IS GREECE DEFENDABLE?

 

THE THREE WAY ROAD TO FREEDOM FOR GREECE.

 Defence of the country against a neighbour which is poised to dominate the Aegean can only be realisable through superior defence systems.

Greece has traditionally been a naval power with strength in owing the most advance naval units, including the Super Vita missile boats (British), the Russian Zubr Landing hovercraft (Russian), with the latest being the  Type 214 submarines (German)-the most advanced conventional submarines in the world.
It is however impossible to carry out the very expensive purchases of main naval units it desperately needs in its dire economic situation.

In these difficult economic times it becomes obvious that it could do much worse in defending itself and projecting a strong geostrategic image than buying cheap but not cheerful defence systems offered by Russia which could defend the Aegean if strategically positioned in a number of Greek islands.
Not only these defence systems are proposed to Greece at prices much lower than competitor's, they can be part-paid with agricultural product sales to Russia.
 

Any other option is defeatist.

The Russia built SU-35.
The only fighter plane that can defeat Turkey's near future acquisitions of the American F35 Lightning.









The BrahMos is a Russian/Indian made anti-ship cruise missile able to be launched from air, sea or land. With a range of 290 Km and a supersonic speed of 3 Mach is a formidable defence weapon.










The S-400 missile system is S-300's big brother. It has a range of between 40 and 400 Km depending on carried missile and it is an anti-aircraft defence system.

So go on comrade Tsipras do something good for the country.

BUY THESE SYSTEMS

and make the Aegean a Greek lake again.

 

 

NEW WORLD ORDER ΤΟΟ.

YOU MUST WATCH THIS.

Is this guy a prophet?

His name is Yiannis Theodoratos and he is a political analyst.
He talks  about geopolitical matters that are of great interest to Greece.

Go to his YouTube show and watch it ALL Click

HERE.

And when you see what is happening watch THIS one HERE.

IS THIS THE LONG TERM PLAN OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER?

A very interesting article by M. Ignatiou posted complete as was in the website mignatiou.com.

Please use the translator to see this in another language.

Αν χαθεί η Κύπρος η Τουρκία θα πέσει με τα μούτρα στο Αιγαίο και τη Θράκη

Του ΜΙΧΑΛΗ ΙΓΝΑΤΙΟΥ
Παρά το γεγονός ότι ο κατοχικός ηγέτης Μουσταφά Ακιντζί «άδειασε» με ανορθόδοξο και απαράδεκτο τρόπο τον Πρόεδρο της Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας κ. Νίκος Αναστασιάδης αφήνοντας τον εντελώς εκτεθειμένο ενώπιον των Ελληνοκυπρίων, ο τελευταίος στο πρωτοχρονιάτικο διάγγελμά του συνέχισε με επιμονή να «τρέφει» μία αδικαιολόγητη αισιοδοξία για το κλείσιμο του Κυπριακού. Η αισιοδοξία αυτή βασικά εκπορεύεται από τους ξένους και δεν υποστηρίζεται από τα γεγονότα.
Κάνει λάθος ο κ. Αναστασιάδης που συνεχίζει να εμπιστεύεται τον κατοχικό ηγέτη και στο τέλος αυτός θα πληρώσει το αποτέλεσμα, και όχι ο Μουσταφά Ακιντζί, ο οποίος εκφράζει με ακρίβεια τις θέσεις της κατοχικής δύναμης και του Ταγίπ Ερντογάν, και δεν πρόκειται ούτε να τις αλλάξει, ως νόμιζε ο Πρόεδρος της Κύπρου, ούτε και να υποχωρήσει. Αντίθετα, θα επιδιώξει να κερδίσει σε όλα τα επίπεδα και να πάρει το μάξιμουμ των απαράδεκτων απαιτήσεων του στο διαπραγματευτικό τραπέζι. Οποιο και αν είναι το αποτέλεσμα, είτε αυτό είναι η κατάρρευση των διαπραγματεύσεων, είτε η παρουσίαση ενώπιον των πολιτών μίας κακής λύσης, όλοι τον Πρόεδρο της Κύπρου θα βρίζουν…
Έχουν δίκιο όσοι υποστηρίζουν ότι η Τουρκία θα επιτρέψει λύση του Κυπριακού μόνο εάν εξασφαλιστούν στο 100% οι στρατηγικοί της στόχοι, που συμπυκνώνονται στο βασικό αίτημα για έλεγχο όλης της Κύπρου μετά τη διευθέτηση, όπως την όρισαν οι Βρετανοί και οι αφελείς Αμερικανοί, μέσω της διχοτομικής και ρατσιστικής διζωνικής δικοινοτικής ομοσπονδίας.
Για να δικαιολογείται η λύση και για να προστατευθεί το ελληνικό στοιχείο στο νησί, πρέπει να αποχωρήσουν τα κατοχικά στρατεύματα, να καταργηθούν οι εγγυήσεις της Τουρκίας και της Βρετανίας -η Ελλάδα ήδη αυτοκαταργήθηκε- να μην διαλυθεί η Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία, να δικαιούνται όλοι οι πολίτες τις ελευθερίες ιδιοκτησίας, διακίνησης και εγκατάστασης όπου αποφασίσει η καρδιά τους, και να γίνουν σεβαστές οι δημοκρατικές διαδικασίες. Με λίγα λόγια, να μην μετατραπεί η Κύπρος σε Βοσνία, όπως θα συμβεί εάν προκριθεί η διευθέτηση της διζωνικής, η οποία είναι άκρως φιλοτουρκική λύση και σχεδιάστηκε για να εξυπηρετούνται τα συμφέροντά της.
Στην Κύπρο δοκιμάζονται οι αντοχές των πολιτικών του νησιού, αλλά και της Ελλάδας. Οι Έλληνες πολιτικοί, πλην ελαχίστων εξαιρέσεων δεν νοιάζονται για τα εθνικά θέματα. Περισσότερο ως αγκάθια που τους ενοχλούν τα αντιμετωπίζουν, ενώ στην πραγματικότητα απειλείται η εθνική κυριαρχία και ανεξαρτησία του ελληνικού χώρου. Στην Κύπρο, η διαφθορά των πολιτικών απειλεί τις αντοχές τους. Βρίσκονται υπό μόνιμο εκβιασμό.
Υπό τα δεδομένα αυτά πρέπει να ανησυχούμε και να επαγρυπνούμε. Διότι εάν χαθεί η Κύπρος, όπως προσπαθούν ξένοι αλλά και ντόπιοι, η Τουρκία θα έχει το χρόνο και την ησυχία για να ασχοληθεί με το Αιγαίο και τη Θράκη. Δεν κινδυνολογώ, αλλά περιγράφω μία πραγματικότητα. Στο σημείο που βρίσκονται τα πράγματα, πρέπει να παγώσει κάθε δραστηριότητα που αφορά τα εθνικά θέματα. Μπορούν και πρέπει να περιμένουν μέχρι να ξεπεραστεί η οικονομική κρίση στην Ελλάδα και την Κύπρο…
WWW.ETHNOS.GR, WWW.MIGNATIOU.COM

AEGEAN ISLANDS UNDER THREAT OF ISLAMISATION?

REACTIONS OF LOCAL POLITICIANS ON THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS

The translation to English follows the Greek article.

Μεγάλη εντύπωση έχει προκαλέσει το άρθρο της Μόλλης Μαχαίρα, η οποία είναι στέλεχος της ΝΔ και συγκεκριμέναο μέλος της Πολιτικής Επιτροπής του κόμματος και πρόεδρος της ΝΟΔΕ της Λήμνου σύμφωνα με το οποίο η Λέσβος δέχεται τουρκική επίθεση μέσω των δεκαδων χιλιάδων μουσουλμάνων που διοχετεύονται στο νησί ενώ οι Τούρκοι σχεδιάζουν να κτίσουν μία κρεματή γέφυρα από τα τουρκικά παράλια μέχρι τον Μόλυβο για την προσαρτήσουν το νησί, σε δεύτερη φάση. 

Το άρθρο της κ. Μαχαίρα έχει τίτλο:

«Η Λέσβος δέχεται επίθεση. Η Λέσβος ισλαμοποιείται. Η Λέσβος πεθαίνει».

Σ’ αυτό αναφέρεται σε μυστικό σχέδιο από μεριάς της Τουρκίας με την ονομασία «Yeni Lirasi», με στόχο «τη δημιουργία ελληνοτουρκικής φιλίας με τις ευλογίες των προεστών του νησιού, που κοιμούνται τον ύπνο του δικαίου». Στο πλαίσιο αυτού του σχεδίου, η κ. Μαχαίρα υποστηρίζει ότι «η Άγκυρα έχει προχωρήσει σταθερά και με μεθοδικότητα στη δημιουργία φιλοτουρκικής κάστας στο νησί, με σταδιακή τουρκοποίηση της τοπικής αγοράς με την επιδίωξη ένταξη της στη δυναμική που δημιουργεί η τουρκική οικονομία».
Το κομματικό στέλεχος της Νέας Δημοκρατίας υποστηρίζει πως «η Λέσβος έχει ήδη αποκτήσει άμεση οικονομική εξάρτηση από τη γείτονα χώρα, η οποία με αιχμή του δόρατος το λιμάνι της Σμύρνης και τα τουριστικά θέρετρα της Αλικαρνασσού και Μαρμαρά θα "συντηρεί" κατ’ ουσίαν τους εναπομείναντες κατοίκους της Λέσβου, Χίου, Σάμου και Δωδεκανήσων».
«Ήδη - συνεχίζει η κ. Μαχαίρα - οι τοπικές κοινωνίες στα νησιά του Ανατολικού Αιγαίου στρέφουν τις ελπίδες τους στη Μικρασιατική Ακτή», ενώ όπως καταγγέλλει, «Τούρκοι επιχειρηματίες έχουν εξαγοράσει προβληματικές επιχειρήσεις δημιουργώντας σταδιακά ένα ενιαίο οικονομικό χώρο γύρω από το Αιγαίο με κέντρο αποφάσεων την Κωνσταντινούπολη».
Ακολουθούν καταγγελίες σχετικά με «ΜΜΕ με τουρκικά σήριαλ και κλισέ δημοσιογράφων στην τουρκική γλώσσα», ενώ καταγγέλλονται και «η τοπική αυτοδιοίκηση της Λέσβου και η Περιφέρεια Βορείου Αιγαίου που είναι ασφαλείς παρατηρητές και ενισχύουν εν αγνοία τους με την παθητική στάση τους, φιλοτουρκικά συμφέροντα χωρίς ενόραση και εθνική σκέψη».
«Αν αυτό δεν είναι παρτίδα τάβλι με το διάβολο τότε τι είναι;» αναρωτήθηκε η κ. Μαχαίρα.«Όταν θα δούμε ξανά, απειλητικά συνθήματα γραμμένα στους τοίχους δήθεν από παιδιά, μειονότητα στη Λήμνο και στη Λέσβο, τζαμιά να ξεφυτρώνουν στο βωμό της πολυπολιτισμικότητας και καλής γειτονίας, τότε θα είναι αργά. Θα δούμε να προτείνεται μία ειδική οικονομική ζώνη στα νησιά μας και πολύ σύντομα οι Τούρκοι θα κτίσουν μία κρεμαστή γέφυρα να συνδέει τo Μόλυβο με τα μικρασιατικά παράλια. Αυτός είναι η τελικός του στόχος πριν την προσάρτηση του νησιού στη Τουρκία.

Και τώρα το σχέδιο στην παρούσα του φάση έχει μετανάστες. Κατευθυνόμενη ροή από τους τρομοκράτες Τούρκους. Στη Μυτιλήνη μόνο, 135 χιλιάδες τον Οκτώβριο και 103 χιλιάδες τον Νοέμβριο. Πλήρης ισλαμοποίηση. Επίθεση στο νησί και αλλοίωση του πληθυσμού. Κατ΄άλλα κάποιοι είναι ευχαριστημένοι που νοικιάζουν τα σπίτια τους σε υπαλλήλους των ΜΚΟ με τρελά ενοίκια.

Ξεχάσαμε εμείς οι πολίτες του Βορείου Αιγαίου αυτά που μας θύμισε κάποτε ο Πάγκαλος, δηλαδή ότι υπάρχει σχέδιο χειρισμού του τοπικού πληθυσμού της Μυτιλήνης για να στραφεί υπέρ των συμφερόντων της Τουρκίας. Το Τουρκικό σχέδιο ‘Γάντι ‘. Το ξεχάσαμε;», γράφει η Μόλλυ Μαχαίρα.

 Αντιδράσεις

Στις απόψεις της κ. Μαχαίρα ήδη αντέδρασε ο πρώην νομάρχης και βουλευτής Λέσβου της Νέας Δημοκρατίας, ο οποίος κάλεσε το κόμμα του να αποπέμψει άμεσα την κ. Μαχαίρα. «Δεν μπορώ να συνυπάρχω στο κόμμα με άτομα που εκφράζουν τέτοιες διχαστικές απόψεις. Ή εγώ ή αυτή είμαστε σε λάθος κόμμα» τόνισε φανερά ενοχλημένος ο κ. Βογιατζής, ο οποίος επί χρόνια πρωτοστάτησε σε κινήσεις ελληνοτουρκικής προσέγγισης.

Ολόκληρο το άρθρο της Μόλλης Μαχαίρα       εδώ:       Click to get the whole article in Greek.

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Great impression was caused by the article of Molly Machaira, who is a ND  member of the Political Committee of the party and chairman of the NODE Limnos according to which Lesvos  is on the receiving end of Turkish attacks through tens of thousands of Muslims who are channeled on the island while Turks are planning to build a bridge from the Turkish coast to Molyvos to annex the island, in a second phase.

OUR COMMENT: If you have any doubts about the Turkish intentions on the Aegean you need to look at events closer.

Mrs. Machaira's article is titled:

"The island is attacked. Lesvos IS ISLAMOFIED. Lesvos dies. "

In what refers to secret plan on the part of Turkey named "Yeni Lirasi", aiming "to create Turkish friendship with the blessings of the elders of the island, who sleep the sleep." Under this plan, Mr. Machaira argues that "Ankara has progressed steadily and methodically to create a pro-Turkish caste on the island, with progressive local market Turkification by seeking membership of the dynamics created by the Turkish economy."

The party member of New Democracy argues that "Lesvos has already gained direct economic dependence on its neighbor, spearheaded by the port of Izmir and the resorts of Bodrum and Marmaris will " maintain "essentially remaining residents Lesvos, Chios, Samos and the Dodecanese ".

"Already - continues Ms. Machaira - local communities on the islands of the Eastern Aegean turn their hopes to the Asia Minor coast," while she complains, "Turkish businessmen have bought struggling local businesses gradually creating a single economic space around the Aegean with decision center Istanbul. "

Following complaints about "Turkish serials and journalist's clichés in Turkish, "the local government of the island and the North Aegean Prefecture Authority are  just observers and enhance unknowingly by their passive attitude, pro-Turkish interests without insight and national thought. "

"If this is not backgammon with the devil then what is it?" asked Mrs. Machaira.

"When we see again, threatening slogans written on the walls supposed from children, minorities in Lemnos and Lesbos, mosques to spring up on the altar of multiculturalism and good neighborliness, it will be too late. We will see the proposal of a special economic zone in our islands, and very soon the Turks will build a suspension bridge connecting to Molyvos with Asia Minor. This is the ultimate goal before the annexation of the island to Turkey.

For now the project at its present phase is immigrants. Directional flow of terrorist Turks. In Mytilene alone, 135 000 in October and 103 000 in November. Full Islamization. Attack on the island and altering the population. Convenient for some people who are happy to rent their homes for NGO officials with crazy rents.

We forgot - we citizens of the North Aegean - what Pangalos once reminded us, namely that there is a management plan of the local population of Mytilene to shift in favour of Turkey's interests. The Turkish project 'Glove', is it forgotten? "Writes Molly Machaira. 

Reactions

The views of Mr. Machaira already brought a reaction by a former Prefect and Lesvos New Democracy MP, who called his party to immediately dismiss Mrs. Machaira. "I can not coexist in the party with people expressing such divisive opinions. Either I or she is in the wrong party, "said visibly irritated Mr. Vogiatzis, who for years played a leading role in Greek-Turkish rapprochement moves.

From the website   

MORE FROM THOSE TURKISH

TURKISH MEDIA FRENZY AGAINST GREECE.

In an effort to perpetuate their illegal claims and the perceived view that the whole Aegean should be shared, those Turkish create more stir in  the sea around Chios.

A sea demonstration was organised as a continuation of previous actions by Turkish organisations  mentioned in our issue of April 2015 " The new Turkish islands of the Aegean".
These actions are not one off or spasmodic actions by insignificant or unimportant minorities within the Turkish state, but continuous and methodically conceived and organised actions by an "enemy" state through organisations which are controlled by it.
The new step here is the involvement of the main opposition party whose MP Mr Niyazi Nefi Kara
during question time said that there is Greek occupation of 16 islands in the Aegean.

The demonstration was reported in Turkish Zaman (14/2/2016).

This is new action acted on the 14th of February.

At the same time as the Turkish MP posed the questions in the Parliament a group of Turks seen here, demonstrated "against the illegal occupation" of the 16 islands by Greece.

" These islands are not included in those which had been granted to Greece by the Treaty of Lausane or the Treaties of Paris.  Even now the Greek government manages the islands temporarily and on a de facto basis. These islands are part of the Turkish territory", said Turkish Minister of Defense Mr Ismet Yilmaz March 2015, adding that the issue is discussed ... supposedly with Greece!.
In a previous occasion it was the Turkish Foreign Ministry that had said that the issue ... was discussed between the two countries.

ΗΚΟΥΣΟΝ ΗΚΟΥΣΟΝ

What do you think you are doing Mr Turkish?

 UNSPEAKABLE ACTIONS...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, or otherwise known as "The Sultan"  does his best to become the master of the Med.     In continuing with his government's infringement of International Law he thought he could deny the Greek Navy the right to collect the bodies of three airmen who lost their lives while flying in a helicopter over the island of Kinaros. This, terribly disrespectful act was exercised by issuing a NOTAM  questioning Greek jurisdiction for search and rescue tasks (SAR ) in the range of the helicopter crash.

A Notice to Airmen (NOTAM or NoTAM) is a notice filed with an aviation authority to alert aircraft pilots of potential hazards along a flight route or at a location that could affect the safety of the flight.

But where exactly did this event take place and under what circumstances?

The helicopter was taking part in an exercise early of Thursday 11-02-2016 and was flying from the west to the east of the island, when it fell on a 200 m high hill.
The only person living on the island, Mrs Irene, was part of the rescue efforts. She said: 
Χαμός γίνεται εδώ. Είδα τα συντρίμμια, υπάρχει άνθρωπος απανθρακωμένος μέσα. Νοτιοδυτικά είναι τα συντρίμμια,. βλέπω και ένα παιδί... έναν άνθρωπο. Δεν μπορώ να μιλήσω. Σε χαράδρα είναι. Έχουν πάει άνθρωποι κάτω. 

Doom is here . I saw the wreckage , man is charred inside . Southwest is debris ,. I see a child ... a man . I can not speak. In ravine is . People have gone down.


Kinaros is an island of the Dodecanese located in the sea area between the Cyclades and the Dodecanese , west of Kalymnos and Leros and east of Amorgos . It is the second westernmost island of the Dodecanese after Astypalaia . It has an area of 4.5 square kilometers . . It belongs to the municipality of Leros . The highest point of the island is 296m

Immediately after the Greek NOTAM the Turks issued their own NOTAM which required that all relate to the media and the authorities involved in the search and rescue of the Greek helicopter reported to them!

By doing so,say observers from the Greek Ministry of Defense, Turkey is seeking to reopen the ringfenced sea Greece - Turkey borders which have been recognized by all international organizations (NATO , FRONTEX) taking advantage of the refugee crisis and NATO study for patrols in the Aegean.


Here you can see the territorial waters of Greece and the affected area.
It is clear that Turkey is trying to act on Greek soil!

Where is the future?

In 2009, French Didier Ortolland, Coordinator of the Geopolitical Atlas of Maritime Spaces, wrote an article on the territorial waters between Greece and Turkey:

The Greco-Turkish dispute over the Aegean Sea : a possible solution ?

Its worth a look at: 
http://www.diploweb.com/The-Greco-Turkish-dispute-over-the.html

An interesting map is shown below:

YOU MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND...

DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS

THE TURKS WANT MORE TERRITORY

THE EXPANSIONIST POLICIES OF TURKEY make it impossible to stick to its zero conflict targets.

Areas where Turkey is showing an increased level of activity:

• Search and Rescue over an extended range in the Mediterranean.
• Search and Rescue over the entire Aegean.
• Issuing NOTAMs which lock huge areas of the Aegean, even a breath away from mainland Greece, for NAVY exercises.
• Illegal NAVY   presence in Greek territorial waters.
• Continuously increased AIR FORCE activity with fly overs and low flying activity over Greek air space.
• Participation in the Syrian conflict.
• Conflict with Kurds.
• Creation of military base in Qatar.
• Submarine base in Albania.

In the graphic one can see the shaded area outlined by the red line, which is fast becoming  part of everyday Turkish control through constant NAVY and AIR FORCE activity.

It has been reported that the Kurdish fighters in East Turkey are about to launch offensives to reach the natural border of Euphrates river. Is this going to be an oncoming loss of territory for Turkey?

And if so, is their aggressiveness in the Aegean  part of a counterbalance move by achieving control of the Eastern Mediterranean? It remains to be seen.

Turkey is anything but a stability factor in the Middle Eastern area.

With specific relevance to Greece I am afraid that Turkey is using the method of death by a thousand cuts, that is, achieving its target of domination of the Aegean by constant territorial pressure.

The point is what is Greece doing about it? Because, let's face it, if these pressures remain unanswered the greed of the attacker becomes de-facto acceptable by the international community.

In the same way, the procrastination of dealing firmly and authoritatively with the FYROM naming issue has left Greece without many supporters on the issue.

What if the Turks gamble on the grey area game? I am sure THEY have many islets similar to IMIA that  would  considered as fair game in a territorial game in the Aegean. They would have more to lose.

Of course this needs an aggressively weighed  policy by Greece which is not going to happen because it is governed by people who have consistently stood shorter than their historical duty since WW2.

It is a fact that standing against a foe with little or no defensive plans and actions produces more determination on their part to grab what they can.

What Greek governments should consider is the notion of "ANY WAR IS A NO WIN BY EITHER SIDE".

In such a move, the opposition would be powerless to proceed to any action as it would be clear that no gain would come out of it.

I came across the advertisement of a magazine with an article on defence in tight economic times.

Update on this soon, probably next month.

 

MORE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?

Without comment, to preserve its authenticity we present an article published by the Seattle Times .

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Costco embraces Greek extra-virgin olive oil amid Italian crop’s woes___

Originally published April 27, 2015 at 12:43 pm Updated April 27, 2015 at 6:27 pm

Costco Wholesale has switched the sourcing of the extra virgin olive oil that goes into its Kirkland Signature 2-liter bottle from Italy to Greece.

                                                                                   By Ángel González 

                                                                           Seattle Times business reporter

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Costco Wholesale has switched from Italy to Greece as the source of the extra-virgin olive oil for its Kirkland Signature 2-liter bottle, in what could be a big break for the economically battered cradle of Western Civilization and its relatively unheralded olive-oil industry.
Production in Italy is expected to drop 34 percent this year, according to the International Olive Oil Council.

Prices have gone up accordingly: Italian extra-virgin olive oil in March was sold by producers for about $2.97 a pound, 84 percent more than a year earlier, according to the council.

That price hike must have been tough to swallow for Costco, a company that’s always looking for a good deal.

Chief Financial Officer Richard Galanti said the availability of the extra-virgin olive oil Costco usually purchases is down to one-tenth of the normal level.

“We wanted to get a single source of good quality; for this year we went to Greece,” he said.

While Spain, the world’s foremost olive-oil producer, also suffered from some of the same weather events that befell Italy, Greece has been largely spared. Its production is expected to more than double this year, and prices for extra-virgin olive oil are up only 15 percent from last year, at a relatively humble $1.45 a pound.

Greece is the third-largest producer of olive oil, after Spain and Italy. The liquid, long a pillar of Mediterranean cooking, is also a mainstay of the Greek economy. In 2013, Greece exported some $602 million worth of olive oil, its third most valuable export after petroleum products and medicine, according to data from the World Bank.

Yet the majority of its olive oil is shipped in bulk to Italy. A 2012 report by global consultancy McKinsey says that allows Italian companies to capture an extra 50 percent premium on the value of the final product.

Packaging and branding its olive oil would greatly boost profits and help the Greece brand, McKinsey concluded.

Currently, only about 4 percent of Greek olive oil ends up in the U.S., the second-largest importer of olive oil in the world. Here its virtues are unsung, says David Neuman, CEO of the U.S. unit of Greek olive-oil company Gaea.

Americans “know about Greek yogurt, we know about good feta cheese, we don’t know much about good Greek olive oil,” Neuman says.

But that may change with the Costco deal; on the warehouse club’s cornucopian shelves, the formerly green label and cap of the 2-liter extra-virgin oil bottles are now blue and proudly display the oil’s Hellenic origin.

“Certainly it’s going to put Greece on the map, because people watch what Costco does,” Neuman says.

Dare we hope?

IS THIS THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL?

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Brazil is looking for new suppliers of wheat.                                 

Will a visit to Greece by Brazilian traders spark a wind of change in the Greek economy?                                   

A very large contingent of Brazilian traders and government officials with main representative the Giant company Coonagro signed a number of deals with Greek Farmers and Government.


The Brazilians want to make Greece part of the production chain of Brazilian agricultural products through the partnership of companies of the two countries which will use raw materials from Latin America such as soya, sugar, and meat products. The final products will be exported to the East European markets.
The reasons for choosing Greece is its dynamic farming sector and its membership of the EU which enforces important European criteria of production.

THE AGREEMENTS

• The first agreement is between Coonagro and ΕΛΒΙΖ (Hellenic Animal Feed Manufacturers)  for the production of animal food and soya oil with Brazilian soya seed. These will be exported to Russia and any leftover product will be sold to Brazil.
• The second agreement is between Coonagro and  ΔΗΜΗΤΡΑ who will produce pet foods with Brazilian meat products destined for export.
• More agreements are worked between Coonagro and Greek companies for use of silos and port facilities.
• Coonagro has started talks with farming cooperatives in Thessaloniki, Kilkis, Karditsa and Alexandroupoli for agreements on the cultivation of 500,000 acres of wheat for export to Brazil.
• Another player is IBRA, the largest company of farming technology in Latin America.They hope to help produce in Greece, crops of wheat of double the yield with nanotechnology.
• Further more, the talks between Greeks and Brazilians included possible deals on Tourism and energy.
• PETROBRAS refineries  want to supply ΕΛΠΕ with oil to be made into DIESEL.

IN THE MEAN TIME...

In the mean time Greek farmers empty their milk jugs in the street and block the motorways in protest for now having to pay tax!

Hey stupid, wake up and smell the change. Get off your backside and pay yor taxes like everybody else.

It seems to me that there is a section of Greece's population that just wants to sit back at the KAFENEION and argue about change while the rest of the world is buzzing by.

Hey stupid, wake up and smell the change.

TERROR IN EUROPE

I found this graphic and thought it was quite interesting.

No comment.

ANOTHER STORY..

How was Constantine Karamanlis connected to the NAZIS after WW2.

This photo shows Karamanlis signing the agreement for the GERMAN DEBT WRITE OFF in 1953.

Find more info HERE.

Ungrateful NAZIS call Greeks thieves and lazy today, but then- during WW2- it was them who stole and plundered Greece's National Wealth in the form of forced loans art theft and many more.
 

This information was outed by CIA in 16 sEPTEMBER 1962.

According to this CIA document the politicians Constantine Karamanlis and Constantine Tsaldaris were colaborators of the NAZI occupiers of Greece and Karamanlis was an informant of war criminal Max Merten. (Saturday, 7 November 2015 ABOUT GENOCIDES).

In the documeent it is written that during the war criminal Adolf EIhman's trial in Israel

it became evident that the existed a list of Greeks who colaborated with Merten during the extermination of the Jews in Thessaloniki.

In an article of the website                                                                

                    we read:

 The Eihman trial was observed by a representative of the then Greek government who was Jewish and a member of the diplomatic body in Israel.
He was given access of the trial minutes relevant to Greek Jews and he witnessed the names of the two polititians underscored with red pen.
According to the CIA document the Greek government repeatedly asked the Israelis not to make this list public. A request which Israel accepted.
You can read the whole CIA document HERE.

Did the activities of the polititians have anything to do with the exit of Karamanlis from power in 1965 which itself resaulted in the very unstable political life in Greece.

Is all this true?

Who was the Greek Eihman trial observer?

Did he tell the truth?

Is this another conspiracy theory?

YOU DECIDE.

And finally a little reminder of the geographical extend of the AXIS occupation of Greece.

      

And a map of Greece before WW2

That's all folks.

 

New atrocity by the Saudis.

Palestinian poet  is found guilty of apostasy and gets death penalty.

Poet Ashraf Fayadh was arrested on August 2013 by the religious police and found guilty of blasphemy. The arrest happened in a cafe when a man reported that he made obscene comments about God and Mohammad and the Saudi State.
On May 26, 2014, the General Court of Abha convicted Fayadh and sentenced him to four years in prison and 800 lashes.
After an appeal by the prosecution Fayadh was given the Death Penalty on 17th November 2015.

Fayadh is a member of British-Saudi art organisation Edge of Arabia which promotes contemporary art from Saudi Arabia.


The following text is  taken from the HRW (Human Rights Watch) website.

Saudi Arabia has executed 152 people in 2015, which according to Amnesty International is the highest recorded number since 1995. Most executions are carried out by beheading, sometimes in public. The vast majority are for murder and drug crimes, but Saudi courts occasionally hand down death sentences for other “crimes” such as apostasy and sorcery.

THE GREEK? BANKS AND WHO OWNS THEM NOW.

They are stealing Hellenic wealth on the quiet.

How did the Greek people loose control of their main banking system?

How many of us are aware of the recent passing of a by-law in the Greek Parliament that allowed prospective buyers of the top four Greek banks to set the price of shares themselves?

What this means is that the so called "Left Wing Government" through its parliamentary majority has made it compulsory for the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund to accept pricing set by the "book building method".

In such a move the Banks cannot set pricing and have to accept buyers pricing.

 "Book-building method".

During this: An underwriter "builds a book" by accepting orders from fund managers indicating the number of shares they desire and the price they are willing to pay.So foreign investors were allowed to buy majority shares in  National Bank, Alpha Bank, Eurobank and Piraeus Bank, at rock bottom prices. The total share price just 6.42 billion dollars for the banking giants which have assets worth more than $350 billion.

So, how much does the Greek State control?

State Ownership          until now   from now on

National Bank                   57%            24%
Eurobank                          35%           2.4%
Alpha Bank                       64%           11%
Piraeus Bank                     67%           22% 


And that means that: The Greek State  and its citizens have lost control of Greek banks.
In the last three years Greek people forked out $44 billion to bail out the banks of which only 6.42 is returned.
Some of the "lucky" investors are: Capital Group, Pimco, WLR Recovery Fund, Wellington, Fairfax, Brookfield Capital Partners and Highfields Capital Management. 

SO, WHAT HAS HAPPENED?

The Greek government has allowed the sale of these banks as if they were bankrupt even though they own assets worth more than $350 billion.


Click on the link below to see the document signed by the Minister of Economics Mr E. Tsakalotos and Economy Development and Tourism Mr Y. Stathakis that has made this sale possible.
This text is in Greek.

By-Law for the sale of the Big 4

SOURCES:

CNBC
PRONEWS
Amfipoli News

ABOUT GENOCIDES...

Stories many would like to forget.

The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) defines genocide in part as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group". Determining what historical events constitute a genocide and which are merely criminal or inhuman behaviour is not a clear-cut matter. Some of accounts below may include ancillary causes of death such as malnutrition and disease, which may or may not have been intentionally inflicted.
(This text taken directly from WIKIPEDIA)

A list exists on WIKI showing genocide statistics around the world. In this, the Greek genocide by the Ottoman Empire is listed as having between 200,000 and 1,000,000 victims.

Was this the only genocide perpetrated by the Ottomans?  Well... no.

The Turks did five genocides/massacres over the span of  40 years. A very short period in the big scheme of things.

      Numbers                           Populations affected                    Period   

80,000 - 300,000              Hamidian  Massacres (Armenians)    1894-1896
800,000 -1,500,000         50%   of Armenians                             1915-1923
275,000 - 750,000           75%   of Assyrians                               1915-1923
200,000 - 1,000,000           Greek Genocide                                1915-1918
13,160 - 70,000                Dersim Massacre                                1937-1938

 This map shows the extend of the Ottoman empire and in a red circle the areas where most genocides were perpetrated.

It is important to realise that the Ottoman genocides had one and only one aim.
ETHNIC CLEANSING.
This is a new concept, something that other Empires did not engage into and which probably shows the need of the Turkish population to establish itself over all other nationalities residing in the affected areas.
This TURKIFICATION incudes Pan-Islamism as a state ideology as Turkish massacres have a large anti-Christian character and genocides are mostly against Christian populations.

BUT THE WORST GENOCIDE EVER...

Can only be the genocide of Jews, leftists, Gypsies, homosexuals and other groups by the German NAZIs in the 1940s.
Between 5 and 11 million people were gathered and put to death by extremely inhumane means.
The history is very recent and records are all too clear to be forgotten.
There is a very important Greek connection here as the massacres involve areas in Greece too.
A substantial number of Greek officials denied cooperation to the NAZIs in many cases as is the case of the Zakynthian  Mayor Loukas Karrer and Bishop Chrysostomos, who, when asked by the NAZI commandant Berenz on September 9 1943, to hand in a list of all Jews of the island they handed a list with two names only: theirs. This resulted in the saving of all Zakynthian Jews.
However this has not been a widespread experience. The Greek Jews were all but eradicated from the Hellenic peninsula.
The most numerous Jewish populations transferred to concentration death camps originated in Thessaloniki and the person which oversaw this operation was Max Merten.

The case of Max Merten               

is very interesting and a brief account of his personal history will
enlighten.
1942 April.  Max Merten comes to Greece as general overseer of    
         the Jewish expulsions, responsible for the transportation of
         45,000 Jews to Auschwitz. He was responsible for the looting
         of the Jewish cemetery amounting the astronomic sum of 125,000,000 gold francs. This
         earned him the pseudonym "Butcher of Thessaloniki".
1946 The Americans offer his handing over to the Greek authorities as part of the treaty for the
         handing over of war criminals to the countries where they did their crimes.
         The Greek government rejected the offer and proposed his release because of his excellent
         behaviour and his services to Greece.
1957 March. Merten, General Secretary of the German Ministry of Justice, comes to Greece to give
         evidence in the trial of another war criminal, Arthur Maisnerkei  as a defence witness.

 

         He was recognised by court officials and was arrested immediately.

Interesting fact: The Germans want their war criminals to escape justice.

1958 The German ambassador made numerous representations for the release of Merten and    
         eventually the Karamanlis government cave in the demands of chancellor Adenaouer in order to
         achieve the signing of a loan from Germany worth 200 million marks.
1958 November. The agreement between Greek and German governments on the loan had a secret
         close for the cancellation of any prosecution of war criminals although Merten was excluded
         from the deal. The opposition was alerted and in:
1959 January the government brought the matter in Parliament, however there was a lot of reaction
         both  in Greece and abroad.
1959 March. Merten was tried  and convicted to 25 years imprisonment.
1959 November. Merten was extradited to Germany.
1961 November. Merten was convicted to four years for slander!!!
         against Greek politicians especially Constantine Karamanlis.

And that is how German NAZIs repay their benefactors.

But this is another story...

SOURCES:

PRONEWS
WIKIPEDIA

Jean-Claude does it again.

 European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker does foreign policy on behalf of Greece.

                                                                                                                                                                   

In a speech he gave in Frankfurt he showed complete ignorance of the tentative relations between Greece and Turkey on matters regarding the Aegean sea.
Among other he said:
The Turks agree in the creation of a common coast guard to be used towards solving the immigration problem in the Aegean, the Greeks do not. Where do we live? Should we argue about 10 kilometres of sea, who is responsible for which bit or should we be saving human lives?
Sometimes we talk without regard for the real matters of life, we need a coast guard organised by Europe.

Now, how does this last sentence involves Turkey is bewildering.

so according to M. Juncker Germany should share its coastguard with neighbour Russia.
C'mon Jean-Claude which head are you thinking with?
Or maybe you had a few...?