviews created a perception of broader <a href="https://www.star.gr/tv/enimerosi/kedriko-deltio-eidiseon/kedriko-deltio-eidiseon-1122021v/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acceptance</a> of this new mandate.</p><p>Notably, COVID-related coverage by Greek media outlets has been bolstered by €40 million in state subsidies, disbursed in <a href="https://www.aftodioikisi.gr/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/%CE%9B%CE%B9%CC%81%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1-%CE%9C%CE%B5%CC%81%CF%83%CF%89%CE%BD_%CE%95%CE%BA%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%B9%CC%81%CE%B1-covid-19.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two</a> <a href="https://www.ethnos.gr/Politics/article/168233/mmeektakthenisxysh20ekeyrosemmeanakoinosehkybernhsh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">packages</a> of €20 million each.</p><p>As of this writing, there have been few visible protests of any kind in Greece against these new measures, other than small weekly gatherings of healthcare workers placed on unpaid leave.</p><p>Generally, protests against measures related to COVID in Greece have been limited and small in scale, paling in comparison to large protests seen in countries such as Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom. This despite a lingering stereotype that Greece is a country where people take to the streets regularly to protest.</p><p>Characteristic of public response in Greece, Greece’s restaurant sector was asked to implement the COVID passport regime barring entry to the unvaccinated in indoor spaces, and only allowing those with a recent negative rapid test result to sit in outdoor spaces.</p><p>The sector’s trade organization recently <a href="https://www.naftemporiki.gr/story/1801205/apergei-aurio-i-estiasi-ta-9-metra-stiriksis-pou-zitoun-apo-tin-kubernisi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organized</a> a nationwide 24-hour strike, not to oppose restrictions on the non-vaccinated, but to request more financial support from the state and to request that only unvaccinated patrons found to be violating these measures be fined, and not the businesses themselves.</p><p>The restaurant industry has judiciously enforced the vaccine pass mandate thus far, as has the retail sector, in a country which is frequently stereotyped as not being “law-abiding.”</p><p>The Greek government itself <a href="https://www.dimokratiki.gr/03-02-2021/kikilias-ta-pragmata-den-pane-kala-kai-skliro-lockdown-sto-trapezi-ton-metron/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a> on the tepid opposition to COVID-related restrictions. In February, then-health minister Vasilis Kikilias said “there are huge problems in other countries with the opposition to the measures … this is not happening in Greece.”</p><p><br><span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"
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Thessaloniki, where some protesters also set up <a href="https://www.iefimerida.gr/ellada/thessaloniki-dimarheio-soyrealistikes-eikones?utm_source=projectagora&utm_medium=contentdiscovery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">camp</a> outside city hall.</p><p>Following the announcement of the new measures, the government claimed there was a <a href="https://www.star.gr/eidiseis/politiki/566375/ta-ranteboy-gia-to-embolio-eptaplasiasthkan-se-24-wres" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seven-fold increase</a> in the number of new vaccination appointments and that 25,000 <a href="https://www.naftemporiki.gr/story/1807098/m-themistokleous-25000-nea-rantebou-anemboliaston-ano-ton-60-se-duo-meres" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new appointments</a> were scheduled by individuals aged 60 and over.</p><p>Yet on the government’s <a href="https://www.emvolio.gov.gr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">official vaccination-tracking website</a>, no increase in the daily rate of vaccinations has been observed as of this writing.</p><p>On this same website, the number of total vaccinations, number of first doses and number of second doses, which in the early stages of the vaccination program did add up, no longer appear to do so.</p><p><strong>Is mandatory vaccination legal and constitutional?</strong></p><p>Greece’s new mandate launched an immediate debate regarding the legality and the constitutionality, or lack thereof, of the new policy.</p><p>Kostas Chrysogonos, a professor of constitutional law at Greece’s Aristotle University and a former member of the European Parliament, <a href="https://www.newsbomb.gr/ellada/story/1258537/xrysogonos-sto-cnn-greece-h-ypoxreotikotita-ton-emvoliasmon-proskroyei-sto-syntagma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the measure is unconstitutional on the basis of violating one’s bodily integrity and, also, violating the principle of equal treatment, as the €100 fine will place a greater burden on poorer individuals as compared to wealthier ones.</p><p>Another constitutional law scholar, Giorgos Kasimatis, also <a href="https://www.newsbomb.gr/ellada/story/1258498/kasimatis-gia-nea-metra-paranomos-kai-antisyntagmatikos-o-ypoxreotikos-emvoliasmos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred to</a> the principle of bodily integrity, stating the law cannot force individuals to accept a medical procedure.</p><p>Xenofon Kontiadis, a professor of public law and social insurance at Greece’s Panteion University, <a href="https://www.pronews.gr/koinonia/1037900_syntagmatologos-xenofon-kontiadis-antisyntagmatika-ta-prostima-stoys-anemvoliastoys" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> that while he is generally supportive of measures against those who are not vaccinated, levying a financial penalty against such individuals contravenes the constitution.</p><p>Giorgos Sotirelis, a professor of constitutional law at the National and Kapodistrian University, adopted a similar position, <a href="https://www.newsbomb.gr/ellada/story/1259011/sotirelis-h-ypoxreotikotita-skontaftei-stin-arxi-tis-analogikotitas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stating</a> that the measure is not analogous to the threat and that other, milder, policies could instead have been implemented.</p><p>A popular online news portal, <a href="https://www.newsbomb.gr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newsbomb.gr</a>, also took an official position against the <a href="https://www.newsbomb.gr/oikonomia/story/1258630/to-antisyntagmatiko-prostimo-ton-100-eyro-oi-ponokefaloi-gia-tin-aade-kai-o-kindynos-gia-to-dimosio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">constitutionality</a> and legitimacy of this measure, <a href="https://www.newsbomb.gr/ellada/story/1258541/ypoxreotikos-emvoliasmos-apofasi-ntropi-gia-ti-dimokratia-mas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> it “a shame for our democracy.”</p><p>Such a position by a major media outlet in Greece is rare, as there has been broad media support for the government’s COVID measures.</p><p>The publisher of newsbomb.gr, Dimitris Giannakopoulos, is the president and CEO of VIANEX, a Greek pharmaceutical company. He made waves during the summer of 2021 when he made <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nf6TOHeVYc&ab_channel=PronewsTV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">public references</a> against the <a href="https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Great Reset</a> supported by the World Economic Forum (WEF).</p><p>Other constitutionalists, however, said the country’s mandate is compatible with the Greek constitution. These perspectives received wider coverage in the mainstream media than those opposing the measure.</p><p>For example, Antonis Manitakis, a law professor at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus, stated in a recent <a href="https://www.skai.gr/news/greece/manitakis-ston-skai-1003-syntagmatikoi-oi-ypoxreotikoi-emvoliasmoi-ano-60" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> that Greece’s vaccine mandate for those over 60 is constitutional, as it does not violate those individuals’ liberties and is a measure which “saves dozens of lives per day.”</p><p>Other scholars called into question the compatibility of Greece’s mandatory vaccination program, which began with the <a href="https://www.e-nomothesia.gr/kat-dikasteria-dikaiosune/nomos-4820-2021-phek-130a-23-7-2021.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">imposition</a> of mandates on healthcare workers and paramedics in July 2021.</p><p>For instance, Spyridoula Katsoni of the <a href="https://www.ifhv.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict</a>, and a Ph.D. candidate at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, <a href="http://opiniojuris.org/2021/11/30/how-greece-set-the-wrong-example-for-compulsory-vaccinations-against-covid-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> Greece’s mandatory vaccination policies may contravene a variety of articles of the <a href="https://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Convention on Human Rights</a>.</p><p>The mandatory vaccination of Greece’s healthcare workers was nevertheless <a href="https://www.newsbomb.gr/ellada/dikaiosynh/story/1259582/ste-syntagmatikos-o-ypoxreotikos-emvoliasmos-ygeionomikon-kai-emak-syntagmatiki-kai-i-anastoli" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> to be constitutional by the Council of State, Greece’s highest administrative court.</p><p>Panagiotis Pikramenos, former president of the Council of State and currently the country’s deputy prime minister, justified the €100 monthly fine for the non-vaccinated, <a href="https://thefaq.gr/anatrichila-apo-tis-diloseis-toy-pikrammenoy-poy-thymizoyn-alli-epochi-kai-quot-gypsoys-quot-tha-protimoysa-na-soso-mia-anthropini-zoi-para-na-po-oti-ypirxa-dimokratis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stating</a> recently, “I’d rather save one human life, rather than say that I was democratic.”</p><p><span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"<div class="covid-on-trial-banner">
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Kennedy, Jr.'s New Book — 'The Real Anthony Fauci'</a></span></div><p></p><p><strong>Read my lips: no new mandates … until the next one?</strong></p><p>Since the launch of the COVID vaccination program in December 2020, the Greek government took great pains to convince the public that vaccination will not be mandatory.</p><p>In late 2020, for instance, just as vaccinations were getting underway in Greece, Skertsos <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mgKfj0TfyA&ab_channel=OPEN" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> that mandatory vaccinations will not be imposed.</p><p>More recently, in a public discussion with Steven Erlanger, the New York Times’ chief diplomatic correspondent for Europe, Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis <a href="https://www.athina984.gr/en/2021/09/30/kyr-mitsotakis-sto-athens-democracy-forum-ypochreosi-moy-na-yperaspisto-tin-patrida-moy-ypograpsame-me-ton-proedro-makron-mia-stratigiki-synergasia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explicitly stated</a> that “[w]e will not impose further vaccination requirements.”</p><p>Mitsotakis <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uNKDst9HiE&ab_channel=%CE%9F%CE%9C%CE%91%CE%94%CE%91%CE%9C%CE%9D%CE%97%CE%9C%CE%97%CE%A3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repeated</a> similar statements just 12 days before imposing the mandate for people 60 and over.</p><p>Now there is already <a href="https://www.ethnos.gr/greece/article/185652/ypoxreotikosemboliasmosstotrapezikaigiatoysanoton50etontiexetazetai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">talk</a> of expanding the mandate to those over the age of 50.</p><p>Such statements, in the form of proposals, have come from <a href="https://www.imerisia.gr/koinonia/29039_batopoylos-epektasi-ypohreotikoy-emboliasmoy-kai-stoys-50rides" target="_blank" rel="noopener">members</a> of the Greek government’s COVID advisory committee, and <a href="https://www.skai.gr/news/politics/eyaggelos-venizelos-epektasi-ypoxreotikou-emvoliasmou-kai-analogika-prostima" target="_blank" rel="noopener">from</a> constitutional law scholar Evangelos Venizelos, a one-time deputy prime minister, who also proposed further measures, including the expansion of financial penalties.</p><p>Minister of State Giorgos Gerapetritis also <a href="https://www.pronews.gr/elliniki-politiki/kyvernisi/1038341_ggerapetritis-anoihto-endehomeno-i-epektasi-tis-ypohrotikotitas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, on Thursday, that expansion of mandatory vaccination to further groups remains “on the table.”</p><p>The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) also got into the act, plastering Athens with posters demanding the government impose new measures, including on public transport, which remains one of the few public spaces where there are no restrictions for the unvaccinated.</p><figure id="attachment_142526" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-142526" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-142526 size-large" data-cfsrc="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greek-Communist-Party-Covid-poster-667x1024.jpg" alt=": Poster from the Communist Party of Greece demanding more measures" width="667" height="1024" srcset="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greek-Communist-Party-Covid-poster-667x1024.jpg 667w, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greek-Communist-Party-Covid-poster-195x300.jpg 195w, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greek-Communist-Party-Covid-poster-1001x1536.jpg 1001w, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greek-Communist-Party-Covid-poster-1334x2048.jpg 1334w, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greek-Communist-Party-Covid-poster-191x293.jpg 191w, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greek-Communist-Party-Covid-poster-600x921.jpg 600w, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greek-Communist-Party-Covid-poster.jpg 1370w, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greek-Communist-Party-Covid-poster-195x300@2x.jpg 390w" sizes="(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px" src="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Greek-Communist-Party-Covid-poster-667x1024.jpg"><figcaption id="caption-attachment-142526" class="wp-caption-text">Poster from the Communist Party of Greece demanding more measures. Photo credit: Michael Nevradakis</figcaption></figure><p>Similarly, SYRIZA, the left-wing party that previously governed Greece and which is now the main opposition party, recently <a href="https://www.msn.com/el-gr/news/politics/%CE%BA%CF%8C%CE%BD%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B1-%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%AD%CF%81%CF%84%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%85-%CE%B7%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%8C%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%85-%CE%BC%CE%B5-%CF%86%CF%8C%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BF-%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%82-%CE%B5%CE%BC%CE%B2%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%82-%CF%83%CE%B5-%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%82/ar-AAQUIpJ?li=BBqxRPi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">questioned</a> why mandatory vaccination has not been expanded to police officers.</p><p>Pulmonologist Nikos Tzanakis, a member of the government’s COVID advisory committee, openly <a href="https://www.naftemporiki.gr/story/1808302/tzanakis-gia-omikron-ekatombi-nekron-ean-den-auksithoun-oi-emboliasmoi-ta-tria-senaria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> vaccines be mandated for everyone 18 and over. He <a href="https://www.pronews.gr/ygeia/1039566_ntzanakis-na-ginei-ypohreotikos-o-emvoliasmos-stoys-polites-apo-50-eton-kai-ano-se" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> it be enforced in stages, starting with those over 50, then over 40, then all others, in order to limit opposition.</p><p>Nevertheless, Mitsotakis, speaking at the <a href="https://reutersevents.com/events/next/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters NEXT Virtual Global Conference</a> on the same day that the vaccine mandates for seniors were announced, <a href="https://www.protothema.gr/politics/article/1187346/mitsotakis-den-uparhei-shediasmos-gia-epektasi-tou-upohreotikou-emvoliasmou/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> there are no more plans to expand the mandatory vaccination regime.</p><p>But with similar pronouncements having been made in the past, and contradictory proposals now being openly expressed, is this claim believable?</p><p>Democracy and human rights under threat?While the threat to individual rights and individual choice from any type of mandatory vaccination regime is overt, the undercurrents behind these restrictions, including the power structures and the actors involved, raise significant questions about the very fabric of democratic governance and human rights.</p><p>To this end, Greece is a notable case study. According to the <a href="https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-projects/covid-19-government-response-tracker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oxford University COVID-19 Government Response Tracker</a>, Greece has imposed the strictest set of COVID measures in Europe and third strictest worldwide. It has led the way in the imposition of digital COVID passports and it is among the first countries in Europe to issue vaccine mandates, which may be further extended.</p><p>Supporting this web of decision-making is an interrelated web of factors, ranging from politicians, businesspeople and journalists, to economic austerity that had a destructive effect on public health long before COVID materialized.</p><p>What binds all of the above factors together is the end result: It is ordinary citizens who have to face such restrictive measures, day after day, and who are being baited with a “carrot-and-stick” approach, where freedom is promised via vaccination, restrictions are then imposed or re-imposed and sharp social cleavages are fostered by treating the non-vaccinated as the bogeyman.</p><p><span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"<div class="covid-on-trial-banner">
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This was a period where particularly harsh austerity measures were imposed, with sharp cuts made to public health, leading to the shutdown of hospitals and <a href="https://www.makthes.gr/esy-nosokomeia-choris-farmaka-thermansi-prosopiko-kai-michanimata-125341" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shortages</a> of basic supplies such as bandages and heating oil. Such phenomena have <a href="https://www.ethnos.gr/health/article/83048/xoristhermanshdekadesnosokomeiakaikentraygeiassthxora" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued</a> under the present government.</p><p>In turn, Georgiadis’ former <a href="https://www.documentonews.gr/article/otan-i-matina-pagoni-epleke-to-egkomio-toy-adoni-kai-toy-diorganone-proeklogikes-sygkentroseis-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaign manager</a>, Matina Pagoni, is a member of The National Committee for the Protection of Public Health against COVID-19, the government’s COVID advisory committee.</p><p>This committee received legal <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/greece-offers-immunity-to-those-handling-the-covid-19-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">immunity</a> wherein its members “shall not be liable, prosecuted or held accountable for the opinions they have expressed or the votes they have cast in the performance of their duties.”</p><p>These same politicians are using what can be described as “nudge tactics” to “encourage” vaccinations, a practice author Laura Dodsworth <a href="https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1467110914826588171" target="_blank" rel="noopener">characterized</a> as “the tyranny of ‘behavioral science.’”</p><p>Greece is a country famous worldwide for its beauty, history, cuisine and tourist attractions. It is a country that likes to roll out the red carpet for its visitors and to put on a glowing image for foreigners, akin to that of a Potemkin village.</p><p>It can be said though that Greece’s COVID response is demonstrative of a darker side of Greece few foreigners get to see or experience.</p></div><p><em>The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Children's Health Defense.</em></p><div class="defender-home-signup-bar background-blue noprint"><h2 class="defender-home-heading"><br></h2></div><div class="author-area-post-footer"><div class="author-post-footer"><div class="author-img-footer"><br></div><div class="author-details-footer"><p class="author-name-footer"><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/authors/michael-nevradakis-ph-d/">Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.</a></p><p class="author-post-bio">Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., is an independent journalist and researcher based in Athens, Greece.</p></div></div></div><div class="post-tags-container"></div><div class="republish"><div id="custom_html-4" class="widget_text widget widget_custom_html"><div class="textwidget custom-html-widget"><p><br></p></div></div></div><div id="comments"></div><div id="disqus_thread"><br></div></article><aside class=" sidebar-defender"><div class="sidebar-item"><div class="sidebar-post"><h4><br></h4></div><div class="sidebar-post"><h4><br></h4></div></div><div class="sidebar-item"><div class="sidebar-post"><h4><br></h4></div><div class="sidebar-post"><h4><br></h4></div><div class="sidebar-post"><h4><br></h4></div></div></aside></div></main><div class="defender-footer-container"><div class="wrapper"><div class="defender-footer-text"><div class="defender-footer-text"><div class="defender-copyright"><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="cookie-notice" role="dialog" class="cookie-notice-hidden cookie-revoke-hidden cn-position-bottom cn-effect-fade" aria-label="Cookie Notice"></div></div><div id="a11y-speak-assertive" class="a11y-speak-region" aria-live="assertive" aria-relevant="additions text" aria-atomic="true"></div>vngelishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07609013889205187010noreply@blogger.com0