become like China's system of National Communism, I think
that Greece is also competing by showing how a Gang of Oligarchs
can run everything.
Government in-bedded with business & spooning
Businesses having newspapers/tv as money-losing mouthpiece
This is what Greece teaches us. Nothing about debt, just governance.
You're beginning to see this (cuz you been slumbering) in the
Murdoch Escapades of late, like HackGate and the attempted
buying of the Republican Candidate (coming soon), that
Murdoch's media buddies are rampantly ignoring.
Any 5-year-old raised on Batman and Spiderman
can recognise Gotham when he sees it
When I look at Rupe Murdoch,
I see the Joker.
When I find the Murdoch story, I'll post it above, under the title of
The Joker Strikes Again- to the Blogmobile!
For now, here's part of the Reuters story:
Read 'em: Reuters
Special Report: Greece's triangle of power
the country's crisis, say critics.
By Stephen Grey and Dina Kyriakidou
ATHENS (Reuters) - In late 2011 the Greek finance minister made an impassioned plea for help to rescue his country from financial ruin.
"We need a national collective effort: all of us have to carry the burden together," announced Evangelos Venizelos, who has since become leader of the socialist party PASOK. "We need something that will be fair and socially acceptable."
It was meant to be a call to arms; it ended up highlighting a key weakness in Greece's attempts to reform.
Venizelos' idea was a new tax on property, levied via electricity bills to make it hard to dodge. The public were furious and the press echoed the outrage, labeling the tax ‘haratsi' after a hated levy the Ottomans once imposed on Greeks. The name stuck and George Papandreou, then prime minister, felt compelled to plead with voters: "Let's all lose something so that we don't lose everything."
Special Report: Greece's triangle of power
the country's crisis, say critics.
By Stephen Grey and Dina Kyriakidou
ATHENS (Reuters) - In late 2011 the Greek finance minister made an impassioned plea for help to rescue his country from financial ruin.
"We need a national collective effort: all of us have to carry the burden together," announced Evangelos Venizelos, who has since become leader of the socialist party PASOK. "We need something that will be fair and socially acceptable."
It was meant to be a call to arms; it ended up highlighting a key weakness in Greece's attempts to reform.
Venizelos' idea was a new tax on property, levied via electricity bills to make it hard to dodge. The public were furious and the press echoed the outrage, labeling the tax ‘haratsi' after a hated levy the Ottomans once imposed on Greeks. The name stuck and George Papandreou, then prime minister, felt compelled to plead with voters: "Let's all lose something so that we don't lose everything."
