Subj : Starving Greeks To : ALL From : BOB KLAHN Date : Wed May 22 2013 08:24:48 I changed somewhat profane references to the minister in question to his name. Most of them. Read the article at www.tinyurl.com/pangalos From Greg Palast's book Vultures' Picnic ************************************************************************** /By Greg Palast for /Vice Magazine Monday, 20. May 2013 ... (We,d both signed on for Kazakhstan's annual Eurasia Media Forum, a kind of Burning Man festival for Eastern oilgarchs and their media camp followers.) ... a /New York Times/ story folded in my pocket that begins: /ATHENS-As an elementary school principal, Leonidas Nikas is used to seeing children play, laugh and dream about the future. But recently he has seen something altogether different, something he thought was impossible in Greece: children picking through school trash cans for food; needy youngsters asking playmates for leftovers; and an 11-year-old boy, Pantelis Petrakis, bent over with hunger pains./ Pangalos, or Theodoros Pangalos, leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Party (PASOK), Greece's equivalent to UK's Labour Party, thinks the little Greek kiddies should stop belly-aching. ... Pangalos is best known for blaming the working people of Greece for the horror and the hunger among the ruins of what was once Greece's economy. However, it is, of course, not his fault; until last year, and through the core of the crisis, he was just Greece's Deputy Prime Minister, why should he be held accountable for anything? ... squarely on olive-pit-spitting, lazy-ass Greeks who won't work more than three hours a week, then retire while they're still teenagers to swill state-subsidised ouzo. ... Just for the record, those Greeks who can get a job, work 619 more hours per year than the average German (and way, way more than Britons or Americans as well). ... But there's another explanation for wrack and ruin: Greece is a crime scene. And its working people are not the perpetrators of ... Greece, fearing expulsion from the euro loony bin, turned to Goldman Sachs. For a mere $400 million in fees, plus golden sacks of ill-gotten trading gain, the investment bank was willing to cook the nation's books via a complex set of ... ************************************************************************** BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn .... Paul Ryan is still the same flimflamming fiscal phony he always was. --- Via Silver Xpress V4.5/P [Reg] * Origin: Fidonet Since 1991 Join Us: www.DocsPlace.org (1:123/140) .